[Foundation-l] Ads and monobook

Thu Mar 20 20:44:53 UTC 2008

Hoi,
Why the assumption that Google would be the automatic provider of adverts ?
When adverts in languages like Serbian, Russian or Bengali do not get us the
revenues that are reasonable, we could look for a local partner that does a
better job for us.
Thanks,
    Gerard

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >  If all the languages were voting independently from one another, for
> >  opt-in or opt-out... how would you feel if en.wiki would vote for "no
> >  ads", whilst ja.wiki vote for "yes" ?
> >  Would you rather consider the global project, or would you be willing
> to
> >  accept diversity ? Should it be a global decision, or a local one ?
> >
> >  I guess that a global decision would make the issue a "core principle"
> >  whilst a local decision would make the advertisement issue a "mild
> >  principle".
>
> I'm not in support of ads on Wikipedia, but since you're discussing
> this, I think you also need to ask the question would there be any
> point enabling ads on most of the projects? Google adsense doesn't
> generate a lot of revenue on non-English sites anyway, so you might
> find ads on the English Wikipedia only generates more than enough
> revenue without having to touch the other projects. It's been
> suggested that the English Wikipedia is now practically impossible to
> fork successfully, but the same isn't true of Lithuanian Wikibooks or
> most of the other 600 wikis. Why risk forks on wikis that would only
> be bringing in a few cents a day?
>
> Angela
>
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