[Foundation-l] No, even a couple of Google ads on each page would be a fatally bad idea

Tue Nov 9 04:05:03 UTC 2010

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>
>> An interesting idea would be a standalone static copy of
>> wikipedia that really tried their utmost to make the product
>> visually appealing, and used the generated money from the
>> advertisements purely to fund ever more timely database dumps
>>
>> It would be interesting to see how frequent database dumping could be
>> financed by advertisement on such a
>> site; the synergy should be obvious -- the more money they generate
>> from adverts, the more resources they can devote to making ever more
>> frequent dumps, so the more timely is the content, which will again
>> make therir product more attractive, and so on
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
>>
>
> Whether this is great idea or not I don't know, but this is the kind of
> out of the box thinking that is potentially productive. We could produce
> periodic "polished" editions.

Not likely to work as long as the regular site is in the search
engines, due to the duplicate content penalty.