[WikiEN-l] Re: Ads on Wikipedia?

Tue Jan 3 02:25:27 UTC 2006

Stan Shebs wrote:
> Peter Mackay wrote:
> 
>>> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org
>>> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Stan Shebs
>>>
>>> charles matthews wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>> (i) If the market is really saying that there is a huge revenue
>>>> available since people 'in general' don't mind ads (the good French
>>>> verb is 'mithridatiser', I recall), why is no corporation not
>>>> sincerely chasing this money with a high-quality WP clone?
>>>>
>>> Since there are already mirrors with ads, yes, there are people
>>> chasing that money now. A high-quality clone that could compete with
>>> WP's name recognition would require significant investment up front,
>>> and take several years to establish itself in the public's mind;
>>>
>>
>> Your idealism and loyalty is laudable, but remember that in terms of
>> quality, a teenager with a bit of Linux knowledge can download the
>> whole lot
>> for free and get it operational in an afternoon.*
>>
> That would be the "low-quality" clone. One Linux box is easily
> slashdotted; the current WP installation laughs at Slashdot,
> or so I'm told. Our teenager would have to buy 100+ machines
> and get them all working in concert before going live.
> 
>>
>> And I rather suspect that our "name recognition" is due more to being up
>> near the top of Google search results than any other single factor. If
>> Google developed their own product, I can confidently predict that it
>> would
>> be way cooler than WP, and that they would bump their own results
>> above WP's
>> in Google searches.
>>
> Well, their motto is supposedly "don't be evil", but of course if
> they *were* truly evil, they would lie about their motto. :-)
> 

Now you're sounding like Daniel Brandt... ;-)

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