Actually, Wikipedia articles link to a lot of pages that have adverts. So what. :-) Kind regards Ziko
2010/11/6 Arlen Beiler <arlen...@gmail.com>: > I don't think I could stand it if we picked up advertising. I hate the way > wikia looks, and therefore have an aversion to contributing in any way to > its progress. Can you imagine! We actually link to Wikia sites and give them > traffic (though I guess that is better than filling up wikibooks and > wikipedia with useless junk)! Wikia is like the no good jerk up the street. > Imagine us turning to ads after all these years! I am sure it could be > a revenue source for some, but we are different, we are better. We create > the best family of websites in the world, let's not mar them with ads. You > know, wikia should sell itself to the Wikimedia Foundation so that Wikimedia > would get the money. Then too, I guess the board members need some way to > make money. What actually might be a better idea, would be for wikia to pay > the board, since it is a for profit company. Or am I missing the point > entirely? I read what that Greg Kohs said about it, and while I agree that > it did sound like a conflict of interest, I don't know how much of this is > proper or not. Anyway, those are my useless ramblings, so bye. > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Adverts do not make content wrong, but create mistrust. >> > Have a look what Lawrence Lessig tells about: >> > >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHma3ZQRVoA >> >> After the first few minutes it turns into a long drawn out infomercial >> supporting US "campaign finance reform". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk Niederlande _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
