On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> Personally, I think that this is a good opportunity to get money from >> payed ads. It is not even on Wikimedia servers. > > I don't think that any ads-supported 1:1 content mirror (I don't see much > added value atm, we have some kind of book source support already) is any > good opportunity to get money, sorry. > Why would users want to see stale ads supported version, when there's no-ads > version with fresh one. The amount of how much we show our fundraising > banners is just thing of organizational efficiency and ambitions. > > If WMF wanted to spend less money, the fundraiser would have much lower > profile, right? :) > I somehow want us to think about our users and service as primary objective, > not just organizational issues. > > Domas > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
When you budget 2 million for internet hosting, and 9 million for salaries and benefits, it's bound to raise some eyebrows, I think. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
