Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
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Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
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Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#2I'm aware it is temporary, but I'm surely not the only one thinking that banner is more annoying than the occasional ad would have been.
Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#3Great, now how much more money do they need to buy the disk space necessary to stop deletionism?
Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#4I'm aware it is temporary, but I'm surely not the only one thinking that banner is more annoying than the occasional ad would have been.
They could definitely make a killing with just a single AdSense block at the bottom of every article. Maybe even just the top 1000 articles.
Instead, we get places like Answers.com mass-duplicating Wikipedia content and slapping big image ads on it.
Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#5I'm aware it is temporary, but I'm surely not the only one thinking that banner is more annoying than the occasional ad would have been.
I'm not sure I agree with their definition of 'advertisement'.
Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#6Is their budget public? I'd really like to see how you spend $16 million.
Is there actually paid staff/benefits? Because $16M is more hardware/bandwidth than I can fathom.
Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#7Is their budget public? I'd really like to see how you spend $16 million. Is there actually paid staff/benefits? Because $16M is more hardware/bandwidth than I can fathom.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Budget
PDF for 2011: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/dd/2010-1... (Page 24 for pie chart comparison)
Summary: They want to expand, a lot, almost every sector has more than doubled in allocated budget from 09-10s budget
Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#8Is their budget public? I'd really like to see how you spend $16 million. Is there actually paid staff/benefits? Because $16M is more hardware/bandwidth than I can fathom.
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Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#9I'm aware it is temporary, but I'm surely not the only one thinking that banner is more annoying than the occasional ad would have been.
It's not about annoyance, it's about conflict of interest.
Re: Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free
#10I'm aware it is temporary, but I'm surely not the only one thinking that banner is more annoying than the occasional ad would have been.
Sure, it's annoying... but it worked 16 million times.