Your opinion on the whole Wikipedia / AOL ad affair
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Wikipedia had an offer by Jason Calacanis to place a 25x25 banner for AOL or some other advertising firm in exchange for a $100 million dollar donation. There are people on both sides of the argument pro and con the rejection of the offer. It has been stated that Wikipedia is ad-free and will stay that way forever by it's founder Jimmy Wales. Personally, I don't think I would mind ads in wikipedia but there's the whole point of being 100% objective and with Wikipedia fighting battles internally against biased users I don't think it needs ads to raise more problems. I wonder if there is a better way to support wikipedia than donations, I don't have any bright ideas tho, especially today, lol. What you guys think?
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 4:01 PM
"It has been stated that Wikipedia is ad-free and will stay that way forever by it's founder Jimmy Wales."
Could you give me the source?
I read it in a comment on post on the Calacanis blog I think. However after reading statements from the Wikimedia Foundation there's no specific mention to no ads. All I saw was that Wikipedia was going to be Free of Charge, not free of ads. So I'm going to have to retract that comment I guess.
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