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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wiki-elysium.blogspot.com/2008/03/wikipedia-and-advertising.html
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Without meaning to spam too much, my thoughts on it are here:
http://skenmy.com/2008/03/23/wikipedia-and-advertising/

~ Paul Williams
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Is Scarian a reader only? I thought he was an en.wikipedia admin ;-)

Also - he says he hates flashing ads with moving targets, something
wholly separate from a sidebar of text Google ads. I don't think anything
more "flashy" than that will ever find a home on Wikimedia projects, and
rightfully so.

Nathan

On 3/23/08, Paul Williams <paul@skenmy.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > http://wiki-elysium.blogspot.com/2008/03/wikipedia-and-advertising.html
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> Without meaning to spam too much, my thoughts on it are here:
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On 23/03/2008, Nathan <nawrich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is Scarian a reader only? I thought he was an en.wikipedia admin ;-)
>
> Also - he says he hates flashing ads with moving targets, something
> wholly separate from a sidebar of text Google ads. I don't think anything
> more "flashy" than that will ever find a home on Wikimedia projects, and
> rightfully so.

He mentions flash/graphic ads at the beginning of his post, but goes
on to talk about Google-style ads.

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Scarian is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scarian I think. He is a
blogger on the planet wikimedia aggregator also. Not that his views
don't matter of course. :)

Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion

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He dislikes flashy - gamelike adds that completely distracts you from what
you were doing? Imagine that...

- White Cat

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Oldak Quill <oldakquill@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/03/2008, Nathan <nawrich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is Scarian a reader only? I thought he was an en.wikipedia admin ;-)
> >
> > Also - he says he hates flashing ads with moving targets, something
> > wholly separate from a sidebar of text Google ads. I don't think
> anything
> > more "flashy" than that will ever find a home on Wikimedia projects,
> and
> > rightfully so.
>
> He mentions flash/graphic ads at the beginning of his post, but goes
> on to talk about Google-style ads.
>
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Nathan <nawrich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is Scarian a reader only? I thought he was an en.wikipedia admin ;-)
>
> Also - he says he hates flashing ads with moving targets, something
> wholly separate from a sidebar of text Google ads. I don't think anything
> more "flashy" than that will ever find a home on Wikimedia projects, and
> rightfully so.
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
> On 3/23/08, Paul Williams <paul@skenmy.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > http://wiki-elysium.blogspot.com/2008/03/wikipedia-and-advertising.html
> > >
> > >
> > > - d.
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> > http://skenmy.com/2008/03/23/wikipedia-and-advertising/
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> >
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How about nothing more flashy than "whitespace" ads never find a home
on Wikimedia projects?

You know, those ads with no graphics, no text, and no visible or
audible components at all? I like those ads, I don't even bother
blocking them.

It's almost like having no ads at all.

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Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.

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Todd,

In a perfect world no websites would ever have ads and you wouldn't need
to bother blocking any - and in that world, everyone would respond
meaningfully and on topic to list posts. Unfortunately for you and I,
we don't appear to live in that particular world.

Nathan

On 3/24/08, Todd Allen <toddmallen@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>
> How about nothing more flashy than "whitespace" ads never find a home
> on Wikimedia projects?
>
> You know, those ads with no graphics, no text, and no visible or
> audible components at all? I like those ads, I don't even bother
> blocking them.
>
> It's almost like having no ads at all.
>
>
> --
> Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.
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