Michael Becker wrote:
>An interesting way to offer advertising, would be to offer to let people
>sponsor pages. This is done with Highways, (i.e. This section of
>highway sponsored by such and such). I think many users would like this
>idea, and would sponsor pages they contributed heavily to, and you could
>offer packages for "advertisers" outside of the project like mentioned
>above, (using some sort of algorithm to figure out what pages are
>relevant) and then offer a price per page type thing.
>sounds like the thin edge of the wedge to me.
For anything like this to be considered seriously we would first need a
responsible discussion of Wikipedia finances, and the development of a
business plan.
All ( :-) !) our present sources of funding are opposed to advertising.
Co-incidentally, I happen to agree with that position, so I'm not about
to complain against my own interests.
Ec
