This was manifestly not a "fatal" idea. In fact, it appears they concluded that *operating on donations *would be fatal. Moral of the story: Wikipedia is different.
Considering how much spam we receive, and how long some of it persists, I sometimes wonder if we haven't miscalculated the costs and benefits. For example, WMF could be getting something like $30 per-click on ads in articles like Mesothelioma. Ad money instead goes to enterprising spammers who sometimes succeed in placing their links in high-traffic or high value articles. Frank On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > ... and compromise content, as TV Tropes found out: > > > http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheSituation?from=Main.TheGoogleIncident > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
