I don't know why they would think that. I mean, we obviously already have the tech to insert advertisements ... and do; at least ads for the fundraiser.
John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would >also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is >gearing up to run ads on content pages. > >On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or >> article category and/or language edition would open up a whole new level of >> fundraising potential. That would allow you to get local celebrities (who >> are otherwise not especially popular/known outside their >> city/state/country/language) to provide endorsements that are quite >> targeted. For example in countries where there is a very popular sport with >> a local team (NFL in America, premier league in UK) you could fundraising >> banners on a per-city basis with local sports stars encouraging people to >> support Wikimedia. I suspect that this is something where the Chapters would >> be particularly useful in contacting and negotiating with the relevant >> people. >> >> More fine-grained control over articlespace banners (with good policy about >> how/who/when these should be used) would also make it much easier to run >> real-world events and enable us to contact Wikip/media readers in a targeted >> way (not just with geonotices served to the Watchlist, which by definition >> only is able to contact existing editors). >> >> However, I suspect that this goes in the "ideas for next year" basket. >> -Liam >> >> wittylama.com/blog >> Peace, love & metadata >> >> >> On 23 November 2010 22:16, Fajro <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> How about NBA players? >>> >>> -- >>> Fajro >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >_______________________________________________ >foundation-l mailing list >[email protected] >Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
