On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you elaborate on what you mean? News articles related to > advertisements, or pages that are solely advertising? Is there money > involved, or just free advertising space for anyone at the rate of one > page per day? I have the feeling that anything advertising-related is > going to find a deep wellspring of objection with the wider Wikimedia > community, but perhaps if you can expand on how it relates to adding > useful content...?
It would be for free (I mentioned "free" inside of the topic), as the most simple advertisements are usually for free inside of the newspapers. To be honest, I don't have a precise idea. I've started to think about advertisements which are useful to the most of Wikinews readers, like job offerings, buying or selling [used] cars, hotel/hostel prices and so on are. I am not talking about advertisement for money which intention is to promote some product or so. (I hope I've defined that clear.) The first idea was about listing job offerings (one page per day) from one site initially, then from other such sites. However, continuum of thoughts brought me to the broader definition of advertisement (buying/selling, listing various prices and so on). However, if the idea develops, it is possible to have one page per advertisement: "I am selling a Peugeot 207 one year old [[image:photo of my peugeot 207 on commons.jpg]] for XX EUR. My phone is xxx.xxx.". (BTW, privacy reasons are the same as they are on other wikis and on other advertisement places: abuse is always possible.) Besides the primary reason -- making Wikinews more useful for readers -- it may bring a lot of free media to Commons. Possibly, some other benefits, too. I understand that there are a lot of possible problems and I would like to hear them. But, again, I would like a kind of constructive discussion about possible problems, not an ideological discussion. (Again, this is not about payed advertisement.) _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
