It is pretty much traditional for the fundraiser to cause controversy,
in fact. I know how Oleg feels. These days I ignore the ads, since I
don't see why I should give money well as time: and they are obviously
aimed at Wikipedia's readers, who outnumber the people seriously
involved with the
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
People are doing some interesting work with auto-optimized ad runs that
we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of
traffic, we could accept a pretty broad range of slogans, and let the
system
No, self-respect in advertising is about not actually lying about the
product, making $$$ by whatever cost effective means is what it's
always and *only* been about.
The only thing I will say about the current campaign, it's not about
Wikipedia Forever, it's about Wikipedia
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
It is pretty much traditional for the fundraiser to cause controversy,
in fact. I know how Oleg feels. These days I ignore the ads, since I
don't see why I should give money well as time: and they are obviously
aimed at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80HZCap3aWU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C66LOXsxVFY
(The first was a hit in 1983. The second, I have no idea of the provenance of.)
- d.
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com
wrote:
People are doing some interesting work with auto-optimized ad runs that
we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of
What's the context here for Wikipedia?
Carcharoth
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/technology/internet/31google.html
Two Chinese writers’ groups claim that Google has scanned Chinese
works into an electronic database in
everywhere we can.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have been reduced
to? Spew out whatever random text as long as it gets the $$$? Please
let us have some self-respect.
Steve
on 11/14/09 6:54 PM, Ryan
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
What's the context here for Wikipedia?
Carcharoth
The irony of Chinese citizens expecting and getting international
copyright to work for them against an (arguably) publicly beneficial
project, while the same
on 11/14/09 7:28 PM, Ryan Delaney at ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Marc Riddell
michaeldavi...@comcast.netwrote:
everywhere we can.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:54:47 -0800, Ryan Delaney wrote:
All those servers and all that bandwidth isn't
free.
But from what I can see of their budgets, not all that much of their
funds are going to that. The rest is going for stuff like
maintaining an office in a much more expensive city
Steve Bennett wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
People are doing some interesting work with auto-optimized ad runs that
we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of
traffic, we could accept a pretty broad range of
2009/11/15 William Pietri will...@scissor.com:
David pointed us to a variety of clever slogans written by the public.
Isabell was speculating that most of them wouldn't work. I'm just saying
that we don't have to speculate; we can run all the ones that don't seem
blatantly counterproductive,
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
that we don't have to speculate; we can run all the ones that don't seem
blatantly counterproductive, and find out how well they do. Even better,
It is not in fact that easy - because every slogan has to be
translated into
2009/11/15 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
It is not in fact that easy - because every slogan has to be
translated into a pile of languages (by volunteers), and every banner
has to be tested thoroughly in all translations
The foundation doesn't agree with you there. Well that or it has
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