On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> > wrote: > > On 26/06/2012 2:02 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > >> > >> Wow, thank goodness we never had advertising. The TV-Tropes wiki has > been > >> forced to censor a > >> number of pages due to advertiser pressure. > >> > > > > And thus is the wisdom of eschewing advertizement and sponsorship > > highlighted for all too see. I've always supported the model of yearly > > donation drives to avoid it -- occasionally creepy Jimmy pictures > > notwithstanding -- and this is the reason why. > > > > We are, like it or not, in a society increasingly driven by marketeers > and > > focus groups; being at the mercy of entities who care nothing for > > information or knowledge so long as their precious *image* is pristine is > > the norm, and Wikipedia remains a bastion of sanity in that sea of > madness. > > > > -- Coren / Marc > > > > > > Perhaps the next time someone brings up the "WMF should accept ads!" > bit, we can point back to this thread to explain why when we respond > "That would be the end of neutrality," we are not exaggerating. > Someone else will just cleverly point out the differences between Wikipedia and TVTropes, which are many. Using a wiki platform does not make comparisons between the two apples to apples. ~Nathan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l