The community decides what it wants and what it doesn't want. The community can decide to change what it wants. And the voice of the community supercedes all other things.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian McNeil <[email protected]> To: Wikinews mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 2:40 am Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] RfC: Free advertisements on Wikinews On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 00:06 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Public-service broadcasting does have ads. For one they advertise > themselves, they also advertise their own sponsors ("Paid for by the > Annenburg Group"... and so on). > > But the sort of advertisement of which we're speaking isn't that sort > anyway. Broadcast media forces the consumer to watch it from > beginning to end, you can't flip back and forth through the pages. > Newspring advertisement can be completely ignored, not read at all, > you can't do that with broadcast advertisement except to turn off the > television when the ads come on. > > So I think we're not like a broadcast at all. We're like a print > vehicle, where a reader can flip from page 2 to page 15 then back to > page 7 at their whim. The advertisements are not in-your-face. I suggest - before anyone else wastes *any* time on this they read the WMF and Wikinews mission statements quite carefully. This can't be done as part of a WMF project - I'm surprised anyone even proposed it. -- Brian McNeil <[email protected]> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects. _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
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