Comments on: Wikipedia pondering ads http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/wikipedia-pondering-ads/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:13:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Branko Collin http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/wikipedia-pondering-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-39956 Branko Collin Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:49:28 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4070#comment-39956 The problem with ads is that advertisers undoubtedly will want them near (read: on the same page as) the articles. And the problem with that is that in the soonest possible time, the articles will be edited by SEOs, so as to get more eyeballs. I don't think there's a single way to avoid (some of) that. The only thing that could be done against it is block articles that have ads from editing, but that sort of defeats the purpose of Wikipedia. The problem with ads is that advertisers undoubtedly will want them near (read: on the same page as) the articles. And the problem with that is that in the soonest possible time, the articles will be edited by SEOs, so as to get more eyeballs.

I don’t think there’s a single way to avoid (some of) that. The only thing that could be done against it is block articles that have ads from editing, but that sort of defeats the purpose of Wikipedia.

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