Post #3099181
2025-01-22 18:09 UTC
@rwg@aoir.social @rra@post.lurk.org @teclista@mas.to
This is news to me too, and it's extremely important. I had heard about the Spanish Wikipedia community split back then, but I had no idea that it was for very good reasons, and that it was a key factor against advertising in Wikipedia.
It's not quite true to say that Wikipedia has no advertising: en.Wikipedia *does* currently have (unpaid) advertising (for Google) in a crucially imporant role [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_209#Replace_the_generic_link
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@rwg@aoir.social 2025-01-22 18:14
@boud@framapiaf.org @rra@post.lurk.org @teclista@mas.to Yes, there are some ads on WP. The big thing that the strike resulted in, in my view, is that WP never adopted the behavioral advertising model. There's next to no tracking on WP for the purposes of selling user attention. That cuts way down on useless infrastructure. It also shows how a nonprofit can be such a major part of internet infrastructure -- a great counterpoint to the dominant way of funding sites.