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The Debate Over Advertising on Wikipedia
An anonymous reader writes "Some Wikipedians have objected to Virgin Unite's participation in the Wikimedia Foundation's fund drive, calling it adverising. But there's a strong case that Wikipedia should run advertising. The funds raised could support dozens of Firefox-scale free knowledge and free software projects, outspending all but the wealthiest foundations."
These services don't carry ads in most of the minority regional languages, instead defaulting to the dominant majority language for the area (Catalan gives way to Spanish, Gaelic gives way to English, Breton gives way to French etc).
Ahh one of those. I hate to inform you, but the Second Republic was extremely proficient at eliminating any native gaelic dialect in France. Breton as a language is for all intents and purposes extinct, although academics infatuated with global balkanization certainly try to revive it.
As well, the Irish refer to their language as Irish, not gaelic. As for Catalonia, I hope the Spanish level that region to the ground.
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Jimbo gets donations from a bunch of groups like CAIR, suddenly facts that are "not so complimentary" to Islam vanish from the Islam-related pages and editors who try to put them back start getting attacked.
Jimbo gets donations from Virgin Unite (aka The Virgin Foundation) and their page suddenly becomes this big advertising page for their "charity."
The same thing happens every time. Either Jimbo gets a "donation" and someone magically has their wikipedia entr(ies) scrubbed squeaky clean, or someone threatens a lawsuit and they just remove the page entirely.
Wikipedia's worth the toilet paper it's printed on, and not a penny more.
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> As for Catalonia, I hope the Spanish level that region to the ground.
That's Nice.*
* In a "Fuck You" kind of way. Have a child or two. You won't be talking about leveling anything after that. Grow up to the responsible adult you think yourself to be.
(Yes, I am new here. Not.)
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