I registered an account here just to say: NO! (Or rather NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!)
Advertisement as a business model is pathetic. Most advertisement is intrusive, manipulative, and cultural garbage.
An academic endeavor like Wikipedia should rather be funded by universites worldwide.
The opposite direction of this argument is this: how much are WE missing?
I registered an account here just to say: NO! (Or rather NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!) Advertisement as a business model is pathetic. Most advertisement is intrusive, manipulative, and cultural garbage. An academic endeavor like Wikipedia should rather be funded by universites worldwide.