I think it wouldn't harm anyone but it would be against the spirit of Wikipedia, where everything has to be free. If they started putting ads I'd never donate a penny.
Apart from that, advertising there may give people the thoughts that when they work editing articles as Wikipedians, they are kind of working for a company. As if they were editing the Encarta for Microsoft to then make money eith their work. Wikipedia is what it is thanks to the users collaboration, so if they putted ads there, they should then share the money with every user who has created an article to be fair.
That's my opinion. (Of course, your millieage may vary).
Only 4 per cent you say. I believe about half of Internet users don't know what HTML is. An incredibly high amount of people don't know that they can use something apart from Internet Explorer to surf the web... they don't even distinguish between IE (the Browser) and The Intenet...
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I think it wouldn't harm anyone but it would be against the spirit of Wikipedia, where everything has to be free. If they started putting ads I'd never donate a penny. Apart from that, advertising there may give people the thoughts that when they work editing articles as Wikipedians, they are kind of working for a company. As if they were editing the Encarta for Microsoft to then make money eith their work. Wikipedia is what it is thanks to the users collaboration, so if they putted ads there, they should then share the money with every user who has created an article to be fair. That's my opinion. (Of course, your millieage may vary).
Only 4 per cent you say. I believe about half of Internet users don't know what HTML is. An incredibly high amount of people don't know that they can use something apart from Internet Explorer to surf the web... they don't even distinguish between IE (the Browser) and The Intenet...