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| This is very POV. The Misplaced Pages community has never "ruled out" advertising, and this article makes it seem like the reason I went the non profit route and no-advertising is in response to resistance from the community. This is not accurate. I have consistently been opposed to advertising on Misplaced Pages, although in the early days I thought advertising was going to eventually be necessary. Now I think advertising will never be necessary, but I wonder if someday we (the community) might decide that we could do so much good in the world with a small amount of advertising that we might choose to accept it. --] 19:04, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) | This is very POV. The Misplaced Pages community has never "ruled out" advertising, and this article makes it seem like the reason I went the non profit route and no-advertising is in response to resistance from the community. This is not accurate. I have consistently been opposed to advertising on Misplaced Pages, although in the early days I thought advertising was going to eventually be necessary. Now I think advertising will never be necessary, but I wonder if someday we (the community) might decide that we could do so much good in the world with a small amount of advertising that we might choose to accept it. --] 19:04, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) | ||
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| from Jimbo might be helpful, because it helps to explain why Sanger's claims seem to contradict the above. --]~] 00:01, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 00:01, 16 March 2005
(I removed a lot of old talk.)
I just wanted to comment here on the idea that Larry Sanger had the idea for Misplaced Pages. This is not correct. The original idea of using a wiki for the encyclopedia project came to me from Jeremy Rosenfeld, an employee at that time. The encyclopedia project itself was fully conceived by me alone, and I funded it, and I hired Larry to run it -- which he did of course with the Nupedia project.--Jimbo Wales 18:54, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another complaint
"However, when the Misplaced Pages community ruled out advertising as a means of paying for these resources - and in order to reflect the spirit of openness and neutrality central to Misplaced Pages - it was decided that new arrangements were needed."
This is very POV. The Misplaced Pages community has never "ruled out" advertising, and this article makes it seem like the reason I went the non profit route and no-advertising is in response to resistance from the community. This is not accurate. I have consistently been opposed to advertising on Misplaced Pages, although in the early days I thought advertising was going to eventually be necessary. Now I think advertising will never be necessary, but I wonder if someday we (the community) might decide that we could do so much good in the world with a small amount of advertising that we might choose to accept it. --Jimbo Wales 19:04, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another link
This earlier comment from Jimbo might be helpful, because it helps to explain why Sanger's claims seem to contradict the above. --iMb~Mw 00:01, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)