Just run ads Wikipedia, christ.

What kind of shitty coffee are you getting for $3?

>>45350377
I see nothing.

>>45350377
I'd rather see this minimally invasive 7 lines of text than a flashy javascript add hosted on a sketchy server, recording everything about my browser and the pages I visit, storing the data it collects indefinitely and selling it to the highest bidder.

>>45350377
>giving money for admins to powertrip and delete articles
>giving money for sophomoric "DEBATE ME" bullshit in the talk page
let's be honest, it's like how the Mozilla project dumps all their money into bullshit. you know 99% of the money going to wikimedia is going to stuff that doesn't fund wikipedia servers

>>45350377
This message is far less obnoxious than third party ads.

Wikipedia is censorship and propaganda/shill central, so I'll be glad when it shuts down and is replaced by a truly non biased website.

>>45350448
Which is nothing considering nobody else is willing to pay for such a site. Like it or not, we're never getting anything better than Wikipedia.

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>>45350380
you can get a small Starbucks cofee for that

or several small (and rather mediocre) coffees at pretty much everywhere

>>45350377
>wanting adds
>on a site that is is supposed to be unbiased
yea, that won't create a conflict of interests...

pic related, guess which score this abortion got on IGN

>>45350448
>surely a successor to wikipedia won't be edited by smug cunts who want to shove their opinions down everyone's throat

yea... and by replacing facebook with socialnetwork2: electric boogaloo, people won't post inane bullshit on their profiles anymore

>>45350466
google knol will be better

i fucking hate the cofffee argument

if i was buying one for $3 that means now im paying for another

>doubling my expenses
>good

>>45350534
like google+ was better than facebook?

>>45350448
>is replaced by a truly non biased website
already exists: www.conservapedia.com

>>45350513
>guess which score this abortion got on IGN
9.5/10 (8/10 being "shit" and 10/10 being "ok")

>>45350380
The ones you make yourself, fucktard.

I can get a cup of coffee to go at a 7/11 nearby for a dollar.

>>45350534
>non-biased
>google

Alright.

>>45350568
>thinking google is biased
why so antisemitic?

>>45350583
>>>/pol/

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I donated yesterday. AMA

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>>45350583
>>45350586

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Ur wellcum wikipodio

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>>45350602
Alright: Why are you such a faggot?

I'll consider donating when if get a job

>>45350603
https://mega.co.nz/#!LdYEWYRa!bC5IRQnKmzVy-M81yF5Ex0BNhnEc-GNHXuwF70p3dgc

/g/ also has one now, if anyone wants to downscale it to webm

https://mega.co.nz/#!SVIBhKRB!xVesg0_eAwYA8mtgGfgBqILvSm1aQEMOg9A3YHtE5b8

also here is one not hardcoded.

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>>45350377
>implying they need to

Wikipedia consists of an ancient markup engine and a few servers, keeping it running costs a trivial amount compared to their overall target. The donation drive is just an excuse for jimbo and his friends to make money from the gullible.

>>45350542
amen

>>45350643
Do you have any idea what bandwidth costs?

>>45350668
obviously not

>>45350603
>Nazis were evil

Dropped.

>>45350542
>already exists: rationalwiki.org
FTFY

>>45350603
Saved. Awesome.

>>45350684

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Feminist_internet_laws

u mad, neckbeards?

>>45350603

what anime

>>45350724
tfw not enough growth for neckbeard

>>45350429
This. Fucking shit. How can anybody think that always-on, intrusive, for-profit advertisements are preferable to infrequent, short lines of text?

>>45350673
According to their financial statement from last year, about $2.5 million/year

Interestingly they also have $27m in cash, so even if everyone stopped donating today wikimedia could keep the servers up for another 10 years.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/bf/Audit_Report_-_FY_13-14_-_Final_v2.pdf

>>45350684
reddit pls

>>45350745
and $20 million/year in salaries

>>45350602
I donated every fucking month for the last four months.

>tfw it's always the same story

>>45350761
Exactly, 20m on salaries for a foundation of 200 people, easy high paying jobs for jimbo and his friends.

>>45350632
Why are you such an edgy tryhard?

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>>45350831
>>45350761
~75k USD a year after tax sound good enough to make a decent living (supposing is equally distributed).
Is like if you expect everybody to live by Stallman's shitty standards

>>45350603
2/10
Would've been a 6/10 if not for the shitty weeb cartoons.

>>45350932
>shitty weeb cartoons.
You must be gnu here

>>45350946
>gnu here
lol, never seen this meme before, its pretty funny/cool.

>>45350924
OK then, if they're all so worthwhile, why don't you tell me why the overall salary bill has increased by a factor of 10 since 2009? What is wikipedia doing now that it wasn't doing then?

no ads

>>45351012
why don't you ask Jimbo?

>>45351012
Getting all bent out of shape because the featured article on the German Wikipedia's frontpage was "vulva."

>>45351012
>why don't you tell me why the overall salary bill has increased by a factor of 10 since 2009?
Mmm, the delicious taste of a faggots ignorance is strong on this one.

>employees in 2009: less than 30 (including volunteers)
>employees in 2014: 200+
It's almost like it increased by a factor of 10.

>What is wikipedia doing now that it wasn't doing then?
Working side by side the EFF to defend privacy, has some ongoing lobbying efforts. It give scholarships to dedicated writers so they can travel to wikimedia events and help plan next steps in the project.

Not gonna lie, I wish I were rich.

>>45351064
He's too busy reusing the software development work paid for by his "not-for-profit" wikimedia in his for-profit wikia company.

>>45351100
He's using open source software? The travesty!

>>45350513
so you want to tell me that Starbucks coffee is better than mediocre? That stuff is burnt shit, nothing more.

>>45351087
>It's almost like it increased by a factor of 10.
But why?
A: jobs for the boys.

>technology lobbying
Great, exactly what you were expecting them to spend it on when they said "donate now or wikipedia can't afford to host itself"

>It give scholarships to dedicated writers
aka. giving your money directly to his friends

Why don't they just have a plain text image ad on the main page and side of the search page not based on any previous searches on specific articles?
How fucking hard would that be?

It'd cover their costs (considering all of 5 people give them $5 every time they bother everyone with their bullshit) and nobody would give a shit

>>45351142
>look at me; I'm gonna start pulling things from my ass
Seen that trick before. It's ok if you're a teenager who still depends on his parents to food and shelter.

naturally noone here would care if they put ads on wikipedia, since we'd just block them anyway

>>45350603
MUH 6 GAZILLIONS BOO HOO HOO

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let them go broke and bought, anons

Since everything on wikipedia is GNU-FDL, and CC couldn't you create a site that mirrors all of the content, but runs ads?

Maybe add some better cross-linking, or a nicer layout to have some kind of selling point.

>>45351158
>I've given my money to enriching a bunch of nepotistic wikipeados but I'm going to deny it because muh buyers remorse

Well, each to his own. But I'll leave you to wonder why jimbo gave a job to, and continued promoting on wikipedia, the known fraud essjay, even when he must have known when he hired him.

>>45351158
you are innocent and poor, anon, that is why you still believe in correctness in people, you feel inferior due to money difference and don't realize how things really are, keep having fun in wonderland

>>45351160
Even if not, this banner slowly scrolling down is more annoying than every ad I have ever seen.

>>45351267
>>45351238
Actually I support the Jimmy's model. I don't see why you can't make money and give something useful back to the communities. Unless you have a black and white morality.
And obviously you will call your friends. Who are more likely to support you and take the first bitter years and get comfy after the heavy lifting is done.
But then again, pic on >>45350924

>>45351282
what banner?

>>45351315
The one in the OP image. Alternatively the one on Wikipedia.

>>45351360
that's a banner?

i haven't seen it

>>45351295
the main importance is in the language you use to describe it and how near to actual reality it is

>>45351408
>things can't dual in nature
k'

>>45350534
https://knol.google.com/

>Knol has been discontinued as of May 1, 2012

>>45351421
you don't express duality if you describe it just the way that benefits you, start reading what people say instead of trying to appear smart

>>45350429
>what is noscript

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>>45350603

>that awful typesetting job

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>giving money to the consortium of half truths

>>45351752
Would you rather give money to moot?

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>>45351772
>giving money to moot
i'd rather give to someone with a stronger backbone

>>45351772
After that thing with the strayan? Most likely not.

>>45351574
So you say I need to express duality on place that is well know to find everything wrong with everything.
Anyone can tell you what's wrong with Wikipedia or Linux or Apple or MS or your tastes, and after that all left is circlejerking.
I'm telling you there are good things being done by Wikipedia, just to make sure you're looking at an alternative interpretation, which you're always free to disregard.

>>45351788
>implying that guy exists
>implying moot exists

i would love to know the real creator of the chans

>>45350377
Fuck jewkipedia.
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/military
>Scroll down to the feminist rant.
You'll get 0 dollars from me. If you were a reliable source of information, I might change my mind.

>>45351808
>giving a fuck about born criminals from down under

>>45351809
So moot is cool because 4chan's posts are cool?

>>45351788
Thank based hotwheels.

>>45351826
haha oh wow.

me:
>oh man this anon is someone lost from /pol/ and needs to stay in his containment board
>let's see what's "wrong" with the article
>wtf, 10% of the article at the end is some bullshit rant about masculinity
huh.

>>45351844
No, moot is cool because he takes the time to do a mediocre work at providing this platform for questionable profits.
The funny thing is that at, we are all here.

>>45351824
why not delete the section then instead of whining here, faggot?

>>45351863
we are here because of the content, hundreds of thousands of NEETs work day and night to keep this place funny, if it wasn't moot it would be the weelchair guy or any other faggot

>>45351884
>hundreds of thousands of NEETs work day and night to keep this place funny
Where are they? Because this thread sure isn't funny.

>>45351891
oh, i'm having fun

>>45351884
>if it wasn't moot it would be the weelchair guy or any other faggot
That is the fairest thing I ever read, I mean it unironically. The next questions is, where are the alternatives? Why haven't any other faggot provided us with an alternative we can use free as in beer?
Are there alternatives? Sure there are but sadly, I've seen them and this is the best of a bad situation. Therefore, based m00t.

On second thought, I've never posted on SA but it don't seem as funny as 4chan

>>45351951
>SA
full of nazi mods

>>45351951
there is no need for alternatives when everything goes fine. Look at Google, until it fucks up in a big way it will be the only real search engine. Until 4chan fucks up in a big way, it will be the only real ib of the internet.

>>45351991
Google search is not that good. TBH, many times I have to rephrase my query to get a result, not necessarily the result. If anything that is an exercise on how people have low standards. It could be better. So could 4chan.
But then again, apparently no one else is trying, at least not for 4chan and Wikipedia.

>>45350380
>look, a clueless murican everybody

>>45352062
not even near

>>45350380
>$3
>shitty coffee
For once I'm glad I'm living in a shithole, for $3 you can get great coffee here.

People say Wikipedia should add ads, as long as they are text only and unintrusive. This is a very slippery slope.

The soccer team Barcelona went ~100 years with no sponser, one day they thought 'hey, why not show UNICEF support? they're a charity so it's ok!'. A few years later some Arabs offered them a load of money to advertise their charity, I mean it's still a charity so it's alright, right? Nowadays they advertise Qatar Airlines, that all happened in less than 10 years.

>>45352098
I think that was sarcasm
Do you people really pay that much money for coffee?

>>45352126
no, he said great, like 'comes with blowjob' coffee.
Regular coffee is like 10 american cents, good coffe 50 american cents, gourmet apple™ coffe 1 american dollar

>>45352126
In the UK you pay around £2-3 for a Costa coffee
In MX you pay around $25-45 MXN for anything at Starbucks.
So yeah, there's people who pay that much for a coffee.

>>45352143
It's more like $1 $2 $5 respectively

>>45352159
where do you live? are that prices local or imported coffee?

>>45352169
I would pay between 1 and 2 dollars for regular coffee at the diner or gas station.
Starbucks shit water is 3-5.
Local cafes are more like 2-3.

>>45352169
>local coffee
I was under the impression that pretty much all coffee comes from some third world shithole.

>>45352199
I use the heat from my computer to grow coffee in my basement.

>>45352208
Fine, just "shithole" then

>>45352199
b-but we are discussing third world shithole's coffee prices

>>45351682
something used by about 0.5% of internet users

>>45352216
joke's on you, I live in murrica

>>45350603
show name pls

>>45352238
>2014
>murrica not shithole

>>45352281
that was my point

>>45350729
>>45352253
Inou Battle something something. It's recent.

>>45352300
Just went through my folders.

Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de

>>45350377
cheapskate

>>45350443
>you know 99% of the money going to wikimedia is going to stuff that doesn't fund wikipedia servers
sauce pls, i'd like to know more about this.

>>45351788
Thank Based Hotwheels

>>45351788
Dank Based Memewheels.

>>45352126
Hell no.

>>45351788
Thank Based SnotWheels

>>45350377
>not giving them $5 a year.

How's it feel to be a NEET?

>>45350380
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
a fucking hipster faggot who thinks coffee actually costs what starbucks charges him
ahahahaha

>>45350603
im not even a /pol/ack but that shit is just cringeworthy

>>45350603
>pol-dont-understand.webm
k, well then it's like just your opinion and I don't understand why I should care about a chinese cartoon.

>>45350603
Absolutely disgusting. Ruined that scene you disgusting Jew faggot.

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