{"id":13,"date":"2007-04-23T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T07:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/23\/a-modest-proposal\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:22:26","slug":"a-modest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/23\/a-modest-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"A modest proposal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/foundation-l\">foundation-l<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>How about using the old domain, wikipedia.com, as a site for stable Wikipedia versions, with ads on? The ad money, as well as paying our comparatively small hosting and staff costs, could go toward educational programmes for those people who could benefit from our hard work but <i>aren&#8217;t<\/i> comfortable, well-fed first-world citizens.<\/p>\n<p>(As far as I can tell, pretty much all opposition to ads on Wikimedia comes from people who are in fact comfortable, well-fed first-world citizens who have no problem accessing this material at all. Including opposition on the new thread. I have asked for demographics otherwise and eagerly await any.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2007-April\/thread.html#29523\">thread<\/a> is ticking along nicely, with ideas on how to, why not to, alternatives and of course a <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2007-April\/029535.html\">ton of ideas<\/a> on what we could actually do with BUCKETS OF CASH.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> I have since <a href=\"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2011\/01\/05\/anyone-who-advocates-advertising-on-wikipedia-is-a-drooling-moron\/\">changed my mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just posted to foundation-l: How about using the old domain, wikipedia.com, as a site for stable Wikipedia versions, with ads on? The ad money, as well as paying our comparatively small hosting and staff costs, could go toward educational programmes for those people who could benefit from our hard work but aren&#8217;t comfortable, well-fed first-world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/23\/a-modest-proposal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A modest proposal.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}