{"id":819,"date":"2012-06-26T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=819"},"modified":"2012-06-26T19:57:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:57:19","slug":"anyone-who-advocates-advertising-on-wikipedia-is-still-a-drooling-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2012\/06\/26\/anyone-who-advocates-advertising-on-wikipedia-is-still-a-drooling-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone who advocates advertising on Wikipedia is still a drooling moron."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Google AdSense <a href=\"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2011\/01\/05\/anyone-who-advocates-advertising-on-wikipedia-is-a-drooling-moron\">messed around TVTropes<\/a> a while back? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/tv-tropes-rape-articles\/\">They&#8217;ve done it again<\/a>. <i>Every<\/i> trope with &#8220;rape&#8221; in the title, or porn tropes, <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Administrivia\/TheSecondGoogleIncident\">has been deleted<\/a>, even when it&#8217;s absolutely valid with a ton of good examples (and <a href=\"http:\/\/borderhouseblog.com\/?p=8681\">ridiculously relevant to current popular culture<\/a>), because <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/posts.php?discussion=1336596652026160100&#038;page=1#17\">AdSense doesn&#8217;t consider that sort of thing suitable<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.org\/2012\/06\/25\/rape-as-back-story-now-on-the-gf-wiki\/\">Geek Feminism Wiki has stepped in<\/a> to recover the culled stuff that&#8217;s useful and important.<\/p>\n<p>If you have advertisers, that&#8217;s who your customer is.<\/p>\n<p>(This is also why Wikimedia tends to try to get as many small donors as possible, rather than rely on a few large ones: to reduce the risk of a large donor deciding that their opinion counts more than the readers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Google AdSense messed around TVTropes a while back? They&#8217;ve done it again. Every trope with &#8220;rape&#8221; in the title, or porn tropes, has been deleted, even when it&#8217;s absolutely valid with a ton of good examples (and ridiculously relevant to current popular culture), because AdSense doesn&#8217;t consider that sort of thing suitable. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2012\/06\/26\/anyone-who-advocates-advertising-on-wikipedia-is-still-a-drooling-moron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anyone who advocates advertising on Wikipedia is still a drooling moron.&#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-819","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-dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}