Reason why Wikipedia does not post advertisements even in financial crisis

Wikipedia may fall into a financial crisis at this rate and may close downSo that last week was talked about around the net, the reaction that seems to have been the most at that time is "You can only put ads sooner or later". However, there are no plans for ads to be posted at present. As usual, we are to rely on donation.

There are various reasons why advertisements are not listed for maintaining neutrality, but its fundamental first reason is extremely simple. This is because the founder of Wikipedia is opposed to advertising. Therefore, this idea at the beginning of establishment has been reflected to the present.

Details are as follows.
Slashdot | War of Words Over Wikipedia Ads Continues

Wikipedia's Wales: Damn the advertising, full speed ahead!

Personally I disagree with advertisements appearing on Wikipedia that I disagreeJimmy WalesMr. He is the honorary president of the Wikimedia Foundation and is the founder and project leader of the encyclopedia project "Wikipedia" operated by the foundation. His blog is below.

Jimmy Wales
http://blog.jimmywales.com/

However, he writes on his past blog that he is opposed to posting advertisements on Wikipedia, not against money making itself. The article is below.

Jimmy Wales >> Blog Archive >> Advertising and Wikipedia

Although advertising itself is not bad, it is not good for Wikipedia. And someone in the world is sure to expect that they will come up with a more creative and better way than simply placing ads to maintain free culture like Wikipedia .

Also, even in response to questions from past Slashdot, we clearly showed a posture of refusal for advertisement posting.

JimmyWales - Translation section 12) Money problems - by Achoi 77)

Questions about advertisements are sometimes discussed, but it is not a story that "we need to accept ads to survive". The answer is clearly "no".

Among them, if you decide to post advertisements you can expect huge revenue, so if your revenue remains beyond maintaining Wikipedia, you can finance them to books and media centers in developing countries It may be used to do.

then,This articleAccording to Jimmy Wales, he is scheduled to visit Japan in March 2007.

After that he said "I will go to Tokyo in March." Because he says "The Japanese version of wikipedia is currently the fourth largest following English, German and French, but we do not know at all what is happening." So after the lecture was over, I went to him and told him, "It is probably Taihen to understand Japanese culture." Because I do not know well what they are doing mostly. After that I talked to him what I thought of "Japanese version problem" and Shinzan (although I'm having trouble talking about the main point in English at such a place where time is on, I do not mind. As with the Japanese society, wikipedia Japanese version is a good thing to do with rooting and tacit understanding, kosokoso doing, and the world of "bride-in-law". Perhaps from a human being accustomed to an open discussion, I think the sense of Japanese "discussion == fight" is badly perplexing.

As for Wikipedia and advertisement, there was discussion like this in the past. This is an argument that happened with the article of using Wikipedia as search engine SEO.

Slashdot Japan | Wikipedia is not a place for advertisement

Finally, Wikipedia has written as follows.

Wikipedia: What is not Wikipedia - Wikipedia

Wikipedia does not accept any advertisement activity. We accept only those which are appropriate as an encyclopedia item.