On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:56:35 +0200, Deloptes wrote:

> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
>> - the half screenful of donation request that gets added every time
>> Wikipedia needs more cash. To me this is no different to any other
>> advert, and again is not written or supplied by the page author.
>
> Why do you think so? What makes you think the author/owner of Wikipedia
> did not concent with this?
>
The Wiki contributers may have consented as part of the T&C. Read those
to find out - I'm not one of their editors so could care less.

In any case, as I've said, the simple and obvious way to tout for cash
contributions is to handle it via a web server extension which the
sysadmins enable when the bank balance is getting low.

Sites that inject adverts will be using a similar mechanism, if only
because most adverts are images while Wikipedia's cash requests are,
IIRC, text inserts.


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