User:SnowyCinema/Advertising on Wikipedia

Whether or not to include online advertisements on the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, or on any other Wikimedia projects, in order to help fund the project, has been a topic of ongoing discussion among the community for many years. Various ideas on how to carry out this idea have been discussed. Currently, Wikipedia is free of any types of advertisements referring to external organizations, but frequently contains fundraising banners, attempting to encourage readers and editors to donate to the project, as well as reminders about events related to the project.

The proposed ideas do not include the allowance of spamming or advertising by users through editing, as that is already strictly against Wikipedia's policies. The ideas also do not include allowing the project's content articles to have a promotional tone.

Dated
http://enterprise.vnews.com/2015/12/06/wikipedia-has-lots-of-money/

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advertising_on_Wikipedia

http://www.pcworld.com/article/255625/wikipedia_warns_users_about_malware_injecting_ads_into_its_pages.html

http://www.spamfighter.com/News-17730-Advertisements-on-Wikipedia-Likely-Install-Malware.htm

https://books.google.com/books?id=4Le8BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=%22advertisements%22+%22wikipedia%22&source=bl&ots=0qRtZAChYH&sig=DnF-6EVRvJM21XPxR2B-4TNcMgk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc14GeqaPKAhVF5yYKHXn3CdI4FBDoAQgtMAQ#v=onepage&q=%22advertisements%22%20%22wikipedia%22&f=false