Wikipedia talk:Funding Wikipedia through advertisements

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Note: There is a long history to this issue. See: strategy:Advertising, strategy:Category:Proposals on funding through advertising, meta:Polls, meta:Advertising on Wikipedia, meta:Opt-in Google-ads, Enciclopedia Libre, Spanish Wikipedia, Wikipedia talk:Tools/1-Click Answers, and Wikipedia:User categories for discussion/Archive/December 2007#Wikimedia and advertising. See also the talk archives linked below to the right for the various, defunct, "for and against" categories/WikiProjects concerning advertising.

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Talk from old "for and against" categories/WikiProjects: Wikipedians against advertisements Wikipedians who think that the Wikimedia Foundation should use advertising Later talk: March 2007 onwards