Community Central talk:Advertising on Wikia

Advertising was added to Wikicities today. There are currently a few glitches. If you see the ads at the top of the page above all the content, please do a hard refresh of the page (ctrl and F5 for example), which should update it and move the ads to a column on the right. Please add any other issues below. We hope to have these resolved soon and apologize for these temporary formatting issues. Angela 21:51, 14 Jan 2005 (PST)

Macintosh users: Safari users, empty your cache -- that often does the trick. --DavidFeng 02:27, 15 Jan 2005 (PST)

Current issues

 * 1) The ads force right floating images and category entries to be shifted to the end of the page
 * 2) The ads appear above the edit box, so you need to scroll down too far to edit
 * 3) Public service ads are included, seemingly without reason

- user:Jasonr made some changes to the placement and tested it in Firefox and IE on Windows at 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions. Le t me know if you get any other formatting problems. Regarding the public service ads... Those are something Google is doing. It is my understanding that they will go away after a few days.


 * There are still problems with everything coming after the ads under Linux/Konqueror 3.3.2; the column-content is sized correctly to fit the space, but it still appears below the ad - GreenReaper 05:11, 15 Jan 2005 (PST)
 * I tried adding style float:right to the column-google, but that shifted the content left as well without resizing it. GreenReaper 05:41, 15 Jan 2005 (PST)
 * This page also has problems on at least IE/Windows - GreenReaper

OmniWeb and Safari on Mac OS X are rendering the pages with a massive column of blankness next to a right-aligned tower ad, followed by a shrunk text. Only the top tabs and the left navbar are still "normal". --DavidFeng 08:27, 15 Jan 2005 (PST)

Alternatives and suggestions
There was a suggestion on peace-l to use the PayPal donation program on peace: as an alternative. Angela 09:15, 15 Jan 2005 (PST)
 * I think paypal would be good, too, if people actually gave the money . . . don't know how many would, though. But it could be another option. GreenReaper 10:17, 15 Jan 2005 (PST)

A suggestion was made on my talk page to use the button ads on edit pages. Personally, I don't think ads on edit pages are useful at all. If people are about to edit something, they ought to be allowed to do that without distraction. Angela

A suggestion in an email to me was to allow wiki users to pay to have the ads removed. Angela 09:21, 15 Jan 2005 (PST)

Examples

 * http://creatures.wikicities.com/index.php/Norndoll
 * http://creatures.wikicities.com/index.php/Category:Creatures_games
 * http://creatures.wikicities.com/index.php/Hebe_Norn