Adding Google AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4
More publishers are becoming familiar with AdSense as a revolutionary business technology for monetizing eyeballs (i.e., for generating revenue from the viewers that spend time perusing your site). Here are the directions for adding AdSense to your MediaWiki 1.4 installation. You can see the results at PWS Notes, a wiki on a rare genetic disorder that I administer for my sister-in-law. I’m only using text ads and I place them under the rest of the options in the navigation column, so as to be fairly unobtrusive.
This info was inspired by these directions, which work for Mediawiki 1.3 but not for 1.4. Note that if you use the highly recommended Firefox extension Adblock, you need to hit Shift-Ctrl-B first to disable it and see the Google ads.
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