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This program is no longer available as of August 11, 2009 Dear Educators, It’s with much regret that we’re announcing the end of the “Ad Free for Education Sites” program here at Wetpaint. While the program has been a tremendous success and has been used by educators around the world, it comes at a high cost to Wetpaint. With the company’s resources stretched thin, we can no longer effectively support the program going forward. Anyone that already has a Wetpaint site in the “Ad Free for Education Sites” program or requested entry into the program prior to August 10, 2009 will remain in the ad-free program and their sites will remain ad-free. Wetpaint does offer ad-free options for a monthly subscription; details of that program can be found here. Wetpaint thanks the education community for their use of Wetpaint over the past two years and we look forward to supporting the community again in the near future. Sincerely, The Wetpaint Crew Note: Wetpaint cannot currently permit students under the age of 13 to register on Wetpaint.com, per COPPA	Q & A Q: Why did you get rid of the program? A: It was rather expensive to administer. Every week Wetpaint would get over 1000 requests from educators for ad free sites. To administer the project, we would have to review every single one of them to make sure they qualified for the program. Q: So now what do we do? A: Wetpaint does offer premium subscriptions which remove advertising from the site. That is an option. Additionally, there are several other collaborative web services that offer educators ad free websites if the premium option is too expensive. Q: If I’m in it but want to start a new one, can I do that? A: No. Sites that are already in the program will remain ad free going forward but new sites will not be admitted. We recommend educators turn over the site from session to session. You can add new users and delete old ones. Q: I already registered my education site to have ads removed, when will the ads be turned off?If you have already visited the "Settings" area of your site, clicked on "Upgrades", and clicked the Select button under the "Register as an education site", and filled out and submitted the form, then you don't need to do anything else. Over the past few weeks Wetpaint has received a high volume of requests for this free service. Please be patient while we review these requests and disable the ads. * Wetpaint reserves the right to grant or deny ad-free status on a case-by-case basis.

This program is no longer available as of August 11, 2009

Dear Educators,

It’s with much regret that we’re announcing the end of the “Ad Free for Education Sites” program here at Wetpaint. While the program has been a tremendous success and has been used by educators around the world, it comes at a high cost to Wetpaint. With the company’s resources stretched thin, we can no longer effectively support the program going forward.

Anyone that already has a Wetpaint site in the “Ad Free for Education Sites” program or requested entry into the program prior to August 10, 2009 will remain in the ad-free program and their sites will remain ad-free.

Wetpaint does offer ad-free options for a monthly subscription; details of that program can be found here.

Wetpaint thanks the education community for their use of Wetpaint over the past two years and we look forward to supporting the community again in the near future.

Sincerely,

The Wetpaint Crew

Note: Wetpaint cannot currently permit students under the age of 13 to register on Wetpaint.com, per COPPA

Q & A

Q: Why did you get rid of the program?
A: It was rather expensive to administer. Every week Wetpaint would get over 1000 requests from educators for ad free sites. To administer the project, we would have to review every single one of them to make sure they qualified for the program.

Q: So now what do we do?
A: Wetpaint does offer premium subscriptions which remove advertising from the site. That is an option. Additionally, there are several other collaborative web services that offer educators ad free websites if the premium option is too expensive.

Q: If I’m in it but want to start a new one, can I do that?
A: No. Sites that are already in the program will remain ad free going forward but new sites will not be admitted. We recommend educators turn over the site from session to session. You can add new users and delete old ones.

Q: I already registered my education site to have ads removed, when will the ads be turned off?If you have already visited the "Settings" area of your site, clicked on "Upgrades", and clicked the Select button under the "Register as an education site", and filled out and submitted the form, then you don't need to do anything else.

Over the past few weeks Wetpaint has received a high volume of requests for this free service. Please be patient while we review these requests and disable the ads.

* Wetpaint reserves the right to grant or deny ad-free status on a case-by-case basis.

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will.jones

A suggestion for the ads free educator wiki pages.

Wednesday, 5:16 PM EST by altucker

Thread started: Sep 30 2009, 3:18 AM EDT Watch

I fully understand the logisitics of dealing with 1000 requests a week for new pages for ads free wikis.

Can wetpaint set up a SCHOOL registration program? It would be on the school administrators to send you documents asking for a school wiki to be set up.

you could then set up individual school wikis, giving the permission and admin control to the person who sets it up.

That way individual teachers would have to go THROUGH their school to set up wiki pages. It would lower the reqested wiki pages (and associated logistics) for wetpaint from thousands per week, to several hundred, and then it would taper off as schools were signed up.

By making it up to the school administrators/IT folks handle the paper work (a proof of location, school charter, etc...) it would make life much easier for wetpaint.

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wilson17

Suggestion to "Delete" members?

Oct 29 2009, 6:59 PM EDT by GBC

Thread started: Aug 20 2009, 2:30 PM EDT Watch

This task is not possible from my recent research of these help forums. You can "ban" members, but that is not the same thing. So yes, Wetpaint, I would like to re-create my site each year with a new class and continue to use your service.... but first you need to have better controls over the members such as a simple "delete" tool just like you refered to in the FAQ with your announcement.

And just as others have responded to this sad news, I too have referred several people to this service for both education and other purposes. To dishonor the loyal education base in this manner... right before the school year at that.... is really disheartening to me. I will no longer be recommending Wetpaint.

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halexander

Dissappointing!!!

Oct 22 2009, 12:06 PM EDT by ts-wps

Thread started: Sep 15 2009, 12:44 PM EDT Watch

I work for Jefferson Parish Public School System and I teach teachers how to use technology with their students. I have trained hundreds of people on how to use wetpaint wikis, but now because we are no longer able to remove the ads we are going to switch to another provider. I am very sad about this because I love wetpaint, but we can not deal with the ads. :(