On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Elizabeth Stark <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, I think the personal appeal aspect of it makes sense, because people > are much more likely to be motivated by a humanized plea than by a faceless > organization. That said, a better way to do it would be to have personal > appeals from Wikipedians from around the world, and rotate them, in > different languages, etc. >
That's actually in the works. We tested the first personal appeal from an editor yesterday; unfortunately, it didn't beat Jimmy, although it was better than the less personal non-Jimmy messages we tested early on before the fundraiser began in earnest. But hopefully we can find some other messages that do better than Jimmy; a number of other people's personal appeals are planned for testing soon. This will give some idea of why the Jimmy banner works well: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Focus_group It's not because it's him in particular, as far as we can tell. If you have specific ideas that you think would do better, you can propose them: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 This is being executed as "the fundraiser that anyone can edit"; unfortunately, we just haven't come very close to beating the Jimmy banner yet. -Sage _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
