BTW, it was indeed really great to see that personal appeal from Kartika, the grand winner of Wikimedia Indonesia's 'Free Your Knowledge' extravanganza:
http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Free_Your_Knowledge_2010 Thanks, Richard (Pharos) On 11/17/10, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
