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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Pharos <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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