Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Deniz Gultekin dgulte...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Wikipedians and Jedi-themed special effects?! *gets popcorn* But yes, I agree, it'd be fantastic to have even more high quality videos of editors *and* readers, with or without lightsabers. On 10/6/10 6:05 PM, Carcharoth wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Casey Brownli...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Maybe a video clip montage of lots of different Wikipedia contributors talking for a very short time? Haha, like http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/24/four-videos-of-wikipedias-volunteers/ ? ;-) Something like that yes, but even better, and with Jedi special effects! :-) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- Deniz Gültekin Community Associate Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge http://donate.wikimedia.org/ I would like to add to this that I think the key factor is the personal appeal. You should definitely pick a random Wikimedian and give them a high falutin message akin to the one in Jimmy's appeal and see how it stacks up. Chances are it's going to work very well. After all, people don't know who Jimmy Wales is, and yet his appeal causes them to donate. That boils it down to the personal nature of the appeal and the content of the message. If this turns out to be correct you should, pronto, start making LOTS of these. - Brian ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
[WikiEN-l] Focus groups
This is totally understandable, especially on the basis of 1 focus group. The one thing that is nice is that a lot of the data that we got from the focus group matched up with the data from the donor survey which helps validate it some. But again the real important data is actual concrete testing data that we've both gotten and will be getting a lot more of over the next month. It is THAT data that will really inform us on what messages, landing pages, design etc work the best. James James speaks my mind here as well. It's not the fact that we did a focus group that's important - it's the fact that the findings from that focus group lined up and correlated with data from a past donor survey (which was conducted by an entirely separate firm with no interaction to the firm that conducted the focus group) and our own testing. Instead of having a single data point, we have several. We'll keep gathering data, of course, and constantly re-evaluating our findings, but this was the first time we were able to define - in a data-driven way - these common themes. Oh, and ... regarding another post on this thread... zOMG! jedi effects? I can haz? pb Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)
2010/10/7 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On November 8, the Wikimedia Foundation will re-introduce banner ads. And you'll see why 2010 won't be like ''2010''. (Cue shot of Erik Möller staring at a monolith, which suddenly displays the language-specific version of http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia on it.) All these worlds are yours except Simple English. Attempt no landings there... -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
