It's interesting that this list has been effectively closed just
before it would be getting a true storm of protest... But on the
off-chance that it's actually nobody writing here rather than nobody
being there to get the messages through:
Why o why these ugly, YELLING, unclear banners? At many pl
Having trouble posting. Trying again:
We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has
suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers
to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) revert vandalism?
I have asked many people about their use of Wik
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:26 AM, James Heilman wrote:
> Having trouble posting. Trying again:
>
> We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has
> suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers
> to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) r
Along Keegan's idea about encouraging contributions in the reader's
native language, does Wikimedia track the preset language of visitors?
I know some analytics packages do, not sure if this is against
Wikimedia's privacy policies.
If the server senses the reader is preset to en, and looking at en
> ... many are unaware
> that it is even possible for them to edit.
Recently I discovered, that it's true
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:26 AM, James Heilman wrote:
> Having trouble posting. Trying again:
>
> We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has
> suggested thi
On 18 March 2010 14:15, Nicholas Moreau wrote:
> Is this technically possible? Is this within the boundaries of taste
> (ie not being creepy)?
>
> Nick
Technically possible but completely undesirable. People frequently
make the choice to use wikipedia in a non native language and hitting
them wit
James Heilman wrote:
> We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has
> suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers
> to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) revert vandalism?
This was implemented on the English Wikipedia for quite some
Nicholas Moreau wrote:
> Along Keegan's idea about encouraging contributions in the reader's
> native language, does Wikimedia track the preset language of visitors?
> I know some analytics packages do, not sure if this is against
> Wikimedia's privacy policies.
It's difficult to know what you mea
Once again our yearly fundraising banners are here. It seem to be working
well however we should also inviting people to edit. My logic is this:
1) We invite people to edit
2) This increases the quality of our content
3) Improved quality increases readership
4) Increased readership increases donat
Hey James,
I'm going to link you to my blog post today, where I talked about our intent to
do exactly that:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/11/14/2010-contribution/
pb
On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:45 PM, James Heilman wrote:
> Once again our yearly fundraising banners are here. It seem to be work
One of Polish banners has intent to invite people to edit:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Messages/Language/pl#Korzystasz_z_Wikipedii.3F
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It would also be great if we could have banners inviting people to
participate in major local community events, like the many Wikipedia
10 celebrations planned for January.
http://ten.wikipedia.org
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Daniel ~ Leinad wrote:
> One of Polish banners ha
I believe that's in the works as well :)
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Hi everyone,
A quick announcement: we are temporarily turning off the fundraising banners
for most logged in users. This will continue most likely through the end of
the year. We did some quick checking and realized that most people who are
logged in and intend to give have already given. Th
Hello,
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A quick announcement: we are temporarily turning off the fundraising banners
> for most logged in users. This will continue most likely through the end of
> the year. We did some quick checking and realized t
Naoko,
We're actually still figuring out the right way to use the centralnotice for
advertising events. We're concerned about not overwhelming particular events,
but also with making sure that the word gets out - it's a bit of a balancing
act.
Once we've figured out the best way to go about
2010/12/21 Philippe Beaudette :
> Naoko,
>
> We're actually still figuring out the right way to use the centralnotice for
> advertising events. We're concerned about not overwhelming particular
> events, but also with making sure that the word gets out - it's a bit of a
> balancing act.
Point
Can I make a humble suggestion about the banners, and some other things.
on my slow computer, the banner takes a while to load, and when i click on
the page the click lands on the banner.
I dont mind looking at the banner, but I do mind that i click on it all the
time by accident,
maybe a simple tr
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> We're actually still figuring out the right way to use the centralnotice for
> advertising events. We're concerned about not overwhelming particular events,
> but also with making sure that the word gets out - it's a bit of a balancing
> act.
>
> Once we've figured ou
Mike Dupont wrote:
> Can I make a humble suggestion about the banners, and some other things.
> on my slow computer, the banner takes a while to load, and when i click on
> the page the click lands on the banner.
> I dont mind looking at the banner, but I do mind that i click on it all the
> time b
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