David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/11/15 William Pietri :
>
>
>> [...] I'm just saying
>> that we don't have to speculate; we can run all the ones that don't seem
>> blatantly counterproductive, and find out how well they do. Even better,
>> we can automatically optimize which we show and how. [...]
>>
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
> I think self-respect is a luxury for us folks who don't have to worry about
> meeting fundraising goals. All those servers and all that bandwidth isn't
> free. These ads were bad, but they're improving. I think we ought to be
> willing to acc
2009/11/15 David Gerard :
> It is not in fact that easy - because every slogan has to be
> translated into a pile of languages (by volunteers), and every banner
> has to be tested thoroughly in all translations
The foundation doesn't agree with you there. Well that or it has
worryingly low standar
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>> that we don't have to speculate; we can run all the ones that don't seem
>> blatantly counterproductive, and find out how well they do. Even better,
>
> It is not in fact that easy - because every slogan has to be
> translated into a pile of
2009/11/15 William Pietri :
> David pointed us to a variety of clever slogans written by the public.
> Isabell was speculating that most of them wouldn't work. I'm just saying
> that we don't have to speculate; we can run all the ones that don't seem
> blatantly counterproductive, and find out how
Steve Bennett wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri wrote:
>
>> People are doing some interesting work with auto-optimized ad runs that
>> we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of
>> traffic, we could accept a pretty broad range of slogans, and let
on 11/14/09 7:28 PM, Ryan Delaney at ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Marc Riddell
> wrote:
>
> everywhere we can.
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett
>>
Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have been reduced
to? Spe
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Marc Riddell wrote:
> >>> everywhere we can.
> >>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett
>
> >> Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have been reduced
> >> to? Spew out whatever random text as long as it gets the $$$? Please
> >> let us have
>>> everywhere we can.
>>
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett
>> Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have been reduced
>> to? Spew out whatever random text as long as it gets the $$$? Please
>> let us have some self-respect.
>>
>> Steve
>> on 11/14/09 6:54 PM, Ryan Del
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri
> wrote:
> > People are doing some interesting work with auto-optimized ad runs that
> > we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of
> > traffic, we could accept a pre
No, self-respect in advertising is about not actually lying about the
product, making $$$ by whatever cost effective means is what it's
always and *only* been about.
The only thing I will say about the current campaign, it's not about
Wikipedia Forever, it's about Wikipedia until-the-next-fund-rai
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri wrote:
> People are doing some interesting work with auto-optimized ad runs that
> we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of
> traffic, we could accept a pretty broad range of slogans, and let the
> system sort out which ar
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Isabell Long wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 06:13:14PM +, David Gerard wrote:
>> http://identi.ca/tag/wikipediafundraisingslogans
>> http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wikipediafundraisingslogans
>
> Some of those are very funny and inventive, though I don't thin
>
>"Wikipedia fundraiser: time to put coins in >your factual jukebox."
{{cn}}
LOL!
On 11/9/09, Charles Matthews wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> http://identi.ca/tag/wikipediafundraisingslogans
>> http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wikipediafundraisingslogans
>>
>> Mine: "Give us the money or you
David Gerard wrote:
> http://identi.ca/tag/wikipediafundraisingslogans
> http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wikipediafundraisingslogans
>
> Mine: "Give us the money or your homework gets it"
>
>
"Wikipedia fundraiser: time to put coins in your factual jukebox."
Charles
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Isabell Long wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 06:13:14PM +, David Gerard wrote:
>
>> http://identi.ca/tag/wikipediafundraisingslogans
>> http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wikipediafundraisingslogans
>>
>
> Some of those are very funny and inventive, though I don't think the majority
> of
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 06:13:14PM +, David Gerard wrote:
> http://identi.ca/tag/wikipediafundraisingslogans
> http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wikipediafundraisingslogans
Some of those are very funny and inventive, though I don't think the majority
of them would really work to be honest, espe
http://identi.ca/tag/wikipediafundraisingslogans
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wikipediafundraisingslogans
Mine: "Give us the money or your homework gets it"
- d.
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