2009/11/12 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: > Soxred93 wrote:
>> Maybe the Foundation is trying to teach us a lesson. Maybe they want >> us to stop complaining about ads, so they intentionally run a bad >> one. In the next few years, we'll have this to look back on and say, >> "it could always be worse." > It is pretty much traditional for the fundraiser to cause controversy, > in fact. I know how Oleg feels. These days I ignore the ads, since I > don't see why I should give money well as time: and they are obviously > aimed at Wikipedia's readers, who outnumber the people seriously > involved with the site by a factor of 10,000 or more by now. I don't see > the banner any more: I don't remember dismissing it. The banner mechanism was actually broken in IE6, so it was switched off for a day or two while that gets fixed. I understand the banners have been redone in Initial Capitals, not ALL CAPITALS :-) - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
