On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ryan Delaney <ryan.dela...@gmail.com> 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 accept some fundraising once a year if we can keep it in mind > that these fundraising drives keep corporate advertizing off Wikipedia. That > alone ought to put this in perspective.
Yeah, but you're implying a false dichotomy of EITHER "we put up with all manner of tacky, tasteless slogans, leaving all choices to the PR team" OR "Wikipedia fails to meet its fundraising goals and goes off the air". There are many possibilities in between. Perhaps its fundraising goals have become more ambitious recently. Didn't we read somewhere that the annual maintenance costs are met in the first few days of each fundraising season? Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l