On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:04 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> > > Zack Exley wrote: > > Tens of thousands of donors have filled out a survey this year after > donating. > > We've gotten hardly a handful of complaints. I would have expected a lot. > > Can you elaborate on this point? You seem to be saying that you would have > expected a lot of complaints from people who are filling out a voluntary > survey after having willingly donated money to you. Just how many > complaints > were you expecting and what might they look like? I'm fascinated to know. > I don't know what Zack was expecting this year, but having worked on the fundraiser last year, the banners were talked about so extensively that they became the topic of numerous blog posts at large outlets. The Brandon Harris one even got him to an IAMA on Reddit. They were very much mocking the left orientation and the easy way you could screen shot the photo over a Wikipedia article title to make an insult. It was not that much fun to read when you were investing a lot of time and energy on the effort, so I think some of us were not looking forward to the same happening this year. Now that I monitor social media for the Foundation, I get to see a lot of chatter around the banner. I don't mean to suggest Tweets are proof of anything definitively, but of the ten thousand+ Wikipedia tweets since Nov 15, I've only seen a small handful of them (I would guess less than 20) that mentioned the yellow banners negatively. I haven't monitored every single tweet of course, so if someone wants to be more scientific about it, please do. A search on Twitter for "yellow banner" does bring up some of those negative ones, but it's not a huge list. FWIW, Matthew -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l