I am sorry to say but I am constantly logged in and do see fundraising
banners every year.

Each time when it was announced fundraising banners would come, I have seen
them logged in, in multiple countries.

Romaine


Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 heeft Joseph Seddon <jsed...@wikimedia.org> het
volgende geschreven:

> Hey Strainu,
>
> You are probably right in that you saw a banner but regarding specifically
> fundraising banners, I am 100% certain that the WMF does not and has not
> for some years actively shown banners to users who are logged in. The
> caveat with that is this does not preclude any possibility of human error
> or a software bug. I'm not aware of any specific occasion where this has
> occurred in the last two years but with a piece of software that serves
> billions of page views, across 20-30 countries and some probably some 3000
> banner tests during that period, probabilities that something hadn't gone
> wrong start reaching levels of sigma that not even I would attempt to claim
> :P
>
> Regards
>
> Seddon
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Changing subject, the other thread is about something totally different.
> >
> > 2017-09-05 14:38 GMT+03:00 Joseph Seddon <jsed...@wikimedia.org
> <javascript:;>>:
> > > WMF hasn't shown fundraising banners to logged in users for several
> > years.
> >
> > While I wouldn't bet my life on it, I'm pretty sure I saw banners on
> > mobile just last month, while being logged in.
> >
> > Strainu
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Seddon
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5 Sep 2017 08:33, "Lodewijk" <lodew...@effeietsanders.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hey Ori,
> > >>
> > >> I like the creative thinking :) For the fundraising that could indeed
> > work
> > >> well (although I have no numbers on what percentage of domations comes
> > from
> > >> logged in users etc), but there are also campaigns tht are quite
> > relevant
> > >> for logged in users.
> > >>
> > >> Lodewijk
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Ori Livneh <ori.liv...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On Sep 3, 2017 13:02, "David Gerard" <dger...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > On 2 September 2017 at 02:09, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > This is possibly the most annoying feature of the Wikimedia
> > projects at
> > >> > the moment. You access a page. Then you start reading or editing it.
> > And
> > >> > then suddenly the page jumps when a fundraising banner / central
> > notice /
> > >> > gadget / beta feature loads. So you have to start reading the page
> > again,
> > >> > or you have to find where you were editing again, or you have to
> undo
> > the
> > >> > change you just made since you made it in the wrong part of the
> page.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Or you click "edit" and it hits the banner that suddenly popped up
> > >> > under your click. AAAAAAAAAAAA
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > One possible solution would be to exempt anyone who edits an article
> > from
> > >> > being shown a banner by means of a cookie with a suitable expiry.
> > Since
> > >> > only a tiny fraction of visitors edit, I would expect the impact on
> > the
> > >> > WMF's bottom line to be negligible.
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