Todd, Romaine and all, Julia Brungs generally puts up sample emails for review here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#Current_fundraising_activities Copies of Dutch sample emails are linked there. I remember there were discussions between Wikimedia Netherlands, the community and the WMF last year, and there was a commitment made by the WMF that the Dutch community would be involved this year. See also last year's press report <https://archive.ph/gonKE> in de Volkskrant. Andreas On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 6:20 PM Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you provide a copy of the email, or at least its text? When > discussing something like this, it's helpful to see exactly what we're > talking about. > > Todd > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:07 AM Romaine Wiki <romaine.w...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> This was the title of a message on the Help Desk of the Dutch Wikipedia >> earlier this month. The title refers to the fundraising e-mail a reader of >> Wikipedia received so-called with a message from Jimmy Wales, and this >> reader got very concerned about what he saw as this e-mail looks like to be >> a scam or spam. The reader asked us: "But isn't this a strange way to >> collect money? This given the many warnings for not clicking on links in >> strange e-mails as those are often fraudulent (etc.), this does not seem >> very reliable to me." >> >> It seems that the e-mail came truly from WMF, but the concerns of this >> reader are something to be aware of. >> >> Another user writes he receives fake e-mails almost every day for all >> kinds of "services" and "requests" which do not feel trustworthy, the same >> as for this e-mail from WMF. >> >> The reaction of another user: please throw this kind of dubious e-mails >> away quickly, such e-mails can't be trusted. >> >> Someone else writes: That donation campaign is very American and the >> volunteers behind the Dutch Wikipedia have been calling for years against >> the international Wikimedia organization that this way of raising funds >> does not work in the Netherlands and Belgium, among others. >> >> That last part is I think the essence, for more than a decade WMF >> organises the fundraising, for more than a decade the Dutch community >> complains about the way/style/etc of the fundraising, and for more than a >> decade it is tradition that WMF does do little with the feedback and makes >> the same mistakes year after year after year... >> >> >> Disappointed greetings, >> Romaine >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/IDORKN6LOFNMOILHDXQLFAI2W4DSJH45/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/Y2G4WE675YR4QOEPSFAWBAWQXMPBJQMX/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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