Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-11-19 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 18/11/2010, at 7:14, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Deniz Gultekin dgulte...@wikimedia.org wrote: MuZemike, Bad feelings? We're learning more about our donors to maximize the fundraising potential of our messages during the two month campaign.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-07 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Deniz Gultekin dgulte...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Wikipedians and Jedi-themed special effects?! *gets popcorn* But yes, I agree, it'd be fantastic to have even more high quality videos of editors *and* readers, with or without lightsabers. On 10/6/10 6:05 PM,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-07 Thread Erik Moeller
2010/10/7 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On November 8, the Wikimedia Foundation will re-introduce banner ads.  And you'll see why 2010 won't be like ''2010''.  (Cue shot of Erik Möller staring at a monolith, which suddenly displays the language-specific version of

[WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to bring you up to date on the planning of the 2010-2011 fundraiser, and ask once again for your participation in the process. Our updated meta pages (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 ) will give you an overview as well. There's a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread MuZemike
Is it me, or when I saw the word focus group, I started to develop some bad feelings about this? -MuZemike On 10/5/2010 8:49 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to bring you up to date on the planning of the 2010-2011 fundraiser, and ask once again for your

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread Deniz Gultekin
MuZemike, Bad feelings? We're learning more about our donors to maximize the fundraising potential of our messages during the two month campaign. We have a lofty goal - and a short time period to accomplish it in. -Deniz On 10/6/10 1:03 PM, MuZemike wrote: Is it me, or when I saw the word

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread James Alexander
On 10/6/2010 4:03 PM, MuZemike wrote: Is it me, or when I saw the word focus group, I started to develop some bad feelings about this? -MuZemike How so? We aren't basing the decisions on which banners to run on the focus group (or survey for that matter). We're doing that on actual click

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Maybe a video clip montage of lots of different Wikipedia contributors talking for a very short time? Haha, like http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/24/four-videos-of-wikipedias-volunteers/ ? ;-) -- Casey Brown

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Maybe a video clip montage of lots of different Wikipedia contributors talking for a very short time? Haha, like

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread Deniz Gultekin
Wikipedians and Jedi-themed special effects?! *gets popcorn* But yes, I agree, it'd be fantastic to have even more high quality videos of editors *and* readers, with or without lightsabers. On 10/6/10 6:05 PM, Carcharoth wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Casey Brownli...@caseybrown.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread MuZemike
I'm just saying that I know instances in which focus groups sometimes don't accomplish what they're set to do. Apparently, Apple has gone against this concept of doing focus groups to make decisions so they can keep moving forward with various products (citation needed). Coca-Cola did the same