Sorry Geni but you are totally wrong. Each year the Foundation asks for more money than the year before, and each year the citizens of the world give it.
I challenge you to find 1% as many negative blog posts regarding the fundraiser as there are positive comments left by donors. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/1/7 Michael Bimmler <[email protected]>: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:11 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 2009/1/7 Erik Moeller <[email protected]>: > >> > A quick update: the "Thank You" banner is currently scheduled to stay > >> > up until January 9, 4 PM PST. We're keeping it up a while longer in > >> > part because it's the first work week after the holidays for many > >> > people, and in part because it's an opportunity for chapters to get > >> > some more visibility (we may have reached our goals ahead of time, but > >> > the chapters were operating under the assumption that the fundraiser > >> > would continue until January 15). As explained in the "Thank You" > >> > letter, the funds donated to WMF from now until the end of the fiscal > >> > year will go into our reserve fund and will help us to not live from > >> > hand to mouth as we head into the new fiscal. We'd always planned to > >> > raise at least $1.3M in reserve funding throughout the fiscal year. > >> > >> > >> It is also a opportunity to further annoy our readers. IT's pretty > >> clear they don't like it > > > > > > and you know this because...? > > Because I run daily searches of blogs for the term wikipedia. Because > complaints have turned up all over the place on wikipedia. Because or > editors who also have to read the thing have gone so far as to have a > gadget to get rid of it. Because adblock which targets banner ads > among other things has 10,850,228 dowloads. > > Because people come to wikipedia to read articles rather than thankyou > messages and taking up significant significant screen space with stuff > readers don't want is not generally considered a way to maximize the > level of like for your site. > > > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- You have successfully failed! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
