You can see the banner here (make sure your volume is up): http://www.trevorparscal.com/stuff/thehawk/
I dunno if anyone listened to NPR's latest fundraiser but they had some /awesome/ appeals by Alec Baldwin - you can listen to them here: http://www.kplu.org/alec-baldwin I found them really compelling and think if we could get some celeb to endorse us, it could have a lot of potential - and might be entertaining enough to take people's minds off of how annoyed they are about seeing Jimmy everywhere they look. On 11/23/2010 10:42 AM, Russell Nelson wrote: > We were chattering about having Stephen Hawking do a funraising banner > (Trevor made up one), and speculating how well they'd do. You could even > serve up diffferent banners based on the categories. If it's a page about > physics, serve up the Hawk banner. If science fiction, Charles Stross or > whomever else. If they visit the Angelina Jolie page, they get to see the > Angelina Jolie banner. Who knows?? Maybe we could make it COOL to have a > Wikipedia fundraising banner, just like it was COOL to be a guest on the > Muppet Show, or it's COOL to have your own animated character on The > Simpsons. I'm thinking that a short video clip like "I'm Freeman Dyson and > I want you to support wikipedia.". > > Seems like something that could easily be tested. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
