Hello, In principle it is a nice idea. But it is extremely diffcult to "edit" (to make substantial contributions) so such an initiative should be accompanied by more than a simple appeal...
Kind regards Ziko 2012/1/2 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > I tend to agree. At times of Fundraising, public interest grows > noticeably. People have been asking me aobut the banners almost every > day for the last few weeks. (A few times they even asked me whether > they are going to see a personal appeal from Amir Aharoni soon.) > > I don't think that i ever saw a focused "personal appeal + photo" > banner that asks people to edit instead of asking them for money. I > did sometime see graphical banners in Wikipedias in various languages > that invite people to edit or participate in writing contests. > Something like this is happening in the Tamil Wikipedia now ( > http://ta.wikipedia.org/ ). I don't know how effective it is - it's > worth checking. > > 2012/1/2 James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> >> >> The fundraiser for money has been working exceedingly well with our >> number of donors increasing 10 fold since 2008. What we need now is a >> fundraiser for editors. I meet well educated professionals who use >> Wikipedia but have no ideas that they can edit it. We need to run a >> banner with the same energy we use to raise money to raise editor >> numbers. This idea has been trialed to a limited extent here >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Invitation_to_edit but the >> effort did not have sufficient data crunching behind it to determine >> if it works. >> >> -- >> James Heilman >> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l