Hi Amir, I think this will be every effective. We should try this idea.
Thanks, naveenpf On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > > > > 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 > > [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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
