Two weeks ago I emailed the fundraising team with the following note, quietly
and discretely pointing out an error in their messaging. Sadly I haven't had a
reply and I think that in the UK they are still using the £3 buys a coffee for
a programmer line:
Aside from the incidental nature of
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On 19 Dec 2014, at 08:44, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com
wrote:
Two weeks ago I emailed the fundraising team with the following note, quietly
and discretely pointing out an error in their messaging. Sadly I haven't had
a reply and I think that in the
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:44 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Two weeks ago I emailed the fundraising team with the following note,
quietly and discretely pointing out an error in their messaging. Sadly I
haven't had a reply and I think that in the UK they are still
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Peter Southwood
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote:
These objectionable items are all standard advertising practice. No-one
should be surprised.
Perhaps better is expected of the Foundation that we all support. Many
people are surprised - I know I was.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
*Fundraising operating principles*
I would like to reiterate my call to see us develop some practical
operating principles for fundraising that would give some real-world
guidelines for website-banners and emails. Board
I have to say, I don't see anything remotely objectionable in that email.
Bold italicised text on a yellow background might not win any design awards
but effective fundraising often doesn't win design awards.*
I am not 100% sure how much donors care how soon our fundraiser ends (these
days at
Are you by any chance American?
Cheers,
peter
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Everyone who speaks English is American, particularly the English.
On 19 December 2014 at 12:21, Peter Southwood
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Are you by any chance American?
Cheers,
peter
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Are you by any chance American?
Cheers,
peter
No, I'm English. :)
Chris
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I can only assume this is intended as some form of humour, but I don’t get it.
Cheers,
Peter
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Are you American?
On 19 Dec 2014 12:35, Peter Southwood peter.southw...@telkomsa.net
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I can only assume this is intended as some form of humour, but I don’t get
it.
Cheers,
Peter
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OK, I was just wondering if acceptance of this form of marketing was an
American thing or more generally an English language thing. Obviously not
universally acceptable to English speakers, even in USA and England, but
possibly more offensive to people with other cultural backgrounds.
Cheers,
Not even slightly, even though I speak English.
Cheers,
Peter
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[mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Chris Keating
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Hi,
David Gerard wrote:
Everyone who speaks English is American, particularly the English.
Peter Southwood wrote:
I can only assume this is intended as some form of humour, but I don’t get it.
This line is a parody. Similarly to Everything that is eatable is an apple,
particularly oranges.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Peter Southwood
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote:
OK, I was just wondering if acceptance of this form of marketing was an
American thing or more generally an English language thing. Obviously not
universally acceptable to English speakers, even in USA and
I support the idea that translation also needs to happen between cultures
within the same language.
I made the example of the Italian because it is my own, but of course there
are other English-speaking cultures other the American one, and they would
deserve the same attention.
Of course it is
* Peter Southwood wrote:
OK, I was just wondering if acceptance of this form of marketing was an
American thing or more generally an English language thing. Obviously
not universally acceptable to English speakers, even in USA and England,
but possibly more offensive to people with other
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There are some valid differences of opinion being expressed about the
cultural-linguistic appropriateness of the language used in the fundraising
email.
But these are tangential to the substantive issue I was attempting to raise.
Ideally, Wikimedians should feeling empowered and excited to share
It's now If everyone reading this right now gives £3, our fundraiser
will be done within an hour. That's right, the price of a cup of
coffee is all we need.
So I suppose the take-home message is that WMF fundraising has high
estimates of what a coffee costs, rather than their programmers having
* Andrew Gray wrote:
(In all seriousness: I generally agree with Liam's concerns, but I'd
also like to note that the banners running on mobile are much more
discreet, though are just as eye-catching. Well done to whoever
thought of those.)
When I encountered one of those I had to scroll four
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 98204
Washington, DC 20090-8204
We have a new office at D.C? :)
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
+972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all
Hi Lodewijk,
Thanks for letting us know! IDEAL has been back up in the page, but we
recently made a few changes that ended up accidentally removing the option
from the form. It's all fixed now :)
Regarding IBAN: Finance is still working with our bank and we should be
sending an update once we
For those unfamiliar with the glories of the United States Postal Service,
a P.O. Box is simply a rented mail slot in a public post office.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 98204
Also: We've actually had the DC Address for a couple years now, it's for a
check processing service (Years ago they were processed by hand at the
office but that took a lot longer and was no longer the most cost or time
efficient way to do it).
James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Le 19/12/2014 00:08, Liam Wyatt a écrit :
This email was sent by WMF fundraising today.
I'm embarrassed. Read the email first, then I'll tell you why, below.
Then what ?
I suggest the reasons why the WMF and Sue Gardner did struggle for years
against the ability of the chapters to fundraise
Hi Pats,
Thanks.
Lodewijk
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Patricia Pena pp...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Lodewijk,
Thanks for letting us know! IDEAL has been back up in the page, but we
recently made a few changes that ended up accidentally removing the option
from the form. It's all fixed
Perhaps because that is the address they want people to use if they are
mailing in a check for a donation?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Yeah I know. But I still don't understand why we the foundation have P.O.
box address at the
Hi Pats,
(offlist)
The English form seems to work fine. However, if I am clicking iDEAL in
Dutch, it puts the address/name as a required field - while this should not
be necessary in iDEAL. Seems like an easy bug to fix.
But also when I enter a name etc, it simply returns to the same page,
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Brad Courcelles courcellesw...@gmail.com
wrote:
Perhaps because that is the address they want people to use if they are
mailing in a check for a donation?
Obviously not in Fundraising so grain of salt but I think that's exactly
the reason. If someone is using
Le 19/12/2014 08:33, Gerard Meijssen a écrit :
Hoi,
I blogged about this [1]. By ignoring the rest of the world, they
effectively give ownership to the WMF to the USA way of working. On a more
practical level, they hand over money for their convenience that is in my
opinion an absolute waste. By
On 19 December 2014 at 21:02, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
(offlist)
Nope ;-)
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http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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