Sue:
I also hate the idea of premiums. We will never want to do lame premiums.
But there may in the future be a cool thing to offer with donations, who
knows -- so why limit ourselves by saying we will never ever do something?
Zack
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Sue Gardner
Yes MZ, agreed that this is would be good to have documented on meta. In
fact this has been raised in our internal discussion already.
At the moment one of my side projects is a major overhaul of the
fundraising pages on meta, and I plan to incorporate aims and principles
into this prominently.
Matthew Walker wrote:
In the past days there's been discussion internal to the fundraising team
-- it appears that the 'fundraising principles' I thought we held are not
uniformly held by others. In this particular instance it seems that gift
premiums are not entirely off the table. I've been told
Technology limitations aside, there are two things we throw around in the
team a lot; that we should not give the impression that a user *must* pay
to use a WMF property, and that we will never ever do gift premiums.
This sounds a bit like Fundraising principles or similar. Are these
documented
YMMV, but I'd prefer if the solid value returned from my donation went
to someone in more dire need of it - i.e. if my donation could be used
to directly improve access for others who may not enjoy it. Indirectly
any donation to Wikimedia fits into the vein of sustaining access to
project content,
A supportive anecdote for you, Matt:
Back in 2008, I got toured through the fundraising operation of one of the
major American public broadcasters. It had a large fundraising team that
included a group dedicated solely to tracking and shipping premiums. Its
boss advised us to avoid going down the
On 14 August 2013 20:39, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
YMMV, but I'd prefer if the solid value returned from my donation went
to someone in more dire need of it - i.e. if my donation could be used
to directly improve access for others who may not enjoy it. Indirectly
any donation to
On 07/08/13 07:32, Jane Darnell wrote:
If a template exists for specific dump-creation, it might be useful to
have this be a paid service, where the product is not necessarily one
dump on a dvd, but a hyperlink to a specific dump that can be updated
periodically (once a year maybe?).
Doesn't
Actually, an offline version of WIkipedia, though useful in remote
locations and for secure-internet areas like schools (or prisons), is
probably not as desirable as copies of specific content, such as a
Wikipedia dump of the Paleontology portal or something like that. For
people who wish to
On 08/06/2013 06:01 PM, Ziyuan Yao wrote:
Dear All,
Besides asking for direct donations, there is another way that can
potentially help Wikipedia's fundraising:
There was also the idea of having beside the free App an (nearly
identical) App-with-donation that is not free but costs a few
The key point in my original idea is that you make buyers believe that
they're not just giving money away, but also getting some solid value in
return. A Wikipedia DVD is a kind of solid value.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Tobias
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.comwrote:
On 08/06/2013 06:01
Op 2013/08/06 9:40, Ziyuan Yao schreef:
The key point in my original idea is that you make buyers believe that
they're not just giving money away, but also getting some solid value in
return. A Wikipedia DVD is a kind of solid value.
More like a complete set of Wikipedia Blu-Rays. I forget the
We did it in the past, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DVD
Kevin Wayne Williams, 06/08/2013 18:52:
Op 2013/08/06 9:40, Ziyuan Yao schreef:
The key point in my original idea is that you make buyers believe that
they're not just giving money away, but also getting some solid
value in
return. A
Ziyuan,
Thanks for the idea! :)
Technology limitations aside, there are two things we throw around in the
team a lot; that we should not give the impression that a user *must* pay
to use a WMF property, and that we will never ever do gift premiums.
From my perspective buying a DVD set sounds
enwiki-20130708-pages-articles.xml.bz2
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20130708/enwiki-20130708-pages-articles.xml.bz2
9.3 GB - a double sided single layer DVD (9.4gb). The images would be
more challenging.
On 06/08/2013 17:52, Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
More like a complete set of
On 6 August 2013 18:46, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote:
In addition what use would giving a donor a DVD set serve? They clearly
already have access to the site -- with the caveat that some countries have
restricted use restrictions from the local government. If instead we are
Matthew Walker wrote:
Technology limitations aside, there are two things we throw around in the
team a lot; that we should not give the impression that a user *must* pay
to use a WMF property, and that we will never ever do gift premiums.
Hi Matt.
This sounds a bit like Fundraising principles or
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