Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-10 Thread Joseph Seddon
Ilario, I will look into this with fundraising tech and get back to you. Seddon On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > Hi Joseph, > I think that the banner could be useful to test some problems I see when > there is a switch of context. > > I live near

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-10 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi Joseph, I think that the banner could be useful to test some problems I see when there is a switch of context. I live near the border Italy-Switzerland and I see several discrepancies when I connect in Italy and in Switzerland. Basically I continue to see banners of Switzerland when I connect

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-10 Thread Nikola Kalchev
Message- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Michael Peel > Sent: Monday, 09 May 2016 8:33 PM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - > Hopefully the first of Many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-10 Thread Peter Southwood
Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Peel Sent: Monday, 09 May 2016 8:33 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many > On 9 May 2016, at 18

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Ilario Valdelli
In Switzerland is not expensive... Il 09 Mag 2016 20:33, "Michael Peel" ha scritto: > > > On 9 May 2016, at 18:36, Béria Lima wrote: > > > > My 2 cents :D > > > > 1. I can't see the banner (not using the link posted or going by > > CentralNotice) Could

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Michael Peel
> On 9 May 2016, at 18:36, Béria Lima wrote: > > My 2 cents :D > > 1. I can't see the banner (not using the link posted or going by > CentralNotice) Could someone who can see it take a print please? :D Here's a screenshot as it appears on my computer:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Béria Lima
My 2 cents :D 1. I can't see the banner (not using the link posted or going by CentralNotice) Could someone who can see it take a print please? :D 2. Since is related to GoT, shouldn't the pages for the books, series and author (of the books) be included? Best regards, _ *​Béria L​. de

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Pine W
Good, thanks Seddon and Wittylama. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Joseph Seddon
Hey Pine. So in this instance we sought advice from both Legal and Communications about some of the ideas that we were proposing and from their feedback we took the banner in the more conservative direction to give us clear ground between us and any potential intellectual property issues however

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Liam Wyatt
Thanks for the mention Seddon & Anna, tl;dr version: This is a test to see if readers are more likely to donate if the banner is more relevant to what they're reading. Thanks for testing this community-suggested fundraising idea - sign of a new era regardless of the results of the test! As some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Michael Jahn
Great messaging, btw! I had a good laugh reading the banner headline. Curious to hear about your experience. Michael 2016-05-06 18:34 GMT+02:00 Joseph Seddon : > Greetings all, > > I wanted to give you a heads up about a small test WMF Online Fundraising > will be running

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-08 Thread Anna Stillwell
A good idea, User:Wittylama. I'm happy to see this type of collaboration. Thanks for the heads up, Seddon. Interested to see what we will discover. Warmly, /a On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Pine W wrote: > Niel, I saw, but the fact that WMF is targeting specific articles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-08 Thread Pine W
Niel, I saw, but the fact that WMF is targeting specific articles about proprietary-IP-heavy subjects with a plea for revenue that is closely aligned to the proprietary IP makes me wonder if there is enough of a nexus that a trademark license is required. WMF is trying to leverage proprietary IP

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-08 Thread Pine W
Hi Seddon, I'm curious. Are the banners designed in a way such that it will be necessary for WMF to obtain trademark licenses from others, such as from the Game of Thrones trademark owners? Pine On May 6, 2016 09:34, "Joseph Seddon" wrote: > Greetings all, > > I wanted

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-03-25 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hey Nemo, Sorry for the delay. The page has been updated. Also left you some questions there, thanks for bringing that up. Megan On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Megan Hernandez, 27/02/2013 19:11: Again, hiding banners from readers who have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-03-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Megan Hernandez, 27/02/2013 19:11: Again, hiding banners from readers who have already seen a banner is new for us and our goal is to minimize the number of banners our users see. If you read Wikipedia anonymously and see more than one banner, please let us know on the fundraising meta talk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-28 Thread Charles Andrès
copy from the meta page: The result of the Fundraising team and all the people involved has lead to an impressing abilities to minimize the time of display of the banners, and then decreasing the perturbation for the reader. I personally think that we reach an acceptable level of perturbation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-27 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hi all, We have another update on fundraising testing. We have been testing at low levels for almost three weeks. We are preparing to increase the percentage for a 24-hour test so all anonymous readers in the countries and languages where we are running campaigns will see a banner (just 1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-27 Thread James Salsman
Where are the results of the current fundraiser testing? And why has 2012 been deleted from http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics ? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-27 Thread Matthew Walker
James, And why has 2012 been deleted from http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics ? It hasn't been deleted; it's just broken and we haven't had time to fix it. If you'd like I can provide a dump of the aggregated data that went into creating it. Ideally we would be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
As said previously, we keep getting complaints from editors that the thing looks like phishing. dont-shoot-the-messenger-Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-20 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hi everyone, We've been testing banners at a low level for about two weeks now. We've been showing just one banner impression to 5% of anonymous users (excluding the 5 countries where banners ran in December: US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Hiding banners after one impression is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-20 Thread Charles Andres
I would like to remind that the fundraising has been done in 8 countries and not 5 , you forget France, Germany and Switzerland. Thanks Charles Le 20 févr. 2013 à 15:50, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org a écrit : Hi everyone, We've been testing banners at a low level for about two

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-20 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi, Megan. Wouldn't be better to add our data on some wiki page or spreadsheet? By the way, I've seen the banner once yesterday on the Portuguese Wikipedia (blue background), but I seldom use Wikipedia logged out. I am in São Paulo. Tom On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Megan Hernandez

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-20 Thread Megan Hernandez
Sorry for the confusion. The chapters in Germany, France, and Switzerland ran banners at the end of 2012. WMF is not showing banners in those countries. I added a section to the fundraising meta page for comments if you've seen banners over the last two weeks:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
Megan Hernandez wrote: Sorry for the confusion. The chapters in Germany, France, and Switzerland ran banners at the end of 2012. WMF is not showing banners in those countries. I added a section to the fundraising meta page for comments if you've seen banners over the last two weeks: