Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-10 Thread Isarra Yos
On 10/12/13 14:57, David Gerard wrote: True. However, do read the blog post on the need for caution in answering such concerns with metrics. - d. And it's an excellent point to bring up. While I'm sure the fundraising team tries to keep in mind the balance between analytics results and and l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-10 Thread MZMcBride
John Vandenberg wrote: >And a request for bitcoins > >https://twitter.com/DrWeidinger/status/407656789274947584 For reference: . MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-10 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 12/10/2013 10:01 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > https://twitter.com/nyatagarasu/status/405134111796240384 It's hard to know for sure, of course, but I'm pretty sure "huge" couldn't possibly refer to the minuscule floaty div MZMcBride refered to. :-) -- Marc __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-10 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 12/10/2013 03:07 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> There's a whole site full of possible inspirations: > > And yet: > > "Our donor services team haven't seen any negative emails about this > banner. Moreover adding the floating tab results i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 December 2013 14:24, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 12/10/2013 03:07 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> There's a whole site full of possible inspirations: > Mind you, you are comparing apples (a small floaty reminder that /can/ > overlap with part of the sidebar when scrolling) with oranges (a mod

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-10 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 12/10/2013 03:07 AM, David Gerard wrote: > There's a whole site full of possible inspirations: And yet: "Our donor services team haven't seen any negative emails about this banner. Moreover adding the floating tab results in an increase in donations of roughly 15%, one of the biggest improvem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-10 Thread David Gerard
There's a whole site full of possible inspirations: http://tabcloseddidntread.com/ https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a30bbe8b54a5 Perhaps next year? - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-09 Thread User Mono
9 Dec 2013 19:36:31 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface > > Related: There are some issues with the design of these banners, especially > the floaty thing.Why are you using a element? It's really wrong for > this kind of thing. Also,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-09 Thread User Mono
hadow: 0px 5px 10px #aaa;). See http://awesomescreenshot.com/01022k566a. I highly suggest you adopt these changes. Thanks,User:Mono > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:09:59 -0800 > From: pcoo...@wikimedia.org > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
Peter Coombe wrote: >I'm not aware that there ever was such an agreement. Annoyance to users is >certainly something that we do try to minimise, and we've actually >rejected a number of designs so far this year for that reason. However we >thought carefully about this banner before testing it and c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Coombe
Love it! Looks like there's more than one banner too: http://imgs.xkcd.com/store_news/store_gd_g1_QG5Z.png -- Peter Coombe Fundraising Production Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 8 December 2013 19:52, MZMcBride wrote: > Largely unrelated: it looks like xkcd () has spoofed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Coombe
I'm not aware that there ever was such an agreement. Annoyance to users is certainly something that we do try to minimise, and we've actually rejected a number of designs so far this year for that reason. However we thought carefully about this banner before testing it and considered it okay for a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-08 Thread MZMcBride
Largely unrelated: it looks like xkcd () has spoofed the "DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS" donation banner as part of its store campaign: . :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikime

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

2013-12-08 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. I thought there was an explicit agreement that fundraising banners will not obscure the site interface, as it's bad for usability and annoys users. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/111477931 seems to break this agreement. What's going on? MZMcBride _