Re: [Wikimedia-l] Multi-page advertising on Wikipedia

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

Hi MZMcBride,

You are right that it's unusual for us to display any banners on English
Wiki in the USA at this time of year.

We wanted to do a thorough evaluation of our backend systems and receive
some live data on our banners, which we have been adjusting to be sensitive
during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Along with other analysis, we use brief tests to collate necessary data to
inform future projections. Given the significant global changes over the
last few months we felt it vital to gather this now to help inform annual
and long term planning for the WMF, and by extension the broader movement.
These tests will only be running for 1-3 hours and the current expectation
is to run a couple of additional brief tests in the next few weeks.

Just also to note I am currently replacing Seddon as the community liaison
for the Advancement department, whilst he is working with the Product
department. This handover is ongoing. I did leave a note on the English
Wikipedia village pump before the test [1] and I will make sure the
CentralNotice calendar is updated to reflect our known planned fundraising
activities.

Thanks.
Nick

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#English_Fundraising_system_tests

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 9:41 AM MZMcBride  wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I happened to pull up a wiki article on my phone this morning and I got
> hit with multi-page advertising begging for money from Wikimedia
> Foundation Inc. It's mid-April, what is going on? This spam is typically
> confined to late November and December.
>
> I don't see any relevant campaign listed at
> .
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Multi-page advertising on Wikipedia

[MZMcBride]

Hi.

I happened to pull up a wiki article on my phone this morning and I got
hit with multi-page advertising begging for money from Wikimedia
Foundation Inc. It's mid-April, what is going on? This spam is typically
confined to late November and December.

I don't see any relevant campaign listed at
.

MZMcBride



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