Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

2017-11-15 Thread Sarah R
Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that this will start at 11:30 AM (Pacific), 18:30 UTC. Kindly, Sarah R. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Sarah R wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, November > 15, 2017 at 11:30 AM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

2017-11-15 Thread Samuel Patton
I want to thank everyone for this robust discussion! We appreciate the feedback very much. I want to recognize the role that Joseph Seddon has played in encouraging us to share more results with this email list; he's the #1 reason that I started this thread. I also want to thank Peter Coombe, my

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

2017-11-15 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Well, I'm not skilled in marketing, but maybe being ugly and annoyingly large is part of the "pay attention" driving force. Regarding the format, as said I'm not sikilled in the domain, so my opinion surely doesn't worth much. The good old vertical banner is definitely simpler, so it might be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

2017-11-15 Thread Mardetanha
both are equally ugly, they should much more smaller, current banner should 1/10 or 1/8th of a page not half of it. Mardetanha On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > I like it too, actually better than the earlier one. Looks good on the > tablet;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

2017-11-15 Thread pajz
> > This test would run for 1 to 2 hours, and then we'd evaluate results to see > if it's worth spending any more time on the concept. For now, we're simply > hiding the banner all together below 920px, as at smaller viewports it > begins to interfere with site navigation elements. It is truly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

2017-11-15 Thread Petr Kadlec
Hi, On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Samuel Patton wrote: > If you have thoughts on this design, please share them here. There will be > more opportunities for you to weigh in if this banner variant looks > promising enough to keep testing. > A slightly different

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

2017-11-15 Thread jayvdb
Patrik, try it on a 640x480 screen. :P On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:06 pajz wrote: > > > > This test would run for 1 to 2 hours, and then we'd evaluate results to > see > > if it's worth spending any more time on the concept. For now, we're > simply > > hiding the banner all

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

2017-11-15 Thread John Erling Blad
What kind of reasonably new device has that kind of resolution? On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:41 PM, wrote: > Patrik, try it on a 640x480 screen. :P > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:06 pajz wrote: > > > > > > > This test would run for 1 to 2 hours, and then we'd