I also recall that there was one pre-2011 outage (when the fundraising ask was there) that turned out to be the biggest fundraising event of the year, so we could gain a ton of subscribers to our social media accounts by placing links there.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Victor Grigas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:37 PM, James Alexander <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Victor Grigas <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Is there a reason that we don't have a fundraising ask in the error / >>> down message? I think we used to. >>> >>> >> We did used to, I think it came down in the rename for a couple reasons: >> >> 1. People were always uncomfortable with it. It made it sound very >> strongly like we were down BECAUSE we didn't have enough money or similar >> and even led to some people worried (on social media and directly) that we >> had come down specifically to ask for donations). >> >> 2. We cant' send them through the normal donation flow, because the >> donation services may well be down too (and, in fact, often are. They were >> down for this downtime as well) . So we only gave them a paypal email >> address which ends up with random amounts of money being dumped into our >> account directly without any good ways for us to track where they came from >> or give the users a good donation experience. >> >> 3. I know in 2011 (after we made this change) we worked to stop random >> donations sent directly into our paypal email address because we weren't >> able to track it and they were starting to become problematic (100s of >> donations so small that we lost money on them for example). I don't know >> what the case now is though. >> >> James Alexander >> Legal and Community Advocacy >> Wikimedia Foundation >> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > Maybe then, instead of pointing people to donate (which it sounds like > there are good reasons to remove) we could instead point people to our > social media accounts, where they would > > 1.) likely be able to be updated > > and > > 2.) 'like' us > > ? > > > > -- > > *Victor Grigas* > Storyteller <http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY> > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > > -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY> Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] https://donate.wikimedia.org/
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