Can the Foundation give an explanation as to why they went on with putting up that banner despite strong opposition from many people? That banner is totally horrible and I really wonder if it even was a Wikipedia editor who proposed it with all those capital letters.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Oleg Alexandrov <[email protected]>wrote: > I have been a Wikipedian for five years. I am an administrator, I have > written tens of articles, created hundreds of pictures, and made tens > of thousands of edits. I love Wikipedia and all that it represents. > > I find the current "WIKIPEDIA FOREVER" banner to be creepy. I don't > have good words to express it, but it does not feel the right way of > soliciting donations. > > I would call upon the Wikipedians responsible for the banner to give > it a deep thought about what message they want to convey to the > millions of visitors to the site. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
