I've actually gotten email where people think I wrote the article on which my banner appeared. And I would bet Brandon, Susan, and others who aren't Jimmy have gotten the same.
The nice thing about our banners is that they don't look like horrifically ugly and annoying ads. It also appears that can be confusing for a relatively small group of people. But most readers know the difference as evidenced by the number of donations, and personally I think trying to eliminate that little bit of confusion would likely involve making banners that look a lot more like other ads on the web. Which would stink, to use a technical term. ;) Steven (Sorry for top posting. On my phone.) On Dec 13, 2011 7:53 AM, "Ken Arromdee" <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLPN#Peggy_Meggars_.28archeologist.29 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive139#Henry_Hardy > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive138#Stephen_O.27Doherty > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive138#Ron_Carlson > > Four *separate* incidents where users mistook the fundraising banner ad for > an illustration that is part of the article. > > As is usual for lousy user interfaces, a lot of us are probably going to > blame this on the user being too stupid to read the page properly, as if > there was no such thing as a bad user interface. Often the image in the > banner is the most prominent thing on the page, and it's located directly > above > the article title in a place that in many other contexts would mean it > really does go with the article. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
