On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM, User Mono <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are sharing with the privacy policy right now. There's probably no > flexibility there - the WMF really likes its silly banners. Like anyone in > the public actually *cares* about our privacy policy - Facebook's is the > only one that matters to anyone. > Not to be too contrarian, but this is arguably exactly why the Privacy Policy discussion is important. We're one of the few large web properties where users care about it -- over 40,000 words of discussion<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy>so far and we're only a week into the 4 month review. :) The Privacy Policy banners will be coming down in 4 days. > I too have noticed a drop off in photos submitted in the last few days. > It's fairly important to determine what caused the drop off if we can. It > might be something totally outside of our control, > I don't know if my personal story means anything, but last year I was so excited about the novelty of the competition, I took and uploaded a lot more photos than I did this year. Some of the buzz wore off. I still haven't uploaded a single photo this year, though I have a few hundred that need to get up before the contest finishes. I think there still might be a big rush at the end that will compensate for the current lull. > e.g. the situation in Syria, but might be something like a change in > banner display, which we do have some control over. Did the drop happen in > most countries? We don't have full control over all Wikimedia banners - we > do have to share the space with others, but perhaps they might be willing > to delay some of their displays if we ask nicely. > > I do agree that changing the banner from time-to-time can help. I don't > agree that a banner of ""Participate in the world's largest photo-contest > and help Wikipedia," would help any. The imperative verb "Participate" > is very weak, and is not natural to American English speakers. It suggests > a high school home economics teacher telling us that we have to bring > cookies to the annual bake-off. Something more active is definitely > needed, something along the line (but not exactly) of a high school > football coach saying "Go out there and kick some butt!" That would > definitely get some attention as a banner, but not the exact type of > attention we want. A teaser ad might work however, e.g. "About your photos > on Wikipedia .... (smaller type) upload them to Wiki Loves Monuments" > > "Snap" might be a verb we want to use. It gives an idea of the action > that we want people to take (snap a snapshot), unlike "participate." So > perhaps "Snap a historic site, Wiki Loves Monuments" It could wake people > up. Or maybe "Snap a snapshot for Wikipedia". As a noun "It's a snap, Wiki > Loves Monuments" > > I don't think these ideas are good enough yet for an actual banner, but I > think that folks should brain-storm this and come up with new ideas. > Straight informative banners can sound bureaucratic or just boring. > Different languages or dialects should be considered separately, as > translations are really tricky, e.g. "It's a snap" might mean something > entirely different in British English > > Pete > User:Smallbones > > _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments > mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://blog.wikimedia.org*
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