To be fair, this orange banner does look a little ... out-of-place, not at all matching the rest of the page in style.
It does the job of conveying the "we are a small poor foundation" a little too well, maybe ;-) On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > On 28 November 2012 14:41, Charles Andrès <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In fact we haven't seen the link before but we had the same in > Switzerland, it seems that in a way people complain about the traditional > banners that are to intrusive, but in the other hand they are more > suspicious and have doubt about banners that are not the same than previous > year! > > This happens every year - there are always people concerned that we've > been hacked, or that they have a virus, or that there is some kind of > phishing attack going on. I expect the only way to avoid that would be > to have the banners up continuously 365 days a year, so people are > used to them just being part of the site - as long as people are used > to there being no banner ads on Wikipedia, the sudden appearance of > them will confuse some people. > > As Philippe says, I would expect there to be an OTRS template from > previous years to explain what is going on. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
