If users are confused, feel free to share this video with them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0&sns=em
I designed it to explain a lot of how Wikipedia works (donations and all) in a short amount if time, and assuage anxieties about getting involved as an editor. Victor Ps Andy, you are in it :) On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Katie Chan <k...@ktchan.info> wrote: > On 28/11/2012 15:38, cyrano wrote: >> >> Which is completely normal. An image of volunteers building a great >> project for a great cause was constantly set up in every single >> communication, during years. So that's what uninformed people would >> believe. >> But, from the moment someone asks for money, it contradicts the image of >> a project run by the sheer efforts of volunteers. " This money will end >> in the pocket of persons, ", they think, " who are thus not doing it >> because it's a great cause but because they're paid". > > Being run by volunteers != no money is needed. It's pretty normal for a > charity/non-profit to ask for donation to carry out its activities. I'll be > very surprised if the majority of Wikipedia users don't already have > experience of that. > > KTC > > -- > Experience is a good school but the fees are high. > - Heinrich Heine > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l