On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed thoughts, Zack! > > Did we run banners on the sister projects as well? > This year, we haven't so far. > It would also be great to experiment with running targeted banner messages > and presentations on the sister projects, particularly Commons and > Wiktionary, to see what the visitor response is like. We've certainly had > some good suggested designs in the past. > > As you say, readers love discovering that we're a non-profit and how we > run. This is one of our opportunities each year to rejoice in the work of > the projects, get feedback, and hold a large-scale barnraising for the > coming year's work. It's good to reduce the total amount of time people > see banners on the projects, but also a very positive thing for all > projects to take part. > > I'd love to see a barn raising for participation instead of fundraising. So little money comes from the other projects that it's actually counterproductive from a revenue perspective. If the only reason to do the fundraiser on those projects is to have a coming together of the community, then why not do it around invitations to participate instead of to donate? > SJ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Zack Exley Chief Revenue Officer Wikimedia Foundation 415 506 9225 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
