Sorry for the confusion. The chapters in Germany, France, and Switzerland ran banners at the end of 2012. WMF is not showing banners in those countries.
I added a section to the fundraising meta page for comments if you've seen banners over the last two weeks: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 Thanks for the feedback, Megan On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga < t...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, Megan. > > Wouldn't be better to add our data on some wiki page or spreadsheet? > > By the way, I've seen the banner once yesterday on the Portuguese > Wikipedia (blue background), but I seldom use Wikipedia logged out. I > am in São Paulo. > > Tom > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Megan Hernandez > <mhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > We've been testing banners at a low level for about two weeks now. We've > > been showing just one banner impression to 5% of anonymous users > (excluding > > the 5 countries where banners ran in December: US, UK, Canada, Australia, > > and New Zealand). > > > > Hiding banners after one impression is new for us, and any feedback we > can > > get on how it's working will really help us. We are trying to minimize > the > > number of banners our users see each year. > > > > If you visit Wikipedia anonymously (and you're outside of the 5 English > > countries), have you seen any fundraising banners in the last two weeks? > > If so, how many times have you seen a banner? > > > > Thanks for your help! > > > > Megan > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Megan Hernandez < > mhernan...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> We wanted to let you know the fundraising team is starting up testing in > >> February. We're starting at low levels, so most people will not even > >> notice banners to start with. 5% of anonymous users will see a banner > just > >> one time. We are not showing any banners to logged in users. > >> > >> There was an announcement in November about us splitting up the > >> fundraiser this year. Just a very quick recap: We ran the end-of-year > >> campaign in November and December in the top 5 English-speaking > countries > >> (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). The campaign was > successful > >> and we were able to take the banners down a few weeks ahead of schedule: > >> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_raises_25_million_in_2012_fundraiser > >> > >> > >> We are now working on starting up testing in countries that were not > >> included in the end-of-year campaign. We'll be working on translations > and > >> optimizing our donation pages in many countries over the coming months. > >> > >> We will post a report of the year-end campaign with much more detailed > >> information and will send a note to this mailing list when it's > available. > >> > >> We always need help making improvements in different countries and > >> languages. If you have any suggestions, please do leave us a note on > the > >> fundraising meta discussion page: > >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Megan > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Megan Hernandez > >> > >> Head of Annual Fundraiser > >> Wikimedia Foundation > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Megan Hernandez > > > > Head of Annual Fundraiser > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more > useful than a life spent doing nothing." > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l