I'm not aware that there ever was such an agreement. Annoyance to users is certainly something that we do try to minimise, and we've actually rejected a number of designs so far this year for that reason. However we thought carefully about this banner before testing it and considered it okay for a few reasons:
* We've actually heard anecdotal feedback from users that they meant to donate but were missing/forgetting the banner once they scrolled down to read the article. * The floating tab takes up only a very small portion of the screen, and does not overlap with the article. * Fundraising banners are no longer displayed to logged in users, who are the main users of the sidebar. * There is a prominent close button. Our donor services team haven't seen any negative emails about this banner. Moreover adding the floating tab results in an increase in donations of roughly 15%, one of the biggest improvements we have found so far this year. So we hope this will help us to reach our target sooner, and annoy fewer users overall. -- Peter Coombe Fundraising Production Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 8 December 2013 18:50, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I thought there was an explicit agreement that fundraising banners will > not obscure the site interface, as it's bad for usability and annoys users. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/111477931 seems to > break this agreement. What's going on? > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
