On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With more and more Wikimedians engaging in crowdfunding, I suppose we > can talk about whether the mailing list for Wikimedia movement > organization is the place to advertise in this way. For my part, I > don't think a simple (i.e., without any additional context) "please > check out this Indiegogo" is any different from "hey, check out my > blog," so when the last one came through the queue I rejected it > without much thought. It certainly wasn't done with any prejudice. > For my part, I always like to see crowdfunding pitches from Wikimedians. There haven't been *that* many of them (maybe 8 or 10?), and so far they've all (that I've seen) come from prolific contributors. These crowdfunding pitches generally take a lot more effort to put together than a blog post does, and they are also easy and satisfying to act on. If I can take 3 minutes and a few dollars to simultaneously say thanks to a great contributor and help them make even better contributions, I'm grateful for that opportunity. -Sage _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
