Spamming to ask for donations so that they don't spam again until December 2017 (Y)
On 12/2/16, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, thanks for the info. I'll be interested to read a summary of the > campaign when WMF is in a position to create one, which I'm guessing might > be in January or February. > > I could ask more questions, but I think that I'd better retreat back into > my digital cave. I have a UI project calling my name! > > Thanks for the rapid responses to questions and comments. > > Pine > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Joseph Seddon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> More than it represents a feasible concept that can be significantly >> improved upon. Reducing it's footprint, improving the look and feel so >> that >> it reduces its impact on the page. >> >> With regards to user appeals with photos: >> 1) They are notoriously difficult to be successful. We spent a whole year >> trying to beat Jimmy's face and Brandon was the only one who ever came >> close. >> 2) our banners follow closely trends on the wider web. Donor preferences >> at >> the moment seem to follow an image-lite experience. We tried last year >> reintroducing info graphics or pictures only to remove them again. Its an >> area we regularly reassess to see if our readers tastes have changed. >> >> Seddon >> >> On 2 Dec 2016 06:17, "Pine W" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi Seddon, >> > >> > By "And in this instance although the test was successful, we had >> > decided >> > that >> > although a winner, it was the lessons to take away that were more >> > important. From there we hope to arrive at a banner that draws from the >> > success but is delivered in a way that is easier on the eye." are you >> > saying that >> > you've decided to discontinue the inline fundraising but will use >> > lessons >> > learned >> > from it to design banners? >> > >> > By the way, I thought that some of the WMF folks on Facebook had a good >> > idea when they suggested the "I <3 Wikipedia" frames on peoples' profile >> > pictures. That brings to mind that in a previous round of fundraising >> that >> > WMF >> > had banners with Wikimedians' photos and some fundraising messages that >> > I >> > believe were written by them. Perhaps you could consider bringing back >> > a version of that campaign. >> > >> > I believe that there is some tradeoff in the length of the campaign and >> the >> > boldness of the fundraising, so to a certain extent I'm reluctantly >> willing >> > to accept bold fundraising if that means that the campaign ends sooner. >> > >> > I feel strongly that the campaign should stick to 100% of its stated >> > target, >> > not intentionally overshoot the target for purposes of padding the >> > reserves. When WMF says that its goal is $X, then it should end the >> > campaign when it has high certainty that it has reached $X. If that >> > means >> > that a campaign ends a week early, so much the better. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Pine >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> > New messages to: [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Cometstyles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
