On 9 Dec 2011, at 00:50, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I just loaded a Wikipedia article and rather than a fundraising > banner, I saw a banner asking me to participate in a research project > (a fairly standard game theory type experiment involving how to share > money between yourself and other participants). It was made clear that > the banner was approved by the WMF and the Wikimedia Research > Committee.
There's more information about this on the WMF's blog at: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/08/experiment-decision-making/ > I'm wondering what involvement Wikimedia UK had in deciding > to put this banner up. None whatsoever. It falls outside of the fundraising agreement, since fundraising banners are now turned off for logged-in users, and we don't have any control over what's displayed using CentralNotice aside from the fundraising banners. > I notice I was given an option to donate my > "earnings" to the WMF (or the International Red Cross), but not WMUK > (I chose to keep mine for myself and will pass them on the WMUK once > they arrive in my paypal account). Thanks. :-) It's a bit odd that the Red Cross is listed there... I don't think they're doing any sort of geolocation, so it would be difficult for them to have a donation link to WMUK, even if they were so inclined. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
