On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:27 -0500, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> [[Please distribute widely to various language communities, projects, > and chapters]] > I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which > isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to > get community involvement early and often. <snip> > But the most important part of what we - all of us - are going to need > to do is what this community has always been good at: thinking, > researching, and iterating. I, likely, would not have the spare time to put my name down there; however, I'll see what I can do to help. There is just one very, very important point to learn from the prior two overly-Wikipedia-centric fundraisers... By plastering "Wikipedia Forever" all over sister projects, the WMF deeply offends hard-working contributors. This was done two years running. In both instances I complained. In the fall-out surrounding criticising the WMF about this last year, I gave up my position on the Communications Committee. Is there anyone left in that <s>shadowy Cabal</s> who really represents sister projects? Will they speak up about that this time round? Personally, I think the craftiest 'theme' for a fundraiser would be a coin-slot in project logos where that is possible. Then, instead of being directed to the project main page by clicking the logo, you get to a page that says, "A $x donation works out at 0.xxx cents per word for the article you were just reading. Help keep access free, <project-specific-slogan>". -- Brian McNeil, Wikinewsie. http://www.wikinewsie.org | http://en.wikinewsie.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), a 501(c) registered non-profit which is also responsible for Wikipedia. Wikinewsies are community-accredited freelance journalists who are regularly published on the English-language Wikinews. They do not represent the WMF, or Wikinews, in an official capacity. _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
