Krzysztof Kowalczyk a écrit:
I was just looking on Foundation's fund-rising
page and have two comments.
1. I think that "Merchandise" and "Donations" should be separated,
similar to what
http://www.mozilla.org/ does. I believe more people
would visit "Merchandise" or "WikiPedia merchandise" resulting in
more
sales => more funding. I believe that because in people's minds
"donating" and "buying cool stuff" (even if it ultimately leads to
funding a good cause) is strongly separated.
I absolutely agree with you !
I invite you to put your thoughts here
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_website
I invite you to help us here as well :-)
http://wikimedia.org/wiki/About_Wikimedia
In more specific terms, things that could be done:
* a link to "Merchandise" on main
wikipedia.org page, in the nav
section, next to "Donations" link
* this link goes to a separate page on foundation's website which only
deals with merchandise (and not all donations options)
I think it is best that only one link is kept, but that on the donation
page, a proeminent link will lead to "Merchandise".
In general I think that foundation should study what
Mozilla project
does for fundraising as they are not larger/more visible project but
according to
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=110721 they
do much better at getting funding via. t-shirt sales ($15,000.00 for
mozilla vs. $460.90 for wikipedia).
Things that I think
mozilla.org does better:
* much nicer web design. No offense, but
http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising is bad, both functionally
(it's hard to read, the copy isn't that great) and visually (compare
to
http://www.mozillastore.com/products/clothing)
* selling t-shirts on open-source conventions (linuxcon/oscon/devday)
which is what
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=110721
implies that mozilla foundation is doing (I don't really know, I
haven't been there)
What about helping us set a page for the [[buying cool stuff]] ? I agree
with you this is much needed. On this page, we should not only list tee
shirts and related items, but also list items such as wikireaders, CD
distributions etc...
2. More t-shirt designs.
I think that a design that gives emphasis on personal involvement in
the project would be more attractive to people than a generic design
with a logo. E.g. designs with teksts such as "I contribute to
WikiPedia.org" or "I wrote for Encyclopedia \n wikipedia.org", "I
write Encyclopedia articles \n wikipedia.org". I'm not claiming that
exactly this wording should be used - I just want to give an example
of what I mean (emphasis on contributing/writing for
WikiPedia/Encyclopedia).
What about a small contest page ?
Also, I think that Mozilla's "$50 donation
t-shirt"
(
http://www.mozillastore.com/products/donations/50shirt) is a good
idea. It could even had a text that says that e.g. "I donated to
WikiPedia", "I make Free Encyclopedia possible", "I fund Free
Encyclopedia" - something along those lines.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk |
http://blog.kowalczyk.info
Agreed, but only if some of the profit goes to the foundation or to the
project in general (through the local associations).
ant