[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Fundraising

Mon Jul 12 01:53:57 UTC 2004

I agree with Ant - we have spent lots of time making Wikipedia look so
slick, we've lost our boldness for conversing with visitors. There was
a time when we were more willing to put solicitations and "You can
edit this page now" messages on the site.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:47:30 -0700 (PDT), Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted,
> someone please add a highly visible link at the TOP of
> the main page, at least on the english wikipedia, for
> say 2 or 3 days, so that perhaps some visitors feel
> like making a small donation ?
> 
> The events are very demanding on servers, last week,
> we were all slowed down a lot for 2 days, so visitors
> might understand the need for more hardware.
> 
> Besides, given the number of discussions last week on
> slashdot, about donation issues, that is perhaps best
> to show clearly where donations could be made :-)
> 
> So, slashdot events would be beneficial both in terms
> of contributors and in terms of revenue ?
> 
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Andrew Lih
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