[Foundation-l] fund drive update - why was the message removed from en.wikipedia?

Thu Jul 22 17:21:52 UTC 2004

--- Angela_ <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:27:54 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
> <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > I think what we should do is move the notice toward the bottom of the
> > page, and have it read something like this: "If you found this article
> > or other Wikipedia articles to be useful to you, please visit our
> > <a>donation page</a> to find out how you can help support the
> > nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation."
> 
> This could be added to [[MediaWiki:Lastmodified]]. I've put a message
> at [[MediaWiki talk:Lastmodified]] to check there are no strong
> objections and will add the message there if there aren't. See
> http://simple.wikipedia.org/ for an example of the message in use.

That just obscures the *very* important copyright and disclaimer info. 

If we are going to have a fund drive we really need to have notices up that
people can't miss. They will be taken down when the fund drive is over. 

-- mav

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