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

Thu Jul 22 17:30:40 UTC 2004

--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>....
> It will be less prominent there, but I think highly effective.  Even
> if it brings in less month than a top-page notice, it will likely
> bring in enough that we can delay much longer between major begging.

There is nothing wrong with quarterly fund drives and having the message up
constantly will just mean that people will tend to tune it out. This is
*especially* true if it is at the bottom of pages. 

Thus periodic messages in parts of a page that can't be ignored will generate
the biggest response. 

These fund drives could also be coordinated with press releases, meet-ups, jam
sessions, WikiReader distribution, quarterly foundation meetings and other
special events clustered around certain weeks each quarter. 

-- Daniel Mayer

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