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

Thu Jul 22 18:55:18 UTC 2004

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> --- "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

I agree with Mav on this. This is likely to be much more effective and 
less intrusive generally, ihmo.

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