[Foundation-l] Celebrating the 2011 campaign

Mon Jan 2 16:00:14 UTC 2012

Bastien Guerry, 02/01/2012 13:04:
> Erik Moeller  writes:
>
>> Years ago, we used to worry that people wouldn't/didn't understand
>> that Wikimedia is a non-profit, that it's created by volunteers, that
>> it's international/multilingual. Many misconceptions still exist, but
>> for anyone paying attention, we've demolished them.
>
> Congrats to all for this successful fundraising!
>
> I am still observing a widespread confusion between wikipedia and
> wikimedia.  The confusion is not problematic /per se/, but I guess
> it can be with respect to what each chapter does for the projects.
> It is by far not easy to fix this problem, but I hope it's on the
> to-do list for 2012!

And perhaps for some year in the future explain also the sister 
projects. This year we've had a Wikipedia-only campaign, which is better 
than putting "Donate to Wikipedia" banners over sisterprojects, but 
still not ideal.

Nemo