[Foundation-l] funraising thru celebrity endorsements?

[Russell Nelson]

I don't know why they would think that. I mean, we obviously already have the tech to insert advertisements ... and do; at least ads for the fundraiser.

John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

>Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would
>also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is
>gearing up to run ads on content pages.
>
>On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or
>> article category and/or language edition would open up a whole new level of
>> fundraising potential. That would allow you to get local celebrities (who
>> are otherwise not especially popular/known outside their
>> city/state/country/language) to provide endorsements that are quite
>> targeted. For example in countries where there is a very popular sport with
>> a local team (NFL in America, premier league in UK) you could fundraising
>> banners on a per-city basis with local sports stars encouraging people to
>> support Wikimedia. I suspect that this is something where the Chapters would
>> be particularly useful in contacting and negotiating with the relevant
>> people.
>>
>> More fine-grained control over articlespace banners (with good policy about
>> how/who/when these should be used) would also make it much easier to run
>> real-world events and enable us to contact Wikip/media readers in a targeted
>> way (not just with geonotices served to the Watchlist, which by definition
>> only is able to contact existing editors).
>>
>> However, I suspect that this goes in the "ideas for next year" basket.
>> -Liam
>>
>> wittylama.com/blog
>> Peace, love & metadata
>>
>>
>> On 23 November 2010 22:16, Fajro <faigos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How about NBA players?
>>>
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