[WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

[Evangeline Han]

Can the Foundation give an explanation as to why they went on with putting
up that banner despite strong opposition from many people? That banner is
totally horrible and I really wonder if it even was a Wikipedia editor who
proposed it with all those capital letters.


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Oleg Alexandrov
<oleg.alexandrov at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have been a Wikipedian for five years. I am an administrator, I have
> written tens of articles, created hundreds of pictures, and made tens
> of thousands of edits. I love Wikipedia and all that it represents.
>
> I find the current "WIKIPEDIA FOREVER" banner to be creepy. I don't
> have good words to express it, but it does not feel the right way of
> soliciting donations.
>
> I would call upon the Wikipedians responsible for the banner to give
> it a deep thought about what  message they want to convey to the
> millions of visitors to the site. Thank you.
>
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