On 11 December 2014 at 12:20:24 am, Michael Guss (mguss@wikimedia.org) wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Just one thing for me:“Thank you to our donors, including you Nick, who wrote us this inspiring letter.”I’d drop the “you”, personally?On 10 December 2014 at 11:09:04 pm, Tilman Bayer (tbayer@wikimedia.org) wrote:
All three blurbs LGTM. How about including a link to
donate.wikimedia.org (perhaps without preview image)?
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm just asking for the approval to post Nick's letter to our F/G Wikipedia
> accounts. Perhaps we could include a short blurb about thanking our donors
> to introduce it?
>
> Here it is:
>
> "I must say I rarely donate to fundraisers, but the message I saw today made
> me realize something very important. That something is about you, Wikipedia,
> and how you have been a huge part of my life for close to a decade now.
> Wikipedia, I just want to take this time to express my deep and sincere
> feelings for you. You have always been by my side, and have guided me
> through my best and my worst times. During those stressful late nights
> trying finish my reports, you showed me the way. During those arguments with
> my friends about various trivial topics, you always had my back. During
> those dull conversations, you always had a random article to liven things up
> again. You are beautiful in every way. From your subtle but elegant pale
> blue background, to your vastness of simplistic, clear and plentiful
> hyperlinks containing a wealth of exciting topics to feast your eyes upon. I
> love your sleek sidebar containing all the most important information about
> a topic. But your most beautiful feature of all, your immense volume of
> knowledge and your admirable generosity and passion to share this with the
> world, free-of-charge. Wikipedia, I love you.
>
> Yours truly, Nick"
>
> Quick blurbs to introduce it
>
> f/g: Thank you to our donors, including you Nick, who wrote us this
> inspiring letter.
> Include Letter here.
>
> f/g: Thank you Nick for writing this amazing letter! We appreciate your kind
> words and your donation to keep knowledge free for everyone.
> Include Letter here.
>
> f/g: Thank you to all our incredible donors, including Nick, who wrote us
> this inspiring letter. Thank you for your kind words and your donation to
> support our vision - to help realize a world in which every single human can
> freely share in the sum of all human knowledge.
> Include Letter here.
>
>
>
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> Wikimediafoundation.org
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