2009/11/12 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
Soxred93 wrote:
Maybe the Foundation is trying to teach us a lesson. Maybe they want us to stop complaining about ads, so they intentionally run a bad one. In the next few years, we'll have this to look back on and say, "it could always be worse."
It is pretty much traditional for the fundraiser to cause controversy, in fact. I know how Oleg feels. These days I ignore the ads, since I don't see why I should give money well as time: and they are obviously aimed at Wikipedia's readers, who outnumber the people seriously involved with the site by a factor of 10,000 or more by now. I don't see the banner any more: I don't remember dismissing it.
The banner mechanism was actually broken in IE6, so it was switched off for a day or two while that gets fixed.
I understand the banners have been redone in Initial Capitals, not ALL CAPITALS :-)
- d.