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Hi All,
I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often. As you no doubt are aware, the strategic plan calls for the "many small gifts" model to be the centerpiece of our funding strategy, so our community fundraiser is one of the key methods by which we finance and underwrite the operations of the projects. The fundraiser this year will probably, as in earlier years, be primarily banner driven. We're going to have a strong emphasis on testing and iterating ideas, with a defined methodological testing plan.
But the most important part of what we - all of us - are going to need to do is what this community has always been good at: thinking, researching, and iterating.
With that in mind, it's important to identify people who want to help. Of course, anyone's welcome to join in and help at any time, but there's a definite need for people who are willing to be deeply involved from now to the wrap up... people who want to be creative but rigorous, innovative but willing to learn from the past, and most of all, to serve as an active part of the team working on this fundraiser. There will, of course, be Foundation staff deeply involved in this, but there's a real need for people from the community to step up and help us design this thing.
If you're willing to help, would you add your name to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Committee ? We'll be in contact - soon - to get things started.
Thanks, Philippe
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often.
Aside from recalling the lesson of the disastrous "WIKIPEDIA FOREVER!!!" banner to make sure that doesn't happen again, I think some (more?) appeal videos would be good.
What about asking our readers to submit "I use Wikipedia to..." videos; they begin with those words and then carry on talking. Perhaps it would be possible to get a call for such videos mentioned on the YouTube blog: they often run special events calling for people to submit vids on a particular subject. The individual projects sometimes have fancy landing pages with novel interfaces:
Examples:
Life In A Day - users asked to submit their daily activities on a specific date; some of the resulting submissions will be edited together to make one coherent (?) film:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-in-day-thank-you-for-filming...
Life In A Day - landing page and interface:
http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday
YouTube Play - a call for submissions from artists:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/youtube-play-jury-selected-and-re...
YouTube Play - landing page and interface:
We already have a relationship with Google. We also have a relationship with Facebook:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=382978412130
... so perhaps we can get them to advertise our fund drive too?
en.User:Bodnotbod
Would there be an opportunity to get the word out via an interview on NPR or C-SPAN? I'm in the UK so not overly familiar with public service broadcasting in the US, but I wonder whether they might be good avenues to promote the fund drive.
2010/7/27 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often.
Aside from recalling the lesson of the disastrous "WIKIPEDIA FOREVER!!!" banner to make sure that doesn't happen again, I think some (more?) appeal videos would be good.
What about asking our readers to submit "I use Wikipedia to..." videos; they begin with those words and then carry on talking.
A friend of mine woke up in the middle of the night with a belly-ache. He googled it (in Hebrew) and the first result was the Hebrew Wikipedia article about appendicitis. The symptoms matched, so he went to the hospital and it indeed was appendicitis.
Wikipedia may have saved his life and this story may make a good testimonial video - but are we sure that we would want to do it in the light of [[Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer]]?
On 27 July 2010 11:56, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
A friend of mine woke up in the middle of the night with a belly-ache. He googled it (in Hebrew) and the first result was the Hebrew Wikipedia article about appendicitis. The symptoms matched, so he went to the hospital and it indeed was appendicitis.
Wikipedia may have saved his life and this story may make a good testimonial video - but are we sure that we would want to do it in the light of [[Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer]]?
I'm not at all sure we should. We shouldn't be encouraging people to diagnose themselves using Wikipedia. What if your friend had found the article on indigestion and found that his symptoms seemed to match (the symptoms can be pretty similar) so just went back to bed?
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 July 2010 11:56, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
A friend of mine woke up in the middle of the night with a belly-ache. He googled it (in Hebrew) and the first result was the Hebrew Wikipedia article about appendicitis. The symptoms matched, so he went to the hospital and it indeed was appendicitis.
Wikipedia may have saved his life and this story may make a good testimonial video - but are we sure that we would want to do it in the light of [[Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer]]?
I'm not at all sure we should. We shouldn't be encouraging people to diagnose themselves using Wikipedia. What if your friend had found the article on indigestion and found that his symptoms seemed to match (the symptoms can be pretty similar) so just went back to bed?
He would almost certainly have been woken up by the excruciating pain and gone to hospital (and not told anyone the story about how he mis-diagnosed himself using Wikipedia). I would hope it is rare that people suffer the pain long enough for the appendix to burst. I agree, though, that medical self-diagnosis stories are not a good idea for the fundraiser.
Carcharoth
2010/7/27 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
On 27 July 2010 11:56, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
A friend of mine woke up in the middle of the night with a belly-ache. He googled it (in Hebrew) and the first result was the Hebrew Wikipedia article about appendicitis. The symptoms matched, so he went to the hospital and it indeed was appendicitis.
Wikipedia may have saved his life and this story may make a good testimonial video - but are we sure that we would want to do it in the light of [[Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer]]?
I'm not at all sure we should. We shouldn't be encouraging people to diagnose themselves using Wikipedia. What if your friend had found the article on indigestion and found that his symptoms seemed to match (the symptoms can be pretty similar) so just went back to bed?
That's exactly what i meant to say.
Testimonials may be great, but the message must be safe. A video about bringing quality-tested articles as teaching aids to schools in poor areas may be safer. (We may not have actually done it, but we might...)