Hi Barbara and Lodewijk, We had a question from a recent WLM-US meeting about prize sponsors. If we reach out to a place like Canon or Nikon in the U.S., and they agree to sponsor, can we list them with logo on the international site? I'm trying to figure out what kind of incentive we can offer the prize sponsors that would give them a reason to provide good prizes, but I wanted to check with you the protocol for that. If a marketing/events person asks, "What kind of visibility will we get in return," obviously the international site would be the biggest, I would think. I'm not sure how much traffic wikilovesmonuments.us will get. Any advice is helpful.
thank you, Matthew
Hi Matthew,
We're reserving the international website for international sponsors and partners (which will not be a huge number though). If they would agree to sponsor an international prize as well, we could of course add them as such.
It will be good to realize though, that the vast majority of the traffic will go to the national websites. That is where the banner will lead to. So the visibility on wikilovesmonuments.us will actually be much bigger than on wikilovesmonuments.org - even if that sounds counterintuitive :) As an idea: the European websites together caught some 7.5 million hits in September last year (that is excluding Italy and the UK, and Russia only half a month). You can probably get a ratio on that and guess how much you can expect from the US.
Hope that helps,
Lodewijk
2012/7/27 Matthew Roth mroth@wikimedia.org
Hi Barbara and Lodewijk, We had a question from a recent WLM-US meeting about prize sponsors. If we reach out to a place like Canon or Nikon in the U.S., and they agree to sponsor, can we list them with logo on the international site? I'm trying to figure out what kind of incentive we can offer the prize sponsors that would give them a reason to provide good prizes, but I wanted to check with you the protocol for that. If a marketing/events person asks, "What kind of visibility will we get in return," obviously the international site would be the biggest, I would think. I'm not sure how much traffic wikilovesmonuments.us will get. Any advice is helpful.
thank you, Matthew
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The wikimedia movement is a 30mio movement which survived without sponsoring with logo or content placement on prominent spots. What would be the advantage of trading that reputation for a 400 usd camera?
Rupert. Am 27.07.2012 17:15 schrieb "Matthew Roth" mroth@wikimedia.org:
Hi Barbara and Lodewijk, We had a question from a recent WLM-US meeting about prize sponsors. If we reach out to a place like Canon or Nikon in the U.S., and they agree to sponsor, can we list them with logo on the international site? I'm trying to figure out what kind of incentive we can offer the prize sponsors that would give them a reason to provide good prizes, but I wanted to check with you the protocol for that. If a marketing/events person asks, "What kind of visibility will we get in return," obviously the international site would be the biggest, I would think. I'm not sure how much traffic wikilovesmonuments.us will get. Any advice is helpful.
thank you, Matthew
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Hi Rupert,
we're not talking about placement on the wikimedia websites of course, but rather on the contest websites. That helps us in different ways. First of all, it helps us of course to get free prizes and sponsorships. Secondly, it also helps us in showing to participants that we're a serious contest. We use their reputation also - even though it may be less obvious. But you are of course right that aligning them with a contest organized by Wikimedia, is worth something in itself probably.
We also usually offer them that they can state on their own communication that they support Wiki Loves Monuments. If they do so, that helps us as well in spreading the word to the right audiences about Wiki Loves Monuments.
Lodewijk
2012/7/27 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
The wikimedia movement is a 30mio movement which survived without sponsoring with logo or content placement on prominent spots. What would be the advantage of trading that reputation for a 400 usd camera?
Rupert. Am 27.07.2012 17:15 schrieb "Matthew Roth" mroth@wikimedia.org:
Hi Barbara and Lodewijk, We had a question from a recent WLM-US meeting about prize sponsors. If we reach out to a place like Canon or Nikon in the U.S., and they agree to sponsor, can we list them with logo on the international site? I'm trying to figure out what kind of incentive we can offer the prize sponsors that would give them a reason to provide good prizes, but I wanted to check with you the protocol for that. If a marketing/events person asks, "What kind of visibility will we get in return," obviously the international site would be the biggest, I would think. I'm not sure how much traffic wikilovesmonuments.us will get. Any advice is helpful.
thank you, Matthew
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Am 27.07.2012 17:35, schrieb Lodewijk:
Hi Rupert,
we're not talking about placement on the wikimedia websites of course, but rather on the contest websites. That helps us in different ways. First of all, it helps us of course to get free prizes and sponsorships. Secondly, it also helps us in showing to participants that we're a serious contest. We use their reputation also - even though it may be less obvious. But you are of course right that aligning them with a contest organized by Wikimedia, is worth something in itself probably.
We also usually offer them that they can state on their own communication that they support Wiki Loves Monuments. If they do so, that helps us as well in spreading the word to the right audiences about Wiki Loves Monuments.
Lodewijk
yes ++
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I definitely don't mean placing sponsorship anywhere on-wiki. That shouldn't and won't happen. This was referring to the separate WordPress site we've created.
-Matthew
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:32 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.comwrote:
The wikimedia movement is a 30mio movement which survived without sponsoring with logo or content placement on prominent spots. What would be the advantage of trading that reputation for a 400 usd camera?
Rupert. Am 27.07.2012 17:15 schrieb "Matthew Roth" mroth@wikimedia.org:
Hi Barbara and Lodewijk, We had a question from a recent WLM-US meeting about prize sponsors. If we reach out to a place like Canon or Nikon in the U.S., and they agree to sponsor, can we list them with logo on the international site? I'm trying to figure out what kind of incentive we can offer the prize sponsors that would give them a reason to provide good prizes, but I wanted to check with you the protocol for that. If a marketing/events person asks, "What kind of visibility will we get in return," obviously the international site would be the biggest, I would think. I'm not sure how much traffic wikilovesmonuments.us will get. Any advice is helpful.
thank you, Matthew
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