Quotes should be in the "local" language, indeed. Germans would find it strange to see suddenly quotes in a foreign language and believe that a technical fault has happend.
What about portret photos next to a quote? A general message like "Join us supporting" followed by a person. We show surprisingly few face(s), there are no eyes that look to the would-be-donator.
Such as: * "Help Brion Vibber keep Wikipedia running" (followed by his pic, and later with an explanation what he is doing) * "Make Dr. Winiger's edits accessible to everyone" (followed by a pic of this Zedler winner of 2007 ...) * "Alice Weigand wants a fast and working Wikipedia when teaching seniors to edit" * "Let Erdal not build up Kurdish Wikipedia alone"
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2008/11/26 Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net
Casey Brown wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Rand Montoya <rmontoya@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The Quotes site notice will have 6 different quotes (all translated, we
hope) rotated in.
I don't know - I think it would be interesting, at least on the English Wikipedia, to see some quotes in other languages. It would reinforce to
the
people who see quotes in Chinese or Russian that Wikimedia is an international project with broadly global goals.
Normally I would agree with you. Last year, I was *all* for putting as many language quotes on the sitenotices as possible. However, if we are only going to have 6 quotes and they are going to be show-cased in such a large way (as opposed to a little line below the "people mover"), we should probably have them in the local language.
Well, given that we're doing comparison testing on other details, it seems like we could also use that to settle whether Nathan's or Casey's interpretation is more in line with how donors respond. The only hangup might be that there's quite a few questions we'd like to test, they're best done in isolation from each other, and we only have so much time to run them.
--Michael Snow
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