On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the detailed thoughts, Zack!
Did we run banners on the sister projects as well?
This year, we haven't so far.
It would also be great to experiment with running targeted banner messages and presentations on the sister projects, particularly Commons and Wiktionary, to see what the visitor response is like. We've certainly had some good suggested designs in the past.
As you say, readers love discovering that we're a non-profit and how we
run. This is one of our opportunities each year to rejoice in the work of the projects, get feedback, and hold a large-scale barnraising for the coming year's work. It's good to reduce the total amount of time people see banners on the projects, but also a very positive thing for all projects to take part.
I'd love to see a barn raising for participation instead of fundraising. So little money comes from the other projects that it's actually counterproductive from a revenue perspective.
If the only reason to do the fundraiser on those projects is to have a coming together of the community, then why not do it around invitations to participate instead of to donate?
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