On 08/11/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
On 11/7/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
It's hard to come up with a good (*) appeal for money when you don't have any idea what you have or how much you need.
"Um, we need some money. For stuff."
"We have to make it go."
"investing in the future of eKnowledge"
"If you can't give us your soul and sanity, you could always just give us your money."
Downtime is our greatest revenue generator. Having a donation link on the "whoops the servers are melting" page is a fantastic idea. When asked in interviews about advertising on Wikipedia, I say that people seem to prefer being annoyed by downtime to being annoyed by ads, but we need money please kthx.
- d.