2009/12/15 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com:
What particularly annoys me, is that the banner invites people to to click on them, but when I click on it I get to the Dutch donation page, which does not answer my question at all "Why Craig of Craigslist urges me to support Wikipedia".
This is a known problem with the way the geolocation works. I uploaded a patch to bugzilla which would allow chapters to create localised version of landing pages and have banners go directly to them, but, despite the WMF thanking me for it, they have completely ignored it. The UK landing page has a link at the top linking to a page with the statement from Craig, but the same hasn't been done for other chapters. I think the WMF is assuming that most people in countries with chapters taking part in the fundraiser use their local language version of Wikipedia, and this statement is only being shown on the English Wikipedia, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. I don't know how accurate that assumption is.