On 9 October 2015 at 22:58, Megan Hernandez mhernandez@wikimedia.org wrote:
All of these community suggestions remain in the banner. Another sentence that was briefly tested on a small percentage of users about a year ago that received negative community feedback was “If everyone reading this gave $3, we could keep it online and ad-free another year.” We did not end up using that sentence for the campaign and we commit to not using it in any future campaign. In the next quarter, we are planning many more message tests -- with both brand new ideas as well as smaller tweaks to the existing text. If you have an idea to test, please share on the 2015-16 test ideas page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2015-16_Fundraising_ideas. Thanks again to everyone who has shared ideas so far.
For what it's worth, as the person who's made by far the most edits to that page and as one of the people responsible for some of that 'negative community feedback', I'd like to say thanks to the fundraising team for being very responsive to all the feedback that has been given. This is doubly so because the fundraising department doesn't have a dedicated 'community liaison' staff role, meaning that the responsibility for reading, triaging, enacting those suggestions is spread across the team. Not all of the suggestions have been put in place, some have - as mentioned in Megan's email, but they have all been responded to in good faith. So... thanks :-)
-Liam
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