On 10/7/07, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
I agree some effort to pull in other people is
worthwhile, but I agree
with Jeandré that we ought not to come off as excessively PR-ish. I know
I've stopped contributing to other nonprofits who've taken such a tone
with their advertising (and organizational style generally), and would
be turned off from contributing to Wikimedia were its communications to
start looking like they came from an ad agency rather than from normal
people.
Yes, you can do this right, and you can do it wrong. If we have a page
where people can post cool things about wikipedia/wikimedia, and
select some to highlight that will seem community centered and
organic.
If we take these stories, get images, and re-write them into some
combined campaign called "Wikipedia:Our Story" published on some shiny
new site, that would be a mistake.
The people donating $3 to wikipedia aren't the same people donating to
the MacArthur Foundation. Well, maybe some are, but not most.
Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion