We could list the Top 5 donors in the watchlist and see if people feel they can take the challenge to add themselves to that list. But that may be seen as some sort of advertising... and companies won't like that individuals are allowed yet they aren't, even though they have $1,000,000 to donate and the wealthiest individual philanthropic benefactor only has $100,000 set aside.
On 11/8/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/11/06, James Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
I am aware that this may get derided as advertising, but I really don't think it's true - this is merely an extended press release, as it were. I think that a line (in the site notice), saying something like "Foo have pledged to match up to US$200,000 in our [[current fund-raising drive]]" instead of the current text ("Your [[continued donations]] keep Wikipedia running!") would be appropriate and understated (believe me, I'm British, "understated" is what we /do/).
We wouldn't get away with naming the company in the sitenotice - it'd have to be a link to a page listing the matching donations. Think that'd work for anyone?
- d.
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