On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
With more and more Wikimedians engaging in crowdfunding, I suppose we can talk about whether the mailing list for Wikimedia movement organization is the place to advertise in this way. For my part, I don't think a simple (i.e., without any additional context) "please check out this Indiegogo" is any different from "hey, check out my blog," so when the last one came through the queue I rejected it without much thought. It certainly wasn't done with any prejudice.
For my part, I always like to see crowdfunding pitches from Wikimedians. There haven't been *that* many of them (maybe 8 or 10?), and so far they've all (that I've seen) come from prolific contributors.
These crowdfunding pitches generally take a lot more effort to put together than a blog post does, and they are also easy and satisfying to act on. If I can take 3 minutes and a few dollars to simultaneously say thanks to a great contributor and help them make even better contributions, I'm grateful for that opportunity.
-Sage