It would be interesting to contact DPReview and Flickr to ask if they'd agree to promote this campaign.
Pine On Aug 31, 2015 12:36 AM, "Gergo Tisza" gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Craig Franklin <cfranklin@halonetwork.net
wrote:
It has been my experience that site banners are the best way to reach casual readers who are not already integrated into the projects and existing communication channels. This is why the Fundraising team run banners, rather than begging for money through Facebook and targeted talk page messages, I would imagine. The communications channels you're referring to are excellent for reaching existing contributors, but when you're trying to reach new or casual contributors, a big banner at the
top
of articles can't be beat.
My experience has been quite the opposite. The easiest, maybe, but the conversion rate is poor - WLM is for photographers, and putting banners on Wikipedia is not a particularly good way of reaching photographers. In WLM Hungary a few years ago we had a deal with a photo sharing site (a crappy deal, for other reasons), they ran the WLM banner, and it had a ten times higher conversion rate (IIRC we counted people navigating to the upload page as conversions). Even though they had way smaller audience than Wikipedia, half the uploads ended up coming from them.
I would recommend organizers to be creative and not rely on CentralNotice too much - reach out to photography discussion groups, photographer associations, photo sharing sites and any other places where people with an interest in taking pictures might turn up. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe