Given the large reserves that the WMF carries, and the savings from cancelling events such as Wikimania 2020, I would have thought that the WMF was one organisation that could afford to pause its fundraising for a few months. At least in countries where the economy is in freefall.
In a few months time lots of people will still be in a financial mess. But the large number of people who are currently going to be worried about their financial future will hopefully be divided into those who have kept their jobs. or got new ones and those who were right to be worried. Hopefully some of those who come through this financially OK will be in a position to donate.
WSC
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 16:55:50 +0200 From: John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads Message-ID: <CAJcMX2= 5GgwUNkrfG6EjJsn6sB1rBF1H_FnyPhPd_Wjr5otu0A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Often I surf Wikipedia without being logged in, and so I did right now. I got the usual banners, but this time they popped up repeatedly in several locations. This quickly gets extremely annoying, and I find it unwise. Create one banner, and stick with that. Several banners are simply way over the top.
/jeblad