James Heilman wrote:
We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) revert vandalism?
This was implemented on the English Wikipedia for quite some time. I called it "anon tips." The tips were placed above the discussion, edit, etc. tabs. It included some donation appeals ("Wikipedia is sustained by people like you. Please donate today.") as well as some informative tips ("Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia."[1]), with random rotation and a bias toward the donation messages, I think. The banner was shown only to logged out users.
I removed the anon tips banner[2] because the content was getting old, there was a concern about having too much noise with the upcoming annual fundraising banner, and the code needed to be rewritten.[3]
Something along the same lines, either for the English Wikipedia or for other projects as well, might be something to consider.
MZMcBride 19:14, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_Wik ipedia [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.js&diff=322... 03&oldid=288720468 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.js/Archive_17#Anontips_ba nner