Thomas Dalton wrote:
I'm pretty sure I raised both these concerns last
year when you ran
similar banners and they were never addressed other than to say that
such banners raise a lot of money (which is the point - they are
misleading people into donating a lot of money). Could you explain how
you justify misleading your donors in this way?
And when it was pointed out that a reference to Sue Gardner as
"Wikipedia Executive Director" was inaccurate, Zack's initial response
was "We're going to test Wikimedia against Wikipedia in the banner
right now." (In other words, "We'll test the truth against a
falsehood to see which brings in more money.")
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/062932.html
I find this attitude rather disconcerting.
David Levy