--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/11/06, James Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
I am aware that this may get derided as advertising, but I really don't think it's true - this is merely an extended press release, as it were. I think that a line (in the site notice), saying something like "Foo have pledged to match up to US$200,000 in our [[current fund-raising drive]]" instead of the current text ("Your [[continued donations]] keep Wikipedia running!") would be appropriate and understated (believe me, I'm British, "understated" is what we /do/).
We wouldn't get away with naming the company in the sitenotice - it'd have to be a link to a page listing the matching donations. Think that'd work for anyone?
Why not? Simply stating that a particular person/organization is going to match all donations made in a certain day of the drive is not advertising. It is simply giving credit where credit is due and inducing individual donations. Having different large donors sponsor each day of the drive in this way would be great.
-- mav
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