You know, I think I'll pass on the actual content of the message that talks about "Commercial" not being a "Monster" and "The Bad". (and yes I know, these are in a negative sentence but... seriously?).
This banner looks like an obituary I find. Where are the cool banners on green leafy foresty background? Those were the days ;)
I know that a lot of thought goes into crafting the best messages for fundraising banners, I also know that the testing is thorough, and decisions are made with real data. But sometimes I find we might be forgetting the number of people we actually scare *away* with things like this. Not sure that's data we can acquire, but looking at this banner I am losing faith in my fellow French if they really respond to something like this more than they do to positive and cheerful looking messages).
*sigh*
Delphine
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:44 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Didn't we have the lightbox argument last year?
Probably. Or the year before. Or the year before that. I did say "(again)" in the subject line. ;-)
There are various discussions popping up across Wikimedia about these banners. It didn't help that a bug earlier this week caused logged-in users to be hit with them as well. Talk about eating your own dog food.
The French Wikipedia held what appears to be a straw poll with overwhelming denouncement of the banner. It's also been repeatedly described as a phishing attempt. Complaints and confusion aren't uncommon during any annual fundraiser, but I think we can and should hold ourselves to a higher standard when begging people for money.
As pointed out on Meta-Wiki's "Wikimedia Forum" by Jules78120, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines is pretty clear that the (primary) goal is that banners "be as unobtrusive as possible." I wrote this in May 2011, I believe deliberately outside of the annual fundraising that takes place in December so that we could have a calm and reasonable discussion about appropriate CentralNotice usage. Sigh.
MZMcBride
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