--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
... What I think we should do is have a fundraiser twice a year, with a dynamically updated progress bar (we can get this developed now by putting a bounty on it), a list of recent donors and a list of top donors. During the time of the fundraising (a week or so every year), this progress bar would occupy the top 10-20% of screen space on all Wikimedia projects. It should be possible to directly make a donation from any Wikimedia page during the fundraising - just a single click. We would specify the goal beforehand and link to the detailed budget.
This is all a great idea, but I would have such a fund drive every quarter since projecting our budgetary needs out half a year involves a bit of hand waving since our growth is neither linear nor that predictable.
We have more traffic than Slashdot. I think reaching our goals will not be as difficult as some people appear to think. It's just a matter of exposure.
Actually we are *way* ahead of Slashdot and now even occasionally pass up FoxNews.com on a daily basis (CNN.com is still out of reach). Not to mention the fact that we have left NPR.org, Reuters.com, AP.org, MSNBC.com, Salon.com, WSJ.com and other multi-million dollar media outlets who have a very important web presense in the dust.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_is_more_popular_than...#News_an...
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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