"That hasn't been the case in the past when campaign goals are met."
The fundraising team has actively sought to reduce the impact that raising
donations has on readers. We covered this in a blog last year about the
2016 fundraiser:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/03/fundraising-banner-limit/
We managed to reduce this again through last years fundraising and actively
curtailed the number and frequency of banners that our readers saw.
With regards to email we only send three fundraising asks to any one
individual as it stands which is a fraction of what most charities send to
their previous donors. In the case of last year we actually held off
sending the third fundraising email to a significant portion of individuals
precisely because we were reaching our campaign goal.
So I would argue this is actually the case and that if we can, we will.
Regards
Seddon
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 11:16 PM Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Deleting Wikipedia?" was the subject line
of the e-mail I received as
well. It also, as usual, included the claim that if enough donations were
received the campaign would end early. That hasn't been the case in the
past when campaign goals are met.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 6:04 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is a report from a user on Jimbo's talk
page on ENWP regarding
receiving fundraising a fundraising email with the subject line "[NAME] -
Deleting Wikipedia?"
In previous years I've disagreed with some of WMF's fundraising choices,
and it would be unfortunate if in the era of "fake news" becoming
mainstream WMF chooses to continue to be a part of the problem. If this
is
happening then I request that WMF put a stop to
it. Regardless of how
effective it is to send misleading fundraising appeals and that WMF has
received minimal repercussions for doing so over the years, it's wrong
and
it should stop.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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