Fundraising testing - Wikimedia-l

Megan Hernandez

20 Feb 20 Feb

3:50 p.m.

Hi everyone, We've been testing banners at a low level for about two weeks now. We've been showing just one banner impression to 5% of anonymous users (excluding the 5 countries where banners ran in December: US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Hiding banners after one impression is new for us, and any feedback we can get on how it's working will really help us. We are trying to minimize the number of banners our users see each year. If you visit Wikipedia anonymously (and you're outside of the 5 English countries), have you seen any fundraising banners in the last two weeks? If so, how many times have you seen a banner? Thanks for your help! Megan On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Megan Hernandez <mhernandez(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:

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Hi all, We wanted to let you know the fundraising team is starting up testing in February. We're starting at low levels, so most people will not even notice banners to start with. 5% of anonymous users will see a banner just one time. We are not showing any banners to logged in users. There was an announcement in November about us splitting up the fundraiser this year. Just a very quick recap: We ran the end-of-year campaign in November and December in the top 5 English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). The campaign was successful and we were able to take the banners down a few weeks ahead of schedule: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_ra… We are now working on starting up testing in countries that were not included in the end-of-year campaign. We'll be working on translations and optimizing our donation pages in many countries over the coming months. We will post a report of the year-end campaign with much more detailed information and will send a note to this mailing list when it's available. We always need help making improvements in different countries and languages. If you have any suggestions, please do leave us a note on the fundraising meta discussion page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 Thanks! Megan -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation

-- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga

4:01 p.m.

Hi, Megan. Wouldn't be better to add our data on some wiki page or spreadsheet? By the way, I've seen the banner once yesterday on the Portuguese Wikipedia (blue background), but I seldom use Wikipedia logged out. I am in São Paulo. Tom On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Megan Hernandez <mhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Hi everyone, We've been testing banners at a low level for about two weeks now. We've been showing just one banner impression to 5% of anonymous users (excluding the 5 countries where banners ran in December: US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Hiding banners after one impression is new for us, and any feedback we can get on how it's working will really help us. We are trying to minimize the number of banners our users see each year. If you visit Wikipedia anonymously (and you're outside of the 5 English countries), have you seen any fundraising banners in the last two weeks? If so, how many times have you seen a banner? Thanks for your help! Megan On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Megan Hernandez <mhernandez(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:

Hi all, We wanted to let you know the fundraising team is starting up testing in February. We're starting at low levels, so most people will not even notice banners to start with. 5% of anonymous users will see a banner just one time. We are not showing any banners to logged in users. There was an announcement in November about us splitting up the fundraiser this year. Just a very quick recap: We ran the end-of-year campaign in November and December in the top 5 English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). The campaign was successful and we were able to take the banners down a few weeks ahead of schedule: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_ra… We are now working on starting up testing in countries that were not included in the end-of-year campaign. We'll be working on translations and optimizing our donation pages in many countries over the coming months. We will post a report of the year-end campaign with much more detailed information and will send a note to this mailing list when it's available. We always need help making improvements in different countries and languages. If you have any suggestions, please do leave us a note on the fundraising meta discussion page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 Thanks! Megan -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation

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-- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

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MZMcBride

8:14 p.m.

Megan Hernandez wrote:

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Sorry for the confusion. The chapters in Germany, France, and Switzerland ran banners at the end of 2012. WMF is not showing banners in those countries. I added a section to the fundraising meta page for comments if you've seen banners over the last two weeks: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013

Looks good. :-) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013 (the noticeboard itself) also looks like it'll be useful for providing status updates, etc. Wikimedians are always curious about banners, particularly outside November and December.

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From the subject-space page, I saw this:

* "or send in your own story: wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Stories/en <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Stories/en>" I didn't realize this form was still up. I'm curious how many e-mails it gets/how it's been working for you all. Do people submit interesting stories? I assume it's funneled through OTRS or something, but I'm not actually sure. MZMcBride

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Charles Andrès

28 Feb 28 Feb

9:31 a.m.

copy from the meta page: The result of the Fundraising team and all the people involved has lead to an impressing abilities to minimize the time of display of the banners, and then decreasing the perturbation for the reader. I personally think that we reach an acceptable level of "perturbation" and that we should move from a strategy of "less perturbation for the reader" to "motivation of the reader". We will get back as soon as possible with numbers, but during the fundraising periods in general, and especially during the last one, we notice in switzerland a significant increase of the interest of the readers about how Wikipedia works, and the project of our chapter. During the last fundraising, we have been contacted by people wanting to join our chapter or becoming editors. In this period where renewing the pool of editor is a major challenge, I think we should not underestimate the power of the fundraising campaign. One simple way to use this synergy would be to redirect the donors (after their donation) to a thank you page that could incorporate a link to the corresponding chapter's page, or a thematic group's page, or an announce for a meet up, etc... the list is open. Thanks Charles ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch Le 27 févr. 2013 à 19:11, Megan Hernandez <mhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :

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Hi all, We have another update on fundraising testing. We have been testing at low levels for almost three weeks. We are preparing to increase the percentage for a 24-hour test so all anonymous readers in the countries and languages where we are running campaigns will see a banner (just 1 banner impression). If a reader has already seen one banner over the past three weeks of testing, they should not see another banner during the 24-hour test. The test is set to start at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday, February 27 and will run worldwide, excluding the countries where banners already ran in December 2012 (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Switzerland). Again, hiding banners from readers who have already seen a banner is new for us and our goal is to minimize the number of banners our users see. If you read Wikipedia anonymously and see more than one banner, please let us know on the fundraising meta talk page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 We are also testing out new translations and donation pages in many many countries, so if you see any errors or have any feedback, it'd really help us out if you'd send it to us: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 Thanks everyone, Megan On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Megan Hernandez <mhernandez(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:

Hi everyone, We've been testing banners at a low level for about two weeks now. We've been showing just one banner impression to 5% of anonymous users (excluding the 5 countries where banners ran in December: US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Hiding banners after one impression is new for us, and any feedback we can get on how it's working will really help us. We are trying to minimize the number of banners our users see each year. If you visit Wikipedia anonymously (and you're outside of the 5 English countries), have you seen any fundraising banners in the last two weeks? If so, how many times have you seen a banner? Thanks for your help! Megan On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Megan Hernandez <mhernandez(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:

Hi all, We wanted to let you know the fundraising team is starting up testing in February. We're starting at low levels, so most people will not even notice banners to start with. 5% of anonymous users will see a banner just one time. We are not showing any banners to logged in users. There was an announcement in November about us splitting up the fundraiser this year. Just a very quick recap: We ran the end-of-year campaign in November and December in the top 5 English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). The campaign was successful and we were able to take the banners down a few weeks ahead of schedule: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_ra… We are now working on starting up testing in countries that were not included in the end-of-year campaign. We'll be working on translations and optimizing our donation pages in many countries over the coming months. We will post a report of the year-end campaign with much more detailed information and will send a note to this mailing list when it's available. We always need help making improvements in different countries and languages. If you have any suggestions, please do leave us a note on the fundraising meta discussion page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013 Thanks! Megan -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation

-- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation

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Megan Hernandez

25 Mar 25 Mar

5:48 p.m.

Hey Nemo, Sorry for the delay. The page has been updated. Also left you some questions there, thanks for bringing that up. Megan On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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Megan Hernandez, 27/02/2013 19:11: Again, hiding banners from readers who have already seen a banner is new

for us and our goal is to minimize the number of banners our users see. If you read Wikipedia anonymously and see more than one banner, please let us know on the fundraising meta talk page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2013<http://meta.wikim…

Is this page still active? (CC open, public list https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/fundraiser<https://lists.…er>.) I see no answers in last 3 weeks and 7 users with unanswered questions. Feedback from users who will think the talk abandoned is lost forever. Nemo

-- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation

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