We were chattering about having Stephen Hawking do a funraising banner (Trevor made up one), and speculating how well they'd do. You could even serve up diffferent banners based on the categories. If it's a page about physics, serve up the Hawk banner. If science fiction, Charles Stross or whomever else. If they visit the Angelina Jolie page, they get to see the Angelina Jolie banner. Who knows?? Maybe we could make it COOL to have a Wikipedia fundraising banner, just like it was COOL to be a guest on the Muppet Show, or it's COOL to have your own animated character on The Simpsons. I'm thinking that a short video clip like "I'm Freeman Dyson and I want you to support wikipedia.".
Seems like something that could easily be tested.
You can see the banner here (make sure your volume is up):
http://www.trevorparscal.com/stuff/thehawk/
I dunno if anyone listened to NPR's latest fundraiser but they had some /awesome/ appeals by Alec Baldwin - you can listen to them here:
http://www.kplu.org/alec-baldwin
I found them really compelling and think if we could get some celeb to endorse us, it could have a lot of potential - and might be entertaining enough to take people's minds off of how annoyed they are about seeing Jimmy everywhere they look.
On 11/23/2010 10:42 AM, Russell Nelson wrote:
We were chattering about having Stephen Hawking do a funraising banner (Trevor made up one), and speculating how well they'd do. You could even serve up diffferent banners based on the categories. If it's a page about physics, serve up the Hawk banner. If science fiction, Charles Stross or whomever else. If they visit the Angelina Jolie page, they get to see the Angelina Jolie banner. Who knows?? Maybe we could make it COOL to have a Wikipedia fundraising banner, just like it was COOL to be a guest on the Muppet Show, or it's COOL to have your own animated character on The Simpsons. I'm thinking that a short video clip like "I'm Freeman Dyson and I want you to support wikipedia.".
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Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or article category and/or language edition would open up a whole new level of fundraising potential. That would allow you to get local celebrities (who are otherwise not especially popular/known outside their city/state/country/language) to provide endorsements that are quite targeted. For example in countries where there is a very popular sport with a local team (NFL in America, premier league in UK) you could fundraising banners on a per-city basis with local sports stars encouraging people to support Wikimedia. I suspect that this is something where the Chapters would be particularly useful in contacting and negotiating with the relevant people.
More fine-grained control over articlespace banners (with good policy about how/who/when these should be used) would also make it much easier to run real-world events and enable us to contact Wikip/media readers in a targeted way (not just with geonotices served to the Watchlist, which by definition only is able to contact existing editors).
However, I suspect that this goes in the "ideas for next year" basket. -Liam
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On 23 November 2010 22:16, Fajro faigos@gmail.com wrote:
How about NBA players?
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Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is gearing up to run ads on content pages.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or article category and/or language edition would open up a whole new level of fundraising potential. That would allow you to get local celebrities (who are otherwise not especially popular/known outside their city/state/country/language) to provide endorsements that are quite targeted. For example in countries where there is a very popular sport with a local team (NFL in America, premier league in UK) you could fundraising banners on a per-city basis with local sports stars encouraging people to support Wikimedia. I suspect that this is something where the Chapters would be particularly useful in contacting and negotiating with the relevant people.
More fine-grained control over articlespace banners (with good policy about how/who/when these should be used) would also make it much easier to run real-world events and enable us to contact Wikip/media readers in a targeted way (not just with geonotices served to the Watchlist, which by definition only is able to contact existing editors).
However, I suspect that this goes in the "ideas for next year" basket. -Liam
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On 23 November 2010 22:16, Fajro faigos@gmail.com wrote:
How about NBA players?
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On 24 November 2010 10:24, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is gearing up to run ads on content pages.
If the community has that level of assumption of bad faith, then everyone's already lost.
What are you basing your statement on? Your assertion needs a lot more detail.
- d.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 November 2010 10:24, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is gearing up to run ads on content pages.
If the community has that level of assumption of bad faith, then everyone's already lost.
What are you basing your statement on? Your assertion needs a lot more detail.
+1
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