Todd, Romaine and all,
Julia Brungs generally puts up sample emails for review here:
Copies of Dutch sample emails are linked there.
I remember there were discussions between Wikimedia Netherlands, the
community and the WMF last year, and there was a commitment made by the WMF
that the Dutch community would be involved this year.
See also last year's press report <https://archive.ph/gonKE> in de
Volkskrant.
Andreas
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 6:20 PM Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Could you provide a copy of the email, or at least its
text? When
discussing something like this, it's helpful to see exactly what we're
talking about.
Todd
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:07 AM Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This was the title of a message on the Help Desk
of the Dutch Wikipedia
earlier this month. The title refers to the fundraising e-mail a reader of
Wikipedia received so-called with a message from Jimmy Wales, and this
reader got very concerned about what he saw as this e-mail looks like to be
a scam or spam. The reader asked us: "But isn't this a strange way to
collect money? This given the many warnings for not clicking on links in
strange e-mails as those are often fraudulent (etc.), this does not seem
very reliable to me."
It seems that the e-mail came truly from WMF, but the concerns of this
reader are something to be aware of.
Another user writes he receives fake e-mails almost every day for all
kinds of "services" and "requests" which do not feel trustworthy, the
same
as for this e-mail from WMF.
The reaction of another user: please throw this kind of dubious e-mails
away quickly, such e-mails can't be trusted.
Someone else writes: That donation campaign is very American and the
volunteers behind the Dutch Wikipedia have been calling for years against
the international Wikimedia organization that this way of raising funds
does not work in the Netherlands and Belgium, among others.
That last part is I think the essence, for more than a decade WMF
organises the fundraising, for more than a decade the Dutch community
complains about the way/style/etc of the fundraising, and for more than a
decade it is tradition that WMF does do little with the feedback and makes
the same mistakes year after year after year...
Disappointed greetings,
Romaine
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