Greetings all,
I've noticed that the "Donate" link in all English Wikimedia projects' sidebars goes to the following page:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
This is a fine landing page for Wikipedia readers, but if someone from Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc, sees this, he could become confused where donations will go to, because there is no mention of the local project, or even the Wikimedia Foundation (!).
I understand that Wikipedia is the WMF's most popular and successful project, and should be publicised the most in fundraising. But this current approach is not fair to sister projects, many of which are struggling to develop their own identity from the encyclopedia.
I'd like to suggest that each sister project have its own dedicated donation page, with an explanation that donations will go to the Foundation, which also runs Wikipedia, etc. That isn't explained in the current appeal.
Best regards,
-Tempodivalse
Tempo D. Valse wrote:
I've noticed that the "Donate" link in all English Wikimedia projects' sidebars goes to the following page:
The one in the sidebar? It says "Donate to Wikipedia" on the English Wikipedia and currently links to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:Landingcheck?landing_page=WMFJA 085&language=en&utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=20101204SB 002.
It's just a standard sidebar link, really. You can change it to whatever you want on a per-project basis (or not have a donate link at all). There are about a million donation landing pages to choose from. One of the dozen or so fundraising staff can help you out if you get lost. The MediaWiki sidebar is configured at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar. That particular link is generally controlled by this message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitesupport-url.
Hope that helps,
MZMcBride
P.S. Your e-mail client is wrapping lines at rather odd spots, BTW.
Hi Tempodivalse,
Right now we're not running our weekly testing on different projects but during the fundraiser, we do use the sitename instead of putting "Wikipedia" banners on the top of other projects. A few people have suggested some project specific messages, and I think that's great. If you have an idea for a project specific appeal, go ahead and suggest it. We're setting up a page on meta for these project-specific appeal suggestions. We'll send it once it's ready.
Thanks,
Megan
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Tempo D. Valse <tempodivalse.wiki@gmail.com
wrote:
Greetings all,
I've noticed that the "Donate" link in all English Wikimedia projects' sidebars goes to the following page:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
This is a fine landing page for Wikipedia readers, but if someone from Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc, sees this, he could become confused where donations will go to, because there is no mention of the local project, or even the Wikimedia Foundation (!).
I understand that Wikipedia is the WMF's most popular and successful project, and should be publicised the most in fundraising. But this current approach is not fair to sister projects, many of which are struggling to develop their own identity from the encyclopedia.
I'd like to suggest that each sister project have its own dedicated donation page, with an explanation that donations will go to the Foundation, which also runs Wikipedia, etc. That isn't explained in the current appeal.
Best regards,
-Tempodivalse
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