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(a)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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