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We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) revert vandalism?
I have asked many people about their use of Wikipedia and many are unaware that it is even possible for them to edit. We could have something like "Wikipedia is in the public domain that means it belongs to all of us. Please help us expand, protect, and improve it" or some such thing? We could either run this sort of message alone or combine it with the fun raiser banner next year?
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:26 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
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We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) revert vandalism?
I have asked many people about their use of Wikipedia and many are unaware that it is even possible for them to edit. We could have something like "Wikipedia is in the public domain that means it belongs to all of us. Please help us expand, protect, and improve it" or some such thing? We could either run this sort of message alone or combine it with the fun raiser banner next year?
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I'd rather see a banner about contributing to your own native language wiki, along the same spirit of your idea.
... many are unaware that it is even possible for them to edit.
Recently I discovered, that it's true
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:26 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Having trouble posting. Trying again:
We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) revert vandalism?
I have asked many people about their use of Wikipedia and many are unaware that it is even possible for them to edit. We could have something like "Wikipedia is in the public domain that means it belongs to all of us. Please help us expand, protect, and improve it" or some such thing? We could either run this sort of message alone or combine it with the fun raiser banner next year?
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
James Heilman wrote:
We had a banner last year to raise funds for the WMF. Unsure if anyone has suggested this yet but how about running a banner to encourage our readers to: 1) add content 2) correct spelling 3) revert vandalism?
This was implemented on the English Wikipedia for quite some time. I called it "anon tips." The tips were placed above the discussion, edit, etc. tabs. It included some donation appeals ("Wikipedia is sustained by people like you. Please donate today.") as well as some informative tips ("Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia."[1]), with random rotation and a bias toward the donation messages, I think. The banner was shown only to logged out users.
I removed the anon tips banner[2] because the content was getting old, there was a concern about having too much noise with the upcoming annual fundraising banner, and the code needed to be rewritten.[3]
Something along the same lines, either for the English Wikipedia or for other projects as well, might be something to consider.
MZMcBride 19:14, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_Wik ipedia [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.js&diff=322... 03&oldid=288720468 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.js/Archive_17#Anontips_ba nner
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