+1Balaji
Regards,
Er. Suyash Dwivedi (pronouns - he/his/him)
(U:Suyash.dwivedi)
suyash.tps(a)gmail.com
IST (Indian Standard Time) UTC+5:30
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 11:45 PM balaji <balajijagadesh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mostly of people asked of if the donation notice
was geninue or scam.
Since they know I am closely associated with wikipedia movement they asked
me.
Sudden popup of donation notice seems like a spam or hacking by
external agency. Totally uncool. And seeing the count shown I felt like I
am being tracked. It's too much of a bad feeling.
Totally unhappy about the way fundraising banners are shown.
Regards
J. Balaji.
On Mon, 3 Aug, 2020, 11:40 PM Sudhanwa Jogalekar, <
sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is some note by Amit Abhyankar on Facebook. There are similar
> comments on this post.
> ---------------------
> I guess most of us have received this message when accessing
> Wikipedia. While there is nothing wrong in asking for donations, I didn't
> like the tone of this appeal.
> The way it says 'reader in India' and 'This is the 6th appeal'
doesn't
> sound right to me... Not sure why... but it just doesn't.
> I mean, we have not entered into a contract that says we will donate
> whenever you need us to... Then what's with counting the number of times
> this appeal has been shown?
> I ofcourse support Wiki as a movement, have donated in the past and
> will donate again in future... But how about telling us how much money you
> need and a live tracker that shows how much of the goal has been achieved?
> Transperency is the key to running a movement.
> --------------------------------
>
> If a common person gets such feeling from the fundraiser banner, the
> thought arises about what kind of survey/study is made by WMF before
> pushing this to the users.
>
> btw,
>
> Someone pinged me to ask if I know anyone of mailing list admins as
> his/her mails were not reaching to the mailing list. Dont know if there is
> any problem. (was using a nickname)
> More interesting was what he/she mentioned about the fundraiser. The
> QR code mentions "to pay" some company from Delhi that is not so old and
> has just Rs. 1 lakh capital !! I havent got time to get into these things
> but if this is true, I suppose WMF study/research/selection of partner is
> questionable.
>
> I hope WMF people will respond to this.
>
> Regards,
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:03 PM Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> It makes me very happy to announce we have at last launched our
>> fundraiser in India :) This has been a huge effort and I want to thank the
>> community members who have passed on feedback, tested our infrastructure,
>> forwarded tweets and news stories, and just generally been amazingly
>> supportive :)
>>
>> Like our other fundraising campaigns this will run for around 4
>> weeks. If you are regularly seeing banners, I recommend you log in to your
>> wikimedia accounts on wiki. We don't show banners to logged in users so as
>> to not disrupt their work.
>>
>> As before:
>>
>> * If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
>> phabricator ticket [
https://phabricator.wikimedia
>> .org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862].
>> * If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS or social media having
>> difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate(a)wikimedia.org.
>> * If you have specific ideas to share, please feel invited to add
>> them to our fundraising ideas page [
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
>> /Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas].
>>
>> You can also contact me directly with my email address
>> seddon(a)wikimedia.org and I can forward your feedback to the right
>> person on the team.
>>
>> Thank you everyone!
>>
>> --
>> Seddon
>>
>>
>> *Senior Community Relations Specialist*
>> *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*
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