On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On 9 December 2011 19:48, Michael Peel
<michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
My apologies; I misunderstood the situation.
They've been turned off for
some other countries, but they're still on for
UK logged-in users at the
moment (I gather they'll be turned off soon). So this banner was overriding
the fundraising banners for some users. :-(
That would appear to be in violation of the fundraising agreement
(albeit, most likely, inadvertently). It appears this banner was
implemented with even more carelessness than was already apparent...
I was under the impression that fundraising banners were still being
displayed for logged-in users in the UK, so was a little irritated when the
survey banners appeared instead.
That said, it is about time that fundraising banners were taken down for
logged-in users, and they will be shortly. I doubt Wikimedia UK has
suffered any appreciable loss as a result.
I'm pretty sure that whoever at the Foundation thought this was a good idea
didn't think about how this might impact on WMUK's fundraiser - but then
they evidently didn't think of a lot of other things either.
Actually I think that research into how people behave in online communities
is very important to the success of the Wikimedia movement, which makes
this whole affair even more regrettable...
Chris
(Wikimedia UK fundraising lead)