On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9 December 2011 19:48, Michael Peel <
michael.peel@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. :-(
(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)