On 9 Dec 2011, at 00:50, Thomas Dalton wrote:
I just loaded a Wikipedia article and rather than a fundraising banner, I saw a banner asking me to participate in a research project (a fairly standard game theory type experiment involving how to share money between yourself and other participants). It was made clear that the banner was approved by the WMF and the Wikimedia Research Committee.
There's more information about this on the WMF's blog at: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/08/experiment-decision-making/
I'm wondering what involvement Wikimedia UK had in deciding to put this banner up.
None whatsoever. It falls outside of the fundraising agreement, since fundraising banners are now turned off for logged-in users, and we don't have any control over what's displayed using CentralNotice aside from the fundraising banners.
I notice I was given an option to donate my "earnings" to the WMF (or the International Red Cross), but not WMUK (I chose to keep mine for myself and will pass them on the WMUK once they arrive in my paypal account).
Thanks. :-) It's a bit odd that the Red Cross is listed there... I don't think they're doing any sort of geolocation, so it would be difficult for them to have a donation link to WMUK, even if they were so inclined.
Thanks, Mike