Dear community members,
My name is Julia and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation's Advancement team. I am reaching out to you today to inform you of the upcoming fundraising campaign in South Africa. The fundraising banners will be shown on Wikipedia in South Africa from the 23rd of May to the 20th of June.
Prior to the start of the banner campaign, we are planning to run some tests in April and May, so you might see banners for 3-5 hours a couple of times before the campaign starts. This activity will ensure that our technical infrastructure works. We are currently working on the messages for the banners and I will share examples with you later.
Please feel free to share this information widely within your communities and encourage anyone who is interested to engage on the fundraising talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising or via email with me directly.
Generally, before and during the campaign, you can contact us:
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On the talk page of the fundraising team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising -
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, VRT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Volunteer_Response_Team or social media having difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate[image: @]wikimedia.org
Thanks you and regards,
Julia -- *Julia Brungs* Senior Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Dear community members,
I wanted to follow up on my earlier email and give you some more details. As mentioned in my previous email the fundraising banners will be shown on Wikipedia in South Africa from the 23rd of May to the 20th of June. You can now find examples of the banners that will be shown on our meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#Current_fundraising_activities (all our campaigns are listed there so please find the lines that show the South African campaign and banner examples).
Please feel free to share this information widely within your communities and encourage anyone who is interested to engage on the fundraising talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising or via email with me directly.
Generally, before and during the campaign, you can contact us:
-
On the talk page of the fundraising team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising -
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, VRT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Volunteer_Response_Team or social media having difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate[image: @]wikimedia.org
Thanks you and regards,
Julia
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:22 AM Julia Brungs jbrungs@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear community members,
My name is Julia and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation's Advancement team. I am reaching out to you today to inform you of the upcoming fundraising campaign in South Africa. The fundraising banners will be shown on Wikipedia in South Africa from the 23rd of May to the 20th of June.
Prior to the start of the banner campaign, we are planning to run some tests in April and May, so you might see banners for 3-5 hours a couple of times before the campaign starts. This activity will ensure that our technical infrastructure works. We are currently working on the messages for the banners and I will share examples with you later.
Please feel free to share this information widely within your communities and encourage anyone who is interested to engage on the fundraising talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising or via email with me directly.
Generally, before and during the campaign, you can contact us:
On the talk page of the fundraising team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising
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, VRT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Volunteer_Response_Team or social media having difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate[image: @]wikimedia.org
Thanks you and regards,
Julia
*Julia Brungs* Senior Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org