On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:27 -0500, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
[[Please distribute widely to various language communities, projects, and chapters]]
I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often.
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But the most important part of what we - all of us - are going to need to do is what this community has always been good at: thinking, researching, and iterating.
I, likely, would not have the spare time to put my name down there; however, I'll see what I can do to help.
There is just one very, very important point to learn from the prior two overly-Wikipedia-centric fundraisers...
By plastering "Wikipedia Forever" all over sister projects, the WMF deeply offends hard-working contributors.
This was done two years running. In both instances I complained. In the fall-out surrounding criticising the WMF about this last year, I gave up my position on the Communications Committee. Is there anyone left in that <s>shadowy Cabal</s> who really represents sister projects? Will they speak up about that this time round?
Personally, I think the craftiest 'theme' for a fundraiser would be a coin-slot in project logos where that is possible. Then, instead of being directed to the project main page by clicking the logo, you get to a page that says, "A $x donation works out at 0.xxx cents per word for the article you were just reading. Help keep access free, <project-specific-slogan>".