May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted, someone please add a highly visible link at the TOP of the main page, at least on the english wikipedia, for say 2 or 3 days, so that perhaps some visitors feel like making a small donation ?
The events are very demanding on servers, last week, we were all slowed down a lot for 2 days, so visitors might understand the need for more hardware.
Besides, given the number of discussions last week on slashdot, about donation issues, that is perhaps best to show clearly where donations could be made :-)
So, slashdot events would be beneficial both in terms of contributors and in terms of revenue ?
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I agree with Ant - we have spent lots of time making Wikipedia look so slick, we've lost our boldness for conversing with visitors. There was a time when we were more willing to put solicitations and "You can edit this page now" messages on the site.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:47:30 -0700 (PDT), Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted, someone please add a highly visible link at the TOP of the main page, at least on the english wikipedia, for say 2 or 3 days, so that perhaps some visitors feel like making a small donation ?
The events are very demanding on servers, last week, we were all slowed down a lot for 2 days, so visitors might understand the need for more hardware.
Besides, given the number of discussions last week on slashdot, about donation issues, that is perhaps best to show clearly where donations could be made :-)
So, slashdot events would be beneficial both in terms of contributors and in terms of revenue ?
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Anthere wrote:
May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted, someone please add a highly visible link at the TOP of the main page, at least on the english wikipedia, for say 2 or 3 days, so that perhaps some visitors feel like making a small donation ?
Thank you to the person who added the fundraising link at the top of the main page :-)
I would be happy to know the figures afterwards. I am sure it would have been a good move to do so just a few days ago :-( but well...
Mav, could you give us a feedback on this ?
Ant
It should be easy to get good feedback since I emptied the paypal account (in preparation of buying some new servers) just a little while before the story appeared.
--Jimbo
--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Anthere wrote:
May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted, someone please add a highly visible link at the TOP of the main page, at least on the english wikipedia, for say 2 or 3 days, so that perhaps some visitors feel like making a small donation ?
Thank you to the person who added the fundraising link at the top of the main page :-)
I would be happy to know the figures afterwards. I am sure it would have been a good move to do so just a few days ago :-( but well...
Mav, could you give us a feedback on this ?
Jimbo moved all the PayPal money to the SunTrust account about the same time that the message was put up. So whatever amont is in the PayPal field at http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising can be considered part of this fund drive.
I still do not have the ability to check the MoneyBookers numbers but will update the PayPal ones every few hours while I'm awake.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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