On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Adam Wight awight@wikimedia.org wrote:
Another misconception or oversight I want to bring up is that Fundraising is the team pioneering the 2/3-page or full-page banners. We're driving readers from the website to completely closed and somewhat evil payments platforms. If there's any relevant or even irrelevant research about interstitials, please apply it to our work, cos we're about to have a huge impact on the English-speaking community in December. Any complaints about the Finnish mobile experiment and dogpiling on the awesome apps developers seem incredibly misplaced while I'm walking around with this "Kick Me" sign on my backside.
I'm couldn't fully grok what point this was making, but whether it's this mobile experiment or fundraising doing 2/3 or full-page banners, they're terrible. This has been a major complaint by numerous people over the past few years. Please tell me you're not considering interstitials, 2/3 page, or full page banners for fundraising? This may be the year I actually start boycotting the Wikimedia fundraiser, if so.
- Ryan