On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:20:17AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
To reach people who are most likely to be motivated to
vote for us,
which means people who actually write on wikipedia, I recommend some
bold text on the edit screen, just below the "Save page" button,
saying something like "If you have a couple of minutes, we'd really
appreciate your going to vote for Wikipedia at the People's Choice
Webby Awards." And a link there of course to the peoplesvoice page.
Additionally, since everyone who is anyone views Recent Changes, some
similar text there would likely be helpful.
Hey, while we're at it, why don't we send out emails to all registered
users?!
Sorry for being sarcastic, but do you think an 'award' won in this
manner has any merit? I mean, it just reduces to a most-visited-site
contest. Google is one of the nominees under 'best practices', and do
you think they could win less than 95% of the votes if they put a
similar link on their main page?
Arvind
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