This message: Find out how you can help support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth.
should only be displayed when we are having a fundraising drive. Since we received the money for the new database server before such a drive even started, and since we are going to delay distribution of our next press release until we hit 500,000, I see no need to keep this message at this time.
A couple weeks before we distribute the next press release (sometime early next year) the message can be re-enabled in order to give the page cache time to update. Keeping the message up all the time will result in people tuning it out and not paying attention to it when we having a fundraising drive.
But having it gone and then brought back will get people's attention.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
This message: Find out how you can help support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth.
should only be displayed when we are having a fundraising drive. Since we received the money for the new database server before such a drive even started, and since we are going to delay distribution of our next press release until we hit 500,000, I see no need to keep this message at this time.
Fully agree.
Aoineko
Daniel Mayer wrote:
This message: Find out how you can help support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth.
should only be displayed when we are having a fundraising drive. Since we received the money for the new database server before such a drive even started, and since we are going to delay distribution of our next press release until we hit 500,000, I see no need to keep this message at this time.
This sounds like a sensible idea.
Ec
This message: Find out how you can help support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth.
should only be displayed when we are having a fundraising drive. Since we received the money for the new database server before such a drive even started, and since we are going to delay distribution of our next press release until we hit 500,000, I see no need to keep this message at this time.
A couple weeks before we distribute the next press release (sometime early next year) the message can be re-enabled in order to give the page cache time to update. Keeping the message up all the time will result in people tuning it out and not paying attention to it when we having a fundraising drive.
But having it gone and then brought back will get people's attention.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
I think it should stay, but perhaps at the bottom of the page ordiinarily, but moved to the top during fundraising drives.
Fred
Fred Bauder wrote:
I think it should stay, but perhaps at the bottom of the page ordiinarily, but moved to the top during fundraising drives.
I think this, or some variant of it, makes the most sense. If someone wants to donate, we shouldn't make it difficult for them to find, but it probably is better in the long run if we reserve that top slot for times when we really really need to shake the money tree. :-)
--Jimbo
--- Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
This message: Find out how you can help support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth.
should only be displayed when we are having a fundraising drive. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
I think it should stay, but perhaps at the bottom of the page ordiinarily, but moved to the top during fundraising drives. Fred
I agree with Fred. I think it's important for people to realize right away that they can help the project financially. It also answers the question I get when I show the W to aquaintances: "Where's the catch, they can't be doing this for free." Then I usually start talking about Open Source and Free Beer and people-helping-people, and their eyes glaze over.
This way, I say: "here, they are a non-profit, Send a buck."
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This is really not a wikitech-l type of question, is it? I don't personally have a firm opinion about it.
1. On the one hand, we're always having a fundraising drive in a sense. We have enough funds right now, or nearly so, to buy a 4th machine to either be used exclusively as our mail server, or to be used exclusively as our load balancer, or to be used as our 3rd webserver. Even after the new db server is installed, all three of those will be legitimate needs. (We might combine some of those functions at first, of course. But there are good arguments for separating them all as soon as we can afford it.)
2. On the other hand, Mav's argument is (perhaps) that we can maximize revenue by not having the request up there all the time, and I think there's something to that.
--Jimbo
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