[Foundation-l] fundraising proposal #1

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> ...
> What I think we should do is have a fundraiser twice a year, with a  
> dynamically updated progress bar (we can get this developed now by putting  
> a bounty on it), a list of recent donors and a list of top donors. During  
> the time of the fundraising (a week or so every year), this progress bar  
> would occupy the top 10-20% of screen space on all Wikimedia projects. It  
> should be possible to directly make a donation from any Wikimedia page  
> during the fundraising - just a single click. We would specify the goal  
> beforehand and link to the detailed budget.

This is all a great idea, but I would have such a fund drive every quarter
since projecting our budgetary needs out half a year involves a bit of hand
waving since our growth is neither linear nor that predictable. 

> We have more traffic than Slashdot. I think reaching our goals will not be  
> as difficult as some people appear to think. It's just a matter of  
> exposure.

Actually we are *way* ahead of Slashdot and now even occasionally pass up
FoxNews.com on a daily basis (CNN.com is still out of reach). Not to mention
the fact that we have left NPR.org, Reuters.com, AP.org, MSNBC.com, Salon.com,
WSJ.com and other multi-million dollar media outlets who have a very important
web presense in the dust. 

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_is_more_popular_than...#News_and_Media_sites

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)


	
		
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