[Foundation-l] Fundraising and change to the wikipedia traffic rating

- Essjay - essjaywiki at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 12:58:18 UTC 2006


But if we're going to discuss something for all projects, shouldn't we do it
here or on Meta, rather than on en.wikipedia? I took the original email to
be suggesting a change for all projects.

Essjay

On 2/8/06, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> There is already discussion about this type of thing at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Anonnotice
>
> Please continue there.
>
> --- db <djbaniel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > About fundraising:
> >
> > It is already pretty clear (see
> > http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/ongoing/index.php/2006-02/)
> > that Jimmy's personal appeal is more effective at
> > generating funds than the wikimedia fundraising page
> > (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising). If
> > we are going to continue with a fundraising link on
> > every wikipedia page, shouldn't we change the link
> > back to Jimmy's personal appeal until we find
> > something else that is even more effective?
> >
> > About wikipedia traffic rating:
> > Wikipedia is now one of the 25 (NOT 35) most visited
> > websites in the world:
> >
>
> http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top
> >
> > Can we update this information on the wikimedia
> > foundation homepage?
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
> >
> > -d
> >
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