[Foundation-l] Fundraising banner ad

[GerardM]

Hoi,
In a previous post it was mentioned that the English language Wikipedia has
to do something about its attitude. Threatening forks is one of those silly
things where you take yourself way to seriously.

When it comes to being involved in preparing for the fundraiser, it was
announced some two months ago and the amount of feedback gives you exactly
the right reasons for blame, apathy and the notion that there is always time
enough to bitch.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 10/23/07, Matthew Britton <matthew.britton at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for waking me up this morning with a honking great
> flashy scrolling monstrosity at the top of every page. The
> marquee tag was a nice flashback to 1997.
>
> And how much opportunity for feedback were users given on
> this? Not an awful lot. The SVN commit logs show that the
> marquee thingy was committed just minutes before appearing
> project-wide, for example. I still almost managed to file a
> bugzilla request before it showed up.
>
> Now, the way I see things, the Wikimedia Foundation has two
> options:
>
> (1) Actually ask for feedback from the community before
> making such dramatically visible, or at least allow more
> than a few minutes for feedback to present itself.
> (2) Make an official announcement that the opinion of the
> community does not matter, rather than pretending that it
> does.
>
> The choice is yours. (1) would of course be preferable, but
> (2) would make an excellent argument for a fork, so feel
> free to go ahead and do it.
>
> -Gurch
>
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