[Foundation-l] Priorities

[Anthony]

On 10/23/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
>   Of course it's going to dominate interviews
> > and presentations and news and discussions.  These are things the
> > foundation couldn't control even if it wanted to.  And surely the
> > English language Wikipedia generates the most revenue.
>
> Well, a statistician would probably consider that it would be hard to
> drive honest conclusions on this, given that there is a huge bias.
>
> Examples
> * the fundraising sitenotice is only on the english wikipedia. Not in
> any other languages, that does not help to get revenue through another
> language indeed or another project indeed...
> * our fundraising is largely meant for an english-speaking audience, not
> for any other one. The press release is exclusively in english (so it
> will not be sent to any other media than english ones). The video of
> Jimmy is in english. The general strategy fits well with a process to be
> used in the USA, far less in other countries
> * the tax deduction is only available in the USA. Not anywhere else.
> * the central figure of our fundraising is Jimmy, an american person.
>
> Now, imagine that we would do just the same, but all in chinese. We
> would display a fundraising link only on the chinese wikipedia. With
> chinese-based text press release, chinese caracters on the donation
> page, deductibility in HongKong, Taipei and Mainland China etc...
> I expect most funds would actually be generated thanks to the chinese
> wikipedia :-)
>
Sounds good.  I'd certainly appreciate getting rid of the fundraising
link from the english wikipedia, anyway.