[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Dan Rosenthal]

Interesting poll, though on advertising the question is completely  
loaded (to the point of being unusable IMHO).

Helping African kids
Improving site speed
improving content
all of the above, YES
No, none of these things are worth it.

Look at the question. It's clearly guiding users towards one of the  
first 4 answers, with the "YES" qualifier to all of the above. And  
also, it's discouraging to have an answer saying "No, african kids  
aren't worth it", implying one should feel guilt for selecting that  
answer.

I love the idea for facebook polls,  but I think the questions need to  
be a little better written before they can be useful to us.

-Dan
On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

>
> I was just reviewing this thread and it motivated me to hurry up and
> finish a presentation that I plan to make at the upcoming board  
> meeting.
>
> I was curious to know whether Facebook users understand that Wikipedia
> is a charity, and what they think about putting advertising in
> Wikipedia.  So I ran a couple of polls on Facebook (this doesn't cost
> much, so I thought I would wing it)...
>
> The results are interesting but very preliminary, and probably point  
> the
> way towards a need to do more research than anything else.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook_polls_for_Wikimedia.pdf
>
>
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