[Foundation-l] Site Notices Phase 2 - Annual Fundraiser 2008

[Ziko van Dijk]

Quotes should be in the "local" language, indeed. Germans would find it
strange to see suddenly quotes in a foreign language and believe that a
technical fault has happend.

What about portret photos next to a quote? A general message like "Join us
supporting" followed by a person. We show surprisingly few face(s), there
are no eyes that look to the would-be-donator.

Such as:
* "Help Brion Vibber keep Wikipedia running" (followed by his pic, and later
with an explanation what he is doing)
* "Make Dr. Winiger's edits accessible to everyone" (followed by a pic of
this Zedler winner of 2007 ...)
* "Alice Weigand wants a fast and working Wikipedia when teaching seniors to
edit"
* "Let Erdal not build up Kurdish Wikipedia alone"

Ziko


2008/11/26 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>

> Casey Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Rand Montoya <rmontoya at wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Quotes site notice will have 6 different quotes (all translated, we
> hope) rotated in.
> >>>
> >> I don't know - I think it would be interesting, at least on the English
> >> Wikipedia, to see some quotes in other languages. It would reinforce to
> the
> >> people who see quotes in Chinese or Russian that Wikimedia is an
> >> international project with broadly global goals.
> >>
> >
> > Normally I would agree with you.  Last year, I was *all* for putting
> > as many language quotes on the sitenotices as possible.  However, if
> > we are only going to have 6 quotes and they are going to be show-cased
> > in such a large way (as opposed to a little line below the "people
> > mover"), we should probably have them in the local language.
> >
> Well, given that we're doing comparison testing on other details, it
> seems like we could also use that to settle whether Nathan's or Casey's
> interpretation is more in line with how donors respond. The only hangup
> might be that there's quite a few questions we'd like to test, they're
> best done in isolation from each other, and we only have so much time to
> run them.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
>
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Ziko van Dijk
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