[Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

[Brian]

Sorry Geni but you are totally wrong. Each year the Foundation asks for more
money than the year before, and each year the citizens of the world give it.


I challenge you to find 1% as many negative blog posts regarding the
fundraiser as there are positive comments left by donors.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/1/7 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:11 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 2009/1/7 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> >> > A quick update: the "Thank You" banner is currently scheduled to stay
> >> > up until January 9, 4 PM PST. We're keeping it up a while longer in
> >> > part because it's the first work week after the holidays for many
> >> > people, and in part because it's an opportunity for chapters to get
> >> > some more visibility (we may have reached our goals ahead of time, but
> >> > the chapters were operating under the assumption that the fundraiser
> >> > would continue until January 15). As explained in the "Thank You"
> >> > letter, the funds donated to WMF from now until the end of the fiscal
> >> > year will go into our reserve fund and will help us to not live from
> >> > hand to mouth as we head into the new fiscal. We'd always planned to
> >> > raise at least $1.3M in reserve funding throughout the fiscal year.
> >>
> >>
> >> It is also a opportunity to further annoy our readers. IT's pretty
> >> clear they don't like it
> >
> >
> > and you know this because...?
>
> Because I run daily searches of blogs for the term wikipedia. Because
> complaints have turned up all over the place on wikipedia. Because or
> editors who also have to read the thing have gone so far as to have a
> gadget to get rid of it. Because adblock which targets banner ads
> among other things has 10,850,228 dowloads.
>
> Because people come to wikipedia to read articles rather than thankyou
> messages and taking up significant significant screen space with stuff
> readers don't want is not generally considered a way to maximize the
> level of like for your site.
>
>
>
> --
> geni
>
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