[Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice
Ryan Kaldari
rkaldari at wikimedia.org
Mon Aug 2 17:37:07 UTC 2010
Apparently long-time Wikimedia contributors are also far more sensitive
to Foundation imposition of /less/ visual clutter as well, judging by
the reaction to the Vector rollout. Perhaps we could just say that
long-term Wikimedia contributors are just more sensitive ;)
Ryan Kaldari
On 8/2/10 5:11 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Bod Notbod<bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM, geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Job adverts? Really?. Site notice is for critical stuff (fund raising,
>>> servers about to explode) even if you play with the notice to only
>>> appear ~%10 of the time.
>>>
>> Personally I was quite pleased to see it.
>>
>> It can only add to the number of applicants, which I think is a good thing.
>>
> Everybody has known for a long time that long-term Wikimedia
> contributors are far more sensitive to Foundation imposition of visual
> clutter than the average person.
>
> We can only hope that some day we all become just as sensitised to the
> clutter we put on the site ourselves ;-).
>
>
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