[Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

[Philippe Beaudette]

Naoko,

We're actually still figuring out the right way to use the centralnotice for advertising events.  We're concerned about not overwhelming particular events, but also with making sure that the word gets out - it's a bit of a balancing act. 

Once we've figured out the best way to go about doing that (and we'd appreciate any suggestions), we'll start putting a process into place.

Centralnotice is like a cannon... we don't want to direct a notice at millions of people, if the party isn't ready for the potential end result.

pb

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On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:11 PM, KIZU Naoko wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette
> <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> A quick announcement: we are temporarily turning off the fundraising banners for most logged in users.  This will continue most likely through the end of the year.  We did some quick checking and realized that most people who are logged in and intend to give have already given.  The banners will stay off for a while, and we'll most likely not turn them on until after the first of the year for a final wrap-up push.
> 
> So will they come back after New Year's Day?
>> 
>> For those of you in chapter areas, as always, the chapters control messaging in their territories - this should only impact users who are in the areas where the fundraiser messaging is controlled by the Foundation.
> 
> That said, although we at WiKansai are no chapter, we are organizing a
> WikiX event coming very soon - being held on January 22, and aiming to
> publicize it using CentralNotice. I don't know what comes when two
> kinds of banners are put through CN,
> but anyway arrangement would be necessary, although my latest mail
> asking for such arrangement with Foundation hasn't been replied yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>> 
>> Enjoy the respite :)
>> 
>> Philippe
>> 
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>> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>> 
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>> 
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