[Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

[Thomas Dalton]

On 29 July 2010 22:43, 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. Central notice even more so. For less
> important stuff where you want to contact the community there is
> [[MediaWiki:Watchlist-details]] which would have the additional
> advantage of not putting English ads on the Italian (substitute almost
> every non english wikipedia of your choice) wikipedia. The size is
> also problematical. On my screen it takes up about twice the space of
> the average image thumbnail something people who come to wikipedia
> actualy want to see.

The advert says that one of the types of people they are looking for is:

"People belonging to language communities of new and growing
Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects"

If the advert was only on the English Wikipedia, they couldn't achieve
that. Anyone working for the Foundation needs to be able to speak
English, for practical reasons, so it makes sense not to waste time
translating the notice.

All of that said, I have already emailed internal-l with my own
criticisms of the advert, mainly the lack of any detail about what
jobs they are actually hiring for (apparently they haven't defined
that yet and are waiting to see who applies, but I don't know why they
didn't explain that in the advert - I'm also not convinced it will
work for anything other than entry-level positions).