[Foundation-l] funraising thru celebrity endorsements?

[John Vandenberg]

Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would
also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is
gearing up to run ads on content pages.

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or
> article category and/or language edition would open up a whole new level of
> fundraising potential. That would allow you to get local celebrities (who
> are otherwise not especially popular/known outside their
> city/state/country/language) to provide endorsements that are quite
> targeted. For example in countries where there is a very popular sport with
> a local team (NFL in America, premier league in UK) you could fundraising
> banners on a per-city basis with local sports stars encouraging people to
> support Wikimedia. I suspect that this is something where the Chapters would
> be particularly useful in contacting and negotiating with the relevant
> people.
>
> More fine-grained control over articlespace banners (with good policy about
> how/who/when these should be used) would also make it much easier to run
> real-world events and enable us to contact Wikip/media readers in a targeted
> way (not just with geonotices served to the Watchlist, which by definition
> only is able to contact existing editors).
>
> However, I suspect that this goes in the "ideas for next year" basket.
> -Liam
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
> On 23 November 2010 22:16, Fajro <faigos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How about NBA players?
>>
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