[Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

[Erik Moeller]

2011/1/2 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> I'm familiar with the concept of trying to get people to donate
> immediately because they probably won't get around to donating at all
> otherwise. That isn't an excuse for lying, though. All the messages
> with the word "urgent" in were misleading. You received plenty of
> money to keep the sites up and running within the first few weeks of
> the fundraiser. There never was any urgency. You were telling people
> that if they didn't donate Wikipedia would go offline and that wasn't
> true. That is a lie.

We'll have to agree to disagree that having a banner that includes the
text "urgent" is misleading.

Where were we "telling people that if they didn't donate Wikipedia
would go offline"? Can you cite the specific language (banner or
landing page) that you're objecting to? Or is this just you again
objecting to the word "urgent"?

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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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