On 10/22/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/22/07, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Kindly point to where on EN that any design discussion was
advertised? Or
for that matter, point to the forum where the design of the banner was publically discussed at all?
Who said the discussion was advertised on en? I didn't even say that any of us could have participated in the discussion, but they could have provided comments or opinions to those who /did/ organize it.
EN is still more than 50% of all Wikipedia traffic (according to Alexa) and
I bet most regular contributors were unaware a fundraiser was coming let alone that there was a design discussion (assumming there was a discussion).
Valid point, but what does that have to do with this? (There was not a public discussion, at least not that I was aware of.) All comments can go to: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2007 but please try not to repeat the same concerns as other people (i.e. don't all of you post that the notice is ugly). For those interested in the Wikimedia Foundation and its fundraisers (not just the English Wikipedia), the fundraiser was a public date that was announced a while ago. If you wish to be kept up to date on Foundation matters, sign up for Foundation-l http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l.
Well, now there is a public discussion on EN with more than a few people advocating blocking this message out entirely and creating a more reasonable one for EN.
-Robert Rohde