[WikiEN-l] fundraising

[Bryan Derksen]

Oldak Quill wrote:
> On 23/10/2007, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> So, bottom line, we need money to operate the websites and to do more as
>> well. Those of you who were already wikipedians 3 years ago (or worse
>> :-)) will remember a time where the site was slow and sometimes dead.
>> Hopefully, though we grew enormously, your editing experience is now
>> good 99% of the time. This does not come from nowhere. There are people
>> working to make sure that we provide you the best editing and reading
>> environment.
> 
> Most of the people objecting to the banner are not objecting to a
> banner in principle (and certainly not objecting to fundraising). The
> issue is with the way it looks and was carried out. You seem to be
> presenting this issue as binary: scrolling advert or the death of
> Wikimedia.

Indeed, I think the form the banner was in originally was a major
problem because it would _reduce_ fundraising. It gave no obvious clues
as to its purpose, looking like just another generic to-be-ignored
advertisement. That's not going to get many click-throughs.

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