[WikiEN-l] Upper right messages

[Florence Devouard]

Incidently, I went through the past few months data from 
http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/node/22

dec 712 000
Jan 120 000
fev 23 000
mars 36 000
april 19 000

Indeed, it will be interesting to see if switching on the banner again 
make a difference or not.

Ant


Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>>  >> Any non-logged-in user now gets a randomly selected message displayed
>>  >> in quite small text in the upper right - "Find out more about
>>  >> navigating Wikipedia" or "Learn how to use Wikipedia for research".
> [snip]
>>  There's *also* a donation-beg notice in the upper left, aligned flush
>>  above the tabs, which vanishes when logged in as well. Hmm.
>>
>>  This one just seems a lot untidier than the begging notice. I wonder
>>  if - once we get a better fundraising flow - it might be best to drop
>>  the begging notice and move this into its place...
> 
> Oh how short our memory is:  Those same notices were there for much of
> 2007 and a top of the page donation notice has been on English
> Wikipedia for several years.
> 
> They got taken down during the fundraiser after Erik requested it on
> 11/13/2007, a request which made a lot of sense to me.
> 
> I pinged some people about restoring the notices in January .. but it
> was thought it would be a good idea to give a couple weeks breathing
> room after the fundraiser... Well, it seems that no one remembered to
> bring the beg notice back.
> 
> Last year outside of fundraisers the monthly 'run rate' donation
> average was something around 50k/month.
> Last month there was only 19.5k donated through the online system.
> I thought this was rather alarming and I went and rung bells about it
> earlier in the week.
> 
> If the decline was due to the lack of the prominent notice on EnWP
> then the foundation would have lost a rather considerable amount due
> to this oversight (add up the difference over a couple of months..!)
> ,... but part of the decline was probably due to general economic
> conditions.   It's hard to say what the impact was because the rate of
> donations has historically been pretty noisy, though I suppose it will
> be more clear in a few weeks.  ... Although the first couple days of
> the notice being restored show >2x the donations vs the week before
> so.. ::shrugs::  then again just about any change in how we're
> requesting donations causes a big short term spike.
> 
> Obviously having the best looking and least obtrusive behavior is
> desirable, but something which generates tens of thousands of dollars
> a month in donations is not something that should be toyed with
> lightly. ;)   (Though feel free to send me $30k/month if you think
> it's an unimportant sum ....  ;) )
> 
> (Beyond just measuring the income, the anon notices can be expected to
> have other important positive results that are harder to measure...
> like increasing public awareness that Wikipedia is run by a charity,
> etc)
> 
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