[WikiEN-l] Donation banner and strongly negative reactions

[Ian Woollard]

I personally don't like the current banner; the old one was probably
the right level.

I just think that the wikipedia needs to get itself to the point where
the interest on the money it has is enough to run the servers forever,
and any excess per year can be given to charity.

Right now, of course the traffic is climbing, but probably you could
estimate what the maximum traffic it could get would be if everyone
used it. Also the cost per click presumably is going down over time,
so you would have to allow for that as well.

Anyway all that may well mean that they need to put the old banner
back and leave it there for a few years; the current one is too
intrusive. IMO
-- 
-Ian Woollard

We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be much better.