[Foundation-l] Quick thoughts on fundraising

[Delirium]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
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>>I can't make any claims to be a representative user, but I personally 
>>find these sorts of things *really* annoying.  When I'm trying to read 
>>an encyclopedia article, I don't want a "give us money!" link at the 
>>top, especially one with exclamation marks in it!  If it were some sort 
>>of big bar thing, that'd be so much the worse, especially since it 
>>doesn't go away when I actually *do* give money.  Letting me hide them 
>>would be nice.
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>Slashdot allows subscribers to turn off advertisements. Perhaps we could do the same thing except for donation notices?
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I'd rather it let me turn them off regardless of subscription 
status---if I subscribe it will be a voluntary donation to help 
Wikimedia because I feel it deserves my money.  Trying to annoy me into 
giving money is irritating, because I'm *already* donating my time to 
help create this encyclopedia.  If I want to donate money as well, or 
don't want to, that's my business, but it's certainly not money 
Wikimedia "deserves", given that they're not paying me for my content.

-Mark