[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface

[John Vandenberg]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 03:07 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>> There's a whole site full of possible inspirations:
>
> And yet:
>
> "Our donor services team haven't seen any negative emails about this
> banner.  Moreover adding the floating tab results in an increase in
> donations of roughly 15%, one of the biggest improvements we have found
> so far this year."  So clearly, while it annoys some people and inspires
> tumblrs, the practice is clearly beneficial and not universally reviled.
>
> Mind you, you are comparing apples (a small floaty reminder that /can/
> overlap with part of the sidebar when scrolling) with oranges (a modal
> dialog that hides contents).

The techs might want to reply to these:

https://twitter.com/MikeASchneider/status/409359331377684480

https://twitter.com/nyatagarasu/status/405134111796240384

On the flipside, maybe this will help:

https://twitter.com/listrophy/status/380864414145970176

This looks like a complaint, but it is hard to tell

https://twitter.com/ItsMalachi/status/408067770048192514

And a request for bitcoins

https://twitter.com/DrWeidinger/status/407656789274947584

-- 
John Vandenberg