[Wikimedia-l] Use of YouTube videos in fundraising banners

[Tomasz W. Kozlowski]

Oliver Keyes wrote:
> I would disagree that the scale does not match. I'm not sure how many 
> people the fundraising banners reach, but I imagine it's a subset of 
> "people who use wikipedia". Almost /all/ of our external links are going 
> to be linking to somewhere with a non-compliant privacy policy.

I'm not sure about fundraising banners, but I know for a fact that the 
Wiki Loves Monuments campaign last September, which used fairly 
unintrisive banners as compared to the fundraising ones and was only 
visible in 35 countries (including some big countries, but not all of 
them) received around 200,000 pageviews /every single day/, and this 
number does not reflect on all countries since some of them used Google 
Analytics which I don't have any statistics about.

Fundraising banners, which are much more intrusive and are visible on a 
higher percentage of page loads certainly have a wider reach than that, 
and directing people to a page that infringes their privacy (even if 
just a small percentage of them actually click on the video play button) 
still is just evil, especially as there ways to avoid that.

I agree that most of our external links probably link to pages with 
non-compliant privacy policies, but (1) they are not visible on top of 
your browser window and (2) this isn't anything that the WMF can control 
anyway.

           Tomasz