It has been my experience that site banners are the best way to reach
casual readers who are not already integrated into the projects and
existing communication channels. This is why the Fundraising team run
banners, rather than begging for money through Facebook and targeted talk
page messages, I would imagine. The communications channels you're
referring to are excellent for reaching existing contributors, but when
you're trying to reach new or casual contributors, a big banner at the top
of articles can't be beat.
Cheers,
Craig
On 19 August 2015 at 05:18, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Romaine Wiki
<romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Antanana,
And I forgot to mention, this same issue existed in 2014 as well, with
also
there the downside effects.
This subject is of banners has been discussed internally with the local
Wiki Loves Monuments team, after I tried to gave some insights in the
matter. I think this is done so because me and others have always thought
and assumed that it is possible to find a solution with understanding of
both sides. With these outcomes I think I can safely say that that
assumption and thought can't be considered realistic.
I think it would be better in future to have the community decide somehow
how they perceive this matter. After all, they create the content of
Wikipedia and bear the bunt as result of it.
Romaine
It seems like there are other communication channels you could take
advantage of - other types of banners, bot-distributed talk page messages,
WMF-assisted mass e-mail campaigns, social networking messages (FB,
Twitter, etc.) and so on. Is it really true that having to share banners
with fundraising will result in an unavoidable loss of 90% of contributors?
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