Quotes should be in the "local" language, indeed. Germans would find it strange to see suddenly quotes in a foreign language and believe that a technical fault has happend.
What about portret photos next to a quote? A general message like "Join us supporting" followed by a person. We show surprisingly few face(s), there are no eyes that look to the would-be-donator. Such as: * "Help Brion Vibber keep Wikipedia running" (followed by his pic, and later with an explanation what he is doing) * "Make Dr. Winiger's edits accessible to everyone" (followed by a pic of this Zedler winner of 2007 ...) * "Alice Weigand wants a fast and working Wikipedia when teaching seniors to edit" * "Let Erdal not build up Kurdish Wikipedia alone" Ziko 2008/11/26 Michael Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Casey Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Rand Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > >> > >>> The Quotes site notice will have 6 different quotes (all translated, we > hope) rotated in. > >>> > >> I don't know - I think it would be interesting, at least on the English > >> Wikipedia, to see some quotes in other languages. It would reinforce to > the > >> people who see quotes in Chinese or Russian that Wikimedia is an > >> international project with broadly global goals. > >> > > > > Normally I would agree with you. Last year, I was *all* for putting > > as many language quotes on the sitenotices as possible. However, if > > we are only going to have 6 quotes and they are going to be show-cased > > in such a large way (as opposed to a little line below the "people > > mover"), we should probably have them in the local language. > > > Well, given that we're doing comparison testing on other details, it > seems like we could also use that to settle whether Nathan's or Casey's > interpretation is more in line with how donors respond. The only hangup > might be that there's quite a few questions we'd like to test, they're > best done in isolation from each other, and we only have so much time to > run them. > > --Michael Snow > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
