Up to now, I kinda liked the fundraiser. Although they are very shouty for what I'm used to (I dislike the red button for instance and the somewhat agressive tone), I think this last change in message could use a *little* step back. Please use a slightly smaller font, an slightly less shouty text. To me it really reads like " wow, now we're really desperate, PLEASE COME READ THIS ** APPEAL". I would really appreciate it if this last banner would be done a little less in a way that comes to me (justified or not) as "typical American"...
As said, a slightly smaller font, and a grey color could do miracles here. Lodewijk 2008/12/23 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Some pretty nice comments mixed in there. ;-) They also do a good job > > explaining why we need money. > > > > [Jay: interesting to look at, might be nice to use some like their > > comments in the future] > > Some of it is just hopeless. > > "Why can't they be self sufficient?" is the sort of question that > reflects a simple lack of consideration on the part of the asker. Had > they considered that question more carefully they would likely have > answered it themselves. > > I.e. that asking for money *is* a form of self-sufficiency no less > than any other method other than "spending no money at all" (which has > obvious problems). So then the question is why ask rather than run ads > or let company X pay for the ability to control the content, etc... > and many counter arguments to these sorts of alternatives are obvious > even to people who know nothing of our internals. > > Although my own experience is that many Americans are a bit baffled > that we don't run ads. They've often not even heard the multitude of > arguments against pervasive/invasive advertising. I don't believe > it's Wikimedia's place to argue against advertising, but there might > be an opportunity for some of our community members to work with > anti-consumerist groups like Adbusters to make a public argument as to > why our current lack of advertisements is laudable from their > perspective. > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Dan Collins <en.wp.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Wait. Is donating supposed to make the banner go away? > > Because it didn't....... > > Why would it? You can collapse it even without donating. > > (Or log in and make it vanish entirely with the gadget— the reason for > it to not vanish entirely on collapse is that a lot of people will > collapse then decide they want to donate later…) > > Though I suppose that might not be a bad feature, but on the other > hand… we're not trying to hold people for ransom. You shouldn't have > to pay to dispel the notice, requiring that wouldn't reflect > Wikimedia's or our communities values well. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
