Besides what readers think when they're fully informed, I'm also concerned about the legal issues surrounding the fundraising. IANAL, but I have a feeling that consumer protection attorneys may take an interest if they feel that there is a meaningful disconnect between what messages FR conveys and (1) how the funds are actually spent and/or (2) the overall financial health of WMF. Let's avoid inflicting legal costs and PR damage on ourselves, please. (:
Pine On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Lisa Gruwell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So, we have drilled down on this more in our research to better > > understand what our readers think on this topic. We should have more to > > share on that in a week or two. > > > > > What readers think about this topic will very much depend on what > information they have been given. > > You need to find out what readers think who know > > 1. the cost of Internet hosting relative to the total budget (about 3 > percent); > 2. that you took five times as much money last year as you took five years > ago; > 3. how much money the Foundation has in cash and investments; > 4. that the number of paid staff has increased more than twentyfold since > 2007; > 5. how the vastly increased spending is affecting reader experience. > > Do you know what readers who know all of this think about the banners? Have > there been focus groups with donors who were given all of this information? > > This is necessary to make sure that when (not if) readers do find all of > this information out, there won't be a storm of protest from people who > feel they were misled as to the Foundation's financial situation. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
