Hi John, thank you for the feedback. The banners you see are continually changing, as we refine our designs based on feedback and efficacy. Donation banners are inherently disruptive, on any site. We try to minimize the annoyance whilst also maximizing the effectiveness in order to show as few banners as possible. It's a difficult balance, and feedback like yours, and the emails and comments we get from readers, help us out over time.
If you don’t want to see fundraising banners, there are a few options: You can login to Wikipedia, or click the "close" button in a banner, or visit our donor thank you page.[1] If you're browsing in a private-window, this means the browser cannot remember (save in a cookie) that you clicked "close" or saw the banner already, hence you might be seeing more banners than most readers would. Thanks again, Nick [1] https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thank_You On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:56 AM John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > Often I surf Wikipedia without being logged in, and so I did right now. I > got the usual banners, but this time they popped up repeatedly in several > locations. This quickly gets extremely annoying, and I find it unwise. > Create one banner, and stick with that. Several banners are simply way over > the top. > > /jeblad > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
