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post Tue 10th November 2009, 10:33pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia seeks to raise $7.5M in 'Wikipedia Forever' campaign[/b]
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that manages Wikipedia, is passing the hat around in its annual fundraising campaign. ...



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post Tue 10th November 2009, 10:47pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia seeks to raise $7.5M in 'Wikipedia Forever' campaign[/b]
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that manages Wikipedia, is passing the hat around in its annual fundraising campaign. ...

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Rand Montoya seems to donate $1.00 a lot. What's up with that?
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 3:19am
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Rand Montoya seems to donate $1.00 a lot[/url]. What's up with that?

He's in charge of fundraising, and also in charge of delegating responsibility of the Fundraising Survey to volunteers who (prior to my aid) didn't know how to field a proper survey, so I suspect he's just field testing his various rotating fundraising notices on various Wikimedia projects.

(He'll probably submit those donation receipts to petty cash for reimbursement.)

Also, Sue Gardner's breakin' out the big bucks... donating at least one-third of one percent of her annual income (not including travel benefits!) back to the Foundation:

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Wikipedia is a treasure! I am happy to support the work of the people who built this amazing repository of information, the biggest the world has ever known. 20:38, 10 November 2009
USD 500.00


"Treasure" or "treasure chest"? Also, it would seem that she's never heard of Google or the Library of Congress (at 20 terabytes, not including manuscripts, photographs, maps, and sound recordings; compare to Wikipedia at 10 to 15 terabytes).

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post Wed 11th November 2009, 3:42am
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Mods, get this thread into the right forum.

It's getting more humorous by the minute.
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 2:59pm
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(Mods, seriously... don't you think maybe this thread should be moved to the general forum, under the subject of "Wikipedia Forever"?)
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 3:57pm
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Whoopsie daisy!






(Mods, seriously... don't you think maybe this thread should be moved to the general forum, under the subject of "Wikipedia Forever"?)

Yes, the campaign seems to be going over a treat. Kudos all around!
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 4:29pm
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It seems that some admin named RockMFR removed the banner, and he's gotten a barnstar for it.

This is CLASSIC Wikimedia Foundation!
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 6:03pm
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Eric seems to be underwhelmed at the thought of donating his hard earned $10.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Specia...57910707#268605

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Whoopsie daisy!

I'm intrigued at the phrasing of:

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but in spite of efforts to test them


Perhaps that was: we couldn't find a PC with IE7 on in the office, so after 2 hours of trampolining, we'd blown the budget and so we didn't bother to look any more.
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 6:10pm
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(Mods, seriously... don't you think maybe this thread should be moved to the general forum, under the subject of "Wikipedia Forever"?)

Yes... Done!

I'd have to say use of the word "forever" is another scare tactic, like Erik Moeller's use of the phrase "300 million." I'll have to admit, though, that I was wrong two years ago when I predicted there would be commercial advertising on WP by now. I still think it'll eventually happen, but they've gotten to be fairly effective at bringing in Big Fish donors lately. They're rotten fish, but still rather large.
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 6:14pm
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Perhaps it is just me, but it seems as if the fundraising banner is always unprofessional, garish and badly designed. I'm surprised anyone bothers donating if it looks like a bunch of schoolkids designed the begging banner.
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 6:25pm
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Perhaps it is just me, but it seems as if the fundraising banner is always unprofessional, garish and badly designed. I'm surprised anyone bothers donating if it looks like a bunch of schoolkids designed the begging banner.


Hell, if there was a Wikipedia Car Wash with Lara and Alison offering to scrub the automobiles, I'd be in line with my checkbook. boing.gif
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They need a much more eye-catching banner, more like this:

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I can see why they don't want to use a graphic, though - everybody uses AdBlock these days, so that would make things too easy for people.
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 8:09pm
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They need a much more eye-catching banner, more like this:

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I can see why they don't want to use a graphic, though - everybody uses AdBlock these days, so that would make things too easy for people.

I finally hit a site today that told me to go away as I wasn't going to read their lovely adverts. yak.gif
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 8:12pm
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I think Moulton needs to write the "Wikipedia Forever" lyrics.

And pick an appropriately inappropriate song to base the tune on, of course ;-)
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 8:46pm
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Wikipedia is indispensable for my historical and autobiographical projects. I use this site daily. 02:08, 11 November 2009 USD 100.00


....at least he gave a hundred bucks....
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 9:05pm
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QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Wed 11th November 2009, 3:46pm) *

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Wikipedia is indispensable for my historical and autobiographical projects. I use this site daily. 02:08, 11 November 2009 USD 100.00


....at least he gave a hundred bucks....


He doesn't have a BLP. I wonder what his autobiographical projects consist of? And how many might there be?
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QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Wed 11th November 2009, 4:05pm) *

QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Wed 11th November 2009, 3:46pm) *

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John Hevelin
Wikipedia is indispensable for my historical and autobiographical projects. I use this site daily. 02:08, 11 November 2009 USD 100.00


… at least he gave a hundred bucks …


He doesn't have a BLP. I wonder what his autobiographical projects consist of? And how many might there be?


Reminds me of that old IQ test question … maybe it was MMPI —
  • What would you do if you were walking along the street and found a stamped, self-addressed envelope lying on the sidewalk?
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 9:42pm
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Can someone explain:

-where this money is going to go according to the people of the foundation (the somewhat more false side)
-where this money is going to go according to thekohser and the other critics (the somewhat more true side)

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Rarely do I see a fundraising effort that attracts so few critical comments.
People either say nothing, or tap out moist and limp little declarations of
their love for the Wales-monster and the end of universities.

So I gave them $1.13.
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post Wed 11th November 2009, 9:50pm
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QUOTE(Text @ Wed 11th November 2009, 4:42pm) *

Can someone explain:
  • where this money is going to go according to the people of the foundation (the somewhat more false side)
  • where this money is going to go according to thekohser and the other critics (the somewhat more true side)
?


It's going to "servers" …

at some of the finest restaurants in San Francisco …

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