Comments on: Wikimedia’s fundraiser – which banners click?

By: Rand

Rand — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:13:53 +0000

Hi. I’m sorry to hear that your donation was returned.

Please make the check payable to ‘Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.’

Our mailing address (for checks):

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 919227
Orlando, FL 32891-9227
USA

-Rand

By: Hope Notice

Hope Notice — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:36:11 +0000

My donation came back. What is your address? I used 204 37th ave #330
St. Petersburg fl, 33704-1416

By: Art Unbound

Art Unbound — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:40:22 +0000

Sorry, my response didn’t show up.

My original response was:

What these data say is: Make a text “Wikipedia makes life easier – now help us make life easier for you”.

Meaning: a simple donation request will not help enough, a reciprocal request looks the most fruitful.

By: Art Unbound

Art Unbound — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:36:59 +0000

What these data say is: Make a text “Wikipedia makes life easier – now help us make life easier for you”.

Meaning: a simple donation request will not help enough, a reciprocal request looks the most fruitful.

[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Art_Unbound Art Unbound]

By: yukichi

yukichi — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:15:10 +0000

Rand: OK. I’m looking forward to next statistics.

By: Bence amokos

Bence amokos — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:22:56 +0000

Did the “Support Wikipedia” banners and the remixed puzzle logos have any measurable impact? Do you have any data on that? Thanks.

By: Rand

Rand — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:41:17 +0000

Anya: We are going to do a short term test of switching which banners have thermometers and see if the %donation rate also switches. It should, right?

Anthony: Agreed. We are going to work on getting the thermometer itself to be a link towards a more info page. I think the “donate now” button should take all to the donation page, but other clicks should be to a place where donors can see and read more.

lucasbfr: I thought they were bugged too, but our tech team assures me that is not the case. After we test Anya’s point above, we’ll have interesting information to go on. We did remove Edu1 from rotation…but it will be back for a short run with a thermometer so we can see how it does and what impact the thermometer has.

Yukichi: We don’t and won’t have good language statistics this year. We hope to have better tracking next year. Such is life.

Thanks for the comments.

-Rand

By: yukichi

yukichi — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:35 +0000

Do you have a statistics for other language versions? I think it varies on each language.

By: lucasbfr

lucasbfr — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:40:51 +0000

I thought the templates without the meter were bugged :D

Note that Edu1 obviously is much worse than the others. Don’t you consider removing it from the rotation?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:12:03 +0000

“People love to click on the links with the thermometer…but less than 10% donated after clicking-though.”

We clicked on the thermometer thinking it would lead to a page where we could get more information.