Talk:Fundraising 2010/Graphic Banners/Proposals

Please help me

I do not have any way to give money so I created a banner for the Wikimedia Foundation fundraising campaign. I upload it to Wikimedia Commons but Philippe (WMF) deleted it. I asked him why he deleted it but he has not to me replied.

I asked for help at the Help Desk but people said that some people might think it is about sex because of some song. There is nothing about sex in my banner. Only crazy people could think it is about sex. Please see it here: [1]

After I asked for help I was insulted and then blocked because my ISP uses a proxy. I only want to help with the fundraising. I have two other banners which no one has complained about. Please let me upload my first banner. Thank you. Ben Carcu 18:24, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ben Carcu, thank you for getting involved and submitting banners, however I saw your first banner, and also found it inappropriate. May I suggest using your graphic design skills in a constructive way? --Deniz (WMF) 18:42, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Please tell me what is inappropriate? My teacher has praised this work. Ben Carcu 20:01, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Ben, even though you didn't think of anything inappropriate when you made it doesn't mean that others won't think that when they see it. Other people view thigs differently than you do, that's just the way it is. Now, please get over it and focus on something productive instead. Jon Harald Søby 20:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

I would like to improve one of the banner proposals I have been allowed to upload but I can not because I have been blocked on Wikimedia Commons. Not because of my banner but because my ISP uses a proxy. I have no way to upload a new banner. Can you help me to get unblock? Did you look at my banner proposal? Did you think it was innappropriate? If so, please tell me why. Thank you.

We were already editing this fundraising, in case you didn't notice

Maybe it is written somewhere but I can't find it: can you tell me why dozens of people like me spent their time on this while now it's all about graphic messages? Thanks. --Elitre 21:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Just to clarify a bit: I read that testing proved graphics banner work better (as if one needed tests to know it) but what I mean is, what was the point of proposing, choosing, testing if after a month or more we must start all over again? I think I didn't see many of the most voted messages here, and maybe it's just because their authors are not graphically skilled. (By the way, my 2c are that these banners are huge; at least make sure a progress bar is always there.) --Elitre 21:44, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Elitre - we completed a lot of testing, running nearly 200 community submitted messages. Our testing showed us nothing compared to graphic banners, and even graphic banners couldn't beat "personal appeals." Without testing, we would't definitively be able to say that this is the case - none of the time spent proposing messages has been wasted. We're using some of them on Twitter and Facebook, and of course we've never ruled out using them on banners, especially to give appeals a break if they need it at some point. We are currently working on a progress meter to roll out soon for the banners, thanks for your feedback! -- Deniz (WMF) 22:32, 6 December 2010 (UTC)