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# '''Reuse'''. Multiple pages with exactly the same thousand characters (save for a few small changes) should be avoided (e.g. [[Support Wikipedia/en]] & [[Support Wikipedia2/en]]) |
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#: An extension of this is stuff like [[Donate/Benefactors/en]] and [[Benefactors]]. |
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# Making the page look like a wiki is b.a.d. |
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#:People are more likely to try to leave feedback on talk pages, get accounts to translate, etc. We didn't have these issues in the past. |
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Revision as of 21:36, 13 November 2009
Remember for next year
- Don't rush. Start putting things together earlier. If a deadline is nastily approaching, change it.
- Do things properly with thought-out rationales — don't just redirect last year's page to the new page, move all of the pages at once (either with a bot or script) so we can keep them around. You never know when we'll need them again, either for translations, code, or just to see what last year was like.
- Communication amongst the team members could be better. A public fundraising channel on IRC is the best solution (we had something like this in 2008)... private things can be moved to IM or PM.
- Use a testing platform/site (dev.donate.wikimedia.org) that's actually like the final destination... create draft notices *in* CentralNotice, so we don't have to re-invent things.
- Numbers in the translation request are helpful.
- Quadruple^nth check that you have all the strings included in the translation request.
- If we're going to have a link within a string, make sure that that's noted in the translation request.
- Have working drafts available. Screenshots are better than nothing, but a working demo is <3.
- Community feedback was weird this year: the beginning (donation buttons, etc.) was full of it and then the final result (WIKIPEDIA FOREVER) was just handed to the community without much say in the matter.
- Be more diligent in responding to translator questions.
- Staggered launches worked great.
- Create a separate notice template with all the shared pieces that are specific to this fundraiser. (all donate-url's, all Support Wikipedia's, etc.)
- Communal To do list worked well.
- Cross-browser checking *while developing*.
- Don't go half-way on the Wikipedia vs. Sister projects issue, it just leads to confusion.
- Don't piss of the chapters.
- Reuse. Multiple pages with exactly the same thousand characters (save for a few small changes) should be avoided (e.g. Support Wikipedia/en & Support Wikipedia2/en)
- An extension of this is stuff like Donate/Benefactors/en and Benefactors.
- Making the page look like a wiki is b.a.d.
- Ugly page title.
- People are more likely to try to leave feedback on talk pages, get accounts to translate, etc. We didn't have these issues in the past.
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