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First the extremely good news:
After roughly 11 months of persistent lobbying (nagging) towards my Fandom bosses, we have been allowed to place an image link to a reliable charity of our choice at the bottom of our wiki's front page.
This is an extremely important issue for me, as I want to do some good for the world through our work, and this will also create a precedent for other prominent wikis, as, if I have understood correctly, they are allowed to do the same thing if they become inspired by our example, which can create a great positive effect for our world, if a large part of Fandom's enormous monthly global audience begins to see these advertisements.
Here is the charity fund that our bureaucrats and administrators have agreed to use. It very carefully allocates funds to the charity projects that give the greatest genuinely positive practical results.
https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donate/
We have chosen an animal charity because they and environmental charities together only receive around 3% of all donations to charities in the United States, of which only 2% goes to farmed animals, and because animals are generally treated far worse than even poor humans in this world, despite that dogs and many other animals are usually much kinder than most humans.
https://faunalytics.org/giving-to-animals-new-data-who-how/#:~:text=In spite of this upward,just 3% of all donations.
https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/why-farmed-animals
And here are the reasons why we selected Animal Charity Evaluators in particular:
I initially spent a lot of time getting ChatGPT4 to design an appropriate advertisement banner image for us featuring common household pets, and another with a sufficiently good-looking donation sign, and then MonkeyOfLife was extremely kind enough to improve on the sign quality and merge them together. After this, DarkGrath further improved on the look of the sign.
However, given that artificial intelligence images are a very controversial issue, our staff later decided to use an image found by Armorchompy that features real world animals instead. DarkGrath extremely kindly further improved on this image.
Here are the images in question:
Our final image:
The A.I. image:
You can all see the finished result in the front page of our wiki if you wish:
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/VS_Battles_Wiki
I think that these are really great news, as we are able to genuinely help the world this way.
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Also, if bureaucrats from other wikis are interested in following our example, here are my recommendations for how to find reliable charities, so you avoid accidentally promoting scams or inefficient charities where all the money goes to bureaucracy:
1. GiveWell: This organization is known for its in-depth research and strict criteria for recommending charities. They focus on transparency, cost-effectiveness, and evidence-backed interventions. The charities they recommend typically work in the fields of public health, poverty alleviation, and economic development.
https://www.givewell.org
2. The Life You Can Save: This platform recommends a list of effective charities based on evidence and efficiency. They span a range of issues from global health to economic empowerment.
https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org
3. Charity Navigator: One of the most well-known charity evaluators, Charity Navigator rates thousands of charities based on their financial health, accountability, and transparency. They are not always able to directly assess the impact of charities, but their ratings can help donors avoid organizations with administrative issues. However, as stated above, their metrics do not necessarily capture the overall effectiveness of every charity.
https://www.charitynavigator.org
4. CharityWatch: They rate charities based on their financial efficiency and governance. Their methodology focuses on the percentage of funds that go to programs versus administration and fundraising. However, similarly to Charity Navigator, its evaluations allegedly focus more on financial metrics than on overall effectiveness.
https://www.charitywatch.org
5. Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE): ACE evaluates animal charities based on their effectiveness, impact, and methods. ACE is valued within the effective altruism community for its focus on evidence and impact in the animal welfare space. They offer detailed evaluations of animal charities, emphasizing both effectiveness and neglectedness.
https://animalcharityevaluators.org
However, bureaucrats from other communities very likely need to ask Fandom's official staff for permission before they are allowed to add a front page advertisement for their respective home wikis:
https://support.fandom.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
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And now for the somewhat bad news:
As I have already told our staff members, we currently have the chance to get a much better advertisement provider, but in order to be accepted we need to reduce the number of posts per discussion thread page from 100 to 40.
This will help us greatly increase our page view and impression statistics, give us more ad impressions/more revenue, and also make the page loading lighter and as such make the load speed faster.
In addition, for pages with more limited content, we can enable an advertisement sidebar for desktop viewing, which will not be seen in tablets or mobile phones.
Since our discussion threads contain 100 posts per page, which is extremely big content-wise, it is also hurting our Search Engine Optimisation ranking, due to that Google recommends 20 posts per page, so we must do something about this problem, as our SEO is very important for us.
We will still have a practically unlimited number of posts available in every discussion thread, just fewer posts per page.
However, it is not possible for page length to differ from person to person, so staff members and Patreon donators cannot display a higher amount of messages per page. We will all simply have to begin to open two tabs at once for a thread if we want a better overview.
After roughly 11 months of persistent lobbying (nagging) towards my Fandom bosses, we have been allowed to place an image link to a reliable charity of our choice at the bottom of our wiki's front page.
This is an extremely important issue for me, as I want to do some good for the world through our work, and this will also create a precedent for other prominent wikis, as, if I have understood correctly, they are allowed to do the same thing if they become inspired by our example, which can create a great positive effect for our world, if a large part of Fandom's enormous monthly global audience begins to see these advertisements.
Here is the charity fund that our bureaucrats and administrators have agreed to use. It very carefully allocates funds to the charity projects that give the greatest genuinely positive practical results.
https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donate/
We have chosen an animal charity because they and environmental charities together only receive around 3% of all donations to charities in the United States, of which only 2% goes to farmed animals, and because animals are generally treated far worse than even poor humans in this world, despite that dogs and many other animals are usually much kinder than most humans.
https://faunalytics.org/giving-to-animals-new-data-who-how/#:~:text=In spite of this upward,just 3% of all donations.
https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/why-farmed-animals
And here are the reasons why we selected Animal Charity Evaluators in particular:
- ACE offers four alternative funds of focus for people to donate to, depending on their personal preferences.
- They focus on donating to the charity projects that give the greatest amount of positive effects at the time, which means that they have a high degree of flexibility.
- They have different payment methods available, even including cryptocurrencies, and such payments can be made internationally.
- If our visitors want to donate to a more specific cause or geographic area, linking to the ACE site in the first place allows them to browse through their evaluations of different charities, and select one from there.
I initially spent a lot of time getting ChatGPT4 to design an appropriate advertisement banner image for us featuring common household pets, and another with a sufficiently good-looking donation sign, and then MonkeyOfLife was extremely kind enough to improve on the sign quality and merge them together. After this, DarkGrath further improved on the look of the sign.
However, given that artificial intelligence images are a very controversial issue, our staff later decided to use an image found by Armorchompy that features real world animals instead. DarkGrath extremely kindly further improved on this image.
Here are the images in question:
Our final image:
The A.I. image:
You can all see the finished result in the front page of our wiki if you wish:
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/VS_Battles_Wiki
I think that these are really great news, as we are able to genuinely help the world this way.
-----------------
Also, if bureaucrats from other wikis are interested in following our example, here are my recommendations for how to find reliable charities, so you avoid accidentally promoting scams or inefficient charities where all the money goes to bureaucracy:
1. GiveWell: This organization is known for its in-depth research and strict criteria for recommending charities. They focus on transparency, cost-effectiveness, and evidence-backed interventions. The charities they recommend typically work in the fields of public health, poverty alleviation, and economic development.
https://www.givewell.org
2. The Life You Can Save: This platform recommends a list of effective charities based on evidence and efficiency. They span a range of issues from global health to economic empowerment.
https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org
3. Charity Navigator: One of the most well-known charity evaluators, Charity Navigator rates thousands of charities based on their financial health, accountability, and transparency. They are not always able to directly assess the impact of charities, but their ratings can help donors avoid organizations with administrative issues. However, as stated above, their metrics do not necessarily capture the overall effectiveness of every charity.
https://www.charitynavigator.org
4. CharityWatch: They rate charities based on their financial efficiency and governance. Their methodology focuses on the percentage of funds that go to programs versus administration and fundraising. However, similarly to Charity Navigator, its evaluations allegedly focus more on financial metrics than on overall effectiveness.
https://www.charitywatch.org
5. Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE): ACE evaluates animal charities based on their effectiveness, impact, and methods. ACE is valued within the effective altruism community for its focus on evidence and impact in the animal welfare space. They offer detailed evaluations of animal charities, emphasizing both effectiveness and neglectedness.
https://animalcharityevaluators.org
However, bureaucrats from other communities very likely need to ask Fandom's official staff for permission before they are allowed to add a front page advertisement for their respective home wikis:
https://support.fandom.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
-----------------
And now for the somewhat bad news:
As I have already told our staff members, we currently have the chance to get a much better advertisement provider, but in order to be accepted we need to reduce the number of posts per discussion thread page from 100 to 40.
This will help us greatly increase our page view and impression statistics, give us more ad impressions/more revenue, and also make the page loading lighter and as such make the load speed faster.
In addition, for pages with more limited content, we can enable an advertisement sidebar for desktop viewing, which will not be seen in tablets or mobile phones.
Since our discussion threads contain 100 posts per page, which is extremely big content-wise, it is also hurting our Search Engine Optimisation ranking, due to that Google recommends 20 posts per page, so we must do something about this problem, as our SEO is very important for us.
We will still have a practically unlimited number of posts available in every discussion thread, just fewer posts per page.
However, it is not possible for page length to differ from person to person, so staff members and Patreon donators cannot display a higher amount of messages per page. We will all simply have to begin to open two tabs at once for a thread if we want a better overview.
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