Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

Up to now, I kinda liked the fundraiser. Although they are very shouty for what I'm used to (I dislike the red button for instance and the somewhat agressive tone), I think this last change in message could use a *little* step back. Please use a slightly smaller font, an slightly less shouty text.

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008/12/23 effe iets anders effeietsand...@gmail.com: As said, a slightly smaller font, and a grey color could do miracles here. Also, note that on IE7 in 1024x768, the banner (on Commons, at least) looks terrible -- the last line (Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales) goes under the banner border, so

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008/12/23 Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com 2008/12/23 effe iets anders effeietsand...@gmail.com: As said, a slightly smaller font, and a grey color could do miracles here. Also, note that on IE7 in 1024x768, the banner (on Commons, at least) looks terrible -- the last line (Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

Aside from concerns about loudness and size in the banner, the message itself has been very successful: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics -Robert Rohde PS. At screen widths that are not all that small, it appears the collapse button is forcing the Please Read:

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: PS. At screen widths that are not all that small, it appears the collapse button is forcing the Please Read: unit down a line so the last line is hanging outside the box. I should say, that's on IE. Firefox doesn't seem

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

David Gerard wrote: 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful: javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})() Thanks! It works

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

This is really impressive - such a rise in donations just because of a clear and personal approach! Can't we make more like this, personal testimonials and calls by Wikimedians but also non-Wikimedians sympathizing with us? Ziko 2008/12/23 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com Aside from concerns

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

Hello Frank, Thank you very much for these explanations for us curious Wikipedians. I will ask Michael Dale for more information. For the moment you'll find a nicer implementation at http://metavid.org/wiki/Stream:House_proceeding_06-09-08_01/0:01:38/0:10:00 Oh, you just want to show how

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008/12/23 Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Britannica is notoriously antagonistic toward Wikipedia in its advertising, but Brockhaus for instance isn't anywhere near as obnoxious (they're not *fans* of

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Eek! What's happening to the content? There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core Brockhaus encyclopedia: 1. Buy the book. 30 volumes, 2700€ - 3100€, depending on your payment plan:

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phas e 2

So, Obama has won election in the USA, people are more happy (maybe not only part of people in USA) - they want to pay for that ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism Just simple behaviors :) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics ~everyone wants

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

2008/12/23 Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com: Thank you very much for these explanations for us curious Wikipedians. :-) Oh, you just want to show how the place will look like? I cannot find something Wikipedia-related on that US Congress site. No, it was just to give you an impression

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Image tagging: 33 months later

FYI, the state of local image uploads on en:wp. How's your wiki doing? -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Wagner carni...@gmail.com Date: 2008/12/23 Subject: [WikiEN-l] Image tagging: 33 months later To: English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Back in March of 2006, I

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phas e 2

Hm, btw, where was again that list with all incoming donations? Lodewijk 2008/12/24 Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl So, Obama has won election in the USA, people are more happy (maybe not only part of people in USA) - they want to pay for that ;)

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2008/12/23 effe iets anders effeietsand...@gmail.com: Up to now, I kinda liked the fundraiser. Although they are very shouty for what I'm used to (I dislike the red button for instance and the somewhat agressive tone), I

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phas e 2

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:57 PM, effe iets anders effeietsand...@gmail.com wrote: Hm, btw, where was again that list with all incoming donations? Lodewijk There are many statistics pages, see the Contributions/Fundraiser section on http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages. --

[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

I have submitted a new project proposal, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Soviet_Repressions_Memorial -- Kurt Weber http://blog.kurtweber.us k...@kurtweber.us ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] Europeana

Europeana (http://www.europeana.eu/) is working again. I think that it has a lot of useful (PD) materials. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l