On 03/05/2011 06:28 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
So that we're not hypothesizing, I'll say it: I sincerely regret the way I
put that. I was attempting to say that the choices that we make have real
world consequences. I used a terrible example to point that out.
Thanks Philippe, I
2011/3/4 Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com:
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From: Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Moral rights
2011/2/27 Birgitte SB
Just a few remarks about the 2015 strategic plan pdf (1)
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must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for,
this License with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly
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*The sunflower
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:BLPLang is not currently
used at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary
This can be construed as the WMF wanting to reach the people of the
world to provide educational contents AND English-dominate them.
The
Mexico switched from PD to CC-BY-NC-ND in 2006 (1)
Argentina from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC some time in 2009-2011 (2)
Brazil removed CC-BY-SA altogether from the culture ministry website
in early 2011, in a context where the ministry is planning to reform
the copyright law (3)
Are our definition and
I still think it was a bad thing that the fundraiser crew decided to use
Sue Gardner director of Wikipedia in the banners because it raised more
money... A very bad thing because everybody knows here that she isn't the
director for Wikipedia.
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On 5 March 2011 14:05, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Picking up on the comment by Tobias about less intrusive fundraising,
I would make sure we are pursuing the following:
1 Build up a past donors database, communicate with them effectively
and then as long as they
On 05/03/11 14:05, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Picking up on the comment by Tobias about less intrusive fundraising,
I would make sure we are pursuing the following:
1 Build up a past donors database, communicate with them effectively
and then as long as they donate annually make sure they
On 5 March 2011 14:19, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
And also, WMF should make it possible to accept continuing donations as
a subscription on a monthly basis.
Even better, they should do this already!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Monthly_donations/en
(a link from
On 5 March 2011 16:12, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
I appreciate that we may only be able to exclude donors who are logged
in readers from banner ads. But it is better in my view to say Yes we
can do that, but you would have to tell us your username and be
logged in to
WereSpielChequers, I believe we either tried or considered all those things
and more.
I think we established continuing donations sometime half-way through the
fundraiser, it mostly depends on the payment intermediaries- Philippe and
Megan really worked hard on getting it. From what I recall,
Hi,
We sent information around about Wiki Loves Monuments a few times on several
lists, but it is also available on WIkimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 . It
would be great if you could find enough volunteers to let the Czech Republic
participate!
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:30 AM, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml@
googlemail.com wrote:
However the main point of mail was to discuss how we're going to raise
funds without being annoying to readers, and I welcome any input from
WMF staff, chapters and volunteers :-)
I promise that we
2011/3/5 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
The fact that
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Trans#Core_set_of_languages
is now marked as obsolete disappoints me. It seems to mean that
multilingualism has been rejected.
This is an interesting idea that should be revived.
On 03/05/2011 08:37 PM, Zack Exley wrote:
I promise that we kept the annoyance of the fundraiser almost to a minimum
given the amount of money we had to raise.
we had to raise sounds absolute, but it is relative to a self-set
(some would say arbitrary) fundraising goal. This year the goal was
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:31 PM, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml@
googlemail.com wrote:
Sure. I'd love to get opinions from more people (perhaps at Wikimania,
too?)
The (editing) community should to be comfortable with Wikimedia raising
funds, and if it isn't, we need to find ways so
2011/3/5 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:
will enable more people to read them. This, however, also poses the
danger of perpetuating current linguistic conflicts. For example,
translating the WMF blog into Chinese will allow a lot of people who
know Chinese, but not English, read
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
I would venture that growth, or rather size, is defined by what the
Foundation wants to accomplish and what resources are needed for that. Would
it be inherently wrong if, for example, WMF were an organization with a
headcount of 10,000 and a budget of a billion
On 5 March 2011 21:15, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Defined by what the Foundation wants to accomplish? I think you've
highlighted the problem pretty well, right there.
Then please answer my question, and give your plan, working backward
from the mission statement to the necessary
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
It is my hope that these decisions are data-driven -
http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=size and the
size of Wikimedia communities speaking a language as well as the
(in)frequency of bilingualism in
Hoi,
As far as I am concerned, there are so many things we could do if we had the
capacity that would still only be about enabling our communities to write
their Wikipedia in their language. There are development projects that will
not benefit all our projects.
We are still at a stage where there
On 03/05/2011 09:38 PM, Sebastian Moleski wrote:
In terms of annoyance, I think we all need to be careful not to
substitute our own judgment for that of others. Just because you or I
find banners annoying, it's a far jump to argue that our readers in
general also found them annoying. In fact,
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
A UN-like model, with several major languages, into which important
Foundation releases *must* be translated, is a realistic solution that
will enable more people to read them. This, however, also poses the
2011/3/5 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org:
All translation work is done by volunteers, and who were we to say
your language isn't as important, we'd rather you translate into X,
especially if we hadn't really researched how to make those priority
lists? If you translate something into Hopi,
Hoi,
The notion that everyone working on Wikipedia and MediaWiki is a volunteer
is a fallacy.
The one thing I have been advocating is that the different languages and
scripts are performing technically on a level playing field. This is not the
case and there is a lot that can be achieved with
On 5 March 2011 21:48, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
The notion that everyone working on Wikipedia and MediaWiki is a volunteer
is a fallacy.
The one thing I have been advocating is that the different languages and
scripts are performing technically on a level playing
Hoi,
The Wikimedia Foundation is a five hundred pound gorilla in the field of
building language resources in the languages that have a smaller footprint
on the Internet. I am convinced that for a million Euros we can make sure
that all languages have technically a level playing field.
I have
David Gerard wrote:
On 5 March 2011 21:15, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Defined by what the Foundation wants to accomplish? I think you've
highlighted the problem pretty well, right there.
Then please answer my question, and give your plan, working backward
from the mission
Ditto Michael.
You have done a great job the past 3 years and you will be missed.
Renata
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
On 3/3/2011 12:41 PM, Veronique Kessler wrote:
Thanks to everyone who is part of the fantastic projects of Wikimedia
and keep
On 5 March 2011 20:51, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 March 2011 20:38, Sebastian Moleski i...@sebmol.me wrote:
the mission, e.g. allow every human to freely share in
the sum of all knowledge?
Indeed. Although it's quite possible Tobias is correct and WMF can
achieve the
On 5 March 2011 12:29, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Mexico switched from PD to CC-BY-NC-ND in 2006 (1)
Argentina from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC some time in 2009-2011 (2)
Brazil removed CC-BY-SA altogether from the culture ministry website
in early 2011, in a context where the ministry is
On 5 March 2011 23:06, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It seems to me that we spent a year building a strategic plan, which
included huge business planning components for exactly this conversation
Yes, you'd think lots of smart people had not only thought about this
On 5 March 2011 23:16, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 March 2011 23:06, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It seems to me that we spent a year building a strategic plan, which
included huge business planning components for exactly this conversation
Yes, you'd
On 5 March 2011 23:06, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It seems to me that we spent a year building a strategic plan, which
included huge business planning components for exactly this conversation
Which page of the document covers why the foundation needs 188
employees in
On 03/06/2011 12:06 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
It seems to me that we spent a year building a strategic plan, which
included huge business planning components for exactly this
conversation
There are numbers for estimated expenses: $51M for 2014/2015
I sincerely doubt that poverty is anyones attraction to wikipedia.
--
Dan Rosenthal
Sent from my iPhone. My apologies for any brevity.
On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:30 PM, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 06:48, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
church.of.emacs.ml
Well, it is nice that our editors are not getting paid $100,000 a year to
write from the perspective of whoever is paying them. There is a
connection between well-paid writing and editing and control of content.
Wealthy, or powerful, people don't usually put out big money for the
publishing of
So will a new CFO be recruited or will that position remain unfilled, like what
happened to the Volunteer Coordinator position?
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