[Foundation-l] WikiMobile - use of Wikipedia name in commerce

2010-01-08 Thread Gregory Kohs
Pardon me if this has been asked before, but I am curious to learn whether Bonfire Media paid any sort of licensing fee to the Wikimedia Foundation in order to use the Wikipedia brand name in commerce on its WikiMobile app? I do know that Bonfire founder, Alex Poon, donated $1,111 to the

[Foundation-l] Advisory Board chairperson

2010-01-08 Thread Gregory Kohs
Who is the chair of the Advisory Board at this time? http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?diff=45392oldid=45263 If the spot is open, I would be willing to consider taking on the role. -- Gregory Kohs ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiMobile - use of Wikipedia name in commerce

2010-01-08 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me if this has been asked before, but I am curious to learn whether Bonfire Media paid any sort of licensing fee to the Wikimedia Foundation in order to use the Wikipedia brand name in commerce on its WikiMobile

[Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread David Gerard
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/07/wikibumps.html - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread William Pietri
On 01/08/2010 09:02 AM, David Gerard wrote: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/07/wikibumps.html And the poster, who is a Boing Boing guest editor, is one of our own, an English Wikipedia contributor since 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jokestress William

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread David Gerard
2010/1/8 William Pietri will...@scissor.com: On 01/08/2010 09:02 AM, David Gerard wrote: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/07/wikibumps.html And the poster, who is a Boing Boing guest editor, is one of our own, an English Wikipedia contributor since 2004:

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread Bod Notbod
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: But then, who isn't a contributor since 2004 these days? Is there something special about 2004? That's when I became a volunteer. Is that recognised as the year things reached critical mass?

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Once I have checked out by stats about a certain German TV programme (Zimmer frei, weekly). Indeed all guests had a WP article and all wikibumped during the week before their show. (After a show, the next guest is presented to the audience, and then again and again during the week.) It was

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread Domas Mituzas
On Jan 8, 2010, at 7:02 PM, David Gerard wrote: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/07/wikibumps.html Currently we're in talks with WM-DE, so they will provision some storage for long-term archives of raw data, and we will probably add image view statistics then. Good stuff, right? Domas

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: But then, who isn't a contributor since 2004 these days? Is there something special about 2004? That's when I became a volunteer. Is that recognised

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising banners

2010-01-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:  Yes, I can see how the Christmas giving spirit would increase the potential donations. If that is the reason why it's run in December, why don't we investigate how donations to WM could be given as a present to a

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread Tim Starling
phoebe ayers wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: But then, who isn't a contributor since 2004 these days? Is there something special about 2004? That's when I became a volunteer.