Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I heart this idea. Srsly. Can you imagine, finding places that have WP articles and projecting the logo globe on them? That would be an amazing public visibility thing. In SF alone, for instance, Grace Cathedral, Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Liam

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Amazing idea, Philippe! Additionally to some big things (Hagia Sophia? the Red Square?): small Wikipedia logo stickers to put on a number of buildings etc. in your town. (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) The 10th anniversay will be a

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread effe iets anders
I am not sure what the planning of the usability initiative is, but it would be an ideal moment to publicly launch a wysiwyg editor or something and indeed ask people to try again :) Wikipedia is entering it's second decade in style - come and join us, Wikipedia is now also editable by mortal

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) Decomposable stickers! ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Ang.: Re: 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, If we want an edit drive, we want to compare articles of all our wikipedias. Comparing them for their quality is difficult. It is therefore necessary to find other qualities that help decide what article is important, meaningful. We do know the amount of traffic articles receive, when new

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) Decomposable stickers! ;-) At a recent local election, a party here used white spray chalk to put their slogans on the sidewalk (or, as the oppo- nents

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed

2010-02-08 Thread Nathan
Think he meant to send this here. ~Nathan -- Forwarded message -- From: elipo...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed To: English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey! What? You guys don't want my money? ~ Eli

[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office hours

2010-02-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Tuesday from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 12-1pm PST Tuesday, 3pm-4pm EST We're now beginning the process of synthesizing the work that's been done so far. Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Stuart West stuw...@gmail.com wrote: At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around participation.  What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive?  We

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed

2010-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
Hey Eli, On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, elipo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey! What? You guys don't want my money? As this has to do with private information about you, I suggest you e-mail donate [at] wikimedia.org about this, instead of the public mailing lists. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread Arne Klempert
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Stuart West stuw...@gmail.com wrote: At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around

[Foundation-l] Batuta Army for those who remember

2010-02-08 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Hi, I think it is worth reading: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Batuta%27s_case_became_something_of_a_milestone_in_the_development_of_Wikipedia%22_-_interview_with_Konrad_Godlewski IMHO perfect example showing why Wikipedia is unique :-) Cheers, -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed

2010-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the advice, but I made sure that there wasn't any confidential information in the message before I forwarded it. Well, either way, donate [at] wikimedia.org are the people who can help you. :-) -- Casey Brown