Hi again everyone!
A quick reminder that the fundraising team will be having IRC office
hours today, Friday November 5th, at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT, 18:00 EDT
23:00 CET) in the #wikimedia-office channel of the Freenode IRC network.
If you are interested in what we have been doing recently I
Hi all,
The Movement Roles project continues, and many people with many unique
perspectives are already actively participating. For those of you not
closely following our work on the wiki[0], I want to bring two things
to your attention:
1. We will have a meeting on IRC[1] today, 5 November, at
I think you have hit the nail on the head. Now we just need to drive it in
the rest of the way.
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Tue, 2/11/10, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:36 AM,
wjhon...@aol.com
wrote:
On 11/5/10 1:37 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
A memo to Wikimedia community, friends, staff, and other stakeholders.
On Monday, November 15, we will launch the 2010 annual fundraising drive for
the Wikimedia Foundation. As you know, our funding model relies on the
support of our friends and
On 11/5/10 3:21 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
On 11/5/10 1:37 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
A memo to Wikimedia community, friends, staff, and other stakeholders.
Arg. I just read your internal email. I should never read external
emails before internal news lists. My question is consequently
... and compromise content, as TV Tropes found out:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheSituation?from=Main.TheGoogleIncident
- d.
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I think you have hit the nail on the head. Now we just need to drive it
in
the rest of the way.
These ethics standards serve the ideal of communicating reliable
knowledge to readers. This is one of the ideals that the Foundation was
built upon. They are also expressly designed to protect
This was manifestly not a fatal idea. In fact, it appears they concluded
that *operating on donations *would be fatal. Moral of the story: Wikipedia
is different.
Considering how much spam we receive, and how long some of it persists, I
sometimes wonder if we haven't miscalculated the costs and
Finally, one fan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/magazine/07FOB-medium-t.html
Fred
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How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on the
table each year?
Fred
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I'll bite - it's about time for our yearly advert flame war anyway. The
answer is 0 dollars. That is because as soon as we put the advertising up we
lose credibility and Wikipedia is no more.
- Brian
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
How many billions in
On 5 November 2010 22:44, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on the
table each year?
Less than one soul.
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Billions is not the appropate word here.
Extrapolating from my own personal Adsense experience, I would suggest that
with a single ad per article, the project would only earn perhaps 1 to 5
million a year.
That's being generous.
W
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An'n 05.11.2010 23:44, hett Fred Bauder schreven:
How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on the
table each year?
Fred
According to alexa.com Facebook has a 3-month global pageview share of
4.74010%. Wikipedia has 0.52984%. That's about 1/9th. According to
Wikipedia
Billions is not the appropate word here.
Extrapolating from my own personal Adsense experience, I would suggest
that
with a single ad per article, the project would only earn perhaps 1 to 5
million a year.
That's being generous.
W
The question has nothing to do with signing a contract
Hello,
Adverts do not make content wrong, but create mistrust.
Have a look what Lawrence Lessig tells about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHma3ZQRVoA
Kind regards
Ziko
2010/11/5 Cool Hand Luke user.coolhandl...@gmail.com:
This was manifestly not a fatal idea. In fact, it appears they
Fred Bauder
How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on
the table each year?
Nobody knows, because the unknown factor in such calculations
is whether Google would continue to bless Wikipedia so heavily if it
started running ads. You cannot assume that the current
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello,
Adverts do not make content wrong, but create mistrust.
Have a look what Lawrence Lessig tells about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHma3ZQRVoA
After the first few minutes it turns into a long drawn out
Fortunately inflated page view counts could still be patched from available
log files.
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2010/11/page-views-anomaly-in-october-resolved/
Erik Zachte
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On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 00:53, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
An'n 05.11.2010 23:44, hett Fred Bauder schreven:
How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on the
table each year?
Fred
According to alexa.com Facebook has a 3-month global pageview share of
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