On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
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On 31 March 2012 02:03, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the
board.
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their votes for each resolution.
There are so many potential ways of recruiting new high-quality editors.
However, at the moment almost all of them founder (at least on the English
Wikipedia) on the likely reception of peoples' first edits.
Take, for the sake of argument, Wikimedia UK's donor list. There are 50,000
people who
This could be much more usefully addressed with a cooperative assistance
group, rather than some sort of super-governance association. Somehow lots
of chapters managed to form themselves without the existence of an
international governing body. If technical assistance is what you are
I had a small encyclopedia at home (only one volume, but a massive volume)
and there was a copy of Britannica in the local library and, later, at
secondary school.
But I started getting frustrated with them when I was about 12 or 13,
because the shorter articles rarely answered the questions I
I think what you might be remembering is that they used to sell them via a
sales force who went door to door. They announced a few years back that
they were stopping that.
And, indeed, it was the reliance on the sales force that killed off
Britannica in the late-80s/early-90s when Encarta
to the same set of questions is now on Meta, here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Questions_for_Wikimedia_UK
Regards,
Chris Keating, Wikimedia UK Board
(User:The Land)
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Does the author
(Jezhotwells) have the ability to release it under a free licence, if
s/he
wishes?
No but if they put it on permanent display in a public place the photo
would probably be totally fine under UK freedom of panorama law.
I suspect a court would hold that the set of
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
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I suspect a court would hold that the set of cakes is disjoint from the
set of objects on permanent display, and thus that a photograph
23, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
on February 3, the Wikimedia Foundation senior staff gave a
presentation to the Board of Trustees as part of its Board meeting in
San Francisco, recapping the fiscal year so far (our year begins July
1) and looking
I'd recommend George Orwell's essay on Politics and the English
Language. It's one of the most persuasive arguments to use clear
language I've read.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
We're a multi-lingual movement, and this makes clear English even more
important. If something is
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011 and don't forget to check
the discussion page for more places to discuss the fundraiser. As for a
time-line, the fundraiser is scheduled to start within the first two weeks
of November. I will see about adding some sort of time-line to the
On *2011-10-18* (today)*@ 20:00 - 21:30 UTC*, we are running a global
campaign for an hour and a half to test our ability to and strategy for
handling donations coming from *every country*!
Hello Charles,
Hopefully you are not doing this in the countries which have chapters that
are
Sorry for the confusion. No we are not testing in*US, AU, DE, FR, CH, GB.*
Thanks for clearing that up. Good luck with the test. :-)
Chris
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Not so easy. Yesterday an amendment has been officially proposed, not
approved. It will be discussed into the parliament camera, then into the
parliament senate. Only if both will accept it without modifications it'll
be valid.
Also, the government may ask for trust at the parliament about
-chief-executive/
Regards,
Chris Keating
(User:The Land)
Wikimedia UK
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Finally, the Dead Sea Scrolls[1] have copyright[2]. Courtesy of The Israel
Museum. Congratulations.
If the Dead Sea Scrolls were divinely inspired, like other Biblical texts,
then there is an argument that the author is still alive ;-)
(c) God, 2011
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28644
FLAWLESS VICTORY! [*]
Well done to Nina Gerlach, Till Jaeger and the others involved n the process
for the success so far (I remember Matthias talking about the possibilitiy
Does rebranding change anything then the name or appearance?
Or better asked: Does it help to solve any of our real problems?
I might compare this to throwing cat's around. A rather useless feature,
since anyone knows how to edit and a personal message worth 100% more
then a template.
Just occasionally this Python sketch feels very relevant to Wikipedia;
M: Ah. I'd like to have an argument, please.
R:Certainly sir. Have you been here before?
M: No, I haven't, this is my first time.
R: I see. Well, do you want to have just one argument, or were you
thinking of
Funding chapters by grants from WMF so that they all use the money in the
same WMF approved way is a systematically bad idea in the same way
sending
shoes to Africa is a bad idea. Redefining the chapters who participated
in
a joint fundraiser with WMF as WMF's payment processors is
benefit of Chapters handling donor data is
that donors get tax receipts. That is definitely not the case and it if
that's the only thing we care about then that is a massive missed
opportunity for the movement.
Regards,
Chris Keating
User:The Land
Wikimedia UK Board member fundraising lead
Someone just pointed me this link :
http://webmasterformat.com/blog/destroy-wikipedia-serp-ranking
Fails at step 13 when the site owners with a clue about how Wikipedia works
spot a scumbag and laugh at them. ;-)
Chris
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techniques.
I'll post it soon.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com
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The responses so far are encouraging! ;-)
2011/8/1 Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
Someone just pointed me this link :
http://webmasterformat.com/blog/destroy-wikipedia-serp
I was thinking the other day about the (relative) lack of open sound and
music files on Wikimedia projects
I happened to browse on to MusOpen - http://www.musopen.org/blog/
Does anyone here happen to know them or anything about them?
Thanks
Chris
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Yes, by all means, let's fold some of the different wikis back into one.
Every day I seem to bump into a new wiki which someone is expecting me to
keep track of.
The proliferation of different wikis creates confusion, frustration and
generally sub-optimal user journeys.
Also, if it was possible
Facebook, and Twitter, big with Black folk, gives people something they
can relate to. Wikipedia is as dry as reading, or writing, an
encyclopedia.
In a sense they ate our lunch, but millions of Facebook-like user pages
can hardly be justified as a basis for charitable donations.
Are you
Actually, it is. I expect Wikipedia to outlast the U.S. Dollar at least in
some form, or at least stick around as long as literature like The Oddessy
and The Epic of Gilgamesh and be a part of human culture longer than the
civilizations that produced that literature. Why would it be
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com wrote:
Really? That's never happened for me.
I can also report no problems editing while using Chrome. Though I don't
tend to use the built-in browser tools.
Chris
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Regarding the original point about superinjunctions, an MP has named Ryan
Giggs in the House of Commons and this is being widely reported in the
British media.
The superinjunction will be gone by the end of the afternoon.
Well, the CTB Superinjunction is now broken in a number of places on
en.wikipedia.
So there we go.
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Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed
the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that English
superinjunctions don't apply in Scotland.
Perhaps the WMF should open an office in Edinburgh, if London is too risky
;-)
Chris
A footballer protected by one of the British superinjunctions is
suing Twitter and persons unknown after he was alleged on Twitter to
have had an affair. Something that could have repercussions for
Wikipedia.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Dan Collins en.wp.s...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 19, 2011 8:20 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote:
MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
from Wikimedia servers looks like a
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
emails with
I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry
9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just fine.) It was ridiculously
annoying and I'm not sure I'd bother fixing typos I spotted in casual
reading.
(At least Vector worked in that version of the BlackBerry browser ...)
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