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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 13:34, Sebastian Moleski seb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com wrote:
It is interesting how the power distance thing is playing out here. :)
I'm not getting the reference. Can you help?
For Germans, power
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 20:53, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
I'm glad someone is concerned about this issue. Wikia has always smacked of
they wouldn't let us show ads on Wikipedia, so here is the for-profit
branch of Wikipedia with ads. There are potential conflicts of interest at
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 21:28, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,Thank you for your replies. Are there any notable examples you could
mention, or point me to?You might be interested in the German initiative of
working with a state-funded Institute to write articles in Wikipedia about
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 06:54, Michael Snowwikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
case.) The basic question is, what can or should we do to encourage
grassroots groups that want to support our mission, but may not fit into
the chapters framework?
As an answer to this question, I would say yes. My
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 16:18, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/9 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
The issue here is that, in the Catalan case for example, the effort is
already beyond just a working group. You have a group of people who
are more than mature to have
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 21:26, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Guillaume Paumierguillom@gmail.com
wrote:
[snip]
It is very common for members of the board of a non-profit
organisation to donate money to support this organisation.
It was my
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 22:21, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/10 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
Hoi,
I think it is not reasonable to judge others by how you do things. Please
remember that there are different cultures where things are done in
different ways. I
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 04:02, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
The WMF have already offered to do it at two timeslots and if these are
sufficiently different from each other then that's about all that can be
done. You're never going to be able to please everyone in this issue.
Agreed,
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 18:18, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
What if someone registers an account 'Miscrosoft and starts vandal
editing? The media reports like 'Miscosoft blocked for vandalism in
Wikipedia' would be hardly better than 'Microsoft blocked on sight'.
Concerning the
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 18:20, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
The idea of verified accounts raises all sorts of questions and
potential problems. The Wikimedia Foundation might be able to verify
that users requesting a company account are connected to that
company, if the account is on the
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 16:47, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
Craig Newmark has around 300K google results. Jimbo is at half a
million. Craigslist is at about 65 million wikipedia is at about 300
million. For groups that almost entirely exist online that's a fair
solid way of showing which is
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 23:00, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed; and arguably Craig Newmark is much, much more famous in San
Francisco (where he's a local celeb) than he would be pretty much
anywhere else. That might be part of the issue here. If you know who
he is in the
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 09:04, Sebastian Moleski seb...@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
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 19:56, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com 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
I answered this email privately. Seeing it was probably meant for the chapcom.
Cheers,
Delphine
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:17 AM, r.dave...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi I am very interested in working as a team on your committe ,I am from
england,I wondered if you could forward more detail like
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
our very positive revenue perspective (we have already exceeded our
fundraising targets for the fiscal year, and received the additional
$2M from Google) allows us to do something we've hoped to be able to
do:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
The Swedish Wikipedia decision is consequent and logical. Logos are
copyrighted. Copyrighted material cannot be included. So no logos. It's
plain and simple. The problem is not the reasonable decision of the
Swedish
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/3/30 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
...
This means that Wikimedia logos are now _not used_ in the Swedish
Wikipedia to illustrate articles on the Wikimedia projects, I suppose.
Right?
But as I understood
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mike.lifeguard mike.lifegu...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Lost in the recent email flood: pediapress is fully working for
English.
Hi there,
2010/5/9 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mike.lifeguard mike.lifegu...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Lost in the recent email flood: pediapress is fully working for
English.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06
...we should not forget, that there are on Commons some of the most
beautiful images I've ever seen in my entire life.
Free. As in Speech.
A look at the lists for the Picture of the Year should convince you of that.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2009/Galleries
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
reaction to what to me was actually a rather funny comment. However,
Mariano's following reaction as well as Yaroslav's came across to me
as unecessarily aggressive and actually shocked me in what I perceived
as a
Robert,
For what it's worth and for the record, I want to thank you for
sharing your thoughts and findings about this process on this list,
it's a fantastic positive and constructive example of transparency
as I understand and value it.
Bon courage,
Cheers,
Delphine
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 September 2010 23:32, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
wrote:
German Wikipedia has had pending changes implemented
*globally*, in all articles, for several years now. Unlike
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:10 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 October 2010 10:51, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Although I don't have a issue with it, but you may wish to double
check the licensing you have attached to those uploads, since from
understanding is that
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:26 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
What about situations where a dozen or so people get together and decide to
do the chapter thing for a geographic region/country, without actively
seeking input from the majority of Wikimedians from their region? Once
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Zugravu Gheorghe
zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27.10.2010 01:15, Jon Davis wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 15:02, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Erik Moeller, 26/10/2010 23:01:
We've recommended Thunderbird in the past (with some
Hello,
Megan might want to contact Valérie75
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Val%C3%A9rie75, who ended up
writing books about the topics she contributed to on Wikipédia. The
books are not under a free license (I don't think), but have received
good press in their domain (ornitohology,
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 November 2010 10:24, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would
also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is
gearing up to run ads
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 December 2010 18:54, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
While I understand the challenges in communicating effectively with a
variety of audiences, I think the point that's been raised is that for a
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
OK, everyone -- I learned my lesson! Thanks for teaching it.
They say you are not really part of the tech team until you have
broken the site. I guess you are not really part of the Wikimedia
community until you've got a
I just want to send here, along with best new year wishes, an enormous
thanks to the Haifa team. I believe they have beaten all previous
Wikimanias in opening the registration website so early.
Hat down.
Cheers,
Delphine
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:59 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Steven Walling wrote:
The other Wikipedias weren't started on that date, so they have nothing to
celebrate or commemorate.
The anniversary is not just about English Wikipedia. If this was just
English Wikipedia's
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
Please tell that exist a video of wikipedians singing this song!! XD
Yep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDT4s6yLwvg
:D
This was hilarious.
Delphine
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:33 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
this is just awesome:
http://openattribute.com/
Born at the Drumbeat festival, just released! See the backstory:
http://mollykleinman.com/2011/02/07/announcing-open-attribute/
This is really great but...as I said in my
Hi all,
The Movement Roles Project (which you've probably heard about but are
not really sure what it is about [1]) continues to go forward. After
an in-person meeting two or so weeks ago, which produced a whole lot
of (interesting) notes [2], we're breaking down the main outcomes of
the meeting
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:39 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
(The actual job description did make my eyes roll a bit, though.
Storyteller, oh dear.)
Thank you very much for this post, Andrew. This post clarified the job role
in a very nice, clear way and I really
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to
Wikipedia visibility in search results.
Two things:
1) before you actually come to this feature, you'd have to go to the
Wikipedia page, and then back to
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Hello all,
You might have heard of Wiki Loves Monuments, an event destined to
populate Wikimedia Commons with photos of listed monuments across the
world. The 2011 edition is centered on Europe, but this is a movement
wide/worldwide event, and we'd like to have a
Hello all,
The contest has now come to an end, with more than 30 logos in
competitions, and many votes to choose the logo.
The winner of the competition is:
Piece of puzzle monument 2
by User:Lusitana
Which can be seen here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LUSITANA_WLM_2011_d.svg
There
Hello all,
As part of the community grows older (yes, we do), I suppose that many
more of us have kids. And maybe you were thinking... what i I bring
my family to Wikimania? and thought na, too complicated. Well, the
Haifa organizing team has been looking into babysitting/child care
solutions,
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
Yes. I would agree that image is the other side of the line and into
pornography.
Tom Morton
On 16 May 2011, at 23:22, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
I feel like this image from the same author:
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:43 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
Redefining the chapters who participated in a joint fundraiser with WMF as
WMF's payment processors is straight-up insulting.
Just on this particular point. I thought the same, but after a round
of explanations, I now understand
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, let's be clear here: in what sense are the chapters participating in
the fundraiser, rather than merely being its beneficiaries? The underlying
fundraising work -- the actual solicitation of donations, in
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not suggesting that the success of the fundraiser isn't due in large
part to broad community involvement; my assertion is that this community
involvement would take place whether or not a formal chapter was
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote:
It would be, if that's what it were about. But I can say with
confidence that at the board meeting, no one spoke about any ideas even
remotely similar to this, and I can't think of a single board member who
disagrees
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
If the question is one of minimum standards of accountability the
WMF's first obligation would be to publish the standards which it
requires, presumably consistent with IFRS. Chapters incorporated within
particular
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Hi Jimmy,
There are several side effects to the idea of not allowing chapters at all
to fundraise (I note that boardmembers and staff members have a
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:29 AM, CasteloBranco
michelcastelobra...@gmail.com wrote:
The letter was written collaboratively and announced in IRC, village
pump, mailing list, facebook, twitter, ... so i think it does represent
the views of all Brazilians who are interested on it. We do know a
2011/8/24 Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com:
Stop this thread at once! It's gotten entirely too silly!
Maybe, but it does not walk. So that bars it from any kind of claim on
tax return from the [[Ministry of Silly Walks]].
Delphine
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
See now, this is the kind of thinking that raises a lot of questions about
chapters receiving the very large amounts of money that many got the last
time around. In the real world, charities determine what their objectives
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all;
I have written an essay (my first one)[1] about the idea There is a
deadline. It is opposite to the old essay (from 2006) which holds that
there is no deadline.
I hope my redaction is good enough to explain my opinion
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning of
this unprecedented action.
For what it's worth, I want to particularly thank the Italian
Community, for showing us with their own blackout what power
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
I advise you delay it again - we need the mailing lists at the moment
to coordinate the blackout.
Mark's email is 5 days old, so I suppose this has already happened, hasn't it?
Cheers,
Delphine
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