[WikiEN-l] Strategy Question of the Week: Dec 14

2009-12-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week Last week's Question of the week focused on how Wikimedia could change its technology to enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment. Certainly new technology and increasing the friendliness is one tactic that Wikipedia might

[WikiEN-l] some attention regarding our ad placement

2009-12-15 Thread Judson Dunn
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/12/wikis-fundraising-ads-send-wrong-message.html Ah, well. :) Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

[WikiEN-l] Office hours Thursday, December 17

2009-12-15 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This Thursday's office hours will feature Sara Crouse, the Wikimedia Foundation's Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations. Sara's biography is available at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sara_Crouse. Office hours on Thursday are from

Re: [WikiEN-l] some attention regarding our ad placement

2009-12-15 Thread William Pietri
On 12/15/2009 01:15 PM, Judson Dunn wrote: http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/12/wikis-fundraising-ads-send-wrong-message.html Ah, well. :) From working on assorted ad-supported sites, I understand why they call this out, but I doubt it's actually an issue. In the early days of

Re: [WikiEN-l] some attention regarding our ad placement

2009-12-15 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: against all sorts of content, including user-generated content. This led to two common sorts of freak out. One was brand managers who were shocked to see their beloved brand appearing on the same page with something