Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-10 Thread Michael Peel
On 10 Dec 2012, at 02:03, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: The news from today is that FreeBSD didn't succeed to gather enough money during their annual fundraising [1][2]. They only started their annual fundraising campaign 5 days ago:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF Board: October 26-27, 2012, meeting

2012-12-10 Thread Geoff Brigham
Hi Bence, Arne was not present, and the minutes have been corrected. Thanks for catching that. Geoff Message: 1 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:58:32 +0100 From: Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF

[Wikimedia-l] Guidance for article tranlators

2012-12-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
I wrote a page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translate_us to offer guidance to translators wishing to translate Wikipedia articles /from/ English to other languages. You may wish to have that translated for your own languages; or to interwiki link pages which already exist for that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-10 Thread Terry Chay
Furthermore, WordPress is actually not strong in the government/enterprise space. Instead Drupal is with direct outreach to institutions. The difference in DrupalCon vs. WordCamp SF reflect this. WordPress presence (around 9% of all domains on the internet) in addition to a rapid decline in

[Wikimedia-l] Office hours with Sue

2012-12-10 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hello, all. Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, is doing an IRC office hours on Saturday December 15 at 18:30:00 UTC. There is not currently an agenda set for the meeting, but I will update the particulars on Meta if that changes. Please see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF Board: October 26-27, 2012, meeting

2012-12-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Doing a quick scan of the minutes, I would be interested to know what steps are planned to ameliorate the increased lack of transparency that will be necessarily follow from an increased number of decisions made without official resolution to record them? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~

Re: [Wikimedia-l] News24 (.za): SA learners lobby for free Wikipedia

2012-12-10 Thread Sophie Österberg
should remind us why we bother doing all of this. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/SA-learners-lobby-for-free-Wikipedia-20121210 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman