Le 2013-03-13 19:38, Guillaume Paumier a écrit :
Greetings,
As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech
bloghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/(article
included below) or the tech
ambassadors
Hi,
Am 14.03.2013 06:48, schrieb MZMcBride:
I've started collecting notes about a possible Wikimedia or Wikimedia
Foundation endowment here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment.
thanks for collecting these links, they are interesting. Anyway, I
didn't fully understand the idea behind the
See also: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment
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Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
phili...@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
On 14 March 2013
Thanks Andrew and Philippe for your explanation and links.
So that is a plan to build a reserve of funds that is so big that the
operation can be funded by the capital's gain - interest, dividends...
Sounds interesting, even though the endowment must be huge to cover our
yearly budgets. Another
On 14 March 2013 13:00, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Thanks Andrew and Philippe for your explanation and links.
So that is a plan to build a reserve of funds that is so big that the
operation can be funded by the capital's gain - interest, dividends...
Yes, although
Hi Manuel,
In my professional experience with endowments (which isn't that extensive,
I must confess), the investments are typically extremely conservative and
designed to give a steady and reliable long term flow of dividends, rather
than shooting for quick capital gains through risky
Le 2013-03-14 12:12, Andrew Gray a écrit :
On 14 March 2013 08:09, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
thanks for collecting these links, they are interesting. Anyway, I
didn't fully understand the idea behind the page, especially as a
non-native speaker I have problems to
The February activity report by Wikimedia Nederland is now available on
meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/WIkimedia_Nederland/201302
It is also included as text below.
WMNL February report
Technical projects
· The closing conference of the
Thomas Dalton wrote:
An endowment is a long-term thing. Current low interest rates probably
won't last more than a few years. Even so, it would need to be a very
large fund, yes. If you can get a return of, say, 2% over inflation
(you can get more than that if you're willing to take some risks)
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
(Particularly looking at you, Philippe, given your work on
both the strategic plan and the licensing vote. Gerard's Law and all. ;-)
For the record, I didn't do the licensing vote. :) Erik gets all the
sblame/s credit for
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
(Particularly looking at you, Philippe, given your work on
both the strategic plan and the licensing vote. Gerard's Law and all.
;-)
For the record, I didn't do the licensing vote. :) Erik gets all
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:47 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
As I understand it, the yearly annual Wikimedia Foundation budget is about
$35 million. It costs about $2.5 million to keep the sites operational for
a year. So even if an endowment weren't large enough to cover well over
I was marginally involved on this issue two years ago. And by then the
focus/priority was to ramp up the Fundraising activities.
As this now has been successfully done, I believe this discussion is now
much better in timing, and worthwhile to work through
I like the idea that the basic
Hi Orsolya,
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Orsolya Gyenes
gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu wrote:
Is there a blog post or a press release about it?
The blog post is up:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/wikipedia-zero-wins-2013-sxsw-interactive-activism-award/
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Kul Wadhwa
Head of
Thank you!
Can't wait to be launched in Hungary! ;)
*~Orsolya*
2013/3/14 Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org
Hi Orsolya,
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Orsolya Gyenes
gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu wrote:
Is there a blog post or a press release about it?
The blog post is up:
Aha, a welcome topic :)
MZMcBride writes:
I think we need to decide, as a community, whether this is something we
want. If it is, we should set up an endowment fund sooner rather than
later, so that people willing to donate to such an endowment have a place
to put their money, I think.
Yes,
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
On 14 March 2013 13:00, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch
wrote:
Thanks Andrew and Philippe for your explanation and links.
So that is a plan to build a reserve of funds that is so big that the
My team here at the foundation has begun to do a little leg work so that we
are ready to go, if the Board should decide to pursue an endowment. We
have begun to tip our toes into the world of planned giving and have had
conversations with some of our major donors about it. At this point, the
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lisa Gruwell lgruw...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
My team here at the foundation has begun to do a little leg work so that we
are ready to go, if the Board should decide to pursue an endowment. We
have begun to tip our toes into the world of planned giving and have
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Aha, a welcome topic :)
MZMcBride writes:
I think we need to decide, as a community, whether this is something we
want. If it is, we should set up an endowment fund sooner rather than
later, so that people willing to
Hi all, and apologies for crossposting -
We've been pushing ahead with the last stages of planning for the
GLAM-Wiki conference these past couple of weeks, and I thought I'd
send around a reminder that it'll be four weeks from now!
The conference will be looking at the work done by Wikimedians
Erik Moeller wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
It costs about $2.5 million to keep the sites operational for a year.
How did you come up with that number?
I used to say $2 million, but Roan recently told me that it had probably
gone up since that
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
Last year's financial report shows almost exactly $2.5m for Internet
hosting. I'm not sure quite what that covers
Only data-center usage
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:45 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
[Hosting...] Then various operational and administrative costs. My finger in
the
air estimate would be a total of about $4m-$5m.
It is important to know how much money is going on essentials and how much
on
We also have to consider what these costs will be in 5 years and beyond to
know really how big an endowment would need to be. This will require some
fairly complicated projects, that will most certainly be wrong at some
point in time. :)
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Samuel Klein
After reading this more thoroughly: I am deeply impressed. This sort
of review should be carried out for all major ongoing projects.
For instance, it could be useful to have a similar retrospective on
major technical features that have been implemented or formally
requested by large Wikimedia
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Only data-center usage (facilities, bandwidth, power). It does not
include capital expenditures (servers, storage, network gear, etc.;
budgeted at $1.9M in 2012-13) nor ops engineering staffing, nor of
course any software
currently the bylaws say: transfer the money to any 501(c)
organisation. wmf would not be allowed to be charitable in switzerland
as it is not guaranteed the donors money end up what it was ment for:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bylaws#Section_2._Distribution_of_Assets.
rupert.
On Fri,
On 3/14/2013 10:26 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Only data-center usage (facilities, bandwidth, power). It does not
include capital expenditures (servers, storage, network gear, etc.;
budgeted at $1.9M in 2012-13) nor ops engineering staffing,
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