Hello everyone
This is crowdfunding season :)
We are running the last few days of the Wiki Loves Africa Cuisine
photographic contest.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa
And we need your help in... three possible ways.
First, feel free to contribute more pictures to
Let me reiterate: the FDC definitely DOES NOT try to dump fundraising on
the chapters.
However, we recognize that sometimes funding or inkind support is
available more easily than elsewhere. We once had a situation that a
chapter declared they could get external funding easily for a projected
Probably it has not been considered that the general assembly of a chapter
is still a stakeholder.
In this case, for a better access to external funds, several chapters may
evaluate if it makes sense to move their legal status from a no profit
association to a foundation where the old no profit
I can also read that:
Yet the growth of *non-English communities* and project material is
critical for a vigorous and energetic long-term future for the projects,
and indeed, it is one of the top priorities developed by the movement
through our strategic planning process.
In addition I can read
Just following up,
Has WMNL now received the sought information?
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 08:42:01AM +0100, Lodewijk wrote:
It seems everyone agrees it is an important method (although I'm not 100%
sure that the US based people running the fundraiser fully
Ilario, nobody has said that chapters should become fundraiser entities. We
have been very emphatic that the main focus of APG proposals should be
delivering impact in the projects and we maintain that. What we have said
is that chapters that have the opportunities to fundraise and reduce their
Hoi,
Fund raising costs money. It affects effectivity negatively. For this
reason it is a poor strategy to raise funds.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 November 2014 at 13:16, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote:
Let me reiterate: the FDC definitely DOES NOT try to dump fundraising on
the
What, with Cheddar, Red Leicester, Stilton, and other superior cheeses?
G, D R
On Nov 25, 2014 4:35 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
pierre.beaudo...@wikimedia.fr wrote:
We started an English version of the campaign [1]
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Wensleydale, you mean
On 26 Nov 2014 17:57, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
What, with Cheddar, Red Leicester, Stilton, and other superior cheeses?
G, D R
On Nov 25, 2014 4:35 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
pierre.beaudo...@wikimedia.fr wrote:
We started an English version of
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
What, with Cheddar, Red Leicester, Stilton, and other superior cheeses?
Wiki Loves Cheese 2015?
Luis
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I don't quite agree.
Raising funds from institutions can sometimes even help improve your impact
- it forces you to think beyond the usual lines of thought. It makes you
think about further partnerships, which might also help your mission. In
the longer run, it makes you less dependent of a
To clarify: I was looking for information from my capacity as a volunteer -
I don't know if WMNL did or did not receive any information whatsoever.
I can only say that I did not receive a satisfying answer - but that should
be no surprise.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Kim
*tl;dr: *You can find the results of the Wikimania 2014 Evaluation Survey
on Wikimedia Commons *[1]*
Greetings,
Today we posted a slide deck summarizing data from the Wikimania evaluation
survey from this year’s event in London. The survey was a collaborative
effort of the Wikimania Conference
Hoi,
Lodewijk when the funding process stifles innovation and, it does by
design. The process is suboptimal. When the argument is made that the
chapters are second class citizens BECAUSE they are foced into a yearly
straight jacket and BECAUSE they forcibly lost their involvement in fund
raising.
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
December 4, 2014 at 7 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Welcoming
Most of the points you make are unrelated to funding, but have more to do
with movement priorities. I also think there are many things to be improved
there. I feel with you that chapters often have a stronger connection to
the community and what is required to help the community do their job. The
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banni%C3%A8rePopUpWikipedia2014.png
Gah.
Yes, I understand that more obnoxious banners means more money faster and
presumably a shorter overall campaign. I also understand that we're only
punishing certain large wikis with these banners and that these
These banners are problematic in that they are likely to trigger automatic
filtering of Wikimedia sites by certain types/brands of net
nanny/anti-spam/security software - including software used by many
employers, schools and libraries. And once the sites are filtered/blocked,
it will be
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:33 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Still, there's an element of basic human decency that must be
incorporated into our banner designs. Obscuring the page content is not
cool. Pop-ups (even ones that stay in the same window) are not cool.
MZMcBride
I
Gerard, we hear you. On the other hand, we have the example of Wikimedia
France, which has recently told us about a highly innovative event that
features community outreach, content creation, editing workshop, and
sufficient fundraising to pay for itself.
We know that, despite the issues of
Yes, external funding can come in many different forms. Ideally, a not for
profit will develop strategic partnerships that will give them access to
more volunteers, in kind services and good, and also financial
contributions. Good alliances will spark innovation or provide
opportunities that would
A sidenote: raising funds is probably a better term - fundraising is
historically in Wikimedia often used to refer specifically to the small
donors. A process which chapters have been barred from unfortunately, and
which faces some interesting struggles on the WMF-side right now. But I
guess it's
On 26 November 2014 at 20:33, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banni%C3%A8rePopUpWikipedia2014.png
Gah.
Didn't we have the lightbox argument last year?
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On 26 November 2014 at 18:07, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Wiki Loves Cheese 2015?
Sorry, American cousins, cheese in cans doesn't count ;-)
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sincerely,
Kim
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That is why there is a whole process now to correct the mistakes that
arise from this non-professional system, including a dedicated
ombudsperson for the case(s).
It’s worth noting that the ombudsperson role has existed since the start of the
FDC - the role is there to receive, investigate
David Gerard wrote:
Didn't we have the lightbox argument last year?
Probably. Or the year before. Or the year before that. I did say (again)
in the subject line. ;-)
There are various discussions popping up across Wikimedia about these
banners. It didn't help that a bug earlier this week caused
Well, I would say that probably the chapters are looking for external
funds not because WMF is suggesting to do it, but probably because it's
too much hard to follow the interpretations of the FDC.
Every year that a chapter applies for a FDC grant is like to go to the
sybil
It's an encyclopaedia, the cheeses don’t have to be superior.
Cheers,
Peter
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Hoi,
When the WMF staff is only involved in advising local fundraising, then the
WMF staff is considered superior. The actual situation is that the WMF
would do well and expect superior local knowledge and use it for its
fundraising. It should compensate the chapters for this. It would do well
Hello dear all,
this is not a response to any specific mails on this thread, just a few
thoughts from my side.
I am not very heavily involved in the FDC process, what I did was, well,
as one of the board member decided to create this process and one of the
advisory group member observed the
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