Hi all,
Several organizations have held AGMs and (re)elected boards.
Congratulations to Wikimedia Deutschland for electing a new board. Great
wisdom and strength to them in their transitional period.
Congratulations to Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) who reelected the board of WMIL
and to WMHU for
Thanks Ad,
and congratulation to all.
Cheers!
Aubrey
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Christophe Henner
christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I've already congratulate them in Private not to spam everyone, but your
solution is much more clever.
Congratulations to all of you :)
All
On Dec 3, 2014 3:46 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Megan Hernandez mhernandez@... writes:
As Lila’s email said, we launched our end of year English fundraising
campaign on Tuesday. I wanted to share a little more background on the
mechanics of the English Wikipedia campaign,
* Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
Dear fundraising team. Thank you for your efforts to make the fundraiser as
quick as possible. I understand that effective banners allow us to keep the
yearly donation drive as short as possible.
Considering the rate at which the Foundation and its Chapters increase
and
Martijn Hoekstra, 03/12/2014 10:13:
I will automate this message for the first Tuesday of December, around
10:00 a.m. UTC. If others could automate their messages to not exactly
coincidence with this one, that would help.
Why December? Fundraising banners are up all year long. Due to the
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
wrote:
I know I used to write an email internally every year, saying our banners
are getting out of control, but that's because every year they get bigger
and more obscuring of the content. This year, as usual, is
I don't think anyone is surprised when the Reg publishes a negative article
about Wikipedia/Wikimedia. Someone there seems to have had an axe to grind
for years.
But in this case, we certainly need to stop giving them the ammo.
Regards,
Charles
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Andreas Kolbe
Note that there is a parallel e-mail campaign, which also seems to have
ruffled some feathers.
https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/539861727517868032
As shown in the screenshot of that tweet, the sender is Jimmy Wales,
Wikipedia, and the wording begins:
---o0o---
Dear name,
Thank you for
On Dec 3, 2014 12:00 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Martijn Hoekstra, 03/12/2014 10:13:
I will automate this message for the first Tuesday of December, around
10:00 a.m. UTC. If others could automate their messages to not exactly
coincidence with this one, that would
Congratulation to all!
Cheers!
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com
wrote:
congratulation to all.
Cheers!
--
*Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia
http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive
Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia
Welcome Giuliana..Congratulation..
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome Giuliana. WMMX desires you a lot of success in this new
appointment.
Congrats to WMIT! Extra point for you for getting a ED with understanding
of Spanish :P
Auguri!
Congratulations WMDE new board!
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations to WMDE
--
*Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia
http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive
Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
I have a vague recollection that when I started editing the English
Wikipedia ten years ago, there was a notice near the Save button, which
said something like this: Your changes will be edited mercilessly.
I remember similar notices in other languages as well, though even more
vaguely.
I
Nicely put Martijn. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Dear WMF Fundraising team, please do not take this thread (or this email)
as an attack on yourselves or the professionalism that you apply to your
work. You should continue to take great personal pride in the crucial role
you play to make
Congratulations!
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Isabella Apriyana
isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id wrote:
Congratulations!
--
*Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia
http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive
Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
... Oh, actually now I see at the top of the English Wikipedia source
editing page: Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and
redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions.
As far I recall, however, it was near the Save button, and it definitely
said something more
I remember edited mercilessly as well...
The current message is from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Editpage-head-copy-warn and
dates from 2012. I wonder if this was changed when the ToU came in?
An unscientific hint is that posters to the Wikimedia mailing lists
more or less stopped
Hello everybody,
I am very glad to be part of Wikimedia world. I would like to thank you
all for your warm welcome and for your availability. I will be delighted
to get to know you and work with you.
Ciao a tutti,
Giuliana
Welcome Giuliana..Congratulation..
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM,
Delphine Ménard], Lodewijk Gelauff, and Bence Damokos,
Thank you all for offering your services to the wikimedia movement to give
your expertise to this important committee.
Warm regards,
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014
No response yet :(
2014-12-03 16:09 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com:
-*Internationalism*: ...our fundraising practices must support the easiest
possible transfer of money internationally. Instead, we've had the recent
discussions about how donating is difficult from the Netherlands
Hoi.
The chapters are not relevant here. It is only the WMF who raises funds.
With more chapters the public is better served. Now THAT is worth the money
we are asking for.
Also the fundraising is NOT for Wikipedia. It is for the whole of our
movement and for all of our products.
Thanks,
Hello,
This text has been a part of the five pillars for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute: Since
all editors freely license their work to the public, no editor owns an
article and any
Good points.
Many people feel sincere gratitude towards Wikipedia, and its volunteer
writers.
I would suggest that the fundraising messages could *also* mention that
another way people can express their gratitude to Wikipedia would be to
become contributors themselves.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at
The merciless was used in the standardised messages decided by
referendum in 2009:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update#Proposed_terms_of_use
It got lost in the implementation in 2009:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation#Terms_for_edit_screen
And then the
On 3 December 2014 at 05:08, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Hi,
I have a vague recollection that when I started editing the English
Wikipedia ten years ago, there was a notice near the Save button, which
said something like this: Your changes will be edited mercilessly.
It's still on the WIkimedia UK wiki, but only visible when you are in the
edit window (as below). I always thought it was really harsh and
unwelcoming.
Please note that all contributions to Wikimedia UK are considered to be
released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (see
Congratulations Giuliana!
Tanweer
Wikimedia Bangladesh
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:09 PM, direttore-gener...@wikimedia.it wrote:
Hello everybody,
I am very glad to be part of Wikimedia world. I would like to thank you
all for your warm welcome and for your availability. I will be delighted
to
Hi James,
I have be trying to convince the World Health Organization to go to a CC BY
SA license for a few years now.
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO
states: https://dgroups.org/hifa2015/discussions/35152a41
We would welcome sharing with us some
Hi all,
This type of fundraising is -- by its very nature -- obtrusive. We are
thinking about other options. But, as with anything, every action has
equal and opposite reaction. Anything we do, we have to consider the
consequences and we will find flaws.
Now for the specifics:
Yes -- the
110% !!! We bleu our first goal.
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin writes:
I'm the project leader of WikiCheese.
KissKissBankBank
Christophe writes:
Thanks again, I tried to remain brie-f
I had a dream like this last week, full of smoke and gorgons.
Kudos à Pyb, Christophe and all: this looks
Lila Tretikov lila@... writes:
This type of fundraising is -- by its very nature -- obtrusive. We are
thinking about other options. But, as with anything, every action has
equal and opposite reaction. Anything we do, we have to consider the
consequences and we will find flaws.
Now for
Thanks Nemo and James.
In case you haven't guessed already, I am wondering whether having this
message is a good idea or a bad idea.
I don't really know and I can only make some guesses.
I knew what a wiki was when I first encountered Wikipedia in 2004. Because
of this, the edited mercilessly
Hi Lila,
Thanks for your response. In the past, fundraising was more of a
collaborative effort - maybe it would make sense to rethink the fundraising
process after this round, and see how the community can be made co-own the
process, so that the work of the team becomes easier, and friction less.
It is already co-owned. It is just that people haven't bothered to try talking
to the Fundraising Team.
Is it time to rename Teams to something else, something that suggests that they
don't work in a cave on the Moon?
--
svetlana
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 08:32, Lodewijk wrote:
Hi Lila,
I would like to expose this more, maybe after this crunch. Just keep in
mind that it takes time to anonymize and process -- a time that is
otherwise spent on optimizing or collaborating. One bucket of resources,
many demands... and I'd like to keep us as lean as we are :)
Below is a soundbite I
Congratulations, new board!
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive n...@nhasive.com wrote:
Congratulations WMDE new board!
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Congratulations to WMDE
--
*Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
Administrator
I have no doubt that the banners work. But in the opinion of a number of
commentators here, the banners currently feature a very alarming wording –
making it sound as though there is not enough money to keep Wikipedia
online for another year without introducing advertising – and yet we know
that
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I would like to expose this more, maybe after this crunch. Just keep in
mind that it takes time to anonymize and process -- a time that is
otherwise spent on optimizing or collaborating. One bucket of resources,
many
John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
i.e. specifically asking
previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing
whether they feel the increase in funds has not resulted in their work
being adequately supported?
Thanks for your great wording, John.
I belong to this category
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
i.e. specifically asking
previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing
whether they feel the increase in funds has not resulted in their work
being adequately
Hi,
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 12:30, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
i.e. specifically asking
previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing
whether they feel the
Lila Tretikov lila@... writes:
I would like to expose this more, maybe after this crunch. Just keep in
mind that it takes time to anonymize and process -- a time that is
otherwise spent on optimizing or collaborating. One bucket of resources,
many demands... and I'd like to keep us as lean
Hi all.
I can see clear interest in everyone on this thread wanting to figure out the
right way to do it. Let's not jinx it by painting WMF Fundraising as the guys
who break and community as the gwho rage. Both these groups are rather
capable of working things out (unlike the ...who break and
I wrote:
it's usually both sides of the conversation at fault for accumulating their
rage instead of communicating it early
I unintentionally skipped a couple words. I meant to say:
it's usually both sides of the conversation at fault, *such* *as* for
accumulating their rage instead of
svetlana svetlana@... writes:
I wrote:
it's usually both sides of the conversation at fault for accumulating
their rage instead of
communicating it early
I unintentionally skipped a couple words. I meant to say:
it's usually both sides of the conversation at fault, *such* *as* for
Lane Rasberry wrote:
This text has been a part of the five pillars for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Nice find. For the curious, the phrase was added to the Five pillars
page in May 2005, seemingly copied from the user interface:
Ryan Lane,
The whole of your post suggests that the fundraising folks are deaf. Your last
sentence doesn't make you more to the point. This makes you really
unapproachable and puts the fundraising folks into harder position as they have
to cry, beg pardon and spend time apologizing -- as if
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