Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

2017-06-06 Thread Michael Jahn
One clarification to Liam's very precise explanations: Donors do not automatically become "Fördermitglieder"/sponsoring members by donating, i. e. not every donor becomes a member. You have to actively choose membership. If anybody is interested to learn more at Wikimania, I just submitted an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

2017-06-06 Thread Liam Wyatt
This annual report, and the numbers in it, are indeed very cool :-) Congratulations. I just want to add a clarification about the membership numbers, since that is getting a lot of attention in this thread. Not because these numbers are incorrect, or bad, but that other Chapters might be feeling

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

2017-06-06 Thread Chris Keating
> No, it means 15,000 new (paying) members of the association Wikimedia > Deutschland. > Just to be clear - these are basically donors, not volunteers, right? > > However, we also try to recruit new authors/editors via banner campaigns > and are running several of them throughout the year. If

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

2017-06-06 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Yes, that is a really great result. Switzerland is like a next-door neighbor. If Germany can do it, we should be able to do it as well ! Lets say that our goal for Switzerland should be 1'500 new members... :) On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:42 PM, James Heilman wrote: > +1 agree

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

2017-06-06 Thread James Heilman
+1 agree amazing On Jun 6, 2017 03:32, "Natacha Rault" wrote: > This is an incredibble result. Congratulation! > Natacha > Le 6 juin 2017 à 11:21, Cornelius Kibelka > a écrit : > > No, it means 15,000 new (paying) members of the association

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

2017-06-06 Thread Cristian Consonni
On 06/06/2017 02:10, Risker wrote: > As far as I can tell (and from comments made in the past by actual Tor > users), there is no problem whatsoever for Tor users to read Wikipedia > while using Tor. Let me put it this way, I am sure that the WMF will always do its best to protect the privacy of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

2017-06-06 Thread Natacha Rault
This is an incredibble result. Congratulation! Natacha Le 6 juin 2017 à 11:21, Cornelius Kibelka a écrit : No, it means 15,000 new (paying) members of the association Wikimedia Deutschland. However, we also try to recruit new authors/editors via banner

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

2017-06-06 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
No, it means 15,000 new (paying) members of the association Wikimedia Deutschland. However, we also try to recruit new authors/editors via banner campaigns and are running several of them throughout the year. If you are interested in this, consider joining Verena's session at Wikimania about