Re: [Wikimedia-l] Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia

2012-04-18 Thread Marc Riddell
on 4/18/12 4:53 AM, Mike Dupont at jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: this just in, scary. Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia http://www.businessinsider.com/norwegian-terrorist-anders-breivik-my-biggest - i nfluence-was-wikipedia-2012-4#ixzz1sN3LZci6 On 18 April 2012

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia

2012-04-18 Thread Fae
I find this context upsetting regardless of the points being raised. My personal request for any reader of this email thread, is that if there are any changes you would like to see on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects, please don't use anything that this monster says as a reason for action.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia

2012-04-18 Thread Mike Dupont
Yes, I also found it upsetting, but I decided to bring this topic up as someone had sent it to me, and thought that it is better that we know about what is going on before it hits us and we dont know about it. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: I find this context

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter software tools work welcome at Berlin hackathon in June

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Gehres
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Oddly enough, I have a CiviCRM developer coming around today to talk about WMUK funding a Gift Aid or Direct Debit module. He's based only a few minutes from our office. There is currently a Make It

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Yaroslav - You'll probably find background for some of this on the strategy wiki - that's the community health group that you're thinking about. :-) This is a survey in particular that might interest you: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health/Former_contributors_survey

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Rohde
PS. This story was triggered by Fastily's retirement. He has 46000 edits on enwiki, and only about 620 editors have reached that plateau. Of these, 90% are still active. So such retirements are relatively rare. Personally, I hope he decides to come back after taking some time to relax and