Lisa
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Lisa Gruwell lgruw...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2) When a U.K. donor is looking to add Gift Aid to their donation, we
process the donation through our account with the U.K. Fund for Charities,
which charges 1% for this service and returns the donor data to
Minor correction: this system in the Netherlands works the other way
around: donors can get back a part of their donation through their tax
reduction - it is not that the charity gets a bonus.
Interestingly, the Wikimedia Foundation has obtained this status (ANBI) in
the Netherlands at the urging
Hi all,
If you do a Google search and look at the Wikipedia results, e.g.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Malvinas+Argentinas+International+Airportrlz=1C1NOOH_enAU555AU555oq=Malvinas+Argentinas+International+Airportaqs=chrome..69i57sourceid=chromees_sm=93ie=UTF-8
you will see that the results
I think Erik emailed last week to this list that this was an unintended
side effect they are trying to solve. So I guess patience is the answer
here.
Lodewijk
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
If you do a Google search and look at the
Russavia asked me to check this to confirm it wasn't just him or his
regional Google setup, and it's both correct and looking into it further
it's hitting every single page on Wikipedia that Google has indexed.
If you search for DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS: You're probably busy, so we'll
get right to
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Nick Birse w...@nbir.se wrote:
Russavia asked me to check this to confirm it wasn't just him or his
regional Google setup, and it's both correct and looking into it further
it's hitting every single page on Wikipedia that Google has indexed.
If you search for
On 7 December 2014 at 11:08, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
...
The devs have been aware since December 4, based on the date
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76743 was opened.
Wow, 8 million returns on Google. Er, Lila, someone, how about making
a decision to pause using
On 7 December 2014 at 12:19, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, 8 million returns on Google. Er, Lila, someone, how about making
a decision to pause using fundraising banners until this is fixed or
at least we understand why it is happening?
See Erik's comment somewhere in this kilometre-long
2014-12-07 11:23 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org:
Minor correction: this system in the Netherlands works the other way
around: donors can get back a part of their donation through their tax
reduction - it is not that the charity gets a bonus.
Interestingly, the Wikimedia
Hoi,
At the time I learned that there is the possibility of an European tax
status. I do remember that it took several years of financial statements.
This is something we can easily provide and also when the WMF does not
quality as an organisation that is intended for the public good who is.
Thanks John for the link.
I've made an edit to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport
as I've been told that Google will update text in their search results when
articles are created and edited. Is that correct? If so, how long will the
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks John for the link.
I've made an edit to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport
as I've been told that Google will update text in their search results when
Il 07/Dic/2014 13:12 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com ha
scritto:
This is something we can easily provide and also when the WMF does not
quality as an organisation that is intended for the public good who is.
I don't understand this sentence, can you please rephrase?
C
Hoi,
It was intented as a rhetorical question... if the WMF is not contributing
to the general good who is, who qualifies ??
The main point is that the WMF took responsibility and is not aware of the
ball being in their corner.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7 December 2014 at 15:35, Cristian Consonni
Hi all,
For the record, we've been able to confirm that our fixes, which were
already deployed Thursday, immediately addressed the issue on our end.
Google also picked up the updated robots.txt already on December 4,
according to Google Webmaster Tools. GoogleBot, for better or for
worse,
Thanks for the update Erik
I can confirm that my edit to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport
has now fixed the issue in Google search as it relates to that article, but
the issue still remains on 8,600,000 articles (up from 8,540,000 articles
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
I can confirm that my edit to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_International_Airport
has now fixed the issue in Google search as it relates to that article, but
the issue still
Thanks for the thorough updates Erik :-)
On 7 Dec 2014 23:11, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com
wrote:
I can confirm that my edit to
Hi.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:23 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
1) Is the rise in global south page views
Hi Russavia-
I haven't seen the specific comment from SJ that you are referencing, but I
am guessing that he is referring to the Gift Aid percentage match, which
used to be 20% and is now 25%. The 1% I mentioned is the processing fee
WMF pays to the U.K. Fund for Charities for processing our
20 matches
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