Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikipedia’s first-ever annual video reflects contributions from people around the world

2014-12-18 Thread Anders Wennersten
Excellent piece of work! It makes me really glad (and proud) to see, in this professional way, what our daily chore adds up to in the end. I am also very pleased to see this type of modern communication material being produced by WMF, many thank to the people involved! Anders Juliet

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikipedia’s first-ever annual video reflects contributions from people around the world

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Jahn
Congratulations! A very powerful message and a precisely composed one, too. Kudos to Victor and everyone involved! Michael 2014-12-18 9:21 GMT+01:00 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se: Excellent piece of work! It makes me really glad (and proud) to see, in this professional way, what

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

2014-12-18 Thread Takashi OTA
Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me where of the commons/meta the translations have been done? I'd like to fix some of the Japanese subtitles. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

2014-12-18 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hi, Takot! Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt A. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

2014-12-18 Thread Takashi OTA
Thanks Asaf for quick response! I'll get started soon. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Takot! Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt A. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:47 AM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

2014-12-18 Thread Andrea Zanni
This is an incredible video. Congratulations to everyone involved. Now I need to get a tissue *sniff*. Aubrey On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Asaf for quick response! I'll get started soon. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

2014-12-18 Thread Takashi OTA
Hi all, On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt I've done some edits but it will not be reflected on the YouTube subtitles automatically? --[[User:Takot]]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

2014-12-18 Thread Liam Wyatt
Beautiful work :-) I especially appreciate the way you also subtly included our very own Adrianne Wadewitz. On Thursday, 18 December 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I’m happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

2014-12-18 Thread Subramanya Sastry
Very well done!!! Congrats to everyone involved (volunteers for producing the content, and for WMF's communication team for so beautifully and powerfully surfacing the magic of it all)! Subbu. On 12/17/2014 11:03 PM, Victor Grigas wrote: Hi everyone, I’m happy to share the first-ever

[Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation

2014-12-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to Wikipedia Library: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/dec/gold-journals-donation-for-wikipedia-editors/ Please visit that page for details, to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation

2014-12-18 Thread Lila Tretikov
Thanks Andy --- this is great. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to Wikipedia Library:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Maggs
Excellent. Fantastic news, Andy! That will make a real difference to serious chemistry on Wikipedia. Michael On 18 Dec 2014, at 15:28, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation

2014-12-18 Thread Samuel Klein
Illustrated by a Heather Walls special, no less. Excellent news, thank you. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation

2014-12-18 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Excellent! On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Illustrated by a Heather Walls special, no less. Excellent news, thank you. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library (New in December)

2014-12-18 Thread Jake Orlowitz
Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available this month: *Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Elsevier_ScienceDirect *Royal Society of Chemistry Gold Access - chemistry journals

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

2014-12-18 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Pats, Please be aware that iDEAL is still not functional on the Dutch fundraiser page. Also, IBAN is missing. Best, Lodewijk On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Hi Patricia, Thanks for telling that the iDEAL will be back soon. I don't quite

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-18 Thread Liam Wyatt
This email was sent by WMF fundraising today. I'm embarrassed. Read the email first, then I'll tell you why, below. *Da:* Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia don...@wikimedia.org *Data:* 17 December 2014 10:15:56 pm GMT+1 *A: [email address removed]* *Oggetto:* *Our final email* *Rispondi a:*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-18 Thread Austin Hair
Mailman clobbers HTML sent to this list (for good reason), but if you'd like to see it in all its technicolor glory, here's the e-mail in question: http://bit.ly/1zCPGQZ (Sorry, future list archive perusers, that's not a permanent link.) Austin On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Liam Wyatt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-18 Thread MZMcBride
Liam Wyatt wrote: *Effectiveness != Efficiency* One of the official WMF Fundraising principles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_principles is *minimal disruption*...aim to raise money from donors *effectively* [emphasis is original]. I believe that this wording has been interpreted by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-18 Thread David Gerard
On 19 December 2014 at 00:12, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The fundraising rules also need to make explicit that lying is flatly unacceptable. Having the first rule be don't lie might be the easiest solution here, though it's shocking that this needs to be written down. +1 And we're

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-18 Thread Craig Franklin
On 19 December 2014 at 10:12, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The fundraising rules also need to make explicit that lying is flatly unacceptable. Having the first rule be don't lie might be the easiest solution here, though it's shocking that this needs to be written down. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-18 Thread Peter Southwood
These objectionable items are all standard advertising practice. No-one should be surprised. They work because they are targeted at an audience that expects this kind of crap and responds to it like Pavlovs dogs. If the fundraising team went to marketing school this is probably how they were

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

2014-12-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about this [1]. By ignoring the rest of the world, they effectively give ownership to the WMF to the USA way of working. On a more practical level, they hand over money for their convenience that is in my opinion an absolute waste. By using a UK organisation to process donations,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Liam Wyatt, 19/12/2014 00:08: PS: Less than 1% of our readers donate enough to keep Wikipedia running. Your contribution counts! I read this as shame on you, users who use Wikipedia without paying for its costs!. Criminalising our users is really abusive. Sadly, this latest violation of the