Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Proposals to Host Wikimania in 2020

Hi Lodewijk, If Wikimania was an entity rather than an event, it would be in the top 5 entities in the movement - a smaller budget than WMF, Wikimedia Deutschland and the Wiki Education Foundation but larger than anything else... And yet it doesn't have any objectives (or at least, not

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest

[Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning for conferences

Mindful of the ongoing discussions about conferences, I think that it would be helpful to have a big picture understanding of the goals, plans, and budgets for conferences collectively. As far as I know, these are the types of recurring conferences: (1) Wikimania, which seems to be a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Proposals to Host Wikimania in 2020

Hi Andrew, I think your conclusions are largely the same as the points I'm trying to make, so all is good! Don't get me wrong, I do think Wikimania has an important impact, and don't actually want to stop having it every year, I'm just curious about the silence that has followed that WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1718 Fundraising Report now published

What or who is "Arcadia," listed in the Endowment Benefactors as having given more than $5 million? On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 3:16 PM Thea Skaff wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am writing to share with you our fundraising report for fiscal year 2018 >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1718 Fundraising Report now published

Ah, I see, it's the Endowment Advisory Board member Peter Baldwin and his wife Lisbet Rausing. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/25/wikimedia-endowment-matching-gift/ Was the donation from the individuals or the Arcadia Fund? On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:38 PM James Salsman wrote: > > What or

[Wikimedia-l] FY1718 Fundraising Report now published

Hi everyone, I am writing to share with you our fundraising report for fiscal year 2018 . This report is a collaborative effort on behalf of many teams: fundraising tech, ops and donor services, major gifts, online fundraising, legal,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Proposals to Host Wikimania in 2020

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:31 AM Chris Keating wrote: > Hi Lodewijk, > > If Wikimania was an entity rather than an event, it would be in the > top 5 entities in the movement - a smaller budget than WMF, Wikimedia > Deutschland and the Wiki Education Foundation but larger than anything > else... >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

I just saw this on the conference program! It looks wonderful. Curious about the estimated magnitudes :) Thank you for sharing. On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 2:32 PM Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a > way meant to be particularly