Re: [Wikimedia-l] News24 (.za): SA learners lobby for free Wikipedia

2012-12-10 Thread Sophie Österberg
us why we > bother doing all of this. > > > http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/SA-learners-lobby-for-free-Wikipedia-20121210 > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF Board: October 26-27, 2012, meeting

2012-12-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Doing a quick scan of the minutes, I would be interested to know what steps are planned to ameliorate the increased lack of transparency that will be necessarily follow from an increased number of decisions made without official resolution to record them? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cim

[Wikimedia-l] Office hours with Sue

2012-12-10 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hello, all. Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, is doing an IRC office hours on Saturday December 15 at 18:30:00 UTC. There is not currently an agenda set for the meeting, but I will update the particulars on Meta if that changes. Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-10 Thread Terry Chay
Furthermore, WordPress is actually not strong in the government/enterprise space. Instead Drupal is with direct outreach to institutions. The difference in DrupalCon vs. WordCamp SF reflect this. WordPress presence (around 9% of all domains on the internet) in addition to a rapid decline in the

[Wikimedia-l] Guidance for article tranlators

2012-12-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
I wrote a page to offer guidance to translators wishing to translate Wikipedia articles /from/ English to other languages. You may wish to have that translated for your own languages; or to "interwiki" link pages which already exist for that pu

[Wikimedia-l] News24 (.za): SA learners lobby for free Wikipedia

2012-12-10 Thread David Gerard
Wikipedia Zero is popular! This sort of thing should remind us why we bother doing all of this. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/SA-learners-lobby-for-free-Wikipedia-20121210 - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wiki Support

2012-12-10 Thread Liam Wyatt
Hi Jan, Can you elaborate a bit on what your Mission is, and what WikiSupport is as compared to WikimediaCZ? -Liam On Monday, 10 December 2012, Jan Lochman wrote: > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > > let me announce the foundation of Wiki Support – Czech Republic based NGO > focusing the human resou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF Board: October 26-27, 2012, meeting

2012-12-10 Thread Geoff Brigham
Hi Bence, Arne was not present, and the minutes have been corrected. Thanks for catching that. Geoff > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:58:32 +0100 > From: Bence Damokos > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF Board: October 26-27, 2012, > meeting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-10 Thread Michael Peel
On 10 Dec 2012, at 02:03, Milos Rancic wrote: > The news from today is that FreeBSD didn't succeed to gather enough > money during their annual fundraising [1][2]. They only started their annual fundraising campaign 5 days ago: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/year-end-fundraisin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-10 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Dec 10, 2012 3:03 AM, "Milos Rancic" wrote: > > The news from today is that FreeBSD didn't succeed to gather enough > money during their annual fundraising [1][2]. > > Badass suggestion would be that they should ask now Apple for funds. > But, I'll try to keep chortle for myself and remain seri