Re: [Wikimedia-l] Staff Images

Roary, please know that I was not distressed by any of the earlier comments in this thread. I see a vanguard of my relatives already quietly oversee the Wikimedia offices. We are a sociable clan,[1] and accept your proffered paw of peace. We find felines make fine company, with your flexible

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Advocacy Advisors] Participating in a specific, transparency-focused action

Luis Villa wrote: >... > we'll continue to look out for opportunities that make sense > ourselves, and of course the community should always feel > able and empowered to start things as well The Foundation uses Google Drive/Docs internally. And extensively so, right? Why don't you publish a re

[Wikimedia-l] FDC 2012-13 process review

Hello everyone! Just wanted to draw your attention to an overview created of the FDC process in review, 2012-13[1] It reviews the process looking solely at the information from the two process surveys which we conducted following the two rounds of FDC funding.[2] The page was created a few weeks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

Hi Nicole, Happy to help! No, the $6M _doesn't_ include any potential FDC allocation for WMF in Round 2. Warmly, Anasuya On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Nicole Ebber wrote: > Hi Anasuya and Garfield, > > please allow me a quick question: > > * In 2012-13, the FDC grants (round 1 and 2) were $

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "How Wikipedia Works" on Wikibooks

This also fits into the Wikisource scope; you could use the PDF with the ProofreadPage system. In contrast to the Wikibooks version, this would match the original published version of the book. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "How Wikipedia Works" on Wikibooks

Thank you Phoebe and Charles! I started adding and wikifying the tables of contents. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in. > >A. > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm pleased to announ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "How Wikipedia Works" on Wikibooks

This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in. A. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of > our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks: > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki

[Wikimedia-l] "How Wikipedia Works" on Wikibooks

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We published HWW in 2008,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM, government surveillance, and Wikimedia: Request for community feedback

Geoff Brigham wrote: WMF is getting professional translations in German, French, Spanish, and Japanese, and will post by Tuesday. I know that the RfC on PRISM has already been closed, but I have only remembered this today: what happened with the professional translations of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

Hi Anasuya and Garfield, please allow me a quick question: * In 2012-13, the FDC grants (round 1 and 2) were $4.7 M plus the WMF FDC grant of $4.5 M = a total of $9.2 M. * In 2013-14, the FDC grants are budgeted with a total of $6 M. What is unclear to me is if this $6 M are including the FDC gr

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 28 -- 17 July 2013

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17/News_and_notes WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17/WikiProject_report Featured content: Docu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the wiki-adoption process

On 17.07.2013 07:03, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: David Cuenca, 17/07/2013 00:36: Thanks for pointing that out, I have seen that there is a proposed process https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_process#Adopting_an_existing_project_into_Wikimedia However it is not that clear what is the s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fundraising test absurdly successful but still huge room for improvement

That is a great improvement, BUT http://xkcd.com/605/ That the experiment reached 100k per day doesn't mean that it will sustain for the whole year, or that the pool of donors is large enough to reach the endowment needs. Don't get me wrong, I hope your predictions are accurate, just let's not get

[Wikimedia-l] fundraising test absurdly successful but still huge room for improvement

In the last week, the current fundraising test has stabilized at about $100,000 per day from showing the latest banners one time (per cookie) to 5% of logged out enwiki readers. It was falling from larger amounts during July 1st-10th, but at that time the banner was being offered to 5% of all page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

Thanks Sam for the clarification. I'm sorry to hear this was not discussed in the board apparently. I hope you will be able to share the outcome of that discussion to remove any uncertainty that may have remained. I do agree that there was no major change in how the annual plan was handled this ye