Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group China

2014-07-31 Thread Katie Chan
Congratulations and 歡迎。 On 30 July 2014 22:22, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-30 19:16 GMT+02:00 Tonmoy Khan tonmoy...@gmail.com: That's a great news! Congratulations to WM User Group China. Wow! Great news! Cristian

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group China

2014-07-31 Thread Balázs Viczián
Congratulations from 匈牙利 ! (hope it will read Hungary :) ) Balazs 2014-07-31 10:56 GMT+01:00 Katie Chan katie.c...@wikimedia.org.uk: Congratulations and 歡迎。 On 30 July 2014 22:22, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-30 19:16 GMT+02:00 Tonmoy Khan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Egypt Wikimedians User Group

2014-07-31 Thread Balázs Viczián
Let me join the line: Congrats, keep up the good work :) Balazs from WMHU 2014-07-30 23:35 GMT+01:00 Samir Ibrahim s4langu...@yahoo.com: Thanks for your delicate words everyone and thanks a million to Carlos for his support. I hope we can serve and support the Wiki community and the wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bitcoin now accepted, but there are privacy concerns

2014-07-31 Thread Chris Keating
In that case how would the Foundation tell if someone made a number of donations of under $1k that were declarable in aggregate? Hi Lisa, I admit I am not an expert in U.S. tax law, so I could be entirely misinterpreting it. But my read of the IRS instructions are that donors who donate more than

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Agenda Board Meeting 67 august

2014-07-31 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hello Everyone, Like every year the Wikimedia Board of Trustees will have a board meeting in the days preceding Wikimania. Our meeting in London has the following agenda: == August 6, 2014 == Special items from Committees Lila's first three months Strategy planning Chapter site visits and

[Wikimedia-l] $20 donation to WMF for vandalism edit from US House of Representatives

2014-07-31 Thread Russavia
On 23 July John Resig tweeted a challenge,[1] I will donate $20 to a charity if someone can land an edit to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory) … in @congressedits Sure enough, someone took up Resig's challenge with this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] $20 donation to WMF for vandalism edit from US House of Representatives

2014-07-31 Thread Newyorkbrad
The activity you describe is obviously unacceptable. However, the amount of time and effort that out associated with tracking down and returning a particular $20 contribution would not be worth it. Newyorkbrad On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] $20 donation to WMF for vandalism edit from US House of Representatives

2014-07-31 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Was this paid-by-proxy contribution accompanied by disclosure? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] $20 donation to WMF for vandalism edit from US House of Representatives

2014-07-31 Thread Nathan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: To make matters a little worse, the US House of Representatives IP has taken to vandalising the Russian Wikipedia article for the Russian national anthem,[5] replacing sheet music for the anthem with the sheet

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ** DATE CHANGE ** Invitation to WMF July 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, July 31, 18:00 UTC

2014-07-31 Thread Praveena Maharaj
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, Due to an overlap with Wikimania 2014 http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page events, the next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bitcoin now accepted, but there are privacy concerns

2014-07-31 Thread Pine W
This may be technically possible but it may also be time consuming to implement, and and in the interest of using Fundriasing Tech time in optimal ways it may be that preserving donor anonymity from the IRS is a lower priority if the Foundation can meet its fundraising goals without doing this. I

[Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG

2014-07-31 Thread Pine W
In today's WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting [1] Jessie Wild's presentation starting around 1:05:00 compared the meta-level grantmaking programs. The presentation is about 12 minutes long. Jessie, I have two questions, and other people may want to ask questions as well. 1. I'm aware that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG

2014-07-31 Thread Jessie Wild
Thanks for listening to the presentation, Pine! There will be a more comprehensive analysis posted on Meta, but in the meantime to answer your questions: 1. I'm aware that Program Evaluation is examining the outcomes of conferences this year, and Jamie and I have discussed this in at least

[Wikimedia-l] Revamped iOS Wikipedia app now live!

2014-07-31 Thread Dan Garry
Hi everyone, I'm thrilled to announce that today the Mobile Apps Team released the new, native iOS Wikipedia app! Quick access to information is important for our mobile users, and we want to give people the fastest way to access Wikipedia while on the go. A lot of the improvements are under the

[Wikimedia-l] Introducing the new Wikimedia blog: a place for movement news

2014-07-31 Thread Tilman Bayer
Hi all, Please find below the text of an announcement that was just posted at https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/31/introducing-the-new-blog/ ;) Today we’re excited to announce the relaunch of the Wikimedia blog, with a new design and new features intended to make it easier for people to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG

2014-07-31 Thread Pine W
Hi Jessie, Thanks for the quick reply. Issue 1 may be challenging to measure even with Wikimetrics. Can we talk about this during the Research Hackathon next week if we can set up a time off-list? Thanks for the info about issue 2. I am grateful to learn that you did an evaluation of PEG. It is