On Dec 1, 2014 8:26 AM, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote:
On 12/1/14, 7:11 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
There are some items -- abused or not for marketing purposes of the
entities used for achieving interests of their shareholders -- which
belong
to the corpus of common good. Like air and free
On Nov 26, 2014 11:21 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
Washington post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/
sincerely,
Kim
This is obviously not the first time this comes up, and
On 01/12/14 15:24, svetlana wrote:
Wikipedia is naturally slow and expensive for many ISPs, because we
don't use a big CDN.
Why don't we? Is it one of the expensive for us, cheap for users things?
That may be part of it. Also, we have unusual technical requirements
for freshness of content
Wikipedia begging for donations per usual. Advertising isn't evil
they say as they throw a second nag at me as I scroll down.
https://twitter.com/enemyplayer/status/539180814739988481
Obnoxious banners *really do damage the brand*.
What are the fundraiser metrics? If they don't include effect
Lincolnshire Poacher isn't just a cheese OR a pig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Poacher_(numbers_station)
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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On the topic of increasing diversity, a tech task that can be driven by
non-tech Wikimedians as well.
Wikimedia is planning to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 and the
simultaneous FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 10. We want to increase
geographical diversity among candidates by
Hoi,
We do have the experience needed. We have servers in Amsterdam and, it is
something we can repeat.
When the desires of our ops team negatively affect the performance of our
users, they have to reconsider what they are thinking. Imho that is not an
acceptable argument.
Thanks,
GerardM
Tim Landscheidt, 01/12/2014 04:22:
Also, I'm no expert on EU regulations, but I do observe that
according to the European Payments Council, it seems payees
receiving SEPA credit transfers are advised to communicate
the IBAN only where necessary:
This comparison is quite useful and got rather popular: «For all the
arcana in telecommunications law, there is a really simple way of
thinking of the debate over net neutrality: Is access to the Internet
more like access to electricity, or more like cable television service?».
Isn't a chapter allowed to run its own banner at the local Wikipedia
pointing to the its donnation procedure, I guess adequated to the local
legislation?
I guess a sitenotice is not as efficient as the fancy and well planned WMF
banner, but that could be a start.
2014-11-28 9:29 GMT-02:00
Tim Landscheidt writes:
I think on the contrary Wikipedia Zero illustrates nicely
why net neutrality is so important: Wikipedia Zero favours
solely Wikipedia (und sister projects), while contradicting
or simply other opinions and resources bite the dust.
I'm not following your reasoning
On 1 December 2014 at 14:45, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
Net neutrality as currently defined is an alluring concept because -
as Westerners - we percieve its putative effect as make everything
uniformly inexpensive to level the playing field for users and content
providers.
I'm finding this highly principled conversation fascinating to read - I'm
genuinely learning a lot about the different arguments (both philosophical
and practical) used to support or critique Wikipedia Zero. What a diverse
and highly informed group of people this list contains! :-)
From my
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
From my Australian perspective, it's interesting because we've never had
'net neutrality' in the way that it is described in the US and, with
appropriate competition and regulation this is not been a problem. e.g.:
Net
Hi folks,
Hope those of you in the US have had a lovely holiday weekend. I'm getting
caught up and it’s been interesting to read the discussion this article has
prompted -- as this thread has made clear, there’s a lot to discuss, and
people have passionate feelings about the issue. I'm learning
Hi all,
As Gayle mentioned in her email, the article in the Washington Post did not
represent an official position on net neutrality from the Wikimedia
Foundation, or how we understand Wikipedia Zero. I wanted to provide some
background that does.
Wikipedia Zero is designed to empower people who
For CNIEL it is free publicity. Putting in for them trivial amount ensures that
it happens. No-brainer. Nothing wrong with accepting their money as everyone
gains from the deal. Win- win-win situation.
Cheers,
Peter
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Hmmm,
Is that the fourth or the fifth wiki you are now indeffed from ? ;-)
(I was looking up your illustrious history while chatting with you,
and I admit I lost count somewhere along the way :-P [*])
Checking up on the nl.wikipedia discussions you had, I do agree
that the environment turned
C'mon, Kim, you know better. Keep it on IRC.
Austin
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CNIEL, are they the equivalent of the British Cheese Board? ;)
On 1 Dec 2014 18:44, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi everyone,
A quick update 7 days after launch (pun intended).
We have reached 92% of our first goal. We're receiving huge supports and an
amazing
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin writes:
I'm the project leader of WikiCheese.
KissKissBankBank
Christophe writes:
Thanks again, I tried to remain brie-f
I had a dream like this last week, full of smoke and gorgons.
Kudos à Pyb, Christophe and all: this looks delicious.
On 01/12/14 23:11, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
This comparison is quite useful and got rather popular: «For all the
arcana in telecommunications law, there is a really simple way of
thinking of the debate over net neutrality: Is access to the Internet
more like access to electricity, or more
Ori Livneh wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:55 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The banners may be effective, but they're not aligned with Wikimedia's
values.
I wouldn't come out quite as strongly against these banners, but I share
the underlying sentiment.
What happened to we make the
All -- we will not have a pop-up banner.
I know you want more insight into the trends: we will provide some of those
in our upcoming reports and metrics and we will plan to shift to a
quarterly cadence of a more specific metrics report that will include
fundraising.
Just to cover some basic
Hoi,
I would assume that statistics are an important tool. There are many
statistics I can think of off the top of my head that make sense in this
context.,
WHERE ARE THEY...
Given that this is a WMF initiative, why are the statistics not there.. You
have the capability ! and the need is obvious
Thanks Lila, most enlightening.
And as always when it comes to WMFs fundraising efforts, most impressive
work being done! And metrics in the new quarterly report will be much
appreciated.
Anders
Lila Tretikov skrev den 2014-12-02 07:53:
All -- we will not have a pop-up banner.
I know
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