Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update

2014-12-15 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
Great to know. Thanks for sharing! On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:46 PM, svetlana wrote: > > Megan Hernandez wrote: > > [...] And > > thank you for making Wikipedia a treasured resource that people are happy > > to support :) > > > > Quotes from Wikipedia readers: > > [...] > > We should do this on a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update

2014-12-15 Thread svetlana
Megan Hernandez wrote: > [...] And > thank you for making Wikipedia a treasured resource that people are happy > to support :) > > Quotes from Wikipedia readers: > [...] We should do this on all sister projects, ideally. They gotta know the role of WMF in the movement (and a fundraising banner i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update

2014-12-15 Thread Emily Blanchard
Thank you for sharing! Emily Blanchard Talent Acquisition Team Wikimedia Foundation eblanchard@wikimedia. org Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Become a Contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse Join Us: http://wikimediafoundatio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update

2014-12-15 Thread Ivan Martínez
What a wonderful news, Megan! We will sharing with our social media channels this inspiring quotes. 2014-12-15 18:25 GMT-06:00 Megan Hernandez : > > Hi everyone, > > We are two weeks into the English fundraising campaign. We've had > incredible support from our community of readers these past two

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update

2014-12-15 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hi everyone, We are two weeks into the English fundraising campaign. We've had incredible support from our community of readers these past two weeks and we are thankful to everyone who has contributed so far. We have raised roughly $18 million from 1.6 million readers since we launched the campa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France board handbook

2014-12-15 Thread Emeric Vallespi
Dear all, Jean-Frédéric and I just published the learning patterns about this WMFr Board Handbook. Please find it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Board_Handbook_%E2%88%92_A_shared_vision_of_the_board_role_in_an_evolving_organisation Hope it can be useful, if you

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Organizational effectiveness tool for Wikimedia organizations (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations)

2014-12-15 Thread Winifred Olliff
Greetings, Wikimedia colleagues: Many thanks to all who have participated in the organizational effectiveness tool so far. The questionnaire is still active and *the date for responding has been extended to 29 December:* *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread Paul Howard
Hi As an uploader of a deleted IAC logo to Commons for this organisation IAC for the en.wp article, and after carefully reviewing the continuous edit wars / blocks over the article, what emerges is nobody has appreciated that Bruentrup's client's organisation's name is "India Against Corruption

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Strainu, 15/12/2014 13:06: Online editing for images is an obvious first step, but we know there are already basic online video editing functions (youtube) so even if it takes a while, this should be a target for the engineering team. Does anyone know if there are any bugs on the subject? Seve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
geni, 15/12/2014 09:54: Not in the way that I mean. WMUK is a contact for wikipedia (and other wikimedia projects). I've seen little evidence of it being a contact for people less sure about where they want to go. Sounds like a problem specific to WMUK then, which you should discuss with them.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread Strainu
2014-12-15 11:40 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter : > On 2014-12-15 10:30, svetlana wrote: >> >> In addition to the fact that the search sucks, and other issues >> mentioned here earlier, there are some issues with Commons. >> >> 1) Unlike Imgur, it doesn't have a big -- and useable -- "upload" >> but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2014-12-15 10:30, svetlana wrote: In addition to the fact that the search sucks, and other issues mentioned here earlier, there are some issues with Commons. 1) Unlike Imgur, it doesn't have a big -- and useable -- "upload" button on the homepage. I know about media freedom, yet for sharing o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread svetlana
In addition to the fact that the search sucks, and other issues mentioned here earlier, there are some issues with Commons. 1) Unlike Imgur, it doesn't have a big -- and useable -- "upload" button on the homepage. I know about media freedom, yet for sharing of photos I made, Commons is not the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread geni
On 14 December 2014 at 18:27, MZMcBride wrote: > > My reading is that your replies have a very defeatist outlook. And it > feels a bit like simple laziness ("everybody does this and we can't make > messages less awful because it's just too had"). There are a few clear > problem here and they'r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread geni
On 14 December 2014 at 12:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > > geni, 14/12/2014 09:13: > >> if we can turn the >> chapters into respected points of contact which GLAMs >> > > Is there any evidence to think they aren't? > Not in the way that I mean. WMUK is a contact for wikipedia (and other wikim