Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
On 14 December 2014 at 12:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com 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 wikimedia projects). I've seen little evidence of it being a contact for people less sure about where they want to go. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
On 14 December 2014 at 18:27, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com 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're regularly hurting us. So one way or another, we need to find acceptable short-term and long-term solutions. Instead of being defeatist, we need a willingness to try and try again. :-) En does. As and when they crack it we can export it to commons. Why dicey? At a minimum, we need support for basic image editing (cropping, resizing, rotating). And there are external libraries we can likely leverage here. Its not to bad with images but once you switch to video file size becomes a problem. Why is that? Isn't the most efficient and most logical path to media donations via Commons? Is that path currently the least painful? The reason you go via wikipedia is that they are the project with the missing images. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
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 choice. There is a big multi-page form to fill in, — both the upload wizard and the special:upload page. I see uploadwizard as the tool with bigger potential for fixing this. 2) The upload wizard has no path from it to other sister projects. At Wikipedia and other sister projects, instead of writing a short article with a picture, I often resort to writing a short article without a picture, for this reason. (Occasionally I still upload a picture, but only when I /really/ need to). 3) Users often would like to share not only pictures, but also galleries, but the upload wizard lacks galleries integration, too. All these are UploadWizard issues: usability, integration with sister projects, gallery integration. Filed in its tracker: - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78523 UploadWizard should allow to upload an image in less clicks - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78524 UploadWizard lacks path from it to other sister projects - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78525 UploadWizard lacks gallery format output -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
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 of photos I made, Commons is not the choice. There is a big multi-page form to fill in, — both the upload wizard and the special:upload page. I see uploadwizard as the tool with bigger potential for fixing this. svetlana Actually, for sharing photos - do we have an html code generator for an image or other means to share an existing photo similar to what flickr has? Would it be easy to produce if we have none? Or may be there are some trivial ways to share it I am not aware of? Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
2014-12-15 11:40 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru: 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 of photos I made, Commons is not the choice. There is a big multi-page form to fill in, — both the upload wizard and the special:upload page. I see uploadwizard as the tool with bigger potential for fixing this. svetlana Actually, for sharing photos - do we have an html code generator for an image or other means to share an existing photo similar to what flickr has? Would it be easy to produce if we have none? Or may be there are some trivial ways to share it I am not aware of? Yes, we do. I see it above the picture, but it's JS generated, so depending on your settings you might or might not see it. 2014-12-15 11:04 GMT+02:00 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 14 December 2014 at 18:27, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com 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're regularly hurting us. So one way or another, we need to find acceptable short-term and long-term solutions. Instead of being defeatist, we need a willingness to try and try again. :-) En does. As and when they crack it we can export it to commons. Why should we assume that only en.wp can provide good results? If anyone on this list feels his/her project's messages are better, the right way to do would be to start from that language and translate into English. Why dicey? At a minimum, we need support for basic image editing (cropping, resizing, rotating). And there are external libraries we can likely leverage here. Its not to bad with images but once you switch to video file size becomes a problem. Here is how this sounds to me: It's hard to do for every file, so we shouldn't do it. 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? Why is that? Isn't the most efficient and most logical path to media donations via Commons? Is that path currently the least painful? The reason you go via wikipedia is that they are the project with the missing images. Making Commons a project appears more and more as a mistake. It's too late to complain about it, but it's not too late to move away from the project Commons to the repository Commons, with each project administering the images it uses and an Arbitration committee handling the contentious deletions. Strainu ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
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. Most chapters I know more closely don't have such a problem. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
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? Several. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40271 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56221 Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons
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 which exactly matches our article's name, whereas the name of the popular Hazare movement which is the subject of the article is actually Indians Against Corruption from their official history. http://www.amazon.com/Uprising-2011-Kiran-Bedi/dp/9380710445/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksamp;ie=UTF8amp;qid=1418654907amp;sr=1-1amp;keywords=uprising+2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_2011:_Indians_Against_Corruption https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5d2XS74h0 (Where the book was publicly released at Hazare's rally) This block and these links are being actively discussed on an important tech list, so thought I'd share this here. Paul (cutestpenguin) I assert that you're absolutely disrupting this mailing list. I have banned this address, and will ban any others that surface from you or your tens of thousands of bot—sorry, members, intent on disrupting the list to pursue whatever agenda it is you're trying to shove in everyone's faces. Austin On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Bruentrup lt;claus.bruentrup at gmail.comgt; wrote: gt; And you assert that I personally did all those things ? gt; gt; And you do not acknowledge then IAC is an actual public movement / gt; organisation, with tens of thousands of subscribers all connected by gt; internet and with similar ideologies, all upset with Wikipedia. eg. gt; like Eastern European mailing list, Church of Scientology etc. gt; gt; Unlike them, my client is only concerned with a single article India gt; Against Corruption from which the chief author, Sitush, backed out gt; during the agreed mediation and could not defend his malicious edits, gt; leading to this surge of indignation being expressed against Wikipedia gt; and off it. gt; gt; We await a reply from OTRS or Ms.Tretikov's office to our client's gt; emails reporting the IP infringements. gt; gt; BRUENTRUP gt; gt; On 12/14/14, Yaroslav M. Blanter lt;putevod at mccme.rugt; wrote: gt;gt; On 2014-12-14 14:05, Bruentrup wrote: gt;gt;gt; And that will magically make all the infringements of IAC's IP at gt;gt;gt; Commons somehow acceptable and usable ? gt;gt;gt; gt;gt;gt; If you have reliable hard evidence of disruption and socking by / gt;gt;gt; against IAC, carried out from India, please share it with us so that gt;gt;gt; my clients can report it to the law enforcement agencies, as they gt;gt;gt; regularly do, to identify and prosecute the culprits. gt;gt; gt;gt; Please report yourself to the law enforcement agency first for spooling gt;gt; this mailing list last week and adding people to a google group without gt;gt; their consent (and for acting so using the name of a different list gt;gt; contributor). gt;gt; gt;gt; In the English Wikipedia, I personally blocked from editing several gt;gt; accounts from your sockfarm. gt;gt; gt;gt; I do not see why I should be wasting more time for IAC. gt;gt; gt;gt; Thank you for your attention. gt;gt; gt;gt; Cheers gt;gt; Yaroslav gt;gt; gt;gt; ___ gt;gt; Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: gt;gt; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines gt;gt; Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org gt;gt; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, gt;gt; lt;mailto:wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribegt; gt; gt; ___ gt; Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines gt; Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org gt; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, lt;mailto:wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribegt; ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Organizational effectiveness tool for Wikimedia organizations (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations)
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 can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center We want to highlight some support materials we have developed in the past few weeks, including a presentation about how to use the tool, and a list of questions and answers about the tool: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Support. These support materials will be evolving as different questions and needs come up, and we hope they will be helpful in understanding how the tool works and sharing that information within your organization. Please note that this tool is built for user groups as well as formal organizations like chapters and thematic organizations. The purpose of the tool is to help groups assess their own effectiveness, and build a plan for leveraging their strengths and building capacity in areas where they may have capacity gaps. Results will be compiled in an aggregate report, but specific results for each organization will not be shared publicly or with the Wikimedia Foundation. See Anasuya's announcement quoted below for more details about the purpose of the tool. If you are curious about participating but have concerns or need additional support, please contact us at orgeffectiven...@wikimedia.org (this Email address will reach me). If your questions aren't yet addressed in the FAQ, please add them to the support discussion page, or contact us by Email. Thanks again to all who have participated so far, and to those who have already offered helpful feedback about the tool! Cheers, Winifred On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France board handbook
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 have comments, questions or suggestions you're welcome! Cheers, -- Emeric On 09 Dec 2014, at 18:40, Winifred Olliff woll...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing this work, and for also sharing some of the details about how and why you made the handbook! I've also added the handbook, along with WMAT's Codex, to this list of community resources around decision-making and governance (part of the organizational effectiveness learning center for Wikimedia organizations) so other Wikimedia organizations can find it as an example if they are also thinking about creating or revising their board handbooks: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center/Decision-making_and_governance. Please add to this list if you have other ideas about good resources in this area! Emeric, would you consider adding a learning pattern (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns) to the library on Meta about the creation of the handbook? I think all of the text you would need for a useful learning pattern is probably already included in this Email announcement ;) Thanks again for your work. Cheers, Winifred On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Jean-Frédéric Berthelot jean-frederic.berthe...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Dear movement fellows, tl;dr Please find on Meta the Wikimédia France board handbook (in French) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Guide_du_conseil_d%27administration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Guide_du_conseil_d%27administration == Long story == Wikimédia France is moving forward with its continuous improvement process and wishes for an adapted governance. After revising our organizational structure [0], and putting in place the systematic evaluation of our programs [1], we do not want that governance becomes the limiting factor of our improvement. Since the hiring of our Executive Director who leads all staff, we were aware that the board tasks and processes had to evolve. That meant no more micro-management or operational stuff (except for certain board roles) and focus on strategy. To that effect, at the occasion of our previous General Assembly, the board drafted a board handbook [2], heavily inspired by the Wikimedia Foundation one (thanks for sharing!) The goal was to make sure every current member of the Board had the same vision of our governance, and to ensure that applicants for the Board have a good vision of what it means to be on the Board (expectations, posture, do's don'ts, ...) - like a shareholders' agreement. This shared version is our first iteration as we anticipate to complete, or adapt, this document according to our governance's evolution. It is relatively specific to our self-identified strengths and weaknesses. We also think that it is closely linked to our structure, our background and local context (relation with our ED, local labour law...). But despite all these specificities, we have (or will have) similar stages of development and governance issues: that's why we share with you this Handbook, with the hope that the initiative or the contents can be useful for you - even if it's in French. == Process == The handbook writing was led by Émeric Vallespi, supported by the rest of the board. It was then shared with a restricted circle where we gathered input from 6 former board members, with almost 100 comments. We then communicated the document to our members before the General Assembly, and finally published it on Meta where it joined the Austrian Kodex in [[Category:Governance]]. Sharing is caring :) [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimédia_France/Proposal_form/Organisational_structure [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimédia_France/Proposal_form/Quality_approach [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Guide_du_conseil_d%27administration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Guide_du_conseil_d%27administration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Guide_du_conseil_d%27administration If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them to Émeric ;-) Cheers, -- Jean-Frédéric ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Winifred Olliff FDC Support Team Wikimedia
[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update
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 campaign on December 2nd. This number is preliminary as donations are still coming in and settling in our accounts. The team is on track to reach the $20 million campaign goal this month. Banners have been showing to all readers these past two weeks. At this point, we are starting to limit the number of banners each reader sees. We will run the campaign at a higher traffic level again at the end of December for a final year-end push. Thank you again for your support. I also want to thank everyone on the fundraising team as well as staff and community members who have worked on the campaign. We work incredibly hard throughout the entire year, but there has been exceptional effort the last month. Thank you. One of my favorite parts about the campaign is reading the notes from our readers. Please take a moment to read through some of these comments. And thank you for making Wikipedia a treasured resource that people are happy to support :) Quotes from Wikipedia readers: --I consider Wikipedia one of the few (the only?) big internet company who are actually trustworthy. I value Wikipedia and I want to support it --Wikipedia is too valuable to be taken for granted. Donating is for me an act of fairness, responsibility, and gratitude. --I read a comic about a Wikipedia-Comcast merger. It was terrifying. --Keep doing what you are doing. I love Wikipedia. My most visited site by a mile. Any time I watch a new documentary, nature show, or read a book about a topic I find fascinating, I always Wikipedia the information. Irreplaceable! --It's so convenient to pop onto the computer (Wikipedia) and find out almost anything I want to know. Sure beats the old encyclopedias I grew up with. It's helpful with medical advice and also, at my age, when you can't think of a name of somebody famous, etc. It makes life easier to find out RIGHT NOW instead of waiting for your brain to compute the answer 3 days later. --Very helpful! As a nursing student I frequently use Wikipedia to reference science and engineering topics so I can get a deeper understanding concepts and extra learning. Ilove it. As a young child in the early 1960s I thought that computers were going to be giant machines you could ask any question and get answers, Wikipedia is that machine! It's wonderful! Just sharing. --It's 10pm and I have to write a history essay. I'd love to sit and tell you about all the times Wikipedia saved my ass by giving me quick start points on projects. I simply love Wikipedia, keep it up guys! :) --It can finish a debate in a couple of clicks --Reduces intellectual irritation: Whenever, I encounter a word I don't know or am fuzzy about, I look it up on Wiki; whenever I need facts to resolve a political, religious, scientific or technical question, Wiki is there. --Once upon a time far far away I wanted a set of encyclopedias, but, alas I could not afford them. Wikipedia now fills that void. --I visit and utilize Wikipedia multiple times every week, sometimes daily. Going to Wikipedia has become second nature to me. It is synonymous with knowledge - there's nothing more profound. I support it with the small donations I can afford in the hope of setting an example, and so that others may have the same opportunities I've had. --There have been so many ways that the internet has disappointed me in my hopes that it would improve the human condition. However, there is this one shining exception, and from my least expected source. Wikipedia is that best thing that humanity has done with the internet, contributing to both a common knowledge set and re-learning how to find areas of agreement with others, instead of just shouting and not listening. --i use Wikipedia for 'fact checking naming space ships, realizing that it still a secondary source... but trust the communal effort to gravitate towards a mostly accurate centerpoint. The Encyclopedia Galactica of Trantor in the making.. --You've killed the bar-gument but that's okay, I'd prefer to be informed rather than simply louder than the next guy. ;) --Most often I turn to Wiki in order to answer a question that my grandson has asked about life, the universe and everything...in the old days we had a kids' encyclopedia on the bookshelf, but it became outdated and Wiki has taken its place. --I frequently look things up while watching TV or movies. For example, while watching Mad Men, I have frequently looked up specific dates or locations to learn more about what was happening as it was portrayed on the show. I learned more about the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy assassination, Viet Nam, riots, music, movies and general culture of the period. I always know I can count on
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update
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 mhernan...@wikimedia.org: 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 campaign on December 2nd. This number is preliminary as donations are still coming in and settling in our accounts. The team is on track to reach the $20 million campaign goal this month. Banners have been showing to all readers these past two weeks. At this point, we are starting to limit the number of banners each reader sees. We will run the campaign at a higher traffic level again at the end of December for a final year-end push. Thank you again for your support. I also want to thank everyone on the fundraising team as well as staff and community members who have worked on the campaign. We work incredibly hard throughout the entire year, but there has been exceptional effort the last month. Thank you. One of my favorite parts about the campaign is reading the notes from our readers. Please take a moment to read through some of these comments. And thank you for making Wikipedia a treasured resource that people are happy to support :) Quotes from Wikipedia readers: --I consider Wikipedia one of the few (the only?) big internet company who are actually trustworthy. I value Wikipedia and I want to support it --Wikipedia is too valuable to be taken for granted. Donating is for me an act of fairness, responsibility, and gratitude. --I read a comic about a Wikipedia-Comcast merger. It was terrifying. --Keep doing what you are doing. I love Wikipedia. My most visited site by a mile. Any time I watch a new documentary, nature show, or read a book about a topic I find fascinating, I always Wikipedia the information. Irreplaceable! --It's so convenient to pop onto the computer (Wikipedia) and find out almost anything I want to know. Sure beats the old encyclopedias I grew up with. It's helpful with medical advice and also, at my age, when you can't think of a name of somebody famous, etc. It makes life easier to find out RIGHT NOW instead of waiting for your brain to compute the answer 3 days later. --Very helpful! As a nursing student I frequently use Wikipedia to reference science and engineering topics so I can get a deeper understanding concepts and extra learning. Ilove it. As a young child in the early 1960s I thought that computers were going to be giant machines you could ask any question and get answers, Wikipedia is that machine! It's wonderful! Just sharing. --It's 10pm and I have to write a history essay. I'd love to sit and tell you about all the times Wikipedia saved my ass by giving me quick start points on projects. I simply love Wikipedia, keep it up guys! :) --It can finish a debate in a couple of clicks --Reduces intellectual irritation: Whenever, I encounter a word I don't know or am fuzzy about, I look it up on Wiki; whenever I need facts to resolve a political, religious, scientific or technical question, Wiki is there. --Once upon a time far far away I wanted a set of encyclopedias, but, alas I could not afford them. Wikipedia now fills that void. --I visit and utilize Wikipedia multiple times every week, sometimes daily. Going to Wikipedia has become second nature to me. It is synonymous with knowledge - there's nothing more profound. I support it with the small donations I can afford in the hope of setting an example, and so that others may have the same opportunities I've had. --There have been so many ways that the internet has disappointed me in my hopes that it would improve the human condition. However, there is this one shining exception, and from my least expected source. Wikipedia is that best thing that humanity has done with the internet, contributing to both a common knowledge set and re-learning how to find areas of agreement with others, instead of just shouting and not listening. --i use Wikipedia for 'fact checking naming space ships, realizing that it still a secondary source... but trust the communal effort to gravitate towards a mostly accurate centerpoint. The Encyclopedia Galactica of Trantor in the making.. --You've killed the bar-gument but that's okay, I'd prefer to be informed rather than simply louder than the next guy. ;) --Most often I turn to Wiki in order to answer a question that my grandson has asked about life, the universe and everything...in the old days we had a kids' encyclopedia on the bookshelf, but it became outdated and Wiki has taken its place. --I frequently look things up while watching TV or movies. For example, while watching Mad Men, I have frequently looked up specific dates or
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update
Thank you for sharing! Emily Blanchard Talent Acquisition Team Wikimedia Foundation eblanchard@wikimedia. eblanch...@gmail.comorg Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Become a Contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse Join Us: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us Developers Join the Fun: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share inthe sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote: 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 mhernan...@wikimedia.org: 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 campaign on December 2nd. This number is preliminary as donations are still coming in and settling in our accounts. The team is on track to reach the $20 million campaign goal this month. Banners have been showing to all readers these past two weeks. At this point, we are starting to limit the number of banners each reader sees. We will run the campaign at a higher traffic level again at the end of December for a final year-end push. Thank you again for your support. I also want to thank everyone on the fundraising team as well as staff and community members who have worked on the campaign. We work incredibly hard throughout the entire year, but there has been exceptional effort the last month. Thank you. One of my favorite parts about the campaign is reading the notes from our readers. Please take a moment to read through some of these comments. And thank you for making Wikipedia a treasured resource that people are happy to support :) Quotes from Wikipedia readers: --I consider Wikipedia one of the few (the only?) big internet company who are actually trustworthy. I value Wikipedia and I want to support it --Wikipedia is too valuable to be taken for granted. Donating is for me an act of fairness, responsibility, and gratitude. --I read a comic about a Wikipedia-Comcast merger. It was terrifying. --Keep doing what you are doing. I love Wikipedia. My most visited site by a mile. Any time I watch a new documentary, nature show, or read a book about a topic I find fascinating, I always Wikipedia the information. Irreplaceable! --It's so convenient to pop onto the computer (Wikipedia) and find out almost anything I want to know. Sure beats the old encyclopedias I grew up with. It's helpful with medical advice and also, at my age, when you can't think of a name of somebody famous, etc. It makes life easier to find out RIGHT NOW instead of waiting for your brain to compute the answer 3 days later. --Very helpful! As a nursing student I frequently use Wikipedia to reference science and engineering topics so I can get a deeper understanding concepts and extra learning. Ilove it. As a young child in the early 1960s I thought that computers were going to be giant machines you could ask any question and get answers, Wikipedia is that machine! It's wonderful! Just sharing. --It's 10pm and I have to write a history essay. I'd love to sit and tell you about all the times Wikipedia saved my ass by giving me quick start points on projects. I simply love Wikipedia, keep it up guys! :) --It can finish a debate in a couple of clicks --Reduces intellectual irritation: Whenever, I encounter a word I don't know or am fuzzy about, I look it up on Wiki; whenever I need facts to resolve a political, religious, scientific or technical question, Wiki is there. --Once upon a time far far away I wanted a set of encyclopedias, but, alas I could not afford them. Wikipedia now fills that void. --I visit and utilize Wikipedia multiple times every week, sometimes daily. Going to Wikipedia has become second nature to me. It is synonymous with knowledge - there's nothing more profound. I support it with the small donations I can afford in the hope of setting an example, and so that others may have the same opportunities I've had. --There have been so many ways that the internet has disappointed me in my hopes that it would improve the human condition. However, there is this one shining exception, and from my least expected source. Wikipedia is that best thing that humanity has done with the internet, contributing to both a common knowledge set and re-learning how to find areas of agreement with others, instead of just shouting and not listening. --i use Wikipedia for 'fact checking naming space
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update
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 is a great opportunity to ask readers, users, and contributors for feedback). -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update
Great to know. Thanks for sharing! On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:46 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au 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 all sister projects, ideally. They gotta know the role of WMF in the movement (and a fundraising banner is a great opportunity to ask readers, users, and contributors for feedback). -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive :: নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব* Global User: Nhasive http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nhasive Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee http://www.wikimedia.org.bd fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
