From my perspective, this strikes me as part of the reason why national
organisations are well suited to running the Wikimedia fundraising campaigns
rather than a global organisation: if WMIT was organising both WLM and the
national fundraising campaign, then this conflict wouldn't have arisen
I know the Italian Chapter, the online fundraising team, and community
liaisons have been talking about solutions for a while and I won’t get in
the way of that, but I thought I would offer a few ideas on some of the
online organizing tactics being discussed here. This probably falls in the
Il giorno gio, 20/08/2015 alle 01.26 -0400, Risker ha scritto:
[...] perhaps a big bright button on the sidebar that says Upload
images for Wiki Loves Monuments here! may be technically feasible.
This might be a way to mitigate the problem, although I'm not sure
whether it's technically
Given the huge amount of work, the liability and legislative issues and
problems with transferring funds across international borders, I'm not
persuaded; having dozens of paid fundraising teams is not cost-effective by
any stretch of the imagination. The process was stopped because it was
costing
Il giorno mer, 19/08/2015 alle 11.39 +0200, Claudia Garád ha scritto:
The worst part was to explain our long-standing and important partner
the Federal Monuments Office that we can't have the banner time at
cruical dates in September (especially the days leading up to our
events
around the
On 20 August 2015 at 06:26, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I can understand the frustration that members of WMIT are expressing here,
but I also see Fundraising's point. I wonder if there are not some other
options that could be considered. For example, instead of a banner,
perhaps a big
Wikidata should know whether an article has a badge or not (see here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156 )
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:14 AM Tito Dutta trulyt...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot. It was very helpful
No, most of these Wikipedias don't have such categories. I'll check
further.
I think you describe the essence of the problem: there is a big gap between
the community and the Wikimedia Foundation.
I have a long list of problems from the past years that all seem to
originate in this basic problem. The Wikimedia Foundation is too much
de-attached from the community.
At the
If the fundraising banner was planned in November to be shown in Italy, the
problem would have been the same. Only the time could have a positive
impact.
Also then something has been missed: Wiki Loves Monuments is a sticky
project in September, already for years, as it is attached to a world
