Pine W writes:
>
> I would hope that the Board is now planning an executive transition for
> WMF. I would like to ask the Board to be transparent about this, including
> making timely posts to this mailing list and proactively posting documents
> and timelines on Meta and Commons.
>
+1. Numero
MZMcBride mzmcbride.com> writes:
>
> Forwarding this to wikimedia-l as it doesn't seem to be very technical in
> nature, but definitely seems worthy of discussion.
>
> MZMcBride
>
> Danny Horn wrote:
> >For a while now, the Collaboration team has been working on Flow, the
> >structured discuss
phoebe ayers writes:
>
> I just re-read this whole thread (!) this morning and here are the
> themes of points raised that I'm seeing ... I'll add this to the talk
> of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_principles too.
>
This is great. Thank you!
> Anything else I missed? My editori
phoebe ayers writes:
>
> Hello! Sorry, I didn't realize that's what you were referring to. I
> haven't looked at all the raw fundraising data, no, and I haven't
> looked at that set that Lila refers to. (The reports we get are
> summaries, which is much preferable when you've got a lot of
> info
phoebe ayers writes:
>
>
> You're asking me to prove a negative. My inability to do so has
> nothing to do with NDAs or the lack of them. There's no secret data
> that shows that "well, the banners make people hate Wikipedia but they
> have a good donation rate." And if there was, why in the wo
phoebe ayers writes:
>
> With Sam, I'd like to add my thanks to Lila, and to the fundraising
> team which has done an extraordinary job of testing, optimizing, and
> running our fundraising campaigns. And thanks to all of you, for being
> concerned about and invested in our projects' public imag
svetlana writes:
>
> I wrote:
>
> > it's usually both sides of the conversation at fault for accumulating
their rage instead of
> communicating it early
>
> I unintentionally skipped a couple words. I meant to say:
>
> > it's usually both sides of the conversation at fault, *such* *as* for
ac
Lila Tretikov writes:
>
> I would like to expose this more, maybe after this crunch. Just keep in
> mind that it takes time to anonymize and process -- a time that is
> otherwise spent on optimizing or collaborating. One bucket of resources,
> many demands... and I'd like to keep us as lean as w
Lila Tretikov writes:
>
> This type of fundraising is -- by its very nature -- obtrusive. We are
> thinking about other options. But, as with anything, "every action has
> equal and opposite reaction". Anything we do, we have to consider the
> consequences and we will find flaws.
>
> Now for th
hen people
stop posting funny banner memes and start asking Wikimedia to switch to an
advertising model (seriously, do a quick twitter search).
- Ryan Lane
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MZMcBride mzmcbride.com> writes:
>
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> >Do not be daft. The Wikimedia Foundation centralised its fundraising. It
> >said that it would do a better job. Seen from a central periphery model,
> >it probably does, However seen from the Netherlands it is rather silly.,
> >
> >P
MZMcBride mzmcbride.com> writes:
>
> Ryan Lane wrote:
> >Kim Bruning ...> writes (roughly):
> >>
> >>
> >> Washington post article: http://wapo.st/1zUXNXj
> >>
> >
> >The response to this is embarrassing and lacking. Wikiped
Mark writes:
>
> I don't see a distinction here, unless you're extremely naive about
> economics. Discriminatory pricing in any market can be done in two ways:
> 1. have a "standard" rate and add a surcharge to certain disfavored
> uses; or 2. have a "standard" rate and give a discount to cer
o extra charge to access other sources of information.
My biggest wonder here is: why in the world is the HR director for the
foundation speaking with the press about this on behalf of the foundation
(and the movement)? This seems like the kind of thing the communications
department, or the ED (or DD)
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this
> sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for
> a user name.
>
>
Indeed, or in the user preferences so th
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> At this moment Wikipedia "red links" provide no information whatsoever.
> This is not cool.
>
> In Wikidata we often have labels for the missing (=red link) articles. We
> can and do provide information from Wikidata in a reasonabl
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:50 AM, John wrote:
> tools.wmflabs.org is supposed to be the replacement for the toolserver
> which the wmf is basically forcefully shutting down. I started the
> migration several months ago but got fed up with the difficulties and
> stopped. In the last month I have mo
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Magnus Manske
wrote:
> There was a recent mail saying that Labs is not considered "production"
> stability. Mainly a disagreement about how many 9s in the 99.9% that
> represents.
>
>
Indeed. I don't want to get into the debate about this again, but tools is
co
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Nathan wrote:
>
> > Hi, context please?
> >
>
>
> Continuation of this thread from wikitech-l:
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/thread.html#71285
>
>
> tl;dr summary:
> * ops pl
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> >
> > Anthony wrote:
> >> >
> >> > How much padding is already inherent in HTTPS?
> >>
> >> None, which is why Ryan's Google Maps fingerprinting example works.
> >>
> >
> > Citation needed.
> >
>
On Thursday, August 1, 2013, James Salsman wrote:
> Ryan Lane wrote:
> >...
> > Assuming traffic analysis can be used to determine your browsing
> > habits as they are occurring (which is likely not terribly hard for
> Wikipedia)
>
> The Google Maps example you link
lvestrand told me: "The stuff about 'have
> to transmit the session key I the clear' is completely bogus, of course.
> That's what Diffie-Hellman is all about."
>
> Ryan Lane tweeted yesterday: "It's possible to determine what you've been
> vie
On Thursday, August 1, 2013, Anthony wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Tim Starling
>
> >wrote:
>
> > On 01/08/13 14:15, Anthony wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Ryan Lane
> > > >
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I wo
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Michael Snow
> wrote:
> > On 7/31/2013 3:31 PM, Nathan wrote:
> >>
> >> And another thought - you know what unites most of the other companies
> >> represented by the logos in that image? Leaks have confirmed that
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:00 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 31 July 2013 21:00, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 31 July 2013 20:48, Risker wrote:
>
> >> I believe the concern derives from one of the subpages of the article:
> >>
> https://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/7/31/
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Steven Walling
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, being able to disband the SF office as regards software
> > development (and perhaps more), and switch to remote work only, would
> > probably be the single most
A few clarifications inline.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Victor Grigas wrote:
> On the fundraising team we had used banners to host still images (.jpgs) in
> the past. We wanted to make a video we could put into banners but in July
> 2012 there was no open source HTML5 video player built in
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