Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-10 Thread Michael Peel
On 10 Dec 2012, at 02:03, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: The news from today is that FreeBSD didn't succeed to gather enough money during their annual fundraising [1][2]. They only started their annual fundraising campaign 5 days ago:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-10 Thread Terry Chay
Furthermore, WordPress is actually not strong in the government/enterprise space. Instead Drupal is with direct outreach to institutions. The difference in DrupalCon vs. WordCamp SF reflect this. WordPress presence (around 9% of all domains on the internet) in addition to a rapid decline in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/12/10 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: And our competition are not various online encyclopedias -- not one as large and as relevant as Wikipedia. Our competition are top Internet sites, which are taking away the attention of our users. Fortunately, no top Internet site has enough of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread Brandon Harris
On Dec 9, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, FreeBSD is a part of our broader movement and Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia chapters should find a way how to help them. I suppose that Mozilla Foundation could be also interested in this venture. Thus, I'd

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread David Gerard
On 10 December 2012 05:17, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Wordpress' strong card is its rather stable PHP-based platform, and when you think of it, that platform is not much more technically advanced than MediaWiki is, but it has a much more vibrant community of users.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread George Herbert
The CIA version added ACLs. Never say never... George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Dec 9, 2012, at 10:29 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 December 2012 05:17, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Wordpress' strong card is its rather stable