Eric,
This is great. I think this initiative may lead to benefits on multiple fronts.
Thank you for this good news!
Cheers,
Pine
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*We are asking for community consultation on five proposed guidelines
relating to potential conflicts of interest when people ask for resources
belonging to the Wikimedia movement.
For your review and comments, you may find more information, a proposed
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Yes. From the linked page:We encourage international participation,
and, if more time is needed to allow for translations or comments, we
want to take that into consideration.
So please, yes!
PB
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On Dec 21,
There are already a few questions on the talk page.
Mbingu Safidi, 21/12/2012 16:07:
is Wikimedia Foundation interested in involving communities that don't
speak English in this consultation?
Involving more communities is always a good thing, but (for the sake of
clarity) as far as I can
Hi,
Changing topic to keep the COI thread on-topic :)
I understand it's frustrating to have these texts only in english, but
could you also please try to get things from WMF perspective?
In what languages should it translated? The most spoken in the world?
The top 10 active communities? The top
Hi James,
How do you see the fiduciary responsibilities of the board playing into
fundraising targets? Are you suggesting the Board has a duty to raise as
much money as possible? I'm also curious why you highlight deliberately
slowing fundraising despite the 32% increase in revenue goals for the
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Mbingu Safidi mginbu.saf...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks.
I see. A text only in English is very welcome to other communities
know there is a consultation.
Good point. Is there a short three-word message like Please translate
this! that we can put in a template
I think raising a lot more money because its possible to raise a lot more
money is a for-profit mentality; the WMF has been actually narrowing its
scope, in the understanding that it can't solve all problems or be all
things, and it makes a lot of sense to me to raise only what it already
knows
How do you see the fiduciary responsibilities of the board playing into
fundraising targets?
The employees of the board share their fiduciary responsibilities.
Are you suggesting the Board has a duty to raise as
much money as possible?
No. When actual fundraising far exceeded expectations,
Costs don't scale linearly with pageviews. Nor do donations,
especially when you consider that much of that growth in pageviews now
comes from the 'Global South' (where people generally have less
disposable income to donate) and from mobile devices (which we don't
really fundraise on,
SJ,
Thank you for your reply:
Fundraising targets have been set to match our projected needs for the
year, for the past few years.
Does the very recent abandonment of several aspects of the Strategic
Plan, after the July 2012-3 Annual Plan goal was set at $46.1 million,
which itself was
Hi all,
Some have asked me to give some thought to various considerations in the
naming of thematic organizations and user groups. I'm putting some ideas
here:
1.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Thematic_Organizations#Thoughts_regarding_the_naming_of_thematic_organizations;
and
2.
*WikiProject Medicine / Wiki Med Foundation / UCSF College of Medicine is
having Events Jan. 8-11 in San Francisco at the UCSF Medical Campus:*
*Wikipedia/Wikimedia and Medicine Overview by me *(repeats every day at
noon)**
12-1PM on Fri. in N217
12-1PM on Tues. and Thurs. in Toland Hall
James,
the Chief Revenue Officer reported that significant increases in
fundraising would be very difficult
I cannot speak for what Zack was thinking -- but I can tell you - as a
member of the fundraising technology team - that I was shocked, utterly
amazed, and astounded at how successful
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