Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-13 Thread Megan Hernandez
The fundraising team is currently wrapping up from the December campaign. Even though the banners are down, donations are still settling and we are reconciling with the finance department. This month, we are doing analysis on fundraising donation data as well as on feedback from readers, donors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-13 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Sounds like just another enwiki-specific thing. ​That's a reasonable assumption. I'm only guessing, but I think the project is based on the English Wikipedia because that's the area where the grantee(s) are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: As for the fundraiser's duration, I believe the 2014 fundraiser ran for 30 days (December 2 to December 31, 2014). That's certainly incorrect. https://frdata.wikimedia.org/ campaign-vs-amount.csv shows about 200

[Wikimedia-l] The extra money raised is to be put to use

2015-01-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really happy that our fundraising has proven itself yet again to be really effective. Now that we have all this money we have to put it to use. Arguably: - as a movement we have a stellar reputation of sharing knowledge cheaply - our current central command system breaks under

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
As for the fundraiser's duration, I believe the 2014 fundraiser ran for 30 days (December 2 to December 31, 2014). That's certainly incorrect. https://frdata.wikimedia.org/campaign-vs-amount.csv shows about 200 campaigns started in 2014, excluding sidebar and other regular stuff. A campaign

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Creation of a scientific committee

2015-01-13 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, First of all, I wish everyone a happy new year. Even if the first days of 2015 were tainted by violence, we also witnessed people shouting how freedom is important. I hope 2015 will be at the image of the latter. Now, to the announcement. As you might know, Wikimedia France is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-13 Thread Cristian Consonni
2015-01-12 13:25 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: With that busiest time of year now over, but with all the discussions still fresh in our mind, I was hoping that the Fundraising team or Executive would have the time to respond to the various concerns that were raised here (and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Creation of a scientific committee

2015-01-13 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Pine, Yes that would be the best translation. I hesitated to use advisory board but wanted to keep a coherence between the french and the translated name to make it easier in the future to share what it brings to us :) -- Christophe On 13 January 2015 at 12:52, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com

[Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-13 Thread James Hare
(Standard apology for cross-posting.) Greetings everyone! I am pleased to announce a new project, WikiProject X, funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant. WikiProject X's goal is to improve the experience of WikiProjects, which are subject-area (or goal-oriented)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-13 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 13/01/2015 23:24, James Hare ha scritto: (Standard apology for cross-posting.) Greetings everyone! I am pleased to announce a new project, WikiProject X, funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant. WikiProject X's goal is to improve the experience of WikiProjects, which