Note also that there is an on-going discussion with the WMF Board on
fundraising ethics here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Discussion_of_fundraising_ethics
Every year, readers are told that money is required to "keep Wikipedia
online and ad-free another y
I 100% agree with rupert's thoughts.
Wiki(p|m)edia was and is mad be volunteers, therefore volunteer first should
apply. Volunteers are contributing the content for exactly zero dollars per
hour. It is all because of free knowledge and other stuff, but not about money.
It looks like money is fo
Please let us not mingle two very separate and delicate discussions:
1) Whether we should do the extra effort of fundraising at all (this is
what Andreas was arguing about, it seems)
2) If we decide to fundraise, how to involve the community and affiliates
in a timely, orderly and effective fashion
Hi all,
New update:
The Italian team had some calls with the fundraising team and it resulted
in:
* Wiki Loves Monuments gets the whole 4th week of September. So we will
have the WLM banner alone the first and the last week.
* WLM IT is discussing with the community a message in the Main Page of
I think both of these issues are about community involvement, Lodewijk, or
rather the lack of it. The community is simply being stonewalled, on both
issues.
And to be clear, I am absolutely in favour of fundraising. I just want it
done transparently, so donors understand clearly that their donatio
Hi all,
Having spoken with some people, I have come to the conclusion that it is
time to ask the Wikimedia community what they think about this situation. I
have especially seen both parties, the Wiki Loves Monuments organising
teams who like to have a banner for Wiki Loves Monuments in September,
Thank you Romaine for setting up the RFC on meta [1]!
So we can see what the community thinks about this.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Fundraising_banner_or_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_banner
> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:04:41 +0200
> From: romaine.w...@gmail.com
> To: wikim
Hello everybody.
I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has decided not to run
the Fundraising banner in Italy during September.
In the last week, the Fundraising Team and Wikimedia Italia's board worked
hard together to find a common solution. In these very last days, we
continued a
The most annoying part now is that the fundraising team did tell me thta,
while I ma in change of the banners.
How is it possible that they do worse and worse each time?
Romaine
2015-08-30 22:20 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni :
> Hello everybody.
> I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation ha
Did you mean they did /not/ tell you?
2015-08-31 0:16 GMT+02:00 Romaine Wiki :
> The most annoying part now is that the fundraising team did tell me thta,
> while I ma in change of the banners.
>
> How is it possible that they do worse and worse each time?
>
> Romaine
>
> 2015-08-30 22:20 GMT+02:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:26 PM, MF-Warburg
wrote:
> Did you mean they did /not/ tell you?
>
> 2015-08-31 0:16 GMT+02:00 Romaine Wiki :
>
> > The most annoying part now is that the fundraising team did tell me thta,
> > while I ma in change of the banners.
> >
> > How is it possible that they do
Yes, sorry, they did *not* communicate it with me.
They finally came to a great decision, it would have been perfect if they
had just made a public announcement here.
Romaine
2015-08-31 0:26 GMT+02:00 MF-Warburg :
> Did you mean they did /not/ tell you?
>
> 2015-08-31 0:16 GMT+02:00 Romaine W
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Andrea Zanni
wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has decided not to run
> the Fundraising banner in Italy during September.
>
> In the last week, the Fundraising Team and Wikimedia Italia's board worked
> hard together t
Thank you, Andrea, Romaine, Lisa, and Luis.
Lisa, if you're interested, I'm happy to brainstorm with you off-list about
some alternatives to help WMF Fundraising meet its goals.
Pine
On Aug 30, 2015 1:21 PM, "Andrea Zanni" wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Fou
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