Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Donation statistics now live

2010-12-02 Thread private musings
Hi Richard, This year, for the first time, WMAU has been able to join the Wikimedia Foundation's annual fundraising drive (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 for more info) - in practice this means signing an agreement with the foundation, in return for which all potential donor's

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-12-02 Thread private musings
Hi all, I was just wondering if anything happened on this front? - It'd be great to somehow open some aspects of WMAU up - ideally as soon as possible! - are the committee discussing things further? (if so, please just consider doing something - or at least discussing openly :-) - pretty much any

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-12-02 Thread Adam Jenkins
Hi Peter! It's been raised, and I think it is still generally seen as a really good idea. However, at the moment we've been focused on some priorities related to privacy policies and PayPal, so we haven't been focused on this topic yet. I'll see if I can add it to the agenda for the next meeting,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Donation statistics now live

2010-12-02 Thread Adam Jenkins
Peter's reply is pretty accurate. :) I'd add, it isn't because of what we've done - the change is, as far as I understand, driven by the Foundation's wish to move more responsibility to the Chapters to focus on grassroots outreach. So a major part of the developing role of WMAU is to focus on reach