Sorry two more things: - We don't collect user's data like a monster, we never sell them to anyone, we even avoid outsourcing our infra (like CDNs) to protect our users' privacy. Something that is none of top websites do. None. - Related to the reason above, CO2 emission of our datacenters is very small and non-existent comparing to website with similar traffic.
Best On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:34 PM Amir Sarabadani <[email protected]> wrote: > On the great things: > - There are so many forms of volunteer contribution, you don't need to be > an expert to be able to contribute to English Wikipedia (how can I > contribute, everything is there already). You can fight vandalism, you can > take pictures, you can write code, you can help other languages. > - In less developed countries, in depth-reading of Wikipedia is more > prevalent, the likely explanation is that in lack of resources we take for > granted in Europe/US, people turn to Wikipedia to learn and develop > > This is not great fact but it's sorta funny how extensively we cover > everything. Last week I learned Wikipedia even has list of people who died > on the toilet: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_on_the_toilet > > HTH > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:25 PM Aboubacar Keïta <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Bonjour et merci du message >> >> J'aimerais vivement que les pays du sud ont plus de moyens financiers pour >> réaliser des projets concrètement. >> >> Le financement des concours baisse, mais la couverture des objectifs de >> ces >> concours reste quasiment incomplet en Afrique. >> >> Exemple Wiki Loves Monuments, en Guinée 99% des sites sont ni illustré sur >> Wikipédia en articles, ni en image sur commons mais qu'on supprime le >> financement pour les longues voyages diminuer nos forces d'améliorer >> qualitativement les articles Wikipédia vue qu'on a moins de bénévoles >> encore. >> >> Vivement une relativisation des ressources en fonction de l'avancée des >> projets et plus de douceur dans l'obtention des subventions. >> >> Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 22:08, Joseph Seddon <[email protected]> a >> écrit : >> >> > Hey all, >> > >> > (reposting due to filter rejection) >> > >> > >> > Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team >> to >> > explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a >> minute of >> > your time to answer the following question: >> > >> > >> > --- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers >> > and donors knew? --- >> > >> > >> > We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas >> > >> > Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance >> > >> > -- >> > Seddon >> > >> > *Community and Audience Engagement Associate* >> > *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > New messages to: [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Amir (he/him) > > -- Amir (he/him) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
