Keegan Peterzell, 03/01/2012 08:41:
Big cities usually work a lot better than small towns or medium sized
cities, where inclusion of local places are often reverted due to lack
of assertions of notability.
English Wikipeidia user Chzz inspired an essay that I host, for new users
strictly
Looks like .us is pushing other countries to implement similar laws, eg. .es :
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/0241248/spanish-website-blocking-law-implemented
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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@Amir.
Thanks for citing Tamil Wikipedia here. Actually it was a GREAT success in
Tamil Wiki. We got many talented editors thousands of new registrations.
Actually I am not mentioning the number here but people got to know that
what Wikipedia actually is! the community behind the project
Once
I'm on the same page as the last three posts to this thread, and
thanks guys for saying it in a reasonable and non-confrontational
manner.
~Nathan
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I am not suggesting that we use just a simple banner. We need to
create something with a picture of a Wikipedian with text like join
us in improving the world leading encyclopedia, click here to learn
how.
Than when people click it will ask them what sort of subject area are
you interested in
Yes. the same thing has done in Tamil Wikipedia.
We displayed users from different area of interest.
Example: My banner reads
Surya Prakash is a 2nd year Engineering student who is editing Chemistry,
Physics related articles in Wikipedia. You too can edit!
with my picture. :) (Click here to
James Heilman, 03/01/2012 17:36:
I am not suggesting that we use just a simple banner. We need to
create something with a picture of a Wikipedian with text like join
us in improving the world leading encyclopedia, click here to learn
how.
Than when people click it will ask them what sort of
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 14:50, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Fabricating a sense of urgency that donations are immediately
necessary at the end of the campaign to keep the projects operational
and freely available (ie, Please help Wikipedia pay its bills in
2012 [1], Last day to
On 1/3/12 9:28 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
they want it so that if they've donated it removes the banner for the
rest of the fundraiser.
This was in place for this year's fundraiser, so I'm surprised to see it
on the list...
pb
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Would it be an idea to have some kind of RfC or something like that on
Meta where community members could come up with a list of things we
roughly agree are the limits for fundraising.
I think the fundraising team have
I know this is somewhat out of topic. Sorry about that. Technical
discussions should go elsewhere.
(11/12/28 6:39), Yao Ziyuan wrote:
If Wikipedia can implement the things I talked about so far (topic-specific
chat rooms, forums, topic-specific resource announcement and discovery)
right on
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:54, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
In fairness to the Foundation, they did have a very public strategic
planning process and they do seem to be adhering to the outcome of
that process. From what I saw, a pretty fair amount of the strategic
planning output and
On 1/3/12 1:41 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Pharospharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
I would pitch it as a simple appeal to edit the Wikipedia article on
your hometown (or home neighborhood if you're from a big city).
In my experience, something like this has
I agree cities are probably better, but I don't think that's really the
best place to start editing Wikipedia either, because it's an area where
it's really easy for new users to mistakenly think that they should
write content based on their personal experience rather than on sources.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl wrote:
I agree cities are probably better, but I don't think that's really the
best place to start editing Wikipedia either, because it's an area where
it's really easy for new users to mistakenly think that they should
write content
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
This year pictures at top left, blinking banners, etc - are becoming a norm.
This is simply untrue hyperbole. The fader was used in the same way as
last year, at the same time. (In fact, I think last year they used the
Full support here!
2012/1/3 Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl wrote:
I agree cities are probably better, but I don't think that's really the
best place to start editing Wikipedia either, because it's an area where
it's really
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com
wrote:
This year pictures at top left, blinking banners, etc - are becoming a
norm.
This is simply untrue hyperbole. The fader was used in the same way
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:53 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
The fundraiser for money has been working exceedingly well with our
number of donors increasing 10 fold since 2008. What we need now is a
fundraiser for editors. I meet well educated professionals who use
Wikipedia but have
On 1/3/2012 3:08 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
The Feedback Dashboard itself has response mechanisms, including
now a Mark as Helpful feature for new users to quickly acknowledge
whether a given response has been useful to them.
Not disputing that the talk page system might have bigger issues, but it
On 1/3/12 3:30 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 1/3/2012 3:08 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
The Feedback Dashboard itself has response mechanisms, including
now a Mark as Helpful feature for new users to quickly acknowledge
whether a given response has been useful to them.
Not disputing that the talk
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:08:12 -0800
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors
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If anyone is feeling inspired by the ideas in this thread and would like to
propose a fellowship project aimed at attracting and retaining more
editors, the WMF Community Fellowship application process is still open:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships
On Jan 4, 2012 12:44 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
The WMF's conclusions about what banners work best are based on
extensive testing. What are yours based on?
My guts.
BTW How have those tests worked
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011
Start at the bottom.
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/3/12 4:44 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
On 3 January 2012 22:36, Theo10011de10...@gmail.com wrote:
WMF started the email campaign last
Hi Thomas
I really dont
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
There were numerous non-Jimmy banners used during the fundraiser because
they were tested and proved to work well. The Jimmy banners were used
extensively too because they still perform very
This isn't the kind of compromise that we should be making.
On 12/31/11, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone -
It's a trade off between doing things that might annoy some people in the
banners vs. reducing the number of days we need to run banners at all. It's
hard to find the
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