The other source of income for the endowment is investment earnings.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:03 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> Dear Lisa and all,
>
> According to Meta and the just-released WMF Advancement fourth-quarter
> tuning session deck, the Endowment actually passed the $100-million mark
>
Dear Lisa and all,
According to Meta and the just-released WMF Advancement fourth-quarter
tuning session deck, the Endowment actually passed the $100-million mark
not this month, but three months ago – in June, before the start of this
current financial year. The Meta page e.g. says:
The
So having totally missed this news last week I have to (belatedly) agree with
Christophe and SJ.
Many congratulations to Lisa and the team for proposing the endowment and
making it a succes. It is amazing to see how many donors have been willing to
contribute to reaching this milestone so
Hoi,
Again, your English Wikipedia background shows. Wikipedia exists in 200+
languages, knowledge panels in English are of interest to some 50% of our
public. The aggregated data at Wikidata is able to service all the
languages we support. For the nds.wikipedia.org just recently, it was
announced
Thanks, Mike.
My comments about Denny were definitely off the mark in one respect: in the
2012 snippet I was quoting, Denny was already arguing for CC0.
What changed was that at that time, Denny felt and said that CC0-licensed
Wikidata would not (and should not) extract content out of ShareAlike
Hi Andreas and Cunctator,
I partially agree with you with the WMF's budget and fundraising. It's a
lot of money that is being raised, and there seems to be a big
disconnect between the fundraising messages being used and the actual
expenditure. The money is being well spent and on worthwhile
Congratulations on developing a useful service for the most profitable and
powerful corporations on the planet.
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 2:34 AM Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> Facts are in and of themselves not copyrightable. Collections of data may
> be copyrighted.We choose not to and as a
The Cunctator's point about Wikidata's copyright-free CC0 licence is
actually one issue that I had meant to include in the list of WMF ethical
lapses in my other post .
Wikidata has imported very large amounts of content from Wikipedia, which,
as The Cunctator points out, has a Creative Commons
Hoi,
Facts are in and of themselves not copyrightable. Collections of data may
be copyrighted.We choose not to and as a result Wikidata is the powerhouse
that it has become.The CC-by-sa license is our license of choice for
Wikipedia however, the way it has been enforced so far has been defensive,
Sorry for not being explicit; the connection is that protection of copyleft
would be inconvenient to major endowment donors such as Google and Amazon.
WikiData is a Wikimedia project that converts copylefted content into (what
Wikimedia asserts to be) copyright-free content.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021
Wording could had been better, but it's not an attack. Nobody blames
fundraising people for their ability, not even the sense of urgency in
banners is their fault in absence of an explicit guideline.
Andreas pointed out a problem which lies in the performance indicators
of fundraising along with
I will answer to the end of your email only as it shocked me.
Le ven. 24 sept. 2021 à 10:33 AM, Andreas Kolbe a
écrit :
>
> No doubt the architects of this development will eventually leave the WMF
> with résumés highlighting by how much they increased revenue over
> such-and-such an amount of
Phoebe,
You say,
"Vito -- Good meme usage. I can't find the perfect meme to answer so I'll
just say that (as I expect you know) the endowment is meant to support the
projects in perpetuity, which means it isn't there to replace daily
operation funding or annual fundraising. The 100M is meant to
I know the purpose of the endowment, but our fundraising relies upon a
sense of urgency which is, simply, fake. It was already not true before,
but now that we have a massive endwoment it became even more untrue. I was
once told "I see Wikipedia is in a financially dire situation" "heck! where
did
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million
goal and welcomes new board members
Thanks Christophe, SJ and all! Lisa, agreed - it's taken a lot of work over the
years from many people to get here. A big thanks to all of the endowment staff
past a
Thanks Christophe, SJ and all! Lisa, agreed - it's taken a lot of work over
the years from many people to get here. A big thanks to all of the
endowment staff past and present and especially to you Lisa, who has been
there as an advocate from the very beginning "what if we made an
endowment?!"
On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 19:27, The Cunctator wrote:
> It's really disappointing to me that the Structured Data work has been used
> to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft.
1. Your message has nothing to do with the endowment
2. You offer no evidence that "the Structured Data work has been used
to
Great now but now...
(https://imgflip.com/i/5o0v9y if you don't want to download the attached
picture)
Vito
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It's really disappointing to me that the Structured Data work has been used
to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 1:20 PM Lisa Gruwell wrote:
> Thank you, Christophe and SJ. You both were great supporters of this
> effort when you were on the WMF board and it wouldn't have
Thank you, Christophe and SJ. You both were great supporters of this
effort when you were on the WMF board and it wouldn't have gotten off the
ground without you. It takes a lot of vision and trust to do something
long-term like an endowment. Thanks for giving that to us!
Best,
Lisa
On Thu,
Congratulations Lisa and team, I know how much energy you pour into it!
That is an amazing step. And great to see the endowment becoming its own
organization.
And "welcome" to the "new" endowment board members! :)
Few people might know Doron, but he is not a stranger. He has been
supporting the
Wonderful news, and an amazing set of board members. Thanks to the team for
making the endowment a steady and growing pillar of support, and tending to
its governance too with care :)
On Wed., Sep. 22, 2021, 10:58 a.m. Lisa Gruwell,
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Today I am very happy to announce
Thanks Lisa for the information.
Now that we have $100 millions, let's see if we can hire someone to solve our
technology, design and community wishes enormous lag. It may be a good
inversion.
Thanks
Galder
From: Lisa Gruwell
Sent: Wednesday, September 22,
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