[Wikimedia-l] WikiSym 2013: Wikipedia Research Track CFP

2012-12-13 Thread Heather Ford
WikiSym 2013: Wikipedia Research Track Call for Papers = WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China About the Conference T

Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

2012-12-13 Thread Marie-Antoine Rieu
Extraordinaire... 2012/12/13 Sage Ross > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mathias Schindler > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> > http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books

Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

2012-12-13 Thread Sage Ross
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mathias Schindler wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/ >> >> He's patented the method, too.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

2012-12-13 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard wrote: > http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/ > > He's patented the method, too. Hopefully he will enforce the patent. Noam Cohen wrote about hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

2012-12-13 Thread Itzik Edri
Indeed, a good start, that I already checked. The statistics shows only WMF data. Last year we had google docs file that the chapters shared their numbers every day also. And there is no indication to which banners running and their performance, things that I'll like to see. The fundraising team

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

2012-12-13 Thread Till Mletzko
and: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012 Till Am 13.12.2012 15:12, schrieb Theo10011: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Itzik Edri wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Could we get some updates (or that I missed them?) about how the >> fundraising goes? WMF and Chapters will be great. Since we on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

2012-12-13 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Itzik Edri wrote: > Hi, > > Could we get some updates (or that I missed them?) about how the > fundraising goes? WMF and Chapters will be great. Since we only focus on > few countries this year, the discussions regarding it is very low, but it > still very interes

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

2012-12-13 Thread Itzik Edri
Hi, Could we get some updates (or that I missed them?) about how the fundraising goes? WMF and Chapters will be great. Since we only focus on few countries this year, the discussions regarding it is very low, but it still very interesting to know how much we collect and how the banners works (and