Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikipedia’s first-ever annual video reflects contributions from people around the world
Excellent piece of work! It makes me really glad (and proud) to see, in this professional way, what our daily chore adds up to in the end. I am also very pleased to see this type of modern communication material being produced by WMF, many thank to the people involved! Anders Juliet Barbara skrev den 2014-12-18 06:36: This announcement is also available online here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/wikipedias-first-ever-annual-video-reflects-contributions-from-people-around-the-world/ Wikipedia: #Edit2014 is available online here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm and http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY *Wikipedia’s first-ever annual video reflects contributions from people around the world* Today, the Wikimedia Foundation released its first ever year in review video, chronicling the celebration, pain, fear, resilience, and discovery that came to characterize 2014. More than anything, it celebrates those who come to Wikipedia to learn and understand the complexity of our world, and those who edit and contribute information so that others might do the same. In watching the video, you embark on a journey through the world and Wikipedia, revisiting what you read and edited this year. From the FIFA World Cup to the Indian general elections, and the Ice Bucket Challenge to Ebola in West Africa, we follow threads of discovery through Wikipedia’s vast constellation of knowledge, finding opportunities to contribute along the way. We venture from Sochi to outer space in less than three minutes. Wikipedia is among the most popular sites in the world, but the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is a small non-profit. The video was put together on a shoestring budget, and in less than two months, through the generous collaboration and contributions of Wikimedians and Wikipedia supporters. The Wikimedia Foundation’s storyteller and video producer, Victor Grigas said, “We had to get creative to make this happen, we couldn’t just throw money at it. This video was made with everyday tools: a computer, an internet connection, lots of deep, patient thinking, research and collaboration, and the free content that ordinary people uploaded to Wikipedia.” Every piece of imagery and video we use was uploaded by you. Wikimedia’s commitment to open access and free information meant we could only use freely licensed photos and videos when producing this video. While the Foundation may have edited the video, contributions came from users around the world. You will see many amazing freely licensed images in the video — beautiful photographs of monuments, recordings of major world events from citizen journalists. At the same time, you will also see some grainy and dated images — such as those used to illustrate West Africa’s struggle with the deadly Ebola outbreak. The images used to illustrate that segment date back to 1976, from an outbreak in Zaire. Although other, more recent freely licensed images are available, most addressed things such as proper use of personal protective equipment or laboratory facilities, rather than the immediate impact on human lives. With hundreds of millions of people relying on Wikipedia to learn and understand more about the world around them, the instance of Ebola highlights the immense need for freely licensed images of important world events. We encourage people everywhere to freely license and share images and photographs of the notable people, places, or historic events — and in doing so, help make the sum of all knowledge available to everyone. You can upload your pictures Wikimedia Commons (Wikipedia’s central media repository) under a free license. While Ebola’s treatment in this video underscores the continuing need for people to contribute freely licensed images, it is also an inspiring true story about collaboration. As the Ebola outbreak raged, devastating the lives of people in numerous countries, Wikimedians looked for ways to contribute. Together with Translators Without Borders and the medical professionals at the WikiProject Med Foundation, volunteers translated the article on Ebola into more than fifty languages, including numerous African languages. In October, The New York Times reported that Wikipedia had emerged as a trusted internet source for Ebola information. Wikipedia reflects the world around us. With each new event, it changes and grows, accommodating our human triumphs and losses. It is the largest collaborative knowledge project in human history, and it is made possible by even the tiniest of contributions from people around the world. Join us in rediscovering 2014, and consider contributing to Wikipedia’s boundless knowledge. Together, we edit our common history. Katherine Maher Chief Communications Officer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community.
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikipedia’s first-ever annual video reflects contributions from people around the world
Congratulations! A very powerful message and a precisely composed one, too. Kudos to Victor and everyone involved! Michael 2014-12-18 9:21 GMT+01:00 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se: Excellent piece of work! It makes me really glad (and proud) to see, in this professional way, what our daily chore adds up to in the end. I am also very pleased to see this type of modern communication material being produced by WMF, many thank to the people involved! Anders Juliet Barbara skrev den 2014-12-18 06:36: This announcement is also available online here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/wikipedias-first- ever-annual-video-reflects-contributions-from-people-around-the-world/ Wikipedia: #Edit2014 is available online here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm and http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY *Wikipedia’s first-ever annual video reflects contributions from people around the world* Today, the Wikimedia Foundation released its first ever year in review video, chronicling the celebration, pain, fear, resilience, and discovery that came to characterize 2014. More than anything, it celebrates those who come to Wikipedia to learn and understand the complexity of our world, and those who edit and contribute information so that others might do the same. In watching the video, you embark on a journey through the world and Wikipedia, revisiting what you read and edited this year. From the FIFA World Cup to the Indian general elections, and the Ice Bucket Challenge to Ebola in West Africa, we follow threads of discovery through Wikipedia’s vast constellation of knowledge, finding opportunities to contribute along the way. We venture from Sochi to outer space in less than three minutes. Wikipedia is among the most popular sites in the world, but the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is a small non-profit. The video was put together on a shoestring budget, and in less than two months, through the generous collaboration and contributions of Wikimedians and Wikipedia supporters. The Wikimedia Foundation’s storyteller and video producer, Victor Grigas said, “We had to get creative to make this happen, we couldn’t just throw money at it. This video was made with everyday tools: a computer, an internet connection, lots of deep, patient thinking, research and collaboration, and the free content that ordinary people uploaded to Wikipedia.” Every piece of imagery and video we use was uploaded by you. Wikimedia’s commitment to open access and free information meant we could only use freely licensed photos and videos when producing this video. While the Foundation may have edited the video, contributions came from users around the world. You will see many amazing freely licensed images in the video — beautiful photographs of monuments, recordings of major world events from citizen journalists. At the same time, you will also see some grainy and dated images — such as those used to illustrate West Africa’s struggle with the deadly Ebola outbreak. The images used to illustrate that segment date back to 1976, from an outbreak in Zaire. Although other, more recent freely licensed images are available, most addressed things such as proper use of personal protective equipment or laboratory facilities, rather than the immediate impact on human lives. With hundreds of millions of people relying on Wikipedia to learn and understand more about the world around them, the instance of Ebola highlights the immense need for freely licensed images of important world events. We encourage people everywhere to freely license and share images and photographs of the notable people, places, or historic events — and in doing so, help make the sum of all knowledge available to everyone. You can upload your pictures Wikimedia Commons (Wikipedia’s central media repository) under a free license. While Ebola’s treatment in this video underscores the continuing need for people to contribute freely licensed images, it is also an inspiring true story about collaboration. As the Ebola outbreak raged, devastating the lives of people in numerous countries, Wikimedians looked for ways to contribute. Together with Translators Without Borders and the medical professionals at the WikiProject Med Foundation, volunteers translated the article on Ebola into more than fifty languages, including numerous African languages. In October, The New York Times reported that Wikipedia had emerged as a trusted internet source for Ebola information. Wikipedia reflects the world around us. With each new event, it changes and grows, accommodating our human triumphs and losses. It is the largest collaborative knowledge project in human history, and it is made possible by even the tiniest of contributions from people around the world. Join us in rediscovering 2014, and consider contributing to Wikipedia’s boundless knowledge. Together, we edit our common history.
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me where of the commons/meta the translations have been done? I'd like to fix some of the Japanese subtitles. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'm happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Youtube: http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/114673230 It's the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. (We know we didn't get it all!) We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the first time, and what it's like to contribute to something that millions of people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It's based entirely on what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you migrated to Commons. It's based on the texts of books and documents on Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in putting this together, so thank you all. If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand it. We'll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn't have open captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it to advocate that they should.) We're already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the beginning. We're publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as soon as they're out. Thanks! :) Victor the WMF Communications team -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
Hi, Takot! Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt A. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me where of the commons/meta the translations have been done? I'd like to fix some of the Japanese subtitles. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'm happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Youtube: http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/114673230 It's the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. (We know we didn't get it all!) We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the first time, and what it's like to contribute to something that millions of people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It's based entirely on what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you migrated to Commons. It's based on the texts of books and documents on Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in putting this together, so thank you all. If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand it. We'll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn't have open captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it to advocate that they should.) We're already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the beginning. We're publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as soon as they're out. Thanks! :) Victor the WMF Communications team -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
Thanks Asaf for quick response! I'll get started soon. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Takot! Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt A. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me where of the commons/meta the translations have been done? I'd like to fix some of the Japanese subtitles. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; wrote: Hi everyone, I'm happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Youtube: http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/114673230 It's the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. (We know we didn't get it all!) We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the first time, and what it's like to contribute to something that millions of people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It's based entirely on what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you migrated to Commons. It's based on the texts of books and documents on Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in putting this together, so thank you all. If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand it. We'll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn't have open captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it to advocate that they should.) We're already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the beginning. We're publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as soon as they're out. Thanks! :) Victor the WMF Communications team -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; javascript:; https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
This is an incredible video. Congratulations to everyone involved. Now I need to get a tissue *sniff*. Aubrey On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Asaf for quick response! I'll get started soon. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Takot! Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt A. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me where of the commons/meta the translations have been done? I'd like to fix some of the Japanese subtitles. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; wrote: Hi everyone, I'm happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Youtube: http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/114673230 It's the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. (We know we didn't get it all!) We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the first time, and what it's like to contribute to something that millions of people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It's based entirely on what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you migrated to Commons. It's based on the texts of books and documents on Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in putting this together, so thank you all. If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand it. We'll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn't have open captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it to advocate that they should.) We're already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the beginning. We're publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as soon as they're out. Thanks! :) Victor the WMF Communications team -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; javascript:; https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
Hi all, On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt I've done some edits but it will not be reflected on the YouTube subtitles automatically? --[[User:Takot]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
Beautiful work :-) I especially appreciate the way you also subtly included our very own Adrianne Wadewitz. On Thursday, 18 December 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I’m happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Youtube: http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/114673230 It’s the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. (We know we didn’t get it all!) We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the first time, and what it’s like to contribute to something that millions of people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It’s based entirely on what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you migrated to Commons. It’s based on the texts of books and documents on Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in putting this together, so thank you all. If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand it. We’ll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn’t have open captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it to advocate that they should.) We’re already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the beginning. We’re publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as soon as they’re out. Thanks! :) Victor the WMF Communications team -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe -- wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
Very well done!!! Congrats to everyone involved (volunteers for producing the content, and for WMF's communication team for so beautifully and powerfully surfacing the magic of it all)! Subbu. On 12/17/2014 11:03 PM, Victor Grigas wrote: Hi everyone, I’m happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Youtube: http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/114673230 It’s the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. (We know we didn’t get it all!) We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the first time, and what it’s like to contribute to something that millions of people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It’s based entirely on what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you migrated to Commons. It’s based on the texts of books and documents on Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in putting this together, so thank you all. If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand it. We’ll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn’t have open captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it to advocate that they should.) We’re already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the beginning. We’re publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as soon as they’re out. Thanks! :) Victor the WMF Communications team ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation
The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to Wikipedia Library: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/dec/gold-journals-donation-for-wikipedia-editors/ Please visit that page for details, to check your eligibility, and to request an account. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation
Thanks Andy --- this is great. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to Wikipedia Library: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/dec/gold-journals-donation-for-wikipedia-editors/ Please visit that page for details, to check your eligibility, and to request an account. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation
Excellent. Fantastic news, Andy! That will make a real difference to serious chemistry on Wikipedia. Michael On 18 Dec 2014, at 15:28, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to Wikipedia Library: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/dec/gold-journals-donation-for-wikipedia-editors/ Please visit that page for details, to check your eligibility, and to request an account. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation
Illustrated by a Heather Walls special, no less. Excellent news, thank you. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to Wikipedia Library: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/dec/gold-journals-donation-for-wikipedia-editors/ Please visit that page for details, to check your eligibility, and to request an account. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Royal Society of Chemistry journal donation
Excellent! On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Illustrated by a Heather Walls special, no less. Excellent news, thank you. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to Wikipedia Library: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/dec/gold-journals-donation-for-wikipedia-editors/ Please visit that page for details, to check your eligibility, and to request an account. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Regards - Tanweer Morshed ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library (New in December)
Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available this month: *Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Elsevier_ScienceDirect *Royal Society of Chemistry Gold Access - chemistry journals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RSC_Gold *Pelican Books - ebook monographs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pelican_Books *Public Catalogue Foundation - art books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_Catalogue_Foundation Many other partnerships are still available too... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals Please notify your local community about the signups. Accounts are open to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Signups mostly happen on English Wikipedia, UNLESS a local Wikipedia Library branch has been started, like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[User:Ocaasi (WMF)]], oca...@wikimedia.org. Thanks! The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?
Hi Pats, Please be aware that iDEAL is still not functional on the Dutch fundraiser page. Also, IBAN is missing. Best, Lodewijk On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Hi Patricia, Thanks for telling that the iDEAL will be back soon. I don't quite understand from your answer why you add the increased hurdle of emailing the team for the IBAN though. Am I overlooking something? Best, Lodewijk On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Patricia Pena pp...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Lodewijk, Currently IDEAL is temporarily down on our pages (it went into maintenance mode after our annual campaign), but should be back up soon :) We know the importance of this method for Dutch donors and have supported this option since we started fundraising in the NL. We also support offline bank transfer (IBAN) and donors can get the account number with our Donor Services team. We had an extremely successful Fundraising campaign this year, and there will be some great mobile optimization coming up in the next few months, which will allow mobile donors to complete their donations in a much faster and easier way. Thanks! Pats On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: A while back now, the chapters were no longer allowed to fundraise, because the Wikimedia Foundation argued they would be better able to do this. At the time, this sounded somewhat reasonable. However, since then, there have been some disturbing developments - at least for Dutch donors. No longer it is possible to pay electronically (iDEAL, one of the most common methods is no longer supported - 'electronic banking' simply refers you back to the credit card page) or even via regular bank transfer (using an IBAN) in the Netherlands. The donation page https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPagecountry=NLuselang=enutm_medium=spontaneousutm_source=fr-redirutm_campaign=spontaneous only allows credit card and paypal, and the 'other ways to give' simply sends you to the helpdesk if you want to make a bank transfer payment. What is the reasoning behind this? Have bank transfers become a legal swamp? Are there statistics suggesting that this method was no longer required by donors? Did the European bank account somehow get temporarily suspended? If it has become so hard to donate, maybe it makes more sense to send the donors to the local chapter pages where they can actually donate in the local suitable methods (in this case, Wikimedia Netherlands offers both iDEAL and IBAN http://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/doneren-aan-wikimedia-nederland). One of the Dutch OTRS team members asked for elaboration, but didn't quite get a satisfying answer. I hope this is a temporary situation, and that this threshold will be removed again. It would be sad if we go through all kind of trouble to enable long tail methods like bitcoin, but skip bank transfer... Best, Lodewijk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Pats Pena | Sr. Manager, Global Operations Wikimedia Foundation office +1 (415) 839 6885 x6764 cell: +1 (415) 816 3349 fax: +1 (415) 284 9511 pp...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. https://donate.wikimedia.org/* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email
This email was sent by WMF fundraising today. I'm embarrassed. Read the email first, then I'll tell you why, below. *Da:* Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia don...@wikimedia.org *Data:* 17 December 2014 10:15:56 pm GMT+1 *A: [email address removed]* *Oggetto:* *Our final email* *Rispondi a:* don...@wikimedia.org *If all our past donors simply gave again today, we wouldn't have to worry about fundraising for the rest of the year.* Dear [name removed], This is the last email reminder you'll receive. We hope the response to today's email will let us end the fundraiser. Please take one minute to keep Wikipedia online and ad-free another year http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 . To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We receive no government funds. We survive on donations from our readers. If all our past donors simply gave again today, we could end the fundraiser. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to improving Wikipedia. We are deeply grateful for your past support. This year, please consider making another donation to protect and sustain Wikipedia http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 . https://donate.wikimedia.org http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 Thank you, Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Founder PS: Less than 1% of our readers donate enough to keep Wikipedia running. Your contribution counts! *DONATE NOW »* http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 -- our final email? This is the last email reminder you'll receive? Surely that should be qualified with ... this year.?? If that weren't embarrassing, what about... - Using *bold* AND *italics *AND yellow backgroud colouring all at the same time in the heading. - Sending an email on the 18th of December saying that if ALL past donors simply gave AGAIN today [my emphasis] then you wouldn't need to do any more fundraising for the rest of the year, i.e. for 2 weeks!! - On the one had it says we'll never run ads but in the sentence immediately beforehand pleads help to us stay ad-free another year. - Does the phrase Less than 1% of our readers donate enough to keep Wikipedia running mean a) that less than 1% of readers donate, which is enough to keep us running, or b) that less than 1% of readers who have donated, donated enough to keep us running (implying that the other 99% of donors didn't donate enough)? - Finally, this email is addressed from Jimmy, but when you receive a thank you for donating email, it's addressed from Lila. [I should note that the thank you for donating email IS very positive and mission-oriented]. *Effectiveness != Efficiency* One of the official WMF Fundraising principles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_principles is *minimal disruption*...aim to raise money from donors *effectively* [emphasis is original]. I believe that this wording has been interpreted by the fundraising team to mean **do the fundraising as quickly as possible. However, I contest that less disruption and more effective is not the same as shorter fundraiser. i.e.: Effectiveness != Efficiency. I am sure that these desperate fundraising emails/banners are *efficient *at getting the most amount of money as fast as possible (they have been honed with excellent A/B testing), but, they achieve this by sacrificing the core WMF fundraising principle of being *minimally disruptive. *In fact, they actually appear to be following a principle of being as *maximally *disruptive as they can get away with, for as short a time as required. Can the WMF to say how minimal disruption and effective fundraising is defined in practice, and how they are measured? *Shareable vs Desperate* On the same day that the WMF communications team release this inspiring and positive year in review video https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/wikipedias-first-ever-annual-video-reflects-contributions-from-people-around-the-world/, this fundraising email sounds negative and desperate. It is all about not advertising and staying online for another year. Couldn't the year in review video have been used in the fundraising email to tell a positive story about all we have achieved this year? That's the kind of thing Wikimedians will want to share and feel proud about, not something that almost bullies you to donate out of a sense of moral-obligation. *Fundraising operating principles* I would like to reiterate my call to see us develop some practical operating principles for fundraising that would give some real-world guidelines for website-banners and emails. Board of Trustees member Phoebe has done an excellent job of summarising the fundraising conversations on this list from the last few weeks here:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email
Mailman clobbers HTML sent to this list (for good reason), but if you'd like to see it in all its technicolor glory, here's the e-mail in question: http://bit.ly/1zCPGQZ (Sorry, future list archive perusers, that's not a permanent link.) Austin On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: This email was sent by WMF fundraising today. I'm embarrassed. Read the email first, then I'll tell you why, below. *Da:* Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia don...@wikimedia.org *Data:* 17 December 2014 10:15:56 pm GMT+1 *A: [email address removed]* *Oggetto:* *Our final email* *Rispondi a:* don...@wikimedia.org *If all our past donors simply gave again today, we wouldn't have to worry about fundraising for the rest of the year.* Dear [name removed], This is the last email reminder you'll receive. We hope the response to today's email will let us end the fundraiser. Please take one minute to keep Wikipedia online and ad-free another year http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 . To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We receive no government funds. We survive on donations from our readers. If all our past donors simply gave again today, we could end the fundraiser. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to improving Wikipedia. We are deeply grateful for your past support. This year, please consider making another donation to protect and sustain Wikipedia http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 . https://donate.wikimedia.org http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 Thank you, Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Founder PS: Less than 1% of our readers donate enough to keep Wikipedia running. Your contribution counts! *DONATE NOW »* http://links.email.donate.wikimedia.org/ctt?kn=3ms=NDc2NDYzOTUS1r=NzU3Mzc1MDY0NjcS1b=0j=NTgzMzA0NDgwS0mt=1rt=0 -- our final email? This is the last email reminder you'll receive? Surely that should be qualified with ... this year.?? If that weren't embarrassing, what about... - Using *bold* AND *italics *AND yellow backgroud colouring all at the same time in the heading. - Sending an email on the 18th of December saying that if ALL past donors simply gave AGAIN today [my emphasis] then you wouldn't need to do any more fundraising for the rest of the year, i.e. for 2 weeks!! - On the one had it says we'll never run ads but in the sentence immediately beforehand pleads help to us stay ad-free another year. - Does the phrase Less than 1% of our readers donate enough to keep Wikipedia running mean a) that less than 1% of readers donate, which is enough to keep us running, or b) that less than 1% of readers who have donated, donated enough to keep us running (implying that the other 99% of donors didn't donate enough)? - Finally, this email is addressed from Jimmy, but when you receive a thank you for donating email, it's addressed from Lila. [I should note that the thank you for donating email IS very positive and mission-oriented]. *Effectiveness != Efficiency* One of the official WMF Fundraising principles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_principles is *minimal disruption*...aim to raise money from donors *effectively* [emphasis is original]. I believe that this wording has been interpreted by the fundraising team to mean **do the fundraising as quickly as possible. However, I contest that less disruption and more effective is not the same as shorter fundraiser. i.e.: Effectiveness != Efficiency. I am sure that these desperate fundraising emails/banners are *efficient *at getting the most amount of money as fast as possible (they have been honed with excellent A/B testing), but, they achieve this by sacrificing the core WMF fundraising principle of being *minimally disruptive. *In fact, they actually appear to be following a principle of being as *maximally *disruptive as they can get away with, for as short a time as required. Can the WMF to say how minimal disruption and effective fundraising is defined in practice, and how they are measured? *Shareable vs Desperate* On the same day that the WMF communications team release this inspiring and positive year in review video https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/wikipedias-first-ever-annual-video-reflects-contributions-from-people-around-the-world/, this fundraising email sounds negative and desperate. It is all about not advertising and staying online for another year. Couldn't the year in review video have been used in the fundraising email to tell a positive story about all we have achieved this year? That's the kind of thing Wikimedians will want to share and feel proud about, not something that almost bullies you to donate out of
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email
Liam Wyatt wrote: *Effectiveness != Efficiency* One of the official WMF Fundraising principles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_principles is *minimal disruption*...aim to raise money from donors *effectively* [emphasis is original]. I believe that this wording has been interpreted by the fundraising team to mean **do the fundraising as quickly as possible. However, I contest that less disruption and more effective is not the same as shorter fundraiser. i.e.: Effectiveness != Efficiency. Thanks for this e-mail. I agree with you that these donation solicitation e-mails are terrible and unbecoming. In my opinion, the fundraising principles are simply too weak. They seem to have been designed with maximum flexibility, which for guiding principles would typically be fine, but the fundraising team needs much stricter boundaries. Harder rules, backed by a Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees resolution, are required. Repeated and repeated misbehavior on the fundraising team's part makes it clear that the current guidelines aren't enough. New rules would specifically address, for example, how big and obnoxious in-page donation advertising can be, with hard maximums. The fundraising rules also need to make explicit that lying is flatly unacceptable. Having the first rule be don't lie might be the easiest solution here, though it's shocking that this needs to be written down. The fundraising teams, past and present, regularly lie to our readers in an effort to extract donations. Specific examples of lying include calling Sue Gardner the Wikipedia Executive Director, calling Brandon Harris a Wikipedia programmer, and repeatedly making manipulative and misleading suggestions that continued donations keep the projects online. The Wikimedia Foundation recently raised $20 million. Assuming a generous $3 million to keep the projects online per year, that's over six _years_ that the projects could continue operating before needing to ask for money again. Contrast with e-mails and in-site donation advertising that suggest that the lights will go off soon if readers don't donate today. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email
On 19 December 2014 at 00:12, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The fundraising rules also need to make explicit that lying is flatly unacceptable. Having the first rule be don't lie might be the easiest solution here, though it's shocking that this needs to be written down. +1 And we're not talking about semantic arguments, we're seeing blatant falsehoods. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email
On 19 December 2014 at 10:12, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The fundraising rules also need to make explicit that lying is flatly unacceptable. Having the first rule be don't lie might be the easiest solution here, though it's shocking that this needs to be written down. The fundraising teams, past and present, regularly lie to our readers in an effort to extract donations. Specific examples of lying include calling Sue Gardner the Wikipedia Executive Director, calling Brandon Harris a Wikipedia programmer, and repeatedly making manipulative and misleading suggestions that continued donations keep the projects online. The Wikimedia Foundation recently raised $20 million. Assuming a generous $3 million to keep the projects online per year, that's over six _years_ that the projects could continue operating before needing to ask for money again. Contrast with e-mails and in-site donation advertising that suggest that the lights will go off soon if readers don't donate today. Please add my name to the list of people who are troubled by what's been said and done in the latest round of fundraising. I think that most of us, even if we feel some distaste for begging for money, realise the importance and necessity of engaging in fundraising. The fact that we're asking for money is not the problem. The problem is that in order to maximise the amount of revenue gained, the Fundraising team has engaged in a misleading scare campaign. In the short term, that means that a few more dollars will flow into the Foundation's coffers, but in the long term it just damages the brand and the entire movement. It is very disappointing that the responses from the WMF to these entirely reasonable concerns so far have been either: a) Silence b) Completely ignoring the point (The fundraiser has been very successful because we've received more money, and those who are not aware that they've been mislead are not upset!) c) Semantic word games (Well, in a technical sense what we've said is not a lie, depending on how you look at it) The solution that I'd like to see for next time is less focus on A/B testing that has its sole purpose of maximising the amount of revenue raised, and more of a view to alternative ways to raise money. Imagine a world in which we gave our readers a positive message that we already had enough money to keep the lights on thanks very much, but needed more to build cool new tools, improve the quality of the project content, and implement more innovative projects to meet our movement's goals. Regards, Craig Franklin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email
These objectionable items are all standard advertising practice. No-one should be surprised. They work because they are targeted at an audience that expects this kind of crap and responds to it like Pavlovs dogs. If the fundraising team went to marketing school this is probably how they were programmed. This does not mean that we have to follow suit. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of MZMcBride Sent: 19 December 2014 02:13 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email Liam Wyatt wrote: *Effectiveness != Efficiency* One of the official WMF Fundraising principles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_principles is *minimal disruption*...aim to raise money from donors *effectively* [emphasis is original]. I believe that this wording has been interpreted by the fundraising team to mean **do the fundraising as quickly as possible. However, I contest that less disruption and more effective is not the same as shorter fundraiser. i.e.: Effectiveness != Efficiency. Thanks for this e-mail. I agree with you that these donation solicitation e-mails are terrible and unbecoming. In my opinion, the fundraising principles are simply too weak. They seem to have been designed with maximum flexibility, which for guiding principles would typically be fine, but the fundraising team needs much stricter boundaries. Harder rules, backed by a Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees resolution, are required. Repeated and repeated misbehavior on the fundraising team's part makes it clear that the current guidelines aren't enough. New rules would specifically address, for example, how big and obnoxious in-page donation advertising can be, with hard maximums. The fundraising rules also need to make explicit that lying is flatly unacceptable. Having the first rule be don't lie might be the easiest solution here, though it's shocking that this needs to be written down. The fundraising teams, past and present, regularly lie to our readers in an effort to extract donations. Specific examples of lying include calling Sue Gardner the Wikipedia Executive Director, calling Brandon Harris a Wikipedia programmer, and repeatedly making manipulative and misleading suggestions that continued donations keep the projects online. The Wikimedia Foundation recently raised $20 million. Assuming a generous $3 million to keep the projects online per year, that's over six _years_ that the projects could continue operating before needing to ask for money again. Contrast with e-mails and in-site donation advertising that suggest that the lights will go off soon if readers don't donate today. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4253/8764 - Release Date: 12/19/14 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?
Hoi, I blogged about this [1]. By ignoring the rest of the world, they effectively give ownership to the WMF to the USA way of working. On a more practical level, they hand over money for their convenience that is in my opinion an absolute waste. By using a UK organisation to process donations, they ignore the UK chapter while they make demands of chapters to raise funds. PS I do hope the WMF gets all the money it is seeking. Thanks, GerardM [1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/12/wikimedia-foundation-does-not-get-one.html On 18 December 2014 at 23:39, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Hi Pats, Please be aware that iDEAL is still not functional on the Dutch fundraiser page. Also, IBAN is missing. Best, Lodewijk On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Hi Patricia, Thanks for telling that the iDEAL will be back soon. I don't quite understand from your answer why you add the increased hurdle of emailing the team for the IBAN though. Am I overlooking something? Best, Lodewijk On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Patricia Pena pp...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Lodewijk, Currently IDEAL is temporarily down on our pages (it went into maintenance mode after our annual campaign), but should be back up soon :) We know the importance of this method for Dutch donors and have supported this option since we started fundraising in the NL. We also support offline bank transfer (IBAN) and donors can get the account number with our Donor Services team. We had an extremely successful Fundraising campaign this year, and there will be some great mobile optimization coming up in the next few months, which will allow mobile donors to complete their donations in a much faster and easier way. Thanks! Pats On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: A while back now, the chapters were no longer allowed to fundraise, because the Wikimedia Foundation argued they would be better able to do this. At the time, this sounded somewhat reasonable. However, since then, there have been some disturbing developments - at least for Dutch donors. No longer it is possible to pay electronically (iDEAL, one of the most common methods is no longer supported - 'electronic banking' simply refers you back to the credit card page) or even via regular bank transfer (using an IBAN) in the Netherlands. The donation page https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPagecountry=NLuselang=enutm_medium=spontaneousutm_source=fr-redirutm_campaign=spontaneous only allows credit card and paypal, and the 'other ways to give' simply sends you to the helpdesk if you want to make a bank transfer payment. What is the reasoning behind this? Have bank transfers become a legal swamp? Are there statistics suggesting that this method was no longer required by donors? Did the European bank account somehow get temporarily suspended? If it has become so hard to donate, maybe it makes more sense to send the donors to the local chapter pages where they can actually donate in the local suitable methods (in this case, Wikimedia Netherlands offers both iDEAL and IBAN http://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/doneren-aan-wikimedia-nederland). One of the Dutch OTRS team members asked for elaboration, but didn't quite get a satisfying answer. I hope this is a temporary situation, and that this threshold will be removed again. It would be sad if we go through all kind of trouble to enable long tail methods like bitcoin, but skip bank transfer... Best, Lodewijk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Pats Pena | Sr. Manager, Global Operations Wikimedia Foundation office +1 (415) 839 6885 x6764 cell: +1 (415) 816 3349 fax: +1 (415) 284 9511 pp...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. https://donate.wikimedia.org/* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email
Liam Wyatt, 19/12/2014 00:08: PS: Less than 1% of our readers donate enough to keep Wikipedia running. Your contribution counts! I read this as shame on you, users who use Wikipedia without paying for its costs!. Criminalising our users is really abusive. Sadly, this latest violation of the Wikimedia mission is a logical consequence of the incorrect ideological premises the WMF is run on. I've expanded the essay on the topic: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stupidity_of_the_reader#The_burden_of_the_reader Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
