Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Renata St
Yes, congrats! Awesome work! I read that this morning on my phone in the news summary for the day during the subway ride to work. Renata On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread geni
On 17 February 2010 17:18, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 February 2010 14:44, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Gregory Kohs
Wow, this is big news! Now with Google cooperating with the National Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. Gregory Kohs ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Bod Notbod
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, this is big news!  Now with Google cooperating with the National Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. Can you expand on that please. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Liam Wyatt
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, this is big news! Now with Google cooperating with the National Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. Can you

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Gregory Kohs wrote: Wow, this is big news! Now with Google cooperating with the National Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. Gregory Kohs Awesome! Be so kind and line up YourWikiBusiness with them, so we will have all the ducks in a row. Quack, quack!

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Luna
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of USD 2 million. It will come to us via the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation, which handles all of Google's philanthropic activity, and

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Bod Notbod
Excellent news. I'm a big fan of Google (not saying they won't ever turn evil!) and switching between Google and Wikimedia products/projects accounts for 90% of my time online. It's great to see them both in harmony with each other. The question is, how do we thank the company that has

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us want. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You ask for a better idea :) Google just finished the Swahili Wikipedia challenge. Google very much wants to grow traffic, any traffic in African indigenous languages. Spending money directly on any language is imho a bad idea but I would welcome statistics that show what people are looking

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? The prior question is, where did the money come from? I can't seem to figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is...

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Bod Notbod
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: The prior question is, where did the money come from?  I can't seem to figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is... It does seem slightly opaque. A small amount of digging suggests that Google gives money to

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Jimmy Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund Tides Foundation offers donor advised funds and other grantmaking vehicles as well as professional philanthropic advice, institutional regranting services, comprehensive grants management and much more.

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Judson Dunn
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us want. And making the API more awesome, which

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread David Gerard
On 17 February 2010 14:44, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us want. Indeed. Note, by the way, I believe we've previously

[Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread Sue Gardner
Hi all, I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of USD 2 million. It will come to us via the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation, which handles all of Google's philanthropic activity, and it is completely unrestricted. We'll be putting out a press release tomorrow,

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread James Alexander
That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size always seem to have ifs/ands or butts attached. User:Jamesofur James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com 100 gmail invites

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 17 February 2010 02:37, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote: That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size always seem to have ifs/ands or butts attached. I agree, this is

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread Wilfredo Rodriguez
WOW Overwhelming!!! 2010/2/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com On 17 February 2010 02:37, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote: That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread shi zhao
Chinese report: http://tech.163.com/10/0217/12/5VNMNPCH000915BF.html Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]] 2010/2/17 Wilfredo Rodriguez wilfre...@gmail.com: WOW Overwhelming!!! 2010/2/16 Thomas