Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
Steven, You're welcome. There's also this, which I still long to turn into a proper report with excerpts and screenshots : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro You are right that wikipedia has a website-product as one of its major outputs. And the focus on this important large-scale product

Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-24 Thread Steven Walling
SJ, thanks for sharing the nostalgia.wikipedia.org link. I've been a Wikimedian for four years, and not once stumbled across that. You learn something new every day... As for the "educational products" phrase, my feeling is yes, the community on-wiki doesn't tend to think of the projects *literall

Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
Welcome, Jennifer. The current foundation-l traffic isn't quite as vibrant an intro to the community today as it was in 2005 or so. I hope you will share your thoughts, even unformed! For a historical taste, don't forget to visit the nostalgia wiki: http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org ...and even ht

[Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-20 Thread Jennifer Riggs
This being Volunteer Appreciation week in the US, I thought it was a great chance for me to post to this list and post a Wikimedia blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/20/volunteer-appreciation/. I want to thank everyone for being so welcoming. I am very excited about this organization and th