[WikiEN-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with Zack Exley

Greetings everyone, Just a reminder that Zack Exley, Chief Community Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, will be holding IRC office hours today (October 5) at 21:00 UTC (14:00 PT, 17:00 ET, 23:00 CEST) in #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net. Instructions for accessing the discussion for t

[WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to bring you up to date on the planning of the 2010-2011 fundraiser, and ask once again for your participation in the process. Our updated meta pages (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 ) will give you an overview as well. There's a lot

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

Is it me, or when I saw the word "focus group", I started to develop some bad feelings about this? -MuZemike On 10/5/2010 8:49 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to take a moment to bring you up to date on the planning of > the 2010-2011 fundraiser, and ask once again for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

MuZemike, Bad feelings? We're learning more about our donors to maximize the fundraising potential of our messages during the two month campaign. We have a lofty goal - and a short time period to accomplish it in. -Deniz On 10/6/10 1:03 PM, MuZemike wrote: > Is it me, or when I saw the word "f

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

On 10/6/2010 4:03 PM, MuZemike wrote: > Is it me, or when I saw the word "focus group", I started to develop > some bad feelings about this? > > -MuZemike How so? We aren't basing the decisions on which banners to run on the focus group (or survey for that matter). We're doing that on actual c

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

Depends on the results, I suppose. Though as I've just watched the first show of 'The Apprentice' (BBC show in the UK - and they have a version in the USA as well), I'm probably a bit more cynical than usual about business and jargon-speak right now. At the end of the day it is about results. Hang

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > Maybe a video > clip montage of lots of different Wikipedia contributors talking for a > very short time? Haha, like ? ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 __

[WikiEN-l] Pending Changes development update: October 6

Hi everyone, Pending Changes work continues apace.  The big thing we'd like to call everyone's attention to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback#Call_for_specific_feedback_on_UI_elements We'd really like to get your input on specific suggestions that we can implement q

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carcharoth > wrote: >> Maybe a video >> clip montage of lots of different Wikipedia contributors talking for a >> very short time? > > Haha, like >

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

Wikipedians and Jedi-themed special effects?! *gets popcorn* But yes, I agree, it'd be fantastic to have even more high quality videos of editors *and* readers, with or without lightsabers. On 10/6/10 6:05 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > >> On W

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

I'm just saying that I know instances in which focus groups sometimes don't accomplish what they're set to do. Apparently, Apple has gone against this concept of doing focus groups to make decisions so they can keep moving forward with various products (citation needed). Coca-Cola did the same

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

On 10/7/2010 1:20 AM, MuZemike wrote: > I'm just saying that I know instances in which focus groups sometimes > don't accomplish what they're set to do. Apparently, Apple has gone > against this concept of doing focus groups to make decisions so they can > keep moving forward with various product

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Deniz Gultekin wrote: > Wikipedians and Jedi-themed special effects?! *gets popcorn* > > But yes, I agree, it'd be fantastic to have even more high quality > videos of editors *and* readers, with or without lightsabers. > > On 10/6/10 6:05 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > >