Re: [Wikimedia-l] compromise?

2012-12-30 Thread James Salsman
> The April fundraiser is on translated messages IIRC. I'm sorry, I don't understand what this means. Where are plans for the April fundraiser being discussed? > No sane person can be expected to be put in a holding pattern > for three months before an organizations STARTS to decide what > intern

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-30 Thread James Heilman
> > > Med is a very common abbreviation for Medicine. And what we at Wiki Med are working on is different than the Wikimedia Foundation. I doubt any more confusion than usual will occur. Am looking into what it would take to change it back to Wiki Medicine. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ziko van Dijk, 29/12/2012 17:36: I'm confident to see soon a Wikimedia Medicine as the model for some other thematic organizations, and I am curious how it will evolve. Maybe I will never understand what is a "foundation" in the US. In the Netherlands or Germany, we distinguish between an associa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] compromise?

2012-12-30 Thread Birgitte_sb
On Dec 30, 2012, at 3:40 AM, James Salsman wrote: >> The April fundraiser is on translated messages IIRC. > > I'm sorry, I don't understand what this means. Where are plans for the > April fundraiser being discussed? It means multivariate testing in X languages is siginificantly more resour

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annual Audit of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-12-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Michael Snow, 28/12/2012 00:12: Donor funds need to be managed wisely, but simply performing a Google search for the best interest rates is not all that useful a tool here. If somebody wants to come to Garfield and tell him, "I've had some of my own money in a CD with Bank or Credit Union X for t