Re: [Wikimedia-l] Crisis of conscience Fwd: [REA]

2013-04-01 Thread David Goodman
The entire editorial board resigned over the way the publisher was doing it, and that it indicates the true meaning of such a precedent. On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > hi, > > as far as I know, these prices are not established basing on the cost side, > but the oppo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Matthew Walker
> > Hi, is there any directory or file or whatever with the codes for > campaigns? Nope; not yet. I'll have to get Zack and Megan to write something up. I see only codes without sense. I feel there's a matrix joke here that I don't want to make. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Tec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Dennis Tobar
Hi, is there any directory or file or whatever with the codes of campaigns?, I see only codes without sense. Regards... Dennis Tobar Calderón El 01/04/2013 18:46, "Matthew Walker" escribió: > > > > On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv > > files... Are we really

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Matthew Walker
> > On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv > files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily??? Depends on the day :p We had a 2 million dollar day when we opened the floodgates in the US, UK, CA, AU, and NZ (We had five; I think NZ was the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Thomas Morton
Not uncommon for Xkcd :p Although the article being used is changing so rapidly that it's unlikely to cause much disruption. On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily??? :s Tom On Monday, April

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Deryck Chan
As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its readers to edit war over certain articles. On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider wrote: > Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly > growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Matthew Walker
> > Campaign "unfuckingknown", with the medium being "spontaneous". The amusing entries are either people fuzzing us; or us testing. There's very little validation of the campaign tracking fields. What comes into the system goes out of the system. We probably should clean the data up a little bett

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 01.04.2013 22:06, schrieb Benoit Landry: > Campaign "unfuckingknown", with the medium being "spontaneous". Perhaps it is > some sort of error handler, when a donation comes from a source the system > cannot determine due to some glitch, it puts it there? ;) maybe it is possible to set your ow

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Benoit Landry
Campaign "unfuckingknown", with the medium being "spontaneous". Perhaps it is some sort of error handler, when a donation comes from a source the system cannot determine due to some glitch, it puts it there? ;) ,Salvidrim > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:45:18 +0100 > From: morton.tho...@googlemai

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Manuel Schneider, 01/04/2013 21:42: Thanks Marc and Michael! Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier: http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall, but it has obvious general applicability. thanks for this link, I didn't know abo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Thomas Morton
Heh, the CSV's have some amusing, umm. campaign names in them... Tom On 1 April 2013 20:42, Manuel Schneider wrote: > Thanks Marc and Michael! > > Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier: > > > http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ > > > > My understanding is that this was done in collaboration

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Manuel Schneider
Thanks Marc and Michael! Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier: > http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ > > My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall, > but it has obvious general applicability. thanks for this link, I didn't know about this site and data. This is v

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Snow
On 4/1/2013 12:22 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote: Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via this link." http://xkcd.org/ Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 04/01/2013 03:22 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote: > Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through > this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the > donation link but how can it fetch the amount? It is: http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ My understanding i

[Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

2013-04-01 Thread Manuel Schneider
Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via this link." http://xkcd.org/ Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through this comic? I see that there is a spe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] questions on the use of banner space to promote a cause

2013-04-01 Thread James Salsman
geni wrote: > On 30 March 2013 20:57, James Salsman wrote: >>... >> >> (A) Should the Foundation devote banner space on project home pages to >> CISPA advocacy?[3][4] >> >> (B) Should the Foundation devote banner space on project home pages to >> CALEA advocacy?[5] >> >> (C) Should the Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition team update

2013-04-01 Thread Thehelpfulone
Thanks Jan-Bart, On 1 April 2013 17:17, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > With a little help from TheHelpfulOne we have made a start with the Meta > pages for the transition team. > Credit to Sj and Phoebe for some clean up too! > The central page is located at: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ED_

[Wikimedia-l] Transition team update

2013-04-01 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hello Everyone, With a little help from TheHelpfulOne we have made a start with the Meta pages for the transition team. The central page is located at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ED_Transition_Team Feel free to browse and comment/suggest! Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Transition Team _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Adopt a page"

2013-04-01 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-03-30 20:51, Steven Walling a écrit : There's actually plenty of even more neutral ways to do this IMO, and none of them have anything to do with promoting the donor or paid editing. For example: a simple count of how many readers donated in support of this article. "This article spons

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Adopt a page"

2013-04-01 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-03-30 09:54, Craig Franklin a écrit : It comes down to asking what the purpose of the Foundation and a project like Wikipedia is. Is it to produce a free source of knowledge, or is to promote volunteerism? If it's possible to build a better encyclopædia by encouraging paid editing or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Crisis of conscience Fwd: [REA]

2013-04-01 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
hi, as far as I know, these prices are not established basing on the cost side, but the opportunity to charge scholars (who can often justify 3k expense in a larger grant budget). All this business is quite shady and despicable in many cases (when the publishers do not offer anything in exchange,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Crisis of conscience Fwd: [REA]

2013-04-01 Thread rupert THURNER
it seems that CEO of taylor & francis, Roger Horton [2], wanted to charge nearly 3000 USD to publish an article accessible without paywall in their "journal of library administration" [0]. they belong to informa, with its CEO, Peter Rigby [1]. would 3000 usd in future be then a fair price the wiki