Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Steven Zhang
I've little to add to this thread than my personal point of view and take on how I would fundraise. I've been very involved in organisational work with Wikimedia Australia (the comments here are mine and mine alone) so haven't been logging on and editing as much as of late but continue to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Liam Wyatt
*TL;DR summary: I don't want the discussion about fundraising principles to be forgotten for another year until we do the whole thing again in 11 months... We need to finish the discussion about whether it is acceptable for all other values to be made secondary to the goal of maximising

[Wikimedia-l] March is WikiWomen's History Month

2015-01-12 Thread Richard Ames
Forwarded Message Subject:March is WikiWomen's History Month Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:12:48 -0800 From: Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello! Can you please forward the following message to your mailing list -

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] (Cross-post) METRO Wikipedia webcast on Reference and Citation today 1/12 at 2-3:15pm EST

2015-01-12 Thread Pine W
Forwarding in case anyone wants to tune in to this event live. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com Date: Jan 12, 2015 9:51 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] (Cross-post) METRO Wikipedia webcast on Reference and Citation today 1/12 at 2-3:15pm EST To: English

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On 12 Jan 2015, at 11:25 pm, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Now that the 2014 Fundraising campaign has finished and which, according to a WMF blogpost from a week ago, surpassed our goal of $20 million According to the data provided at https://frdata.wikimedia.org/ the Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Lilburne
On 12/01/2015 20:59, Andreas Kolbe wrote: As for the fundraiser's duration, I believe the 2014 fundraiser ran for 30 days (December 2 to December 31, 2014). This is longer than last year, and at any rate much longer than 2012, right? You need to get the most out of the Goose as it nears the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2015 at 15:59, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 Jan 2015, at 11:25 pm, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Now that the 2014 Fundraising campaign has finished and which, according to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Wil Sinclair
I think it's a matter of common sense that we shouldn't ask for more money unless we can credibly demonstrate with stuff like success metrics and improving trends that we can spend the money we've already been given effectively. Risker's comments made me wonder, however, about the more specific

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread MZMcBride
Andreas Kolbe wrote: As for the fundraiser's duration, I believe the 2014 fundraiser ran for 30 days (December 2 to December 31, 2014). This is longer than last year, and at any rate much longer than 2012, right? Because according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013 – In 2012, we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Risker
On 12 January 2015 at 15:59, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 Jan 2015, at 11:25 pm, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Now that the 2014 Fundraising campaign has finished and which, according to a WMF blogpost from a week ago, surpassed our goal of $20 million

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:09 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Because according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013 – In 2012, we were able to shorten the fundraiser down to nine full days, the shortest fundraiser we've had. I'm not sure about that Meta-Wiki page's