Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 January 2015 at 07:18, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2015 at 21:29, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8564001 was created on 28 March 2013‎ and is found in the left-hand navigation on

[Wikimedia-l] November 21, 2014 minutes of the Board of Trustees

2015-01-16 Thread Stephen LaPorte
Hi all, At the request of the Board of Trustees, I have posted the minutes of the November 21, 2014 meeting in San Francisco, which you can find here: *https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-11-21 https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-11-21* Thank you, Stephen LaPorte

Re: [Wikimedia-l] November 21, 2014 minutes of the Board of Trustees

2015-01-16 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi Everyone, Thank you for publishing the minutes Stephen. I wanted to add a short note on the two days the board spent prior to the board meeting. We had a retreat (our first with the new Executive Director) in which we focused on the changing nature of the internet, our environment, our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour

2015-01-16 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey folks :) I'll be doing another office hour for Wikidata on IRC next Friday at 18:00 UTC. It'll happen in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC. Everyone is welcome for discussions and question answering. Logs

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-16 Thread Risker
We now have at least a partial understanding of the reason the fundraising campaign was extended, which is found in the minutes of the Board of Trustees meeting of November 2014.[1] Board members asked Lila and Lisa to consider and evaluate ways to raise additional revenue to increase the reserve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-16 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hi all, Here's a quick follow up on a couple issues from this thread. The fundraising team will be posting feedback analysis on March 1. To clear up some confusion around the duration of the campaign, we ran banners to 100% traffic for the first two weeks of December. We limited the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Megan Hernandez, 16/01/2015 22:11: Most of them do not have phabricator accounts, so the email feedback channel is critical. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Using_e-mail Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 1 -- 14 January 2015

2015-01-16 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Featured content: Citations are needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-14/Featured_content In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-14/In_the_media News

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, Here's a quick follow up on a couple issues from this thread. The fundraising team will be posting feedback analysis on March 1. Thanks, Megan. I look forward to your feedback analysis. To clear

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-16 Thread Lisa Gruwell
Hi Andreas- Thanks for the questions. There are lots of differences between the 2013 and 2014 campaigns and there are many variables at play here. One big difference is mobile. In 2013, we were just experimenting with mobile. In 2014, we launched a mobile campaign a week after we launched the