Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

Pete We realise what the foundation was thinking in its response, I wasnt looking to be negative about the reasonings rather just pointing out that the community has already gone the path of a National event, and we'll be doing so again. The problem isnt just the connections within our community

[Wikimedia-l] WMF as an advertiser

Hi I started writing some common thoughts on WMF fundraising, particularly the whole notion of advertising. I've always thought of evaluating WMF as just another advertiser that uses banners. I started this essay on Meta[1]. We certainly claim to be free from advertisement. How about we consider

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

I'm not sure what you mean by "knocked back," Gnangarra, but the WMF response to that grant proposal looks thoughtful and aimed at finding a viable solution at some point in the future. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015#WMF_comments Andy Mabbett,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

> > > > Why not organise WikiOz, or WikiOceana? > ​​ > > ​We tried that https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015 a​nd was knocked back for the funding needed to make it happen. > > -- > ​be fon​ > > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

On 9 October 2015 at 22:58, Megan Hernandez wrote: > All of these community suggestions remain in the banner. Another sentence > that was briefly tested on a small percentage of users about a year ago > that received negative community feedback was “If everyone reading this > gave $3, we could ke

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

I want to be clear about my previous message -- I am not questioning any individual person's integrity in the process, and I know from firsthand experience that a tremendous amount of good work goes into this stuff. But I think the process that has evolved around developing the campaign is broken.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

I agree, that banner does not reflect the values of this movement. Pure and simple; it's not a grey area, and not worth my time to discuss for the 97th time. Personally, I long ago gave up participating in these discussions, for the most part -- because the same valid points get made over and over

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

Hi Megan, Thank you for the update and all the hard work the team has done during Q1. My comments below. On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Megan Hernandez wrote: > The team has used this first quarter to test a wide variety of brand new > banners. From images, to banners highlighting photos from

[Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

Hi all, There's a new Q1 fundraising update on meta and posted here as well. The Wikimedia Foundation has just wrapped up the first quarter of the 2015-16 fiscal year. Over these past three months, the fundraising team has been run

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

On 6 October 2015 at 01:56, Gnangarra wrote: > the wording is unhappy because I'm unhappy with the process and > there is nothing public about Montreal even being on the radar for > Wikimania I can understand your frustration, and to a degree share it. Perhaps its time to take a sideways step,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Fæ wrote: > For anyone following the transparent and open publication of the > allocation and rationales for necessary WMF staff project account > rights (i.e. not community managed), the wiki table on meta was > updated this week, see [1] and the recent changes at

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMCON 2015: Report from the Program and Engagement Coordinator

Dear Wikimedia friends, We have just published our report of the Program and Engagement Coordination for the Wikimedia Conference. It covers the first six months of our experiment. (Spoiler: We consider this experiment a success.) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Confere

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

Jan, I am very sad to see you moving on. From the first day I met you, I knew you were a valuable, passionate and kind partner to me in our movement. You've always been driven to make positive change. You've tried out new approaches to see what might work. You've learned from those experiences an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikinobel 2015 tomorrow

Hi Michael, This one is just focusing on the peace prize. As you may know, the rest of the Nobel prizes are awarded by Swedish institutes, while the peace prize is handled by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Our cooperation is with the Nobel Peace Center, which is sort of like a museum about the pea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

On 25 September 2015 at 08:52, Fæ wrote: ... > Thanks for your commitment to get this up to date. For anyone following the transparent and open publication of the allocation and rationales for necessary WMF staff project account rights (i.e. not community managed), the wiki table on meta was upda

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Join the community review of 11 annual plan grants proposals to the FDC

and to be more specific. Read and enjoy: *WMUK its impressive reorganisations of operations and recruitment of new ED *WMCH its refocusing and its excellent community support program, especially considering they have three communities to support *WMNL its graph of impact vs resources. It gives a