[Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

Hi all- For several years, the Wikimedia movement has been having discussions about whether and when to begin building an endowment. I put an essay up on meta recently in an attempt to rekindle this conversation with the community. We included

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

Thanks! I added a section to the talk page asking about how we would actually go about investing... the purpose of an endowment is to let it grow and just spend some of the interest, but that growth doesn't happen in a vacuum. Investment happens by putting money into other peoples' businesses and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

Lisa, Thank you for sharing these exciting news and all the work the team has completed so far. I know I have spoken with many of our community members in the past about this important milestone in protecting our community's work long-term. I am looking forward to hearing more from everyone as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

That's a good question. Alternatives to private sector equity investments include public-sector bonds, as well as commodities and currencies. While I wouldn't recommend that WMF do either of the latter two, there might be some reasonable choices for WMF in the public sector bond market. In the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

I've created a Phabricator task for this at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119888, if anyone would like to track this there, add your thoughts, etc. Joe -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] joesutherland.rocks | @jrbsu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Greetings, Quick update for those interested. The poll closed this weekend - as scheduled (it was a faster timeline given the urgency of the case/request). Right now, we await assessment and closure of the straw poll by a Steward (request has been made on their Noticeboard). At the time of

[Wikimedia-l] Revision scoring as a service launched

(cross-posting from wikitech-l) Today we published an announcement on the Wikimedia blog marking the official launch of revision scoring as a service and I wanted to say a few words about this project: Blog post:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > May we actually stop having anything with these pest? > > http://custodians.online/ I dont believe we can stop using closed access journals, as that would reduce the quality of our projects, but we can use links to them as

[Wikimedia-l] In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

May we actually stop having anything with these pest? http://custodians.online/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey - voting open

Hi everyone, The Community Tech team's Wishlist Survey is now open for voting; come on over and upvote your favorites. We're looking for the most important features and fixes that our team can work on to help the core contributors on Wikimedia projects.