[Wikimedia-l] Re: Obnoxious fundraisers again: Undismissable notice

Hi all, I work in online fundraising and I'd like to provide some clarification on this particular mobile fundraising banner. There are several options to dismiss the banner. There is a "no thanks" option at the top of the banner. A user can also scroll down to see the article without needing to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] #SheSaid

I love this, and will gladly participate via my personal account! *"It's not the last couch you'll ever buy."* ~ My mom, always a pragmatist, abundantly notable in my hometown. #SheSaid On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 8:41 AM Rajeeb wrote: > Great to hear from you Florence and actually we all are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Leadership change at Wikimedia Israel

Michal, I was very happy to get a little bit of your perspective in conversations re: fundraising over the last few months. Thank you for all you've done and I look forward to seeing what's next for you. Congratulations, Revital. Best wishes to all the awesome people at WMIL. sam On Thu, Dec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing our newest chapter, Wikimedia Korea

Congratulations! Very heartening to see. On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 6:48 AM Nabin K. Sapkota < nboycreationne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations and looks forward to future collaboration. > > Cheers, > Nabin > Wikimedians of Nepal > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 1:12 PM Philip Kopetzky > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

Congratulations! These initiatives look awesome. Well done on securing the funding and subsidized office space. On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:05 AM Samuel Klein wrote: > Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing :) > > On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, < > john.anders...@wikimedia.se> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sensory overloads

Thank you very much for sharing this. It is a personal growth area for me and this thread gives really valuable first-hand experience. On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Romaine Wiki wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In our movement we have a lot of different people, including people with a > different

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Would people be interested in a "Community Metrics and Activities Meeting"?

Thank you for making this happen, Pine, I'm very much looking forward to it. I did a decent amount of livestreaming for Huffington Post (I'm sorry) and other outlets back in my day and would be happy to help w/ future logistics as a volunteer. sam On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 7:04 PM, Pine W wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] January Wikimedia Foundation Metrics & Activities meeting

Agree with James, this is a great idea and I'm looking forward to seeing Wiki DE do their thing. Sam On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, James Heilman wrote: > Excellent idea. Super cool to see. > > J > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Gregory Varnum >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana

Awesome! Congratulations and welcome. On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Nov/Dec Wikimedia Foundation Metrics & Activities meeting

Thanks for the heads up, Sam! On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Samantha Lien wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The currently-scheduled November and December metrics meetings both fall > on popular holiday weeks in the United States and other parts of the world. > > Given this,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

I want to thank everyone for this robust discussion! We appreciate the feedback very much. I want to recognize the role that Joseph Seddon has played in encouraging us to share more results with this email list; he's the #1 reason that I started this thread. I also want to thank Peter Coombe, my

[Wikimedia-l] FY1617 Fundraising Report just published

Hi all, happy Friday. We are excited to share with you our fundraising report for fiscal year 2017 . This full year fundraising overview is always a group project that depends on the collaboration of many teams at the foundation:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New style banner - A heads up

Hi all, happy Friday. I'm a member of the foundation's online fundraising team and wanted to add a few points and answers to this good discussion. I'll use bullet-points to separate each topic: - For clarification, this was a 1-hour test that ran from 15 to 16 UTC on Wednesday. We haven't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising pilot on Facebook

han one aimed at the actual > fundraising team - if this works, will WMF decide it's the only movement > body that is allowed to fundraising on Facebook, in the same way's it > approaches the on-wiki banners? :) ) > > Regards, > > Chris > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 6:58 PM, S

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: The Text Adventure

This is really neat. Thanks for sharing. Ah, text adventures. I wonder if there'd be a way to scale it so that you could actually enter more commands that would still pull from Wikimedia products ... *Eat sandwich* You ingest[1 ] a food typically consisting of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikipedia Library User Group

Very cool, congratulations! sam On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > This is a great news! Congratulations everyone involved in bringing this > awesome collective. > > Subhashish > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Katherine Maher

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising pilot on Facebook

it is former staff > member Zack Exley's company. > Is there a requirement that this consulting job will culminate in a > published and openly licensed report by Middle Seat? > > Regards, > John > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:58 AM, Samuel Patton <spat...@wikimedia.org> > wrot

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising pilot on Facebook

Hi everyone, I'm writing to let you know about a project we're trying on the Foundation's fundraising team. Thanks to all the help and advice we've received from our colleagues in Communications, Legal, and Community Engagement. *I've posted this announcement as an update on Fundraising's Meta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016

I agree, the report is great and the videos are inspiring. Thanks for sharing! sam On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:15 AM, NC Hasive wrote: > Really very impressive report. Like the way to present the annual report. > > Hasive > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Erik Zachte

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Women explainer video

Love the video and appreciate all your work. sam On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Cornelius Kibelka < cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > I really like the video, and I like the South-African dialect. Great job, > Florence & Isla! > > For the subtitles I'd suggest to use amara.org. That's

[Wikimedia-l] 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report just published

Hi all, My name is Sam and I'm part of the online fundraising team. I'm writing to let you know that we just published our 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report, and would love for you to check it out. Link here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Fundraising_Report I've been a happy and