Thank you, Gerard. We are certainly looking forward to working with all open source and open projects relating to anything Wikimedia.
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hoi, > You may want to consider helping the meta translators. The Translate > extension that is used by translatewiki.net is usable and used for the > kind > of texts that are used in the coming Fundraiser. > > There are several relevant benefits; a much better user interface makes it > a > lot more usable, the statistics at translatewiki.net show clearly what the > status is for non translated texts, translatewiki.net integrates its > messages with software all the time so it would make your work easier as > well. > > Just a thought. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 5 September 2010 06:00, Keegan Peterzell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > (sending from personal email since @wikimedia isn't subscribed at the > > moment) > > > > Hello Wikimedians, > > > > As many of you are aware, we are now two months away from the Fundraiser > > for > > the Wikimedia Foundation, 2010. We have lofty goals, and we can meet > them > > and exceed them! > > > > The meta translators are already actively engaged in the annual drive to > > distribute our messages, but we would like to point everyone to the > > developments we've made in banner messages- from creation to commentary > to > > the ones that will go live for test and for the drive itself in November. > > It's one of our goals to make sure that all volunteers know that there is > a > > place for them in the Fundraising drive. We've started the setup on > > meta[1] > > for both banner submission[2], statistical analysis[3], and grouping > > volunteers together that would like to find specific focus and work in > that > > area[4]. > > > > This year the Wikimedia Foundation is taking a proactive stance in > reaching > > out to each and every Wikimedia project and volunteer to find innovation, > > collaboration, and collation of ideas from the community driven process. > > The staff working on this is comprised of long-time Wikimedians with as > > much > > care and concern for the success of this drive as the volunteers, and we > > want you to actively participate and have a voice. > > > > Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to > others, > > talk to us. Engagement is what we strive for, without each other we > would > > never had made Wikimedia succeed. Everyone is welcome to contact any of > us > > on staff at any time with a timely response to follow. We actively > > encourage focusing discussion on meta so we can all work together. > > > > See you on the wiki! > > > > 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 > > 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Messages > > 3. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testing/Stats > > 4. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Committee > > > > -- > > Keegan Peterzell > > Associate Community Officer, Fundraising 2010 > > Wikimedia Foundation > > [email protected] > > > > Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in > > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > > > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Keegan Peterzell Associate Community Officer, Fundraising 2010 Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
