[Foundation-l] Europeana

Europeana (http://www.europeana.eu/) is working again. I think that it has a lot of useful (PD) materials. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

I have submitted a new project proposal, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Soviet_Repressions_Memorial -- Kurt Weber http://blog.kurtweber.us ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phas e 2

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:57 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > Hm, btw, where was again that list with all incoming donations? > > Lodewijk > There are many statistics pages, see the "Contributions/Fundraiser" section on . -- Casey Brown Cbr

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2008/12/23 effe iets anders : >> Up to now, I kinda liked the fundraiser. Although they are very shouty for >> what I'm used to (I dislike the red button for instance and the somewhat >> agressive tone), I think this last change in message cou

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008/12/23 effe iets anders : > Up to now, I kinda liked the fundraiser. Although they are very shouty for > what I'm used to (I dislike the red button for instance and the somewhat > agressive tone), I think this last change in message could use a *little* > step back. Please use a slightly smalle

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phas e 2

Hm, btw, where was again that list with all incoming donations? Lodewijk 2008/12/24 Przykuta > > > > > So, Obama has won election in the USA, people are more happy (maybe not > only part of people in USA) - they want to pay for that ;) > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism >

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Image tagging: 33 months later

FYI, the state of local image uploads on en:wp. How's your wiki doing? -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Wagner Date: 2008/12/23 Subject: [WikiEN-l] Image tagging: 33 months later To: English Wikipedia Back in March of 2006, I did a check of image uploading. The results were

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Although my own experience is that many Americans are a bit baffled > that we don't run ads. They've often not even heard the multitude of > arguments against pervasive/invasive advertising. I don't believe > it's Wikimedia's place to arg

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

2008/12/23 Ziko van Dijk : > Thank you very much for these explanations for us curious Wikipedians. :-) > Oh, you just want to show how the place will look like? I cannot find > something Wikipedia-related on that US Congress site. No, it was just to give you an impression you how it _could_ lo

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phas e 2

> > So, Obama has won election in the USA, people are more happy (maybe not only > part of people in USA) - they want to pay for that ;) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism Just simple behaviors :) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics ~everyone w

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Eek! What's happening to the content? > There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core Brockhaus encyclopedia: 1. Buy the book. 30 volumes, 2700€ - 3100€, depending on your payment plan: http://www.brockhaus.de/enzykl

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008/12/23 Mathias Schindler : > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> Britannica is notoriously antagonistic toward Wikipedia in its >> advertising, but Brockhaus for instance isn't anywhere near as >> obnoxious (they're not *fans* of Wikipedia, but they have more class >> tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Britannica is notoriously antagonistic toward Wikipedia in its > advertising, but Brockhaus for instance isn't anywhere near as > obnoxious (they're not *fans* of Wikipedia, but they have more class > than to trash a perceived competitor the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

Hello Frank, Thank you very much for these explanations for us curious Wikipedians. > I will ask Michael Dale for more information. For the moment you'll > find a nicer implementation at > > http://metavid.org/wiki/Stream:House_proceeding_06-09-08_01/0:01:38/0:10:00 > Oh, you just want to show

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

2008/12/19 Marcus Buck : > I will not judge, cause I spent too few time on it, but this thing > doesn't work well for me. The subtitles or better sidetitles seem to be > not in synch and it looks confusing for me as a first time user. Is > there a coordination place or a place with information abou

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

This is really impressive - such a rise in donations just because of a clear and personal approach! Can't we make more like this, personal testimonials and calls by Wikimedians but also non-Wikimedians sympathizing with us? Ziko 2008/12/23 Robert Rohde > Aside from concerns about loudness and

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

David Gerard wrote: > 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic : > >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling >> wrote: >> > > >>> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful: >>> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})() >>> > > >> Thanks! It works well :) >> > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > PS. At screen widths that are not all that small, it appears the > "collapse" button is forcing the "Please Read:" unit down a line so > the last line is hanging outside the box. I should say, that's on IE. Firefox doesn't seem to have that

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

Aside from concerns about loudness and size in the banner, the message itself has been very successful: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics -Robert Rohde PS. At screen widths that are not all that small, it appears the "collapse" button is forcing the "Please Read:"

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008/12/23 Petr Kadlec > 2008/12/23 effe iets anders : > > As said, a slightly smaller font, and a grey color could do miracles > here. > > Also, note that on IE7 in 1024x768, the banner (on Commons, at least) > looks terrible -- the last line ("Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales") goes > under the ba

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008/12/23 effe iets anders : > As said, a slightly smaller font, and a grey color could do miracles here. Also, note that on IE7 in 1024x768, the banner (on Commons, at least) looks terrible -- the last line ("Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales") goes under the banner border, so that it is stricken th

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

Up to now, I kinda liked the fundraiser. Although they are very shouty for what I'm used to (I dislike the red button for instance and the somewhat agressive tone), I think this last change in message could use a *little* step back. Please use a slightly smaller font, an slightly less shouty text.