[Foundation-l] REMINDER: Fundraising Office Hours-Today!

2010-11-04 Thread James Alexander
Hi again everyone! A quick reminder that the fundraising team will be having IRC office hours today, Friday November 5th, at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT, 18:00 EDT 23:00 CET) in the #wikimedia-office channel of the Freenode IRC network. If you are interested in what we have been doing recently I encou

[Foundation-l] Fundraiser 2010: A memo to the community

2010-11-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
A memo to Wikimedia community, friends, staff, and other stakeholders. On Monday, November 15, we will launch the 2010 annual fundraising drive for the Wikimedia Foundation. As you know, our funding model relies on the support of our friends and community members. Our average donation is about $

[Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-11-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
The "controversial content" study by Robert Harris and Dory Carr-Harris was completed a few weeks ago. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content What is the board's view of the recommendations that resulted from the study? Are there any ongoing deliberations w

Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 2/11/10, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:36 AM,  > > wrote: > >.. > > There have been plenty of studies on drugs, which were > not paid for, by > > anyone with a vested monetary interest in changing the > drug's market outlook. > > Being flippant as John was, hardly