Re: [Foundation-l] on fundraiser :)

2010-11-27 Thread MZMcBride
Przykuta wrote: > Hmm. Could we use better link in Sidebar (with WMF logo or another image)? > Better than simple "Donate" The sidebar at http://test.wikipedia.org/ has had prototype donate buttons for ages. I asked about these recently; they were designed for Monobook and need some redesign work

Re: [Foundation-l] on fundraiser :)

2010-11-27 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Saturday 27 November 2010 13:58:27 KIZU Naoko написа: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Przykuta wrote: > > Hmm. Could we use better link in Sidebar (with WMF logo or another > > image)? Better than simple "Donate" > > Support for increasing visibility. I surprised many people when I told >

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...

2010-11-27 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/27/2010 7:05:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, russnel...@gmail.com writes: > Nothing in their experience base can be used > unless it's already in print somewhere ... so how is their experience > useful? I'm not calling into question the [[citation needed]] policy, but > instea

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Medaille und Academy

2010-11-27 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 15:32, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > On 27.11.2010 01:41, Milos Rancic wrote: > >> In other words, our recruitment base are not well formed scientists, >> but high school students who are interested in Wikipedia (and other >> Wikimedia projects) per se. After five years on p

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Medaille und Academy

2010-11-27 Thread Russell Nelson
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > > The most important base for recruiting should be retired professionals, > teachers, scientists. They have the background and the time. Many will > like the intellectual challenge and enjoy to pass on their experience. > Why would pe

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Medaille und Academy

2010-11-27 Thread Henning Schlottmann
On 27.11.2010 01:41, Milos Rancic wrote: > In other words, our recruitment base are not well formed scientists, > but high school students who are interested in Wikipedia (and other > Wikimedia projects) per se. After five years on project, a former high > school student -- probably a university s

Re: [Foundation-l] on fundraiser :)

2010-11-27 Thread KIZU Naoko
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Przykuta wrote: >> >> I tried to come up with good number of how many times those ads get shown, >> but it is somewhat complicated - so I will assume that Facebook and Google >> always show, and Wikipedia does show only 10% of the year. >> I will not involve ethi

Re: [Foundation-l] on fundraiser :)

2010-11-27 Thread Przykuta
> > I tried to come up with good number of how many times those ads get shown, > but it is somewhat complicated - so I will assume that Facebook and Google > always show, and Wikipedia does show only 10% of the year. > I will not involve ethics or relevance argument, as I don't support 100% of

[Foundation-l] on fundraiser :)

2010-11-27 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, I did an analysis of advertisement space used on Google, Facebook and Wikipedia. I measured banners first - Wikipedia had 250k pixels (okok, my screen is large :), Google had 60k pixels, Facebook had 40k. I applied a multiplier of 2 for Wikipedia image, because it's ability to scan your

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

2010-11-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, At OmegaWiki we are MediaWiki based. We link to Wikipedia and to Commons. The data is multilingual and the relations show in "your" language when a translation exists. I hope that you have a look what can already be done. Try for instance котка Thanks, GerardM http://www.omegawiki.org/E

Re: [Foundation-l] 5M by 2 weeks

2010-11-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The fundraiser is doing well and, I totally agree that this is the best organised fundraiser so far. It has to be because this is the most ambitious fundraiser as well. I agree with Naoko that internationalisation and localisation are key when the fund raising is to be a global success. When

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

2010-11-27 Thread Kozuch
Hi there, so how do we move forward with Wikidata? There is a bunch of proposals both on Strategy and Meta, but I guess we need a clearly dedicated place for serious discussion on topic. So lets either create a wiki on data.wikimedia.org or a dedicated mailing list here... or both. Kozuch > -

Re: [Foundation-l] 5M by 2 weeks

2010-11-27 Thread KIZU Naoko
I fully agree this year's team does a good job and get best results, but in regard of internationalization and localizability, I'm saddened not to agree this year's one is the best managed. Some of my concerns I have explained on internal-l, and it caused confusions to some non English aspirant don