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

2010-12-05 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Huib Laurens wrote: > Sinds its not only English Wikipedia but foundation wide I can say we have > people becomming Arbcom without being a Admin.. We had CheckUsers without > being a admin. So its not a ladder. Hi Huib, Which project has had ArbCom members that w

Re: [Foundation-l] "Personal Appeals for individual editors" strikes the right chord

2010-12-05 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Thanks for the kind words, everyone. We hope to push these banners out more globally this week; but as always, in those countries with chapters, they'll need to have things like landing pages updated in order for us to do that. Once we've nailed down the release schedule we'll send it to the c

Re: [Foundation-l] "Personal Appeals for individual editors" strikes the right chord

2010-12-05 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Alec Conroy wrote: > I just wanted to write in to compliment all those who are behind the > banners on the site right now-- Personal Appeals from individual > editors with inspiring visions about how Wikimedia can help change the > world for the better. > I'm al

Re: [Foundation-l] "Personal Appeals for individual editors" strikes the right chord

2010-12-05 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Alec Conroy wrote: > I just wanted to write in to compliment all those who are behind the > banners on the site right now-- Personal Appeals from individual > editors with inspiring visions about how Wikimedia can help change the > world for the better. > > This, t

[Foundation-l] "Personal Appeals for individual editors" strikes the right chord

2010-12-05 Thread Alec Conroy
I just wanted to write in to compliment all those who are behind the banners on the site right now-- Personal Appeals from individual editors with inspiring visions about how Wikimedia can help change the world for the better. This, to me, is is what a 'Wikimedia Fundraiser' should feel like-- i

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 5 December 2010 05:24, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Yes, and only 4 times what the actual internet hosting of a top5 web site > costs. [Citation needed] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.o

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

2010-12-05 Thread Huib Laurens
Sinds its not only English Wikipedia but foundation wide I can say we have people becomming Arbcom without being a Admin.. We had CheckUsers without being a admin. So its not a ladder. Huib 2010/12/4 > In a message dated 12/4/2010 6:50:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, > geni...@gmail.com writes: >

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-05 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Ultimately, this is a kind of the Clone War, when in 2005 Google search hits were manipulated. Of of the problems of the clones is that they show no "edit this page" and no "donate now". Kind regards Ziko 2010/12/5 Sue Gardner : > Ah, Erik, thank you so much for writing this. I'd just b

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-05 Thread Sue Gardner
Ah, Erik, thank you so much for writing this. I'd just been about to write something similar: you beat me to it :-) Thanks, Sue On 05/12/2010, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2010/12/4 Milos Rancic : >> Personally, I think that this is a good opportunity to get money from >> payed ads. It is not even on W

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-05 Thread Fred Bauder
> > In general, our relationship with businesses is shifting from > revenue-focused trademark licensing agreements to mission-focused > partnerships closely aligned with our strategic plan. For example, > we're trying to find the best possible partners to distribute very > large numbers of offline

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-05 Thread Erik Moeller
2010/12/4 Milos Rancic : > Personally, I think that this is a good opportunity to get money from > payed ads. It is not even on Wikimedia servers. As I said on wikien-l, the current Amazon.com use is not part of any official relationship. We're concerned about the degree to which the Amazon.com pa

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

2010-12-05 Thread geni
On 4 December 2010 23:42, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Could you please tell how long you have been around Wikimedia > projects? I would like to have an idea of how much time it takes to > find out that "we have at least three hierarchical structures." You > left out at least Santa Claus. > > T

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-05 Thread Erik Moeller
2010/12/4 Pedro Sanchez : > When you budget 2 million for internet hosting, and 9 million for > salaries and benefits, it's bound to raise some eyebrows, I think. This does not include the $3.2M of planned capital expenditures (mostly servers and other equipment), which is a large cost increase re

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am sure you did not study the breakdown of the cost properly. This is me assuming good faith. Thanks, GerardM On 4 December 2010 23:09, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Domas Mituzas > wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> Personally, I think that this is a good opportunity