Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia / Wikipedia Statistics

2010-12-15 Thread Erik Zachte
On 12/16/2010 0:12, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > Why are these tables so out of date? > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki

2010-12-15 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member. -- Forwarded message -- From: gps Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM Subject: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello, One of the bigge

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia / Wikipedia Statistics

2010-12-15 Thread WJhonson
Why are these tables so out of date? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis analysed

2010-12-15 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/14/2010 2:55:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, v...@fct.unl.pt writes: > The Wikimedia projects power structure is definitely a serious > candidate for such analysis. > What is this? Link ? Will ___ foundation-l mailing list foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/14/2010 5:14:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, tstarl...@wikimedia.org writes: > I've long suspected that the early FAQs and history pages gave Larry > Sanger an exaggerated role because he wrote them himself. It will be > interesting to see if any such conclusion can be drawn f

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread WJhonson
Is the current CC license retroactive to all of the old versions from the beginning to now? W ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread Tim Starling
On 16/12/10 08:04, Joseph Reagle wrote: > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like versions of the articles beyond > the first ~10 are automatically recoverable. There were some changes made to the page text that weren't represented in diff_log, specifically changing certain camel-case links to free li

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ), 15/12/2010 01:03: > And here is the first http://wikipedia.com archive link available at web > archive. > > http://web.archive.org/web/20010727112808/http://www.wikipedia.org/ No, the first is http://web.archive.org/web/20010331173908/http://www.wikipedia.com/ Tim Starl

Re: [Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-15 Thread Samuel Klein
Philippe (& team!), This is really great. I know many people who will find this easier. How long before this becomes the dominant mode of donation? The email about it was also charming. Thanks for making it happen this year. Sam. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:55 AM, aude wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14

Re: [Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-15 Thread Anna Shyrokova
Philippe, this is great! I don't think I can express my excitement at this finally happening. By the way, Rand and I made sure that the information in the donor database was definitely complete, if not necessarily clean, starting July 2008. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:55 AM, aude wrote: > On Tu

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread David Gerard
On 15 December 2010 17:39, ResearchBiz wrote: > True to FT2's vision, this story has already been picked up by the major > media! > http://www.examiner.com/[spam url snipped] examiner.com is basically a paid blogging host with the only relation to "media" being a news-site-like skin. http://en

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, ResearchBiz wrote: > True to FT2's vision, this story has already been picked up by the major > media! > > http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/original-copy-of-wikipedia-discovered > > Original copy of Wikipedia discovered > December 14, 2010 > - by Gre

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread ResearchBiz
True to FT2's vision, this story has already been picked up by the major media! http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/original-copy-of-wikipedia-discovered Original copy of Wikipedia discovered December 14, 2010 - by Gregory Kohs, for Examiner.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Brian J Mingus, 15/12/2010 01:36: >> Here is an interesting bit of history - the Wikipedia logo was first an >> American flag. Then Scott Moonen suggested we make it a globe: > > No news, this is already on Meta: > http://meta.wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Brian J Mingus, 15/12/2010 01:36: > Here is an interesting bit of history - the Wikipedia logo was first an > American flag. Then Scott Moonen suggested we make it a globe: No news, this is already on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_history http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OldWikiPediaLogo

Re: [Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-15 Thread aude
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Philippe Beaudette < pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > One member of the fundraising team had it on her Christmas list. Another > literally begged for it. So today, I feel quite a sense of accomplishment > in announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation is now able

Re: [Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Thanks, Liam. The hope is that this consistent income stream will provide the Foundation with a steady source of income while giving donors another method for giving that might fit their lifestyle. it has certainly been heavily requested. By past donors, I refer to both people who have donat

Re: [Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-15 Thread Liam Wyatt
Phillipe, congratulations on this! I suspect this will be the beginning of a whole new revenue stream that might eventually surpass the "once a year" effort we have always relied on. I know in Australia at least that this is a very common method for charities to request donations as it results in a

Re: [Foundation-l] [SPAM] Re: Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
This discovery is so great! Good work, Tim. Perhaps we could make a book with the first pages as a souvenir. /Lennart 2010/12/15 Marcus Buck > An'n 15.12.2010 01:36, hett Brian J Mingus schreven: > > http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/979773872.txt > Nice to see that the quality of post