Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Pete Forsyth leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-01-14 Thread David Goodman
At least from my perspective, I have found Pete exceptionally helpful. I would have been considerably less active in many things this past year without his encouragement. On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: > Hm, > > Well, > > Thank you for your job at WMF Pete. I missed

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > Good question. Mind you, my mother got broadband specifically to make > video phone calls with Skype to her grandchildren ... grandmothers are > the userbase for video phones. And for Facebook, apparently: http://www.insidefacebook.com/?p=5774 Women and the elderly are two d

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Pete Forsyth leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-01-14 Thread Florence Devouard
Hm, Well, Thank you for your job at WMF Pete. I missed you on irc chan this evening. Will be glad to chat with you about your next job :) Ant On 1/13/11 9:24 PM, Frank Schulenburg wrote: > Hi All, > > This email is to announce that Pete Forsyth's year-long position with > the Foundation h

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 January 2011 12:11, Thomas Dalton wrote: > There is a correlation between broadband and age, as well, I believe. > The elderly (when they have an internet connection at all) are more > likely to use dialup than the general population (I think - I haven't > looked at the numbers recently). I

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 13 January 2011 21:19, Pharos wrote: > There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that > probably has more to do with it. There is a correlation between broadband and age, as well, I believe. The elderly (when they have an internet connection at all) are more likely to use

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
2011/1/14 KIZU Naoko : > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Pharos wrote: >> There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that >> probably has more to do with it. > > Not worldwide I assume, broadband availability seems to depend on > geographic conditions. > > In some areas broadb

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread KIZU Naoko
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Pharos wrote: > There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that > probably has more to do with it. Not worldwide I assume, broadband availability seems to depend on geographic conditions. In some areas broadband isn't available at all, like in

[Foundation-l] Fwd: December 2010 Wikimedia Foundation Report

2011-01-14 Thread Erik Moeller
[FYI] -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: 2011/1/14 Subject: December 2010 Wikimedia Foundation Report To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org This is the e-mail version, please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_December_2010 f

[Foundation-l] EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 2 Number: 122

2011-01-14 Thread Walter Vermeir
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