Hello All,
It is my pleasure to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation's Mid Year
Financial Statements for the period July 1 through December 31, 2010 are now
posted to the WMF's website along with the answers to the anticipated
frequently asked questions at:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/F
On 03/03/11 5:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> 2011/3/3 Samuel Klein:
>> Amir writes:
>>> Now i, in general, think that these permissions should be given
>>> liberally to as many reasonable Wikimedians as possible.
>>
>>> In fact it's quite likely that communities will want to give as little
>>> pe
In a message dated 3/1/2011 12:08:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
> If
> people actually understood how collaboration on a wiki works, it would
> be much easier for them to accept the projects for what they are, rather
> than creating drama about things they aren't
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On 3/1/2011 2:41 PM, Pronoein wrote:
> Thank you for your answer Michael. However:
> «Note that this survey was a
On 3/3/2011 12:41 PM, Veronique Kessler wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who is part of the fantastic projects of Wikimedia
> and keep up the good work!
And thanks to you, Veronique, for all of your contributions. I have
enjoyed getting to know you and working with you. You will be greatly
missed, and
Hi All,
I'll be leaving WMF at the end of June to relocate with my family to
Austin, TX.This has been a difficult decision to make. I have worked
for the Foundation for more than 3 years and it has been an incredible
experience. I've had the opportunity here to wear many different hats
and t
The main functionality of an encyclopedia is help people find background
knowledge for their questions.
Wikipedia as an encyclopedia still keep this functionality as the main usage
pattern, if I am not wrong.
But we can still observed other usage patterns, for example in the Mainpage
and Portals,
2011/3/3 Samuel Klein :
> Amir writes:
>> Now i, in general, think that these permissions should be given
>> liberally to as many reasonable Wikimedians as possible.
>
>> In fact it's quite likely that communities will want to give as little
>> permissions as possible to users.
>
> Can you explain
Certainly individual chapters should. A few CC chapters have
endorsed it already.
We can also support it by writing about it and linking to it.
SJ
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> I think WMF should endorse it. Catalan Wikipedia already did.
>
> http://fcforum.net/sustai
Amir: your original idea is lovely. Reviving it for a moment:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>
> Now, I found it. Indeed, I exaggerated (not several hundreds, just a
> hundred, and not overnight, but over two or three days, but the idea is
>
> The poll:
> http://meta
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