Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Gregory Kohs wrote: > Wow, this is big news! Now with Google cooperating with the National > Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. > > Gregory Kohs > > Awesome! Be so kind and line up YourWikiBusiness with them, so we will have all the ducks in a row. Quack, quack!

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Liam Wyatt
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gregory Kohs wrote: > > > Wow, this is big news! Now with Google cooperating with the National > > Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. > > Can you expand on that please. > > Actual

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Bod Notbod
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gregory Kohs wrote: > Wow, this is big news!  Now with Google cooperating with the National > Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. Can you expand on that please. ___ foundation-l mailing lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Gregory Kohs
Wow, this is big news! Now with Google cooperating with the National Security Agency, everything seems to be lining up for Wikimedia. Gregory Kohs ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread geni
On 17 February 2010 17:18, David Gerard wrote: > On 17 February 2010 14:44, Domas Mituzas wrote: > >>> The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? > >> We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what >> they and us want. > > > Indeed. Note, by t

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-18 Thread Renata St
Yes, congrats! Awesome work! I read that this morning on my phone in the news summary for the day during the subway ride to work. Renata On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Hi all, > > I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of > USD 2 million. It

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread David Gerard
On 17 February 2010 14:44, Domas Mituzas wrote: >> The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? > We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what > they and us want. Indeed. Note, by the way, I believe we've previously received money from Micr

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Judson Dunn
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > > Hello, > > > The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? > > We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what > they and us want. > And making the API more awesome, which helps everyone. :

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> The prior question is, where did the money come from? I can't seem >> to >> figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is... > > It does seem slightly opaque. > > A small amount

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Jimmy Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund "Tides Foundation offers donor advised funds and other grantmaking vehicles as well as professional philanthropic advice, institutional regranting services, comprehensive grants management and much more."

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Bod Notbod
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony wrote: > The prior question is, where did the money come from?  I can't seem to > figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is... It does seem slightly opaque. A small amount of digging suggests that Google gives money to here: http://www.

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: > The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? > The prior question is, where did the money come from? I can't seem to figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is... __

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You ask for a better idea :) Google just finished the Swahili Wikipedia challenge. Google very much wants to grow traffic, any traffic in African indigenous languages. Spending money directly on any language is imho a bad idea but I would welcome statistics that show what people are looking f

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us want. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Bod Notbod
Excellent news. I'm a big fan of Google (not saying they won't ever turn evil!) and switching between Google and Wikimedia products/projects accounts for 90% of my time online. It's great to see them both in harmony with each other. The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything?

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Samuel Klein
Congratulations to the foundation team for the work that went into this! On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:37 PM, James Alexander wrote: > That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to > see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size < always seem

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Luna
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Hi all, > > I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of > USD 2 million. It will come to us via the Google Fund at the Tides > Foundation, which handles all of Google's philanthropic activity, and > it is completely

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread Ting Chen
Thank you very much Shizhao for sharing this. I find the text remarkable informative and precise for a Chinese online agency. Ting shi zhao wrote: > Chinese report: http://tech.163.com/10/0217/12/5VNMNPCH000915BF.html > > Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ > My blog: http://shizhao.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread shi zhao
Chinese report: http://tech.163.com/10/0217/12/5VNMNPCH000915BF.html Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]] 2010/2/17 Wilfredo Rodriguez : > WOW Overwhelming!!! > > 2010/2/16 Thomas Dalton > >> On 17 Fe

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread Wilfredo Rodriguez
WOW Overwhelming!!! 2010/2/16 Thomas Dalton > On 17 February 2010 02:37, James Alexander wrote: > > That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me > to > > see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this > size > > always seem to have ifs/ands or

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 17 February 2010 02:37, James Alexander wrote: > That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to > see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size > always seem to have ifs/ands or butts attached. I agree, this is fantastic news, especiall

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread James Alexander
That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size always seem to have ifs/ands or butts attached. User:Jamesofur James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com 100 gmail invites

[Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-16 Thread Sue Gardner
Hi all, I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of USD 2 million. It will come to us via the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation, which handles all of Google's philanthropic activity, and it is completely unrestricted. We'll be putting out a press release tomorrow, but