Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

Stories are absolutely essential to any non-profit's ability to persuade new people to support or join its cause. Sometimes we tell our stories well, sometimes we tell them poorly. Telling a story well is a very specific skillset that few people possess. Even for those who are good writers (and of

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011/3/4 church.of.emacs.ml : > In that regard, I believe we have to think about how we can ensure that > we're being friendly and respectful towards our readers and donors, > raise enough money, define what 'enough money' is and how all that > affects our mission. Yes, I think we're all in agreem

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011/3/15 SlimVirgin : > Speaking of the CREDO accounts, several people have asked that their > accounts be reassigned, but they don't know how to do it. Could Erik > advise? See here -- > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Credo_accounts#I_gave_up_my_account_in_June As per my earlier mes

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011/3/15 SlimVirgin : > I'd be willing to help organize the names. It's just a question of > coming up with some sensible criteria, so I'll restart the discussion > about that on the previous talk page. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Credo_accounts Thanks Sarah. It looks like the d

Re: [Foundation-l] Not working as an WMFR employee anymore

2011/3/17 Bastien Guerry : > it's now official: I'm no longer working as an employee of Wikimédia > France. Thanks for the note, Bastien! The GLAM event was great, and I really enjoyed meeting you in Paris. Sorry to hear you're leaving the chapter as an employee, but hope to see you around :-) Be

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011

[FYI] -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: 2011/3/19 Subject: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011 To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org As always, you can find the formatted version on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011/3/19 KIZU Naoko : > Hi, > > I noticed Wikimedia privacy policy on wmf site replaced with pdf > version and have no link to > other (informal) language versions. I'm not seeing either a PDF or a link to one. Can you give me steps to find it? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011/3/19 Casey Brown : > I think she's referring to the link on here: > . > > I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf "updated version" > uploaded, but can't seem to remember if I actually saw it or where it > was. I see no reason why this p

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011/3/19 Kul Takanao Wadhwa : > Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is > experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow > users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search > results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hi

Re: [Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

2011/3/23 Casey Brown : > I definitely think that the letter was way too rushed, but that is not > the norm.  I can also understand the desire to try to be transparent > and post notifications as soon as possible, so that's a different > case. I'm not convinced that frontloading a waiting period a

[Foundation-l] Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation

Dear all, it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy, reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based in San Francisco, having relocated from the UK. Dario joins Howie Fung and me as part of the Wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

2011/3/31 Amir E. Aharoni : > The Vector skin, the main product of the Usability Initiative, was > deployed on Wikimedia projects in April 2010. > > Quoting usability.wikimedia.org: "The goal of this initiative is to > measurably increase the usability of Wikipedia for new contributors by > improvi

Re: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads redesign?

2011/4/1 Casey Brown : >        LQT has been put on hold.  It is now a "Frontier" project. To clarify: Frontier Projects are investment areas that could help us make leaps towards our strategic goals, but which come with some risk and complexity. These are areas toward which the Wikimedia Foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

2011/4/4 Rodan Bury : > As Erik Möller said the qualitative analysis is the user testing with a few > dozens of users. This user testing was conducted several times during the > development cycle, and it was thorough. The best user testing consist of no > more than 30 users, and I can tell the user

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

2011/4/4 Amir E. Aharoni : > For example, in the Hebrew Wikipedia there was a Search and Replace > gadget long before the advent of Vector's Search and Replace dialog. > It was developed due to popular demand, bottom-up, by a volunteer, and > - here's the scariest part - without any grants. It is s

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011/4/5 David Gerard : > What I see is grants supplying money to get initiatives that have been > long-wanted happening. The near-impossibility of getting even quite > simple things through a bureaucratic kudzu-choked community process > has been noted on this list *many* times. To clarify, the A

[Foundation-l] Fwd: March 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Report

[FYI] -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: 2011/4/9 Subject: March 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Report To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org As always, the wiki version with images is on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

2011/4/9 Milos Rancic : > May someone update manual in which it is written that Wikipedia is the > fifth site by traffic? For the most of 2010 and whole 2011 it has varied > between 6th and 8th place [1]. WMF sites are the fifth popular web property in the world according to comScore, where "web p

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011/4/18 MZMcBride : > Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to > go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone > edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller > sites have had these types of notification

Re: [Foundation-l] Very slow load time for the last few days

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Sarah wrote: > Could someone from the Foundation or one of the developers say whether this > is being looked into? I've requested an assessment of the current situation and will post more to this thread when I hear back, unless someone beats me to it. -- Erik Möl

Re: [Foundation-l] Very slow load time for the last few days

[Also posting to Bugzilla] According to the ops team, there are a number of separate and unrelated ops issues that have come up in the last few days: 1) Not all users are experiencing slowness, but a subset of users are. There's no definite smoking gun, but the most likely cause are ongoing issue

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > There are several ways of minimizing negative effects: > 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for > information concerning active Wikimedians, e.g. Wikimania, POTY, etc. > 2. Reduce weight - don't display a b

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:48 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > Are there any devs on your proposal? Or is development planned in this > area? (If these are two noes, it might be an idea for WMDE's community > project budget) I hope we can get some of the annoy-me-not stuff with CentralNotice fixed

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phase 2

2008/11/12 Rand Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To review, our current donations can be found here: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics For those who haven't seen it yet: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics This is a side-by-side compar

Re: [Foundation-l] Trademarks

2008/11/25 Mike Godwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Your reasoning suggests (by analogy) that prosecutors who don't > prosecute every single offense, or policemen who don't arrest everyone > who might have committed offense, are somehow "contradictory" to > upholding the law. But that's not how the lega

Re: [Foundation-l] Trademarks

2008/11/25 Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I can't imagine you have that feeling about [[trademark dilution]] law, > though. I don't think people are going to cry "fraud" when they find out > their coffee mug isn't really the coffee mug that anyone can edit. What I said is that its fundamental _in

Re: [Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

2008/12/1 geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > People use the search feature on commons? > > I would assume they would click the link at the bottom of > > http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paard_(dier) and get taken to > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Equus_caballus?uselang=nl This is a valid point, especi

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

2008/11/3 Erik Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > More information will follow later this month as we develop the > re-licensing proposal. Let me know if you have any immediate > questions. A brief update - Mike drafted an FAQ which we're going to release very soon, and hopefully

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

2008/12/2 effe iets anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > thanks for your update. Sorry for not waiting for the FAQ, but could you > shortly mention to whom this proposal will be directed? The Board or the > Community? The community of all languages and all projects. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikim

[Foundation-l] Stanton Foundation $890K Usability Grant

As per Michael's earlier e-mail: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_user-friendly_for_new_volunteer_writers We're very grateful to the Stanton Foundation for this important investment in Wikipedia's user-friendliness. We're aware of the UNICEF research as

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008/12/5 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think this is really fantastic, by the way. The "educating the > world" has a lot of resonance for me and people that I talk with about > Wikipedia. How about: 11 million articles 150,000 volunteers Your faith in humanity -> Donate now ;-) --

[Foundation-l] Announcement: Naoko Komura

I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring Naoko Komura as Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation Usability Project. She will begin work on January 2, 2009, and her employment contract with us will end on April 1, 2010. Naoko has worked for us in the past three months as a

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

2008/12/5 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Semantic Mediawiki and Semantic Forms are already high quality mediawiki > extensions that go along way towards usability and quality issues. They are > also free. Hi Brian, an "environmental scan" of available technologies is part of the project plan. We're

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

2008/12/5 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank you Erik! > But I do not believe the potential scope of these two extensions has been > appropriately realized by the powers that be, otherwise the technologies > would have been put to a large scale trial sooner. Up until July 2008, the paid technology

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: October 2008

2008/12/14 effe iets anders : > But also have a small additional suggestion. Would it be nice to the > chapters to have somewhere a list of all major software WMF is using? As a > suggestion list? For example, GIMP for promotional images editing etc, so > that the chapters have an easier time looki

[Foundation-l] Licensing update: Questions and Answers

As per earlier comments, I've posted a first set of Questions and Answers related to a possible licensing update from GFDL to CC-BY-SA as the primary content license (with GFDL retained as a secondary license) for Wikimedia Foundation projects, here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008/12/23 effe iets anders : > Up to now, I kinda liked the fundraiser. Although they are very shouty for > what I'm used to (I dislike the red button for instance and the somewhat > agressive tone), I think this last change in message could use a *little* > step back. Please use a slightly smalle

[Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

A quick update: the "Thank You" banner is currently scheduled to stay up until January 9, 4 PM PST. We're keeping it up a while longer in part because it's the first work week after the holidays for many people, and in part because it's an opportunity for chapters to get some more visibility (we ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion for Licensing update

2008/12/30 Woojin Kim : > 1. Which one will discussion (or vote) for migration to CC-BY-SA be held, > globally, or locally? The plan is for a global vote to be organized on Meta. > 2. If vote will be held globally, when will vote start? We haven't finalized the timetable yet but I hope we can mo

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

2009/1/7 Nathan : > It would also, as I mentioned, provide the very valuable service of > reinforcing with the public that the Wikimedia Foundation is charitable > organization that depends on donations for all of its operations. That fact > is implied in the very nature of a fundraising drive, but

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

2009/1/7 Dan Rosenthal : > Anecdotally, I thought it was about the same, but I did notice a LOT > more questioning of what the money was going to. Like you, just > impressions, no facts to back it up. Perhaps so - an absolute increase of scrutiny is certainly to be expected as the overall number o

[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

Mike & I have made some updates to the Q&A today: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers Please let me know or edit the page if you feel further clarifications and answers are needed. Otherwise I'll prepare a translation request, probably on Friday. Meanwhile, I'm

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

2009/1/7 Robert Rohde : > In that regard, one thought I have had is to create an identified > place (on Meta for example) to solicit questions and feedback about > the fundraiser from potential donors (and community members) with > volunteers to respond. A lot of that happened through don...@wikip

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

2009/1/8 Anthony : > This switch to CC-BY-SA is clearly going to open the door for offline > reusers to use Wikipedia content without attributing authors beyond listing > one or more URLs. In fact, it's quite clear from discussions which have > taken place on this list that this is the main point

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