Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Travel Guide

Am 9. April 2012 06:50 schrieb James Heilman : > The core group of editors at Wikitravel are interested in joining a WMF run > "Wiki Travel Guide". A proposal for creating such a project has been > outlined here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Travel_Guide and would > develop from the content c

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

Am 02.07.11 14:17 schrieb Alec Conroy: >> if you talk to the press, or to media experts, they all know >> "Wikipedia" but not "Wikimedia". The most simple and reasonable way is >> to use the famous brand, not to invest in "Wikimedia". > > > There's an even bigger opportunity here-- > Make a bra

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

Am 05.07.11 14:39 schrieb Alec Conroy: >> I beg your pardon, but Ziko and WereSpielChequers are absolutely right >> here. You won't manage to introduce another brand name after ten years >> of Wikipedia. > > Not only CAN you introduce such a 'movement' brand name, but such a > name is inevitabl

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Am 04.09.11 22:51 schrieb Sarah Stierch: > I don't know why people are wigging out so badly about the image filter. If > people want to use it, great, and if you don't, DON'T. But perhaps I'm > misunderstanding something about the idea. I voted for it, and it seems the > people who dislike the i

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Am 04.09.11 22:18 schrieb Kim Bruning: > * There's nothing wrong with the filter program itself That's wrong. What's wrong with the whole programme is that the Foundation did not ask Wikimedians whether they liked to have it or not They just did it. Period. Now, it will be there soon, and the w

Re: [Foundation-l] Loriot

Am 12.11.11 21:35 schrieb Klaus Graf: > Regarding my contrubution > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APhilippe_%28WMF%29&action=historysubmit&diff=62442684&oldid=62438353 > I beg to know the "Aktenzeichen" of the court decision Philippe is > referring to. This decision is

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising update

Sue, if you are currently not able to give live statistics for technical reasons, perhaps you could announce the current statistics on a static web page for the meanwhile? Best regards, Juergen Fenn. - Ursprüngliche Message - > Von: Sue Gardner > An: Wikimedia Foundation Mailin

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with the Head of Reader Relations, Thursday Dec. 22nd

Am 22. Dezember 2011 10:38 schrieb Lodewijk : > is there some kind of Google Agenda of this type of meetings that I could > load into my own? Then I could use that as a reminder as well. I would appreciate it if you please could provide an iCal calendar that works with Thunderbird/Lightning and A

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

Am 06.03.11 11:14, schrieb Pavel Richter: > But who says that the sole purpose of the WMF is to keep Wikimedia wikis > running? Wikipedia is much more than just a website where people get > information fast and for free. Wikipedia is a cultural phenomenon and > spearhead of a large movement f

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

Am 07.03.11 13:56, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: > Because of the underinvestment many of our Wikipedias are not doing > as well as they should. There are for instance technical solutions to > give many of the Indian language Wikipedias the traffic back they > lost. > The notion that we are raising m

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

Am 07.03.11 18:41, schrieb church.of.emacs.ml: > On 03/07/2011 06:30 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> Indeed. Juergen, are you saying the X wasn't present, or that it >> didn't work for you? It seemed to for everyone else that tried it. > > There were some reports that banners came back after a short

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

Am 08.03.11 20:46, schrieb Samuel Klein: > Melissa -- absolutely! I don't know the real stats, but I think we > cite OA jornals far more than any others in Wikipedia for this reason. Which is certainly a rather bad idea because what always counts first must be the quality of content, not the li

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

Am 08.03.11 20:20, schrieb phoebe ayers: > Most (all?) university libraries sign contracts with database/journal > vendors restricting access to only faculty/staff/students at the > university. This may hold true for the U.S., but as far as Europe is concerned the situation is different in some

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

Am 08.03.11 21:19, schrieb phoebe ayers: >> As far as Wikipedia is concerned, the German chapter of Wikimedia has >> just negotiated the first settlement for a premium database provider in >> chemistry, see >> . >> There

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

Am 08.03.11 21:32, schrieb Andrea Zanni: > BTW, do we (Wikimedia communtiy) have good and enstablished contacts with > the open access community? AFAIK, not on an official level. However, many wikipedians who are scientists will certainly prefer to publish open access, and those who are librar

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

Am 08.03.11 21:36, schrieb Andrea Zanni: >> AFAIK, these publishers make the pricing upon the number of > scholars/researchers/students of a certain university/corporation: I bet > they would make us unbearable fees (in fact the potential users are hundred > thousands, if not millions). That's

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

Am 08.03.11 22:14, schrieb Stephanie Daugherty: > As far as academic journals go most people have some access and don't know > it. Most public libraries subscribe to one or more services, and a library > card is all they need for that access. > > Any wmf sponsored access plan needs to keep this