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David Gerard

29 Dec 2006 29 Dec '06

12:12 a.m.

On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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> > 6) Has there ever been an open call to all wikipedians to provide > > suggestions to the foundationboard of ways to receive money?

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> Does continuously saying "our traffic level is stupidly high and costs > a fortune / everyone at our web ranking has an actual budget and > income stream / we're operating on a shoestring / we're desperately in > need of cash" count?

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No. Did I really have to say that? ;-)

Then take it as read ;-) Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising! Post your idea below: ---> - d.

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Teun Spaans

29 Dec 29 Dec

12:19 a.m.

I suggest that this call is posted in the village pump of all major wikis. On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> > 6) Has there ever been an open call to all wikipedians to provide > > suggestions to the foundationboard of ways to receive money?

No. Did I really have to say that? ;-)

Then take it as read ;-) Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising! Post your idea below: ---> - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Damian Finol

12:35 a.m.

David Gerard wrote:

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On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>> 6) Has there ever been an open call to all wikipedians to provide >> suggestions to the foundationboard of ways to receive money?

No. Did I really have to say that? ;-)

Then take it as read ;-) Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising! Post your idea below: --->

Lobby the UN for Funds, I bet UNESCO might want to get involved given the nature of the projects.. That's all. Damian

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Teun Spaans

1:01 a.m.

In addition, make a list of all major US and Uk charities and foudations. make up a list of specific subjects which would appeal to them. For example, I think it was George Soros who supported his native Hungary with lots of grants. Perhaps he would be willing to fund an east-europe server centre and bandwith for a few years, 2007-2009? From our statistics at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesRecentTrends.htm#T the sum of the polish, russian, hungarian and cs wikis are 650Mb + 500Mb + 140Mb + 140Mb = 1,4Gb. Compare that with 1,8Gb for the german wiki, the largets wiki but one. Not big but substantial nevertheless. Alas, statistics for en: are absent. It would cut down the load on our existing servercentra. No doubt there are similar possibilities for the asian wikis, but we would need input from them about charities from their continent. So let someone please post a request for ideas in the chinese and japanese village pumps. teun On 12/28/06, Damian Finol <damian(a)igluve.org> wrote:

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David Gerard wrote:

On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>> 6) Has there ever been an open call to all wikipedians to provide >> suggestions to the foundationboard of ways to receive money?

No. Did I really have to say that? ;-)

Then take it as read ;-) Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising! Post your idea below: --->

Lobby the UN for Funds, I bet UNESCO might want to get involved given the nature of the projects.. That's all. Damian

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Anthere

3:09 a.m.

Damian Finol wrote:

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David Gerard wrote:

On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>>6) Has there ever been an open call to all wikipedians to provide >>suggestions to the foundationboard of ways to receive money?

>Does continuously saying "our traffic level is stupidly high and costs >a fortune / everyone at our web ranking has an actual budget and >income stream / we're operating on a shoestring / we're desperately in >need of cash" count?

No. Did I really have to say that? ;-)

Then take it as read ;-) Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising! Post your idea below: --->

Lobby the UN for Funds, I bet UNESCO might want to get involved given the nature of the projects.. That's all. Damian >- d.

Yes. I am all for getting a recognition by the UN for example. Practically, I am trying to ask someone to get me in touch with someone, who in turn will get me in touch etc... Note that lobbying big organisations like this requires * having good contacts. Usually implies previously meeting these good contacts somewhere * money. These people are not waiting for us. We need to call them, we need to go and meet them. We need to participate conferences when they hang around. Ey, we even need to pay ourselves good clothes to meet them. * persistance. The people in charge of doing that need to dedicate a lot of time. Meanwhile... Do not get me wrong. Yes, it is a very good idea. The first step for the recognition was the audit. In which a *lot* of effort was put, precisely for this reason. The audit also took money and time. Ant

Damian Finol

3:22 a.m.

Anthere wrote:

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Damian Finol wrote:

David Gerard wrote:

On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> 6) Has there ever been an open call to all wikipedians to provide >> suggestions to the foundationboard of ways to receive money? > Does continuously saying "our traffic level is stupidly high and costs > a fortune / everyone at our web ranking has an actual budget and > income stream / we're operating on a shoestring / we're desperately in > need of cash" count? No. Did I really have to say that? ;-)

Then take it as read ;-) Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising! Post your idea below: --->

Lobby the UN for Funds, I bet UNESCO might want to get involved given the nature of the projects.. That's all. Damian > - d.

Hey Ant, That's really good, maybe we can get some help from the OLPC people?, I remember some news and video about them being in really good standing with the UN and other governments like Brazil's, India's and others for the one laptop per child project. And I also heard they were going to use Wikipedia as the encyclopedia on the laptop. Plus I remember them being part of Wikimania 2006, so, if we are in good standing with them and they are great people, maybe they can help us out getting in touch with the right people at the UN?. Just sayin' Damian

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