Please see [[User talk:Porcupine]]; the very last thread on the entire page. Please reply to confirm that you're at any rate looking into this.
Thanks,
Porcupine (ex-Rambutan)
I notice a few of you guys, including you, Anthony, have the email address
wikimail(a)inbox.org. What exactly is that? Is it some email servise provided
by the foundation or what?
Phoenix 15
Okay guys.
There is nothing mysterious in this "spam", this is simply the coming
fundraiser.
So, to keep you up to date, there were many messages on the wikimedia
foundation list on this topic in the past few weeks, but I guess you
were too busy to have a look. That's okay.
Announcement for the quick off was here
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-October/034148.html
Whilst you are at it, please have a look here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-October/034147.html
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I am aware that most of you do not know what is going on behind the
doors whilst you are editing. Again, that is fine. Wikimedia projects
have become a pretty complex set, with some busy only editing, others
taking care of fundraising, others making sure the websites are up and
in good order etc...
So, bottom line, we need money to operate the websites and to do more as
well. Those of you who were already wikipedians 3 years ago (or worse
:-)) will remember a time where the site was slow and sometimes dead.
Hopefully, though we grew enormously, your editing experience is now
good 99% of the time. This does not come from nowhere. There are people
working to make sure that we provide you the best editing and reading
environment.
Now, that means that from time to time, we need money. Every year, we
try to raise funds by various means.
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HOW CAN YOU HELP ?
First, please look at this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007
Many ways
WAY N°1, MENTION THE FUNDRAISING AROUND YOU
There are many buttons to use on your blogs or websites:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/web_buttons
WAY N°2, HELP TRANSLATE THE SITENOTICE
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Text_for_sitenotice
Currently, only two languages have been set up. All will be added.
Either the site notice is not translated, and the text will be in
english. Or it is translated. Your turn.
if you are bi(or more)lingual, just come help provide the translation
WAY N°3: HELP SELECT THE BUGGING QUOTES IN THE SITE NOTICE
Where do they come from ? From comments from donators. You may pick some
from here: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore_browse
Then what ?
Well, put them here to make a list per language:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/comments
Or BE BOLD and directly add them on the live page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Centralnotice-quotes
Just do it
WAY N°4: BRING POSITIVE CRITICISM
Here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2007
Remember to stay nice. Thanks
WAY N°5: HELP TRANSLATE TEXT
For example, these pages:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Testimonials
Or this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Fundraising_FAQ
Anthere
Phil Sandifer wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:01 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
>
>> I know there was work as well on Jimmy's video (which I
>> first saw 48 hours ago).
>
> My favorite part of the video, btw, is that French is the first
> language to come up when he identifies the Wikipedias of the
> developing world.
>
> -Phil
That was my very first comment as well when I saw the video the first
time. My husband was watching it at the same time, and he went ROFL.
Eh !
******
There's some merit to this actually. French is an official language in 29
countries. While it's worthwhile to improve the Haitian Creole Wikipedia,
many Haitians are bilingual with standard French and benefit from the
strength of the larger Wikipedia. Likewise for French Guyana and some
former colonies in Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_French_is_an_official_…
Ultimately it'd be great to develop strong Wikipedias in people's first
languages, of course.
-Durova
I just opened up the article on [[BioShock]], and there's some sort of
banner ad scrolling French text across the top. I can't see any
vandalism in the article history or any of the templates it uses. I'm
pretty sure I don't have a spyware problem, since I'm running Gentoo
Linux. Has a spammer somehow gotten access to the user interface?
A screenshot of what I'm seeing is at
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k19/Carnildo/Forums/bannerad.png
--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]
To attempt to end a many-year-old edit war, I have indefinitely
full-protected the article [[Views of Lyndon LaRouche]].
Discussion and rationale at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incide…
Comments here also welcome.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Will Beback [mailto:will.beback.1@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 05:44 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites
joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:
> Quoting Will Beback <will.beback.1(a)gmail.com>:
>
>
>> If Wikipedia becomes known as a volunteer job that leads to off-site
>> harassment that the community will do nothing to stop then that might
>> tend to reduce the appeal of editing too.
>>
>
> Will, as many editors have pointed out to you, we aren't saying that we
> shouldn't do anything. The objection is solely to the removal of links that
> would otherwise definitely be in an article.
>
>
>> I again dispute that removing poor sources harms NPOV.
>>
>
> Again, we've already explained how these aren't "poor sources" and multiple
> editors have already discussed how this harms NPOV. Simply saying "I again
> dispute X" doesn't make the arguments for X any weaker.
>
>
We'll have to agree to disagree on some of this. The specific proposal I
made received little support here and the discussion of it does not
appear to be making progress so I'll stop advancing it.
I hope we do all agree that harassment of Wikipedia editors should not
be tolerated by the community, and that the community should take all
reasonable steps to prevent or minimize it. We do need to decide what
steps are appropriate. A mailing list may not be the best forum for
working out a consensus on this issue.
Will Beback
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No, it isn't. But thank you for making a good faith effort to advance a reasonable policy regarding harassment of users.
Fred
