About a year ago I proposed on this list that the Board add e-gold as an
additional alternative payment option. As I recall, the suggestion was
declined, with the comment that e-gold was an "also-ran" payment system.
I would like to encourage another look. e-gold has continued to advance
through 2005, pulling considerably ahead of moneybookers.com [and for
that matter, etrade.com and citi.com] in terms of reach and traffic
rankings per Alexa. At present, e-gold processes 40,000 to 60,000 Spends
(User-to-User transfers) per day, conveying $10 million plus of value.
[see http://www.e-gold.com/stats.html ]. Unlike Paypal, Moneybookers,
credit cards or any other legacy option, e-gold is truly global and
features fees that are a tiny fraction of any other system. For those of
you whose life beyond Wiki entails online commerce, I also note that
e-gold is unique in that it is absolutely free of chargeback risk with
immediate final settlement, worldwide.
Dr. Douglas Jackson
Chairman, e-gold Ltd.
(and fan of Wikipedia)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
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>
>A total of 455 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 7''',
yielding the equivalent of
>$10,107.89 USD. The average donation that day was $22.22. Small
increases in mail and Moneybookers
>donations brings those totals to $95 and $545.33 respectively.
>
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A total of 455 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 7''', yielding the equivalent of
$10,107.89 USD. The average donation that day was $22.22. Small increases in mail and Moneybookers
donations brings those totals to $95 and $545.33 respectively. I'm still waiting for the first
Dexia updates to be mailed to me.
Grand total for the whole drive at the end of Day 7: '''$85,839.88'''
AUD 172.41 (129.39 USD)
CAD 364.36 (299.84 USD)
EUR 3,132.43 (3,804.93 USD)
GBP 273.99 (491.35 USD)
JPY 29,012.00 (262.12 USD)
USD 5,120.26
Total 10,107.89 USD
Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-22/report/
==Special thanks to large donors==
The largest donation this day was $500.00 USD and was made by Lawrence Lessig. There were also
many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (listed in no particular order); Dr
Horst W Doelle, J Nasser, Sebastian Kloska, Joseph Emile MARTIN, Urs Gilgen, Frederique Guilbert,
Robert Matthews, James Craig, Jonathan Brown, Chris Sachs, Andrew Maretz, Paul Seet, Tabrez Syed,
Lawrence Lessig and 10 anonymous donors.
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:Full listing at: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-22/detail/
*"Go Wiki Go!" by Drew Williams
*"For Paul Wright for Christmas" by anonymous
*"布施いたします。" by anonymous
*"Thank you for showing the power of sharing." by Lee Carleton
*"I'm poor. But I love cool stuff!" by Rasmus Rydstrom
*"С точки зрения
глобальной
градации..." by anonymous
*"without you i could not do my assignments!" by alexander onea
*"Good job guys(and girls of course)! Every reader should donate 1 EURO and the progress bar will
fast increase! Gruesse aus Deutschland!" by Oliver Moeller
*"I've already gotten more value than my donation." by Vincent Wright
*"I use Wikipedia so much that I would feel guilty if I didn't donate." by anonymous
*"Ich bedanke mich!" by Alfred Soehl
*"first point of reference for almost everything" by anonymous
*"Quickly replacing Google as my first destination for information on a topic -- in a few years I
suspect we won't know how we lived without it." by Conor Sen
*"go portuguese wikipedia!" by Luis Fagundes
*"Thanks mates!" by Florian Antretter
*"Weiter So!!!!!!!" by Steffen Rehnig
Some of my personal favorites:
*"Proof that the best things in the world are free." by Vijay P Choksi
*"Simply the greatest website and information resource in the history of the world. I am immensely
proud of this site" by Paul C. Chapman
*"Wikipedia is built on millions of small edits. Let's keep it alive with millions of small
donations." by James Lovell
*"Wikipedia makes me look with hope at the future of humanity." by Dario Teixeira
*"For Freedom" by James Hanks
-- Daniel Mayer
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Hello all
In november, the Foundation published a job opportunity for a Wikimania
organiser.
See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings and somewhere in
the history of this mailing list late november.
The outcome of this announcement :
* The job announcement for the event organiser received 4 candidacies, 3
of them from wikipedians and one from an external party.
* Delphine Ménard (aka notafish) will be a contractant of the Wikimedia
Foundation Inc, in charge of budget management, registration and
logistics. This is in large part what she already handled last year with
success and being an event manager has actually been her real life job
for several years. For the Foundation, her being legally in charge of
these issues is a garantee for more financial security. We'll publish in
the next few days a bit more details about what the contract will include.
* Other aspects of the Wikimania event, such as program, promotion,
press, sponsorship etc... will be entirely organised by volunteers as
was the case last year. We hope that all those interested participate in
the area of their wish.
* Last point, Angela Beesley will be the board member liaison for the
coordination with the organisation team and Delphine Ménard.
Ant
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A total of 497 donors gave the equivalent of $12,466.34 USD through PayPal on '''Day 6'''
('''Wednesday 21 December''') of the fundraiser. While this is a very small decrease from Day 5
($28.46) it does represent a modestly higher average donation ($25.08 vs $22.72). Moneybookers
donations amounted to about $90, bringing that total to $474.77. No update today on mailed or
money transfer donations.
Grand total for the whole drive at the end of Day 6: $75,641.43
PayPal breakdown for Day 6:
AUD 118.20 (88.71 USD)
CAD 585.97 (482.20 USD)
EUR 2,497.40 (3,033.57 USD)
GBP 735.10 (1,318.25 USD)
JPY 52,112.00 (470.83 USD)
USD 7,072.78
Total 12,466.34 USD
Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-21/report/
==Special thanks to large donors==
The largest donation this day was $500.00 USD and was made by Manoj Padki. There were also many
donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (alphabetical order); Raed Abdullah, David
Bosman, Lindy Do, Rex Fujikawa, Tom Gally, Neil Greenleaves, Hartmut Geissbauer, Peter Goddard,
Ryan Hoffman, Manoj Padki, Graham Laundon, Eugene Mihaliuk, Michael Nadler, William McQueen, Steve
Reseigh, Anand Shukla and 15 anonymous donors.
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:Full listing at: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-21/detail/
*"軽くなったらいいなぁ " by anonymous
*"I am happy to support this fantastic resource. I urge everyone to do the same." by Oliver
Gouldthorpe
*"A wonderful tool for learning. Please keep up the good work!" by anonymous
*"WikiPedia ist wunderbar. Dieser Ansatz wird einiges umwälzen." by anonymous
*"free is the mind - as should be knowledge" by Christian Schubert
*"Wikipedia is pretty much the best general source on information in the world." by anonymous
*"so much useful information & easily accessible keep up the good work" by anonymous
*"Wikipedia is the best starting point for researching any topic." by anonymous
*"Thank you. Freedom has no price." by anonymous
*"You've set up a great infrastructure. The articles will keep getting better!" by anonymous
*"Will donate everytime to a good cause - Knowledge should be free to everyone who seeks it" by
Collin Wu
*"Many thanks for the incredible service; keep up the good work!" by Peter Goddard
*"for the continuance of free knowledge" by anonymous
*"What is the internet without wikipedia ?" by David Bosman
*"Das ist es wert!" by Alexander Buesing
Some of my personal favorites:
*""Knowledge is power" and thanks for making this so accessible." by anonymous
*"This site is a major foundation block in the history of the Internet and our information-rich
future. Please donate if you haven't already -- even $5 from enough people will add up! =)" by
anonymous
*"thanks for opening my eyes to this great planet and its inhabitants" by anonymous
*"wikimedia is the seed of the New Enlightenment" by Jonathan Mayer
*"Wikipedia gets a big hug from a grad-schooler. I want to have wiki-babies with this website.
Kudos and mega-thanks." by anonymous
*"Indispensable!" by Steve Reseigh
-- Daniel Mayer
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Hello,
There was an article published today on Wikiversity in "The Chronicle":
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121601t.htm
(I was one of the people interviewed for this, and just to
pre-emptively point out an inaccuracy - apart from the obvious "2.5
million articles in *10* languages" typo - that I didn't say that I
want Wikiversity to "focus on original research", but that I said I
see research as playing a central role in Wikiversity.) However, the
article isn't bad, and is reasonably fair.
But the real purpose of this mail is to clarify the idea of
Wikiversity and courses. According to the relevant board meeting
notes*, the recommendation is to "exclude online courses". There is
much confusion about this, and some despair (contributors saying they
will give up on the project if courses are excluded). What needs to be
clarified is whether courses are to be excluded in Wikiversity's
initial phase but included with time, or whether courses will be
excluded altogether.
* http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/November_13%2C_2005
The 'safe' proposal until now has been to make wikiversity a
repository of learning materials. This, I presume, would include
lesson plans/curricula as well as actual resources like
reading/listening comprehension exercises, flash cards, discursive
questions on particular advertisements, etc.
But, for a start, I'm not sure that this line between resources and
courses exists. I would say that if we who are creating these
resources are to be genuinely engaged (and to make them genuinely
useful), we will need to have some sort of use of these resources, or
at least some of them. The reading comprehension can be printed and
used by any language teacher anywhere; the flash cards and (possibly)
discursive questions likewise. But consider an activity like
critiquing two sources of online information in order to write a
neutral encylopedic article. This is provoking higher order thinking
in order to develop another resource, namely Wikipedia. I think this
is the idea behind what JWSchmidt is proposing in his advocacy of
"service-provider courses" - which will act as interfaces between
Wikimedia projects, and hopefully reconnecting projects where they
have diverged. I've written about this myself in numerous places,
including:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity_%28overview%29
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikiversity/Modified_project_proposal
(which has my proposed objects of Wikiversity, namely: materials,
learning communities, research)
Personally, I think that the inclusion/exclusion of courses is more
complex that people might imagine. Some current or proposed courses
are along the didactic (ie teacher informs, students re-produce
material) model, some are along the critical model (as above) and some
are more "practical" (eg. write computer code). If the board is
nervous about the didactic model (eg. as Angela said that she was
concerned that Wikimedia would be ridiculed if Wikiversity was widely
advertised and (I presume) wasn't ready for incoming students), then
it could still allow for the remaining two models (which ironically
are at polar ends of the pedagogical spectrum), without too much fear
of backlash from the press or wider public. However, I would add that
excluding the didactic model for now would bitterly disappoint some
contributors.
Basically, the issue is that the most recent board decision wasn't
very well explained. I am aware the board itself is looking for
clarification, but it has just created more confusion than anything. I
particularly invite board members to respond both *as individuals* and
also to explain a bit more on their last decision. That's what I'm
trying to gather here, as much as getting the wider community's
perspective(s).
Thanks,
Cormac / Cormaggio
I thought a very interesting and well-written (and sourced) blog entry
by Ben Crowell, a pioneer in e-book publishing, would be interesting
reading to the people on Foundation-l:
http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/infrastructure.html
It was also based in part on an interesting exchange I had with him on
slashdot before he wrote this entry:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170873&cid=14234478
I think that much of what Mr. Crowell has to say about Wikibooks and
Wikipedia is a very valid critism, especially from somebody who is
outside of Wikimedia projects trying to locate some gems of quality that
may be useful. It is also from somebody who has done more than just a
casual glance at what we are doing here, and comes from somebody who has
done what Wikibooks is claiming as an ultimate goal (but didn't use
Wikibooks to accomplish the task).
--
Robert Scott Horning
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The equivalent of $12,494.80 USD was donated through PayPal on '''Day 5''' of the fund drive
(Tuesday 20 December). While this is a small decrease from Day 4 ($240.70), it does represent a
higher average per donation ($22.72 vs $20.28). A total of 550 donations were made on Day 5; the
largest was a $2000 anonymous donation made early in the day.
The first mail donations made during the fund drive have come in. A total of $75 has been received
so far at the Wikimedia office. MoneyBookers donations for Day 5 were about $80, bringing that
total to $383.38. We are still waiting for the first Dexia updates (those are mailed to the
foundation office).
Grand at the end of Day 5: '''$63,083.70'''
PayPal breakdown for Day 5:
AUD 420.72 (315.75 USD)
CAD 362.49 (298.30 USD)
EUR 2,429.82 (2,951.48 USD)
GBP 328.86 (589.74 USD)
JPY 39,684.00 (358.54 USD)
USD 7,980.99
Total 12,494.80 USD
Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-20/report/
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:From: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-20/detail/
*"Information wants to be free" by anonymous
*"Knowledge is the future - thank you for sharing it! A true daily user" by anonymous
*"Wissen ist Macht. Und die Macht sollte beim Volk liegen und nicht bei
Verwertungsgesellschaften." by anonymous
*"Wikipedia embraces the spirit of the internet and every page is an investment for all human
knowledge" by Orion Pronk
*"Thank you from a poor student from Germany" by Dominik Pich
*"Wikipedia rocks." by anonymous
*"a wonderful resource - my kids find it indispensible for school" by erik hoel
*"Wikipedia ist ein tolles Nachschlagewerk für welches sich lohnt zu unterstützen." by anonymous
*"gift economies are beautiful things. and i know what a gift economy is thanks go wikipedia." by
anonymous
*"いつも豊富な知識を貰っています。どうもありがとう。"
by genta uemura
*"Used Wiki many times. A true encyclopedia. The truth shall set you free." by Higinio Sanchez
*"Wikipedia is an invaluable source of accessible information in the overclogged information
highway" by Anh-Thu Nguyen
*"Your work is really important" by anonymous
*"Wikipedia helps fulfill the internet's promise of democratization and equalization of
information." by anonymous
*"Knowledge is the key to freedom" by John Rosato
*"It is my honor and duty" by anonymous
*"Got Wiki?" by Jun Yan
Some of my personal favorites:
*"a small step for a better world" by Mathieu Francois
*"If Plato would have the internet he would constantly read Wikipedia." by anonymous
*"Best signal to noise ratio on the internet today" by Simon Pichette
*"I have an atrocious memory - Wikipedia fills in the blanks!" by Ian Henderson
*"For all the library late fees Wikipedia has saved me." by Jonathan Voris
*"Thank you! Truly... thank you!!" by Dominick Daoust
*"All of us are smarter than any off us!" by Michael Doherty
*"Knowledge will never be burnt again" by anonymous
-- Daniel Mayer
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Below is from [[:en:WP:ANI]]. What on earth? How does "fair use"
magically not apply?
- d.
DSM-IV-TR Copyright question
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Narcissistic_personality_disorder
There is a question being raised concerning whether the reproduction
of DSM-IV-TR criteria on several articles without permission from the
APA constitutes breach of copyright and whether the administration of
Wikipedia could or should seek the relevant permissions or the removal
of such text? Personally I should like to request the permissions be
sought --82.195.137.125 19:04, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I have responded to this at the relevant talk page, and suggested
that relevant quotations are within the bounds of fair use. Other eyes
may be welcome on that issue. Dragons flight 21:20, 17 December 2005
(UTC)
[Response re: DSM-IV-TR criteria (all identifiers removed,
original forwarded to permissions(a)wikipedia.org):
We are inclined to deny Wikipedia permission to use our
content as we do not allow anyone to alter our material and we do not
want our material posted online. I can assure you that we have
complete rights to our material and Fair Use does not apply to DSM
material or any other APA/APPI content.
I find this a LITTLE bit scary in it's wider implications
--82.195.137.125 05:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)]
Also completely wrong. Of course it fucking applies.
Perhaps they could work with the National Gallery on this one - David
Gerard 12:26, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
[Better idea David could you see your way to making
your case to them (I have already made mine)? Here is contact page
http://appi.org/permissions.cfx and post any results here? (repeating
on your talk page). "Inclined" is, to my mind, a word that is still
open to negotiation --82.195.137.125 13:22, 20 December 2005 (UTC)]
Dear all, I'm passing along details of a conference in London next
March on "The media and social change in Africa" (details below).
I wonder if any Wikimedian(s) would like to participate in this
conference. I haven't followed many African projects but a quick flick
through Swahili (:sw) and Bambara (:bm) Wikipedias' Recent Changes
show some activity.
Cormac
>CAMRI Africa Media Series: 2006
>The Media and Social Change in Africa Conference,
>25th March 2006, 9am-5pm, University of Westminster, London, UK
>
>This is a 1st Call for Papers for a one-day CAMRI Africa Media Conference
>on 'The Media and Social Change in Africa'. In what ways are the media
>changing Africa? What role do the media have in a changing Africa? In
>countries from Egypt to South Africa, Kenya to Zimbabwe, Cameroon to
>Nigeria, Rwanda to Morocco, the 'media', defined as widely as possible,
>mediate old and new African social realities. Processes of mediation
>elicit reactions and patterns of change in Africa and, more importantly,
>in the media sectors. The shift from pre-colonial, colonial to
>post-colonial social formations has been reflected and affected by changes
>in media and communication. The media have been harbingers of African
>social change and are strongly implicated in the change processes taking
>place in Africa. Traditional and modern communication patterns are
>increasingly overlapping with mass mediation. Africa now has different
>kinds of media serving many kinds of purposes. Individual papers may,
>amongst other topics, focus on the:
>
>· Media's Role in Pre-Colonial, Colonial and
>Post-Colonial Africa
>· Media and Modernisation in Africa
>· Changing Media Institutions and Production cultures
>· Social Cultural Changes, Continuity and the Mass Media
>· Media and Changing Individual, Local and National
>Contexts
>· Changing Media and Changing African Lifestyles
>
>Papers are invited on Media and Change in Africa. The deadline for
>abstracts is 15th February 2006. Those whose papers are accepted will be
>notified by 28th February 2006. Completed papers (not more than 6000
>words) must be e-mailed to us not later than 15th March 2006. Send
>200-word abstracts to Winston Mano at:
><mailto:manow@wmin.ac.uk>manow(a)wmin.ac.uk
>
>Fees:
>Unwaged/Students: £10
>Non-Students: £20
>Fees cover registration, conference pack, lunch, coffee and tea.
>
>Contact Persons:
>Dr Winston Mano
>Africa Media Series
>Communication and Media Research Center (CAMRI)
>University of Westminster, Harrow Campus
>Watford Road, HA1 3TP, UK
>Phone: 0044 (0) 2079115000 Ext. 4427
>Email: manow(a)wmin.ac.uk
>___________________________________
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The equivalent of $12,735.50 USD was donated through PayPal on '''Day 4''' (Monday 19 December),
making it the second most successful day so far in this drive! A total of 628 individual donations
(the second highest) were made yielding an average donation of $20.28 (lowest average thus far).
Here is the PayPal breakdown for Day 4:
AUD 429.03 (321.99 USD)
CAD 823.33 (677.53 USD)
EUR 2,297.97 (2,791.32 USD)
GBP 578.73 (1,037.84 USD)
JPY 17,274.00 (156.07 USD)
USD 7,750.76
Total 12,735.50 USD
Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-19/report/
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:From: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-19/detail/
Here are some examples that caught my eye:
*"De plus en plus utile! Merci!" by Etienne Boucher
*"Protect Our Free Speach" by anonymous
*"Thank you for all the information (and fun) I've had from you" by Steve Czyrko
*"Thank you so much for such a fantastic resource!" by Emily Gillis
*"Wikipedia is the culmination of all that is good about the information age." by anonymous
*"Wikipedia is one of the pillars of the egalitarian Internet" by Christian Cotichini
*"Very happy to support this excellent project - User:Ianblair23" by IAN S BLAIR
*"Wikipedia is the single greatest asset to knowledge on the Internet." by Adam Greenfield
*"A small price compared to the priceless knowledge gained." by anonymous
*"What a lovely place to get information." by anonymous
*"Your site has become a treasure-trove of information for me. Please take this as a small token
of my esteeem" by James Kamakahi
*"I am proud to support the greatest learning resource on the web." by Simon Smith
*"Human knowledge should not be subject to intimidation" by anonymous
*"Was gut ist muß gut bleiben." by Ulf Kuessner
*"Thank you for using the Internet for good." by anonymous
*"Borg Lojasiewicz : Thank You to everyone who contributed to the expansion of my prosthetic
mind." by wanda lojasiewicz
*"Wikipedia has helped me many times in the past and I hope it will help me many times in the
future." by Henrique Rodrigues
*"This is truly a great resource that deserves community support. Let's keep it free for all who
may seek knowledge and information." by John Woody
*"The finest resource on the web." by Tvrtko Crnkovic-Dodig
*"A buck a week! Well worth it." by John Hahn
My personal favorites:
*"For the future" by Samuel Borgman
*"Drop by drop the sea rises..." by Rene Rex
*"It is a far better thing we do..." by Ian Yorston
*"the light of truth can be hidden but not stopped" by Timothy Bates
*"You make me look smart." by anonymous
*"Merry Festivus!" by Chai Trakulthai
-- Daniel Mayer
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