Greetings,
As some are aware, I recently started up #wikimedia-ops as an attempt
to organise op activity across the network. I think what we have going
works - although so far there have been few issues that have needed
the co-ordination (that I've seen, anyway), the idea is there and the
opportunity for help is being advertised. IRC is a powerful resource
that as an organisation we use well, but there is room for
improvement.
When someone is kicked rem'med from a channel, there are usually
arguments between the op and the user or publically in the channel
over the validity of their removal. It was recently pointed out to me
by a fellow freenode staffer that 'you can't keep chasing an unwritten
[guideline]', and I decided to start an initiative to write one.
Obviously, this will be a community effort, and so I created a page
over on meta at [[m:IRC guidelines]], which I invite you to
participate in. At the time of writing there isn't anything real
there, but I invite people to build it up.
For the moment, I have no idea how enforcable/!official these
guidelines are going to be. I suggest that we worry about that after
we actually have some, because the channel operations structure is too
ad hoc to make assumptions on how it will work. This is just an idea,
something that I hope people will adopt.
There are several pages on the freenode website which may be of
interest. WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL and a few others may also be of use.
http://freenode.net/philosophy.shtmlhttp://freenode.net/freenode_and_irc.shtmlhttp://freenode.net/catalysts.shtmlhttp://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml
I look forward to receiving comments on this through this list, IRC
(#wikimedia-irc/#wikimedia-ops) or the talkpage of the guidelines
page. Let's try and develop some rough standards to improve the IRC
experience. Thank you for your time.
S
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Slow down a bit. Let's start with the basics. For various technical reasons,
a fundraiser should not start at the beginning of the month.
Befpre deciding that the fopcus shoudl not be servers, decide what the real
needs are. If servers happen to be the primary cost, then that should be the
focus.
I am wary of turning this into an OLPC/Wikimedia fundraiser, even if just by
tying the two organizations together. It may also run counter to our 501 c 3
status, but of this I am not sure.
Will the money go to chapters or to the Foundation? Can the chapters
transfer money to the foundation if needed?
How will funds donated be processed? Who will process them? How will we
recognize donors, both by what is required by law and by what is simply a nice
way to recognize them? This is an enormous amount of work.
Just some thoughts.
Danny
In a message dated 10/10/2006 3:27:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
erik(a)wikimedia.org writes:
On 10/9/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> As an individual (not board member), I would like to ask if it were
> possible that the spin around the fundraising, focuses a bit on the
> other projects, perhaps the notion of virtual library, with the
> wikicommons and wikisource. We have the recent report of the german
> digitization to show up as an example as how we could push things
> forward in realm of digital libraries.
Yes, it seems absolutely essential to me that the communication
strategy is carefully planned _before_ we ask for money.
What have the Foundation and the Chapters accomplished so far? What is
the status of our work to bring Wikimedia to developing countries?
What have our expenses been? (Get audited financial reports out.) What
expenses do we foresee? What strategic projects are around the corner?
What is the state of the projects besides Wikipedia, the small
languages?
The last thing I want is another "WE NEED MORE SERVERS" fundraiser.
So, in order to do this properly:
Brad - can we assume that the financial statements will be published
before Nov 1? Can you work on outlining some expenses over the next 6
months you see as critical, in broad terms (staff, hardware, etc.)?
Tim - when are the static dumps going to be ready?
Samuel - can you pass on some promotional materials re: the OLPC
partnership to the Fundraising Committee?
Delphine - can you compile a report on chapter activity (max 10K,
pictures would be nice)? What projects were completed, what chapters
were set up?
Jimmy, Florence - shall we prepare a detailed vision statement on
Board Wiki? I volunteer to take a first stab at the structure.
Sabine - could you write a little report regarding translation
projects, and future activities you can envision in this area?
I would suggest early November as a launch of the fundraising drive. I
would like to see some new functionality implemented for this
fundraising drive as well, e.g. the ability to donate directly from
any Wikimedia project page, as well as a more prominent display of
donor comments above a certain amount.
Most importantly, however, I want us to start working very soon on a
decent appeal for support and report of activity so far. I understand
that donor attention is limited, so we need to have a very short
general appeal, but those who care should be able to find detailed
information about what we are doing and why we need support.
Ideally, the information we compile here should be useful to approach
organizations and wealthy individuals, beyond just a general appeal to
the masses.
Does that sound reasonable? :-)
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On 10/11/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> But I am not so happy with the concept of a board member deciding to
> delegate a task which is entirely under commmunity oversight.
It was not meant to be a Board-level delegation, but a community
hand-over the way you describe it. Sorry if that was unclear.
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It's time for Chinese people to learn other language :)
Ilario
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Data: 10.10.06 11.00
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Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Unblock for English Wikiepdia in China
Yes. only zh wp blocked.
2006/10/10, mingli yuan <mingli.yuan(a)gmail.com>:
> Good news!!
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> Many people reported that English Wikiepdia is unblocked in
China.
> We are waiting for more infomation about the unblock.
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Hello,
Last update from Michael (this summer) mentionned that we had about 550
k$ in bank.
The technical team mentionned recently there was an urgent need for new
application servers (apache/squids), to address the record traffic the
site has been receiving. A couple of weeks ago, traffic reports
indicated > 18,000 requests per second, far above our routine traffic of
12,000 requests per second earlier this summer.
Consequently, a hardware purchase resolution has been very recently
approved, which will significantly impact our reserves.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Hardware_sept_2006
Michael reported that we purchased $425k of hardware last fiscal year
and will purchase $400k more in just the first half of the current
fiscal year. Rough estimate for this fiscal year hardware is between
$750k-$1M.
In short, it is high time to have our second fundraising of the year :-)
A fundraising committee was set up not a long time ago for such purpose
and will work with Brad for the success of the fundraising. The
translation committee will naturally have to be heavily involved and
coordination about press coverage will be under the responsability of
the comcom.
If you want to be involved, please say so.
Florence
Wikimedia Foundation
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As an individual (not board member), I would like to ask if it were
possible that the spin around the fundraising, focuses a bit on the
other projects, perhaps the notion of virtual library, with the
wikicommons and wikisource. We have the recent report of the german
digitization to show up as an example as how we could push things
forward in realm of digital libraries.
Ant
