This is a joyful day indeed.
I would first like to send my best wishes to Angela and Tim for getting engaged ☺
And Erik Moeller did an awesome job pitching Wikimedia at the Sloan foundation, congratulations!
I met Erik and GerardM two weeks ago, and we discussed all kind of interesting things.
One of the topics we briefly touched was animated web stats, we all knew and admired Hans Rosling's wonderful Gapcasts.
I figured Wikimedia could benefit from similar stats.
Of course java or svg would be likely candidates for implementation, but both have their pro's and con's.
Also rather than going back to Hans' (and now Google's) GapMinder, I thought to do some experimentation myself.
Upcoming html5 promises exciting, albeit not yet standardized, new functionality.
The new canvas element was introduced first in Safari, but Firefox 3 takes it a few steps further.
So for now my javascript-only 'Wikimedia Projects Growth Animated' runs only on Firefox 3 (beta).
Be assured there is also a recorded 8 Mb Flash file for project Wikipedia.
The idea is to update these animations automatically from the wikistats job.
http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/Wikistats/
Erik Zachte
Brian, before Taipei I did not follow up on offers for a wikistats machine,
as I felt there was no pressing need for it then, and hardware priorities
clearly ought to be elsewhere.
Today running in 'nice mode' on an average Wikimedia Apache server is a
bottleneck, and hampers addition of new stats. But only the new English dump
made it really tight.
The foundation is aware of this. I am confident that in the near to medium
future a solution will be found.
Erik Zachte
Hi! I'm Japanese wikipedian. I'm very happy to inform a great news for all.
http://mainichi.jp/select/wadai/news/20080326ddm041040167000c.html
(Japanese)
Mainichi says that Zoshindo, Japanese schoolbook company, quotes the
world map image for English reading text book for high school. That
article adds Zoshindo edits the map. Unfortunately, the article confuses
with Wikipedia and Wikimedia (commons?), image and text. But I think
this is a great news for us.
I?m delighted to tell you that yesterday, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
board of directors voted to award the Wikimedia Foundation USD 1 million
annually for the coming three years. A total of USD 3 million, spread over
three years.
******
Awesome! Congratulations!
-Durova
better idea than ads! I have a feeling that single logon would skyrocket to the top of the list.
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From: Screamer <scream(a)datascreamer.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:51:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars"
Screamer wrote:
>
> I don't think they were serious, but this sounds like a fine idea.
> Reposted with permission. From #wikimedia-tech:
>
>
> [21:43] <kylu> actually, you should change bugzilla... instead of
> voting for bugs, you donate for them
> [21:43] <AaronSchulz> and it builds up like a pot, that they get if
> they implement it
>
>
> Actually, I think this is a grand idea. Bugging for dollars. What
> are the thoughts?
>
>
> ./scream
>
>
To clarify, the proceeds go to the foundation. :)
./scream
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Ah, here the big question comes up :) What should be determining our choice
for ads or not... Just a few options:
1) Financial trouble
2) Our core principles
3) Our values
4) Because the community favors it over donations
5) Because the visitors favor it over donations
Of course there are many more, but my stake here is actually that *first* we
should discuss 1), 2) and 3), probably too 4) and then we go to 5). If there
are financial trouble, there is little choice, and we'll *have* to, whether
we like or not. If there are no trouble, but the usual shoestring, then we
should see what our core principles and values have to say about it.
Finally, I think that in this case, the opinion of the community is at least
as important as the opinion of the visitors.
I think both opinions will be measured in the UNU research? And as there
seem to be no threatening financial problems right now, 2) and 3) are left
in the open :)
BR, Lodewijk
2008/3/18, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>:
>
> On 17/03/2008, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
> > Brian wrote:
> > > Asking if advertisements should be shown on Wikipedia on a website
> that is
> > > currently showing them an advertisement is obviously not a good
> design
> > > methodology :)
> >
> >
> > Yes, and facebook users are not representative of the people we care
> > about (i.e. everyone) in some other important ways too... they tend to
> > be college kids in the US.
>
>
> It might be worth paying for a professional polling company to do a
> proper survey - I'm not sure what those kind of things cost, but I'm
> sure the information would be very enlightening.
>
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I will do so shortly at Projects and EDP.
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Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 2:08:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Exemption Doctrine Policy (coordination)
Hello Cheol Ryu
Thank you for working on this. Since it is a legal consideration, I
recommand you contact Mike Godwin on the matter.
Also, if someone feels like it, would not it be a great idea to start a
meta page, to list all projects and all languages, and for each of them,
indicate whether they have an EDP, nor not. If they do, whether it has
been reviewed, or not. And yeah, a link to the EDP.
I guess if someone felt like building the raw page, all projects could
go there and update their own information. The other benefit would be
for languages and projects to "compare" their own EDP and got inspired
by it.
Anyone ?
Ant
Cheol Ryu wrote:
> In case of Korean Wikipedia, we finished drafting an EDP but hesitate
> to resolute.
> Because we are not sure if we could change the copyright license policy.
>
> If the EDP itself leads copyright infringements, probably the
> foundation would be in charge. So I think the foundation have to
> review the EDP.
>
> -Cheol
>
>
> 2008/3/22, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>:
>> Per http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy
>> Wikipedias wanting to use non free content need to have an Exemption
>> Doctrine Policy in place by March 23. This being the case does anyone
>> have a list of Wikipedias and other projects with an Exemption
>> Doctrine Policy? In addition does anyone have any idea how we are
>> planning to enforce this on projects without an Exemption Doctrine
>> Policy?
>>
>>
>>
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Actually has anyone started straw polls yet?
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From: Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:53:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ads and monobook
Chad wrote:
> Let's assume projects can opt-out, and this must be approved
> by the Board (as they are ultimately responsible for fiscal
> matters). For the sake of arguments, let's pretend enwiki came
> to a fairly clear consensus that they wished to opt-out of WMF
> ads. Wouldn't this basically kill the entire ads cash-cow right
> there?
>
> Now, continuing this scenario, I can imagine the Board would
> probably reject an opt-out from the largest project. This begs
> the question: does the Foundation see all projects in an
> equal light?
>
> -Chad
That's an excellent question !
I am tempted to return it back first.
If all the languages were voting independently from one another, for
opt-in or opt-out... how would you feel if en.wiki would vote for "no
ads", whilst ja.wiki vote for "yes" ?
Would you rather consider the global project, or would you be willing to
accept diversity ? Should it be a global decision, or a local one ?
I guess that a global decision would make the issue a "core principle"
whilst a local decision would make the advertisement issue a "mild
principle".
ant
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Would it make a difference...
if an advertisement is only there to reach out to the attention of the
reader, and is only beneficial to the one paying for the advertisement
(eg, a Ford ad on a Toyota article)
or if the advertisement also was a bringing a benefit to the reader ?
I ask the question because my husband opinion is very clear on the
matter. When he reads an article about a BOOK, he would like that we
provide as a service, a link to a website where he can directly buy the
book. Typically, an Amazon link. It would be an advertisement of course,
but it would bring a service to the reader. It would not be a
GoogleAds. We would be able to exactly select which articles we want
the ad to be on (for example, all articles about books. all articles
about DVD). It is not damaging the NPOV of the article. It could be
identified in a special area. Deals could be made with one, or several
providers. It would bring some money, but not huge amounts of money (who
could disrupt the organization...).
ant