Wikimedia-l December 2010

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[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?
by MZMcBride 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Hi. The new banners and landing pages with Sue Gardner are using the phrase "Wikipedia Executive Director"; for example: http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?oldid=53090 I'm not a big fan of the smaller projects. On more than one occasion I've called for disbanding some of them. However, Wikimedia is made up of more than just Wikipedia. It is a spit in the face to editors of non-Wikipedias to put these banners on the top of any Wikimedia project (I saw this banner on mediawiki.org). It is the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikipedia Foundation. Calling Sue Gardner the "Wikipedia Executive Director" is simply wrong (factually and morally) and doing so is entirely unacceptable. Wikimedia ought to hold itself above lying to readers in order to solicit donations. These banners and landing pages are a violation of what Wikimedians strive to spread and strive to be and they should be changed immediately. MZMcBride

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki
by Ryan Lomonaco 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gps <gadgil.ps(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM Subject: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: foundation-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello, One of the biggest problems of democratic givernance is that Allocated funds for various causes, initiatives and projects disappear due to corruption, mismanagement or just lie unutilised due to poor or non-existant public oversight. Another aspect is that the public Audit watchdogs in may countries is unable to function independently, and their reports disappear when inconvenient. Many a times the issues come to limelight when irreparable damage has been done, due to media expose or due to increasingly used Right-to-Information provisions, however media moves on to next issue, and there is no permanant vigil over the public expenditure. The same issue is rampant in Asia, Africa and even in developed countries. We need a Global countrywise repository for monitoring, tracking, identifying possible issues in public expenditure. The domain is important enough for Wikimedia, and the support / backing crucial enough for the platform to succeed. Pl. consider this request to start a wiki to monitor the government spending, possibly named as GovSpendWatch-Wiki. Project Proposal has been made @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki Pl. forward the proposal to foundation-l mail-list for review. regards, prasad gadgil - प्रसाद गाडगीळ

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[Foundation-l] Wikimedia / Wikipedia Statistics
by WJhonson＠aol.com 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Why are these tables so out of date? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm

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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia / Wikipedia Statistics
by WJhonson＠aol.com 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

In a message dated 12/15/2010 9:57:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, ezachte(a)wikimedia.org writes: > Technical problems: > First the dump server needed fixing , now the wikistats server is > broken: power unit is no longer. > Replacement is on order. > > Erik Zachte > Is there any other way to get a table of the number of new articles being created in en-WP each day or week or month? Will

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Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
by Tim Starling 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

On 16/12/10 08:04, Joseph Reagle wrote: > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like versions of the articles beyond > the first ~10 are automatically recoverable. There were some changes made to the page text that weren't represented in diff_log, specifically changing certain camel-case links to free links. If you can work out what the changes were and when they were made, you can recover the text. I successfully recovered all 119 revisions of [[Larry Sanger]], using the following transformation applied after 984005227 UNIX time: 'LarrySanger' => 'Larry Sanger', 'JimboWales' => 'Jimbo Wales', 'WikiPedia' => 'Wikipedia', 'UnitedStates' => 'United States', I'm not sure how many links were changed in this way, but it seems to have been a hand-constructed list. -- Tim Starling

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[Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving
by Philippe Beaudette 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

One member of the fundraising team had it on her Christmas list. Another literally begged for it. So today, I feel quite a sense of accomplishment in announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation is now able to accept recurring monthly contributions as a giving option for our donors. Recurring giving has been in the works for a long time - literally years. We launched a limited test run of recurring donations last Thursday, and have already received several thousand dollars worth of commitments using this new method. Over the course of the past several years, we’ve received hundreds of requests from donors that we offer automatic monthly giving. Donors want the ease of monthly giving, and, as many have noted, it's far more convenient to give $5 a month than $60 all at once. In addition, it gives the Foundation a certain amount of security to know that a base amount of money will be coming every month, year round. With monthly recurring giving, a donor selects the amount they wish to give, and the payment is made automatically each month, for 12 months. Our recurring monthly donations are processed by Paypal, so unfortunately we still are unable to accept the currencies they don’t support. However - as with any PayPal transaction, you can use either your PayPal account, or a credit card. Our recurring giving options will primarily be targeted as "post-donation" options. Testing showed that including the option on the initial giving form actually resulted in fewer transactions, but many past donors feel strongly about the introduction of this system. We will likely be announcing it to past donors as a method to continue their generous support, sometime this week. Anyone is welcome to use it - we just won't be advertising it on the initial donation. You can sign up for recurring giving at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Monthly_donations/en With this, we gleefully delete the “sorry, we don’t have a recurring donation option” template from our email response systems. Best wishes, Philippe _______________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://donate.wikimedia.org

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Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
by ResearchBiz 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

True to FT2's vision, this story has already been picked up by the major media! http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/original-copy-of-wikipedia-d… Original copy of Wikipedia discovered December 14, 2010 - by Gregory Kohs, for Examiner.com

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Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
by WJhonson＠aol.com 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

In a message dated 12/14/2010 5:14:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, tstarling(a)wikimedia.org writes: > I've long suspected that the early FAQs and history pages gave Larry > Sanger an exaggerated role because he wrote them himself. It will be > interesting to see if any such conclusion can be drawn from the > archives. Note that 979694938 was by dhcp058.246.lvcm.com, which > appears to be Larry. > > By the way, the numbers in the revisions, e.g. 979694938, are UNIX > timestamps. That one was 17 Jan 2001, 01:28:58 UTC. > > -- Tim Starling > http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/wikipedia-timeline/4hmquk6fx4gu/631#vi ew http://web.archive.org/web/20040104160935/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_… http://web.archive.org/web/20011218003057/www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia (includes "History of" as a section) http://web.archive.org/web/20011024225012/www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia earliest known attempt to write a History of Wikipedia, dated 24 Oct 2001

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Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
by WJhonson＠aol.com 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Is the current CC license retroactive to all of the old versions from the beginning to now? W

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Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
by Mike Dupont 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > HomePage > * WikiPedia > * PhilosophyAndLogic > * UnitedStates > * PopularMusic > * SportS > * MathematicsAndStatistics > * CountriesOfTheWorld > * AaA > * AfghanistaN > * UuU > * TechnologY > * ComputinG > * ComputerSoftware > * TransporT > * NamingConventions Nice, I have added this as a userpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mdupont/FirstPages All of them work except for. They have been deleted as meaningless with no relevant historical value. 20:12, 18 April 2006 RexNL (talk | contribs) deleted "AfghanistaN" ‎ (content was: '{{db|R3:Redirects as a result of an implausible typo}}#REDIRECT Afghanistan') 09:19, 24 May 2005 Thue (talk | contribs) deleted "TechnologY" ‎ (content was: '#REDIRECT Technology') 04:48, 8 March 2007 Raul654 (talk | contribs) deleted "NamingConventions" ‎ (content was: '#REDIRECT wikipedia:Naming conventions') The should all be restored under the catagory Muesum of WIkipedia! mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org

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