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
Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member.
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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
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
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
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
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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
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James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania
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