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The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 32 – 08 August 2011
by jarry＠toolserver.org 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

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The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 32 – 08 August 2011
by jarry＠toolserver.org 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - July 2011
by Milos Rancic 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

This one short. The next one will be much longer :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robin Pepermans <robinp.1273(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 23:11 Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - July 2011 To: the Wikimedia Incubator <incubator(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org See the wiki version here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-07 This is the language committee report for July 2011, written in Haifa, Israel (Wikimania 2011) thanks to the scholarship provided to me by the Catalan Associació Amical Viquipèdia. === Committee === Some talk about membership of the LangCom and closing projects. === Approvals === The Mingrelian Wikipedia (xmf.wikipedia.org) has been created. === Eligibility === Discussion about the request for a Wikipedia in Tunisian Arabic. === Related === Thanks to Ryan Kaldari (<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-July/054328.html>), the Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the Unicode Consortium. _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] Oral Citations mentioned in the New York Times
by Béria Lima 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

cross-posting _____ *Béria Lima* <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.* On 8 August 2011 17:00, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am a subscriber to NYT online for almost ten years (its free so far at > least but about to change). I was most pleasantly surprised to find this : > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/business/media/a-push-to-redefine-knowled… > > Great exposure & great publicity. > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WikiConference-India mailing list > WikiConference-India(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india > >

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Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 89, Issue 13
by Robin McCain 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

On 8/8/2011 12:41 AM, foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > The problem with Incubator: An interactive > journey Written by geeks for geeks... If you are truly serious about enabling new languages & dialects, it is almost mandatory to include a link at the very top level of Wiki/Pedia/ like the "other languages" line on the_main wikipedia home page_ that will take you directly to the incubator instructions, etc. Otherwise it will languish until a true geek walks the twisted path.

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[Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters
by phoebe ayers 07 Aug '11

07 Aug '11

All, At the recent Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting at Wikimania, the Board approved sending the following letter regarding concerns with our shared fundraising practice, and outlining principles for future fundraising practices. This will also be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_accountability for discussion. Note: for those currently at Wikimania, please feel free to ask us questions in person as well as on the list or on meta. best, Phoebe Ayers (2011-12 Board Secretary) ------------------------------------------------------- The Board of Trustees has recently reviewed our fundraising model and issues related to the way donor funds are received. This review followed detailed discussions among the Board's Audit Committee and with our outside auditors, which highlighted issues about the level of financial controls over donor funds that go directly to the chapters who act as payment processors. This review focused on the model established last year, under which donors in certain countries are exclusively directed to the local chapter during the annual fundraiser. In our 2010-2011 year, about $4M net went directly to 12 chapters, representing roughly 15% of the total funds donated to the movement. There are several problems with this model, and with the current fundraising situation. Some chapters have received large sums of money early in their organizational lives, before they have built the capacity and financial controls to safeguard and best use those resources in pursuit of the mission. Some chapters have received many times their planned budget in a single fundraiser. Additionally, in some countries, transferring funds internationally has been limited by regulatory constraints. There are also currently no movement-wide controls applied consistently to all entities that receive donor funds. Some chapters, despite being well-funded, have not reported in a timely way on their activities, their financial status, and their use of donor funds, or have had difficulties following the regulatory requirements of their countries. This fundraising model has also contributed to significant resource disparity among chapters. Some of the largest fundraising chapters have revenue far greater than their stated need and capacity to spend, while other chapters receive revenue only from Foundation grants or have almost no revenue at all. The model also suggests that chapters are entitled to funds proportional to the wealth of their regions, which amplifies the gap between the Global North and South. We need to improve our model to address these concerns and to improve the distribution of donor funds across the Wikimedia movement. * ==Design principles==* Our design principles for improving the fundraising model are: * We are deeply committed to decentralized pursuit of our mission and to supporting the long-term sustainability of chapters and other movement partners. * Because of its role as operator of the websites, the Foundation has to be satisfied that any organization directly receiving donor funds will treat them with an appropriately high level of care and transparency. * An organization can directly receive donor funds as a payment processor if the following criteria are met: ** There is sufficient money raised in the geography to merit the logistical effort. ** The organization offers tax deductibility or other incentives to local donors. ** Regulatory issues about any international funds flows are fully resolved. ** The organization's current financial resources are not enough to fund proposed program work. ** The Foundation can confidently assure donors to the chapter that their donations will be safeguarded, that our movement's transparency principles will be met, and that spending will be in line with our mission and with the messages used to attract donors. * The donation process should clearly disclose basic facts about the organization receiving the donation. * The Foundation is committed to a grants program to continue to provide funds to those who can most effectively pursue our mission. *==Next steps==* These concerns need to be substantially addressed prior to the start of the 2011 fundraiser. In particular, we expect all parties to live up to current fundraising agreements including full compliance with all reporting deadlines. We appreciate that some chapters have already started working on their budgets assuming that they would participate as payment processors in the 2011 fundraiser, but may not be able to meet the new criteria outlined above. The Foundation will work with these chapters to follow through on the principles of the current Fundraising Agreement to provide the necessary funds to continue their programmatic work and to meet their operational needs. The Foundation will significantly expand its grants program, and should work closely with the Audit Committee to continue improving the controls and disclosures around grants.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters
by Craig Franklin 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Just to follow on from what John Vandenberg said, WMAU's fundraising report, including all the facts and figures, was posted way way back at the beginning of February. While there were some minor differences of opinion between WMF and WMAU about some of the recommendations made, there was no concerns raised on the WMF side about the actual numbers, which were the important part. You can read the report here: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/w/images/6/66/Fundraising_Report.pdf I'll also echo what's been said earlier that Wikimedia Australia is extremely dismayed and disappointed by this latest development. While we agree that transparency and accountability are very important, so is providing a stable financial and regulatory environment for chapters and other groups to operate in, so that time and effort can go into programme work rather than arguing about issues such as this. Cheers, Craig Franklin Treasurer - Wikimedia Australia

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[Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27
by Rob Lanphier 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi everyone, As many of you know, the results of the poll to keep Pending Changes on through a short development cycle were approved for interim usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Straw_poll_on_interi… Ongoing use of Pending Changes is contingent upon consensus after the deployment of an interim release of Pending Changes in November 2010, which is currently under development. The roadmap for this deployment is described here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pending_Changes_enwiki_trial/Roadmap An update on the date: we'd previously scheduled this for November 9. However, because that week is the same week as the start of the fundraiser (and accompanying futzing with the site) we'd like to move the date one week later, to November 16. Aaron Schulz is advising us as the author of the vast majority of the code, having mostly implemented the "reject" button. Chad Horohoe and Priyanka Dhanda are working on some of the short term development items, and Brandon Harris is advising us on how we can make this feature mesh with our long term usability strategy. We're currently tracking the list of items we intend to complete in Bugzilla. You can see the latest list here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=25293 Many of the items in the list are things we're looking for feedback on: Bug 25295 - "Improve reviewer experience when multiple simultaneous users review Pending Changes" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25295 Bug 25296 - "History style cleanup - investigate possible fixes and detail the fixes" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25296 Bug 25298 - "Figure out what (if any) new Pending Changes links there should be in the side bar" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25298 Bug 25299 - "Make pending revision status clearer when viewing page" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25299 Bug 25300 - "Better names for special pages in Pending Changes configuration" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25300 Bug 25301 - "Firm up the list of minor UI improvements for the November 2010 Pending Changes release" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25301 Please provide your input in Bugzilla if you're comfortable with that; otherwise, please remark on the feedback page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback Thanks! Rob

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[Foundation-l] SEOs :((((
by Florence Devouard 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Someone just pointed me this link : http://webmasterformat.com/blog/destroy-wikipedia-serp-ranking Florence

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[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 31 – 01 August 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

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