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[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool Office Hours - 6 January, 19:00 UTC, #wikimedia-office
by Oliver Keyes 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hey guys Just a note to advertise the Article Feedback Tool 5 development team's next office hours, which will be held in #wikimedia-office at 19:00 UTC this coming Friday. We'll be discussing quite a few important or otherwise interesting things, including: *Final selection of a feedback design; *An upcoming RfC on what classes of user can use what features; *And some initial peeks at what the feedback page itself will look like. Hope to see you all there! If you can't make it, drop me a note off-list and I'm happy to forward you the logs when it's over. I'll be staying in the chan until 23:00 UTC to deal with any questions from latecomers, so pop in if you have any questions and a free moment. Thanks -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 93, Issue 61
by Craig Franklin 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

> Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:52:03 +0100 > From: Jan Ku?era <kozuch82(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia's secret wikis > To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <CA+n47W+4F+KkwrvPvAXqFyfeo1LJpFm7OMOUaYzp4vcTmiUChQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I see following wikis hold secred information: > > http://internal.wikimedia.org > http://office.wikimedia.org > http://board.wikimedia.org > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can NOT freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. > Having access to some of these "secret" Wikis, let me assure you that the content of most of them is banal, dull, and there are no juicy chunks of conspiratorial information in there. But they also contain the sort of information that can't go into the public sphere, such as private contact details and other information. But then again, I suppose that's just what I *would* say, right? Cheers, Craig Franklin

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[Foundation-l] The Foundation's mission and fundraising pleas (was Blinky things)
by Keegan Peterzell 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Mark <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote: > > Of course, I'm not the best advocate in such situations, because I'm a > bit wary of the direction things are going myself, so tend to give a > sort of sheepish shrug in reply, and an explanation that a substantial > portion of the money (though perhaps no longer the majority) *does* go > to some of the core servers-and-software operations. I do worry things > are becoming a bit like a Big Nonprofit, though, even verging onto some > NGO ambitions, while not being 100% clear to the outside world that > that's the direction we're going--- the outside world still thinks we're > struggling to raise money to pay for bandwidth and colo space. I would > guess the same is true of many Wikipedians as well; I only recently > realized how much the Foundation has grown in the past 3 years, without, > as far as I can tell, it ever being an explicit decision to expand > scope... just sort of happened. Not entirely comfortable with it, but > eh, I guess that's how things go, and it *does* at least still keep the > lights on at *.wikipedia.org, which is what I care about. > > -Mark > > Now this is a point that I can agree with on the pleas for funding, and I'm pleased to see it raised. Coming from the community to work in the professional fundraising environment of last year's drive, I have no problems defending the banner usage and testing methods having learned what it takes for our Foundation to raise money through its largest base: the casual user with no clue of the Foundation's purpose. While donations go to support the tech and support of keeping projects alive, I can agree that we aren't really conveying the Foundation's goal of spreading the sum of all human knowledge, for free, around the world. A vast amount of expense is not spent on tech support to achieve this mission, so it would be nice to start turning the public eye toward this goal and not just keeping the English Wikipedia online. This is a PR process, though, and it takes chapters and volunteers as well as the Foundation to move this focus. Considering how young Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation are and how much we've achieved, I'm optimistic that shifting perception will take years but will work with chapter building, university programs, and global outreach. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan

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