Under the redesigned grants scheme, WMF Project grants might be able to
help with this kind of software development work for Commons and/or
Wikisource. I happen to know a developer here in Cascadia who might be
interested, either as an individual or in association with a Wikimedia
affiliate, in doing this kind of work on a grant or contract basis.
Pinging Kacie for comment about possible grant funding. (:
Pine
On Dec 3, 2015 00:55, "Andrea Zanni" <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> For me Commons and Wikisource could do with an abundant sprinkling of
> improved user interface.
>
Well, of course.
But, from where I see it, this is something to be address centrally:
Commons and Wikisource communities are fairly small and at least in
Wikisource we don't have any volunteer designers or UX people. The amount
of staff time dedicated from the WMF to Wikisource is zero, from the
beginning (I don't know about Commons). So, yes, you're right, but this is
not a problem that communities can solve by themselves.
Aubrey
(sorry for the OT)
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1) Yes everyone realizes that using a non free image in our fundraising
banners is not okay. It was a mistake. These things happen and we correct
them.
2) When is it okay to run smaller commercial ads rather than larger
fundraising banners? Never. I would much rather see the WMF become smaller
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
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> Come and join us for a brown bag this Friday December 4 at 12 PT to learn about unique identifiers and scholarly citations in Wikipedia, why they matter and how we can bridge the gap between the Wikimedia, research and librarian communities.
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> Wikipedia as the front matter to all research
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> Measuring citizen engagement with the scholarly literature through Wikipedia citations.
> Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef
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> Wikipedia (in toto) is probably the 5th largest referrer of citations to the scholarly literature. That is, more Wikipedia users click on and follow citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from any single scholarly publisher in the world. What does this tell us about general interest in the scholarly literature? What does this tell us about scholarly engagement with editing Wikipedia articles? The short answer is “we don’t know.” But we are actively working with Wikimedia to find out.
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> As sourcing and verifiability of online information are threatened <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citing-as-a-public-service-building-the-su…> by the explosion of answer engines and the changing habits of web users, Wikimedia has an outstanding opportunity to extract and store source data for any conceivable statement and make it transparently verifiable by its users. In this talk, I’ll present a grassroots effort <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to create a human-curated, comprehensive repository of all human citations in Wikidata.
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John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
>Some declared fundraising principles, which everyone agrees and
>adheres to, would be good.
We have:
"Resolution:Wikimedia fundraising principles"
* https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/55954
"Resolution:Developing Scenarios for future of fundraising"
* https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/98415
We also have:
"CentralNotice/Usage guidelines"
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/14516647
James Heilman wrote:
> 2) When is it okay to run smaller commercial ads rather than larger
>fundraising banners? Never. I would much rather see the WMF become
>smaller than to see ads run.
We already have advertising on Wikipedia. What if Harvard University, the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation
were willing pay the Wikimedia Foundation a few million dollars for a
short and unobtrusive ad campaign? It doesn't have to be Monsanto or
Coca-Cola buying ad space, it could be a like-minded organization that has
extra money and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's mission.
I agree with John that gift-matching is an activity that we should
re-explore. It's not unprecedented, as he notes. If a company like Virgin
were willing to triple or quadruple each donation received in exchange for
a small logo in a fund-raising ad, doesn't that merit consideration?
I also agree with John that greater efficiency, including smarter use of
volunteers, would go far toward a more sustainable fund-raising model.
MZMcBride
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The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
December 3, 2015, at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
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