Hello all,
I was too tired yesterday to keep my eyes open and my hands typing, to announce the end of our fundraising :-) Sorry about that (lack of sleep from Rotterdam, baby sick etc...)
So, in a very official fashion, let me announce that the fundrive is over.
The last day of our Fundraising was planned to be on Wikipedia Day (1). Which was yesterday. Wikipedia is now starting its 7 year of existence.
Wikipedia Day also was a special milestone, since 1 million dollars donation was exactly reached on that specific day. I promise we did not tweak the system to make that happen.
The current site notice with the various links can now be removed. We suggest a new site notice with a big thank you note to all of our donators as well as a link to an updated FAQ. I just saw some updated graphics from Jeremy (number of donations per day, total donations per day per currency...), which I expect will be very interesting to you. The FundCom is working on that.
What else ?
Maybe just a few words from the Rotterdam meeting. We worked a lot there, but had cool moments as well (including a wikimeet). Not everyone is back home yet. So, announcements et al will wait a little bit more. I just wanted to mention that we discussed the fundraising and more generally finances on friday morning. To optimize our time, we somehow divided areas of interest between board members and the members with a focus on the fundraising area are Jimmy, Kat and Erik (for the technical side in particular). These three are in charge of reporting on the last fundraising, and to suggest any changes necessary. It is up to them to organise themselves, but I expect this discussion to be largely public, either here, or on meta, or perhaps during an irc meeting.
There were huge improvements with last times (in particular the technical part), but also serious gaps in communication. We must consider all ways we can improve that in the next time. We also need to improve our strategy, so that we can raise more and more quickly the next time.
Note that the "next fundraising date" has not been decided yet.
Meanwhile, fundraising over and thank you all for your help.
Florence/Anthere
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:22:05 +0100 Von: Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com
Hello all,
I was too tired yesterday to keep my eyes open and my hands typing, to announce the end of our fundraising 1 Million Dollar for wikipedia :-)
Hi Anthere,
thanks a lot for the announcement. As I see, the board meeting in amsterdam was useful as well. Between the lines I read, that a lot of discussion for financial questions and fundraising has been done.
Ok, Wikipedia ia a big dursty fish now. But I want to suggest, that as well it is discussed, how to get a higher quality standard and an continuous improvement of the status quo.
As already known, I think that not only in wikipedia edited knowledge is important, but as ell to make the whole editing in the web available for the wikipedia, which is the search for articles outside wikipedia.
So... the open source search-project from Jim is already launched, but again it do not want to get tired, to ask, if wikimedia and wikipedia are as well in the boat to finance a support for this open source search project to be an alternatove to gogle and yahoo.
As on the other list discussed, the p2p search engine www.yacy.net is one option for this. Wikia has not decided for it yet, but it is clear to see, that a lot of users from this discussion group are already running a p2p web indexing node as you can see in the http://www.yacystats.de/ .
So.. three servers from wikia really do not matter, we have already 50 server-nodes added from the list by private activity to the network.
One big serverfarm is www.yacysearch.com , a big demopeer, which I am not related to, but it would be a good model, which wikia and wikipedia could follow.
Ok, back to the money. My vision is to have in each wikipedia language a search box for the articles outside the wikipedia, which is the web.
Now you can do this without running own servers.
here is the code, to add a search box to any homepage for this demopeer yacysearch.com
It would be a good project, to play around with this html code, I think yacysearch.com can handle the traffic - and it would be nice, to see wikimedia as well running a small farm of yacy servers to handle queries with a big local database.
So please, add some money to the servers and install some search-outside-nodes to the p2p network or play around with the following homepagecode
thanks a lot !
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<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td> <form target="_top" class="search" action="http://yacysearch.com/yacysearch.html" method="get" name="searchform"> <fieldset class="maininput"> <table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="70"> <p> <img src="http://yacysearch.com/env/grafics/yacy.png" width="70" height="44" alt="YaCy" /> </p> </td> <td width="230"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="0" /> <input name="search" id="search" type="text" size="24" maxlength="80" value="" /> <input type="submit" name="Enter" value="Search" /> <br /> <input type="radio" name="urlmaskfilter" value=".*" checked="checked" />This Site <input type="radio" name="urlmaskfilter" value=".*" />The Internet
<input type="hidden" name="former" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="contentdom" value="text" /> <input type="hidden" name="count" value="50" /> <input type="hidden" name="resource" value="global" /> <input type="hidden" name="time" value="3" /> <input type="hidden" name="prefermaskfilter" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="indexof" value="off" /> </td></tr></table> </fieldset> </form> </td></tr></table>
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