Hey all,
(reposting due to filter rejection)
Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute of your time to answer the following question:
--- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers and donors knew? ---
We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas
Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance
The knowledge of the world available to everybody - and you can be part of it.
You can donate, read, write, share, promote - all contribution is welcome.
Am 27.11.2019 um 23:07 schrieb Joseph Seddon:
Hey all,
(reposting due to filter rejection)
Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute of your time to answer the following question:
--- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers and donors knew? ---
We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas
Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance
Bonjour et merci du message
J'aimerais vivement que les pays du sud ont plus de moyens financiers pour réaliser des projets concrètement.
Le financement des concours baisse, mais la couverture des objectifs de ces concours reste quasiment incomplet en Afrique.
Exemple Wiki Loves Monuments, en Guinée 99% des sites sont ni illustré sur Wikipédia en articles, ni en image sur commons mais qu'on supprime le financement pour les longues voyages diminuer nos forces d'améliorer qualitativement les articles Wikipédia vue qu'on a moins de bénévoles encore.
Vivement une relativisation des ressources en fonction de l'avancée des projets et plus de douceur dans l'obtention des subventions.
Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 22:08, Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org a écrit :
Hey all,
(reposting due to filter rejection)
Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute of your time to answer the following question:
--- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers and donors knew? ---
We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas
Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance
-- Seddon
*Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
On the great things: - There are so many forms of volunteer contribution, you don't need to be an expert to be able to contribute to English Wikipedia (how can I contribute, everything is there already). You can fight vandalism, you can take pictures, you can write code, you can help other languages. - In less developed countries, in depth-reading of Wikipedia is more prevalent, the likely explanation is that in lack of resources we take for granted in Europe/US, people turn to Wikipedia to learn and develop
This is not great fact but it's sorta funny how extensively we cover everything. Last week I learned Wikipedia even has list of people who died on the toilet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_on_the_toilet
HTH
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:25 PM Aboubacar Keïta aboubacarkt14@gmail.com wrote:
Bonjour et merci du message
J'aimerais vivement que les pays du sud ont plus de moyens financiers pour réaliser des projets concrètement.
Le financement des concours baisse, mais la couverture des objectifs de ces concours reste quasiment incomplet en Afrique.
Exemple Wiki Loves Monuments, en Guinée 99% des sites sont ni illustré sur Wikipédia en articles, ni en image sur commons mais qu'on supprime le financement pour les longues voyages diminuer nos forces d'améliorer qualitativement les articles Wikipédia vue qu'on a moins de bénévoles encore.
Vivement une relativisation des ressources en fonction de l'avancée des projets et plus de douceur dans l'obtention des subventions.
Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 22:08, Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org a écrit :
Hey all,
(reposting due to filter rejection)
Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute
of
your time to answer the following question:
--- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers and donors knew? ---
We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas
Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance
-- Seddon
*Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Sorry two more things: - We don't collect user's data like a monster, we never sell them to anyone, we even avoid outsourcing our infra (like CDNs) to protect our users' privacy. Something that is none of top websites do. None. - Related to the reason above, CO2 emission of our datacenters is very small and non-existent comparing to website with similar traffic.
Best
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:34 PM Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
On the great things:
- There are so many forms of volunteer contribution, you don't need to be
an expert to be able to contribute to English Wikipedia (how can I contribute, everything is there already). You can fight vandalism, you can take pictures, you can write code, you can help other languages.
- In less developed countries, in depth-reading of Wikipedia is more
prevalent, the likely explanation is that in lack of resources we take for granted in Europe/US, people turn to Wikipedia to learn and develop
This is not great fact but it's sorta funny how extensively we cover everything. Last week I learned Wikipedia even has list of people who died on the toilet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_on_the_toilet
HTH
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:25 PM Aboubacar Keïta aboubacarkt14@gmail.com wrote:
Bonjour et merci du message
J'aimerais vivement que les pays du sud ont plus de moyens financiers pour réaliser des projets concrètement.
Le financement des concours baisse, mais la couverture des objectifs de ces concours reste quasiment incomplet en Afrique.
Exemple Wiki Loves Monuments, en Guinée 99% des sites sont ni illustré sur Wikipédia en articles, ni en image sur commons mais qu'on supprime le financement pour les longues voyages diminuer nos forces d'améliorer qualitativement les articles Wikipédia vue qu'on a moins de bénévoles encore.
Vivement une relativisation des ressources en fonction de l'avancée des projets et plus de douceur dans l'obtention des subventions.
Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 22:08, Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org a écrit :
Hey all,
(reposting due to filter rejection)
Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team
to
explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a
minute of
your time to answer the following question:
--- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers and donors knew? ---
We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas
Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance
-- Seddon
*Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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-- Amir (he/him)
As is my custom, I have answered the call for fundraising message; this time with 14 alternatives to the $3 cup of coffee:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising%2F2019-20_Fundraising_ideas#Stor...
I am confident this approach will leave all future fundraisers in the dust. I hope there is time to try my other suggestions too.
Best regards, Jim
On Wednesday, November 27, 2019, Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
(reposting due to filter rejection)
Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute of your time to answer the following question:
--- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers and donors knew? ---
We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas
Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance
-- Seddon
*Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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