Hi I am very interested in working as a team on your committe ,I am from england,I
wondered if you could forward more detail like pay? And hours? Location?
Many thanks
Rebecca Davey
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1. Chapters Committee - Call for Candidates (Lodewijk)
2. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million
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3. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million (Bod Notbod)
4. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million
(Domas Mituzas)
5. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million
(Gerard Meijssen)
6. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million (Anthony)
7. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million (Bod Notbod)
8. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million (Jimmy Wales)
9. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million
(Philippe Beaudette)
10. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million (Judson Dunn)
11. Re: Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million
(David Gerard)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:06:20 +0100
From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] Chapters Committee - Call for Candidates
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This is a reminder. The deadline for applications is on February 22 (in
about 1 week). Please forward this call to people you might think to be
interested and might make a good candidate.
Kind regards,
Lodewijk
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Dear all,
As some of you will know, the Chapters Committee [1] is a Wikimedia
Foundation board-appointed committee that is mainly responsible for
the preparation of approval of new chapters. Currently, there are six
members in the committee, and we are asking for candidates to increase
the membership again.
The chapters committee mainly reviews applications for the forming of
a chapter on legibility and viability and reviews the bylaws of the
organization. This requires communication with chapter candidates all
over the world. Sometimes are applications straight forward and is the
job mainly about reviewing the bylaws and ensuring stability in the
long term that way, sometimes it involves more complex conversations
about whether there are for example enough people involved in the
candidate chapter. At the end of the process, the committee advices
the board of the WMF on the decision to approve the chapter or not.
The board makes the formal decision, but usually follows the advice.
Key skills/experience that we are looking for in new members, are typically:
* willing to work in a sometimes bureaucratic process (reviewing
bylaws is boring)
* 1-2 hour per week (on average) available
* internationally oriented
* Good communication skills in English
* Communication skills in other major world languages are a plus
* able to work and communicate with other cultures
* a strong understanding of the structure and work of both
chapters and the WMF
* experience with or in an active chapter
* an active position in a chapter is a plus
The number of applications is increasing and help is wanted! You can
send your applications with your name, contact data, experience and
motivation to the ChapCom email address, chaptercommittee-l AT lists
DOT wikimedia DOT org before February 22. The applications will be
considered by the current members (in cooperation with the WMF) and
the proposal for the new membership will be reviewed by the Board
before acceptence. I hope for many suitable applications. If you have
any questions, please don't hesitate to email me privately.
With kind regards,
Lodewijk Gelauff
Member, Chapters Committee
[1]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:20:46 -0500
From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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Congratulations to the foundation team for the work that went into this!
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:37 PM, James Alexander <jamesofur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems
quite surprising to me to
see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size
< always seem to have ifs/ands or buts attached.
It is rather amazing, and a lovely sign of support.
SJ,
hoping to see an endowment set up soon
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:38:08 +0000
From: Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com>
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Excellent news. I'm a big fan of Google (not saying they won't ever
turn evil!) and switching between Google and Wikimedia
products/projects accounts for 90% of my time online. It's great to
see them both in harmony with each other.
The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything?
I vote we remove everything from our Google articles regarding privacy
concerns for one day and put a banner on the articles saying:
"Wikimedia Thanks Google with This Slightly More Positive Article Than Usual!"
And then tomorrow we just revert our own edits.
Does anyone have a better idea?
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:44:26 +0200
From: Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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Hello,
The question is, how do we thank the company that has
everything?
We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us
want.
Domas
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:46:08 +0100
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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Hoi,
You ask for a better idea :)
Google just finished the Swahili Wikipedia challenge. Google very much wants
to grow traffic, any traffic in African indigenous languages. Spending money
directly on any language is imho a bad idea but I would welcome statistics
that show what people are looking for in Wikipedia that they cannot find.
When you add statistics on new articles that proved most popular in the last
month(s), we provide ANY Wikipedian a mechanism to learn what articles make
most sense to write and show what did best.
This will benefit all our project and the smaller projects will benefit most
I expect. <grin> it is not even expensive to implement I guess.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 17 February 2010 15:38, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent news. I'm a big fan of Google (not saying they won't ever
> turn evil!) and switching between Google and Wikimedia
> products/projects accounts for 90% of my time online. It's great to
> see them both in harmony with each other.
>
The question is, how do we thank the company that has
everything?
>
> I vote we remove everything from our Google articles regarding privacy
> concerns for one day and put a banner on the articles saying:
>
> "Wikimedia Thanks Google with This Slightly More Positive Article Than
> Usual!"
>
> And then tomorrow we just revert our own edits.
>
> Does anyone have a better idea?
>
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:51:11 -0500
From: Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The question is, how do we thank the company that has
everything?
>
The prior question is, where did the money come from? I can't seem to
figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is...
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:12:12 +0000
From: Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
The prior question is, where did the money come from?
?I can't seem to
figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is...
It does seem slightly opaque.
A small amount of digging suggests that Google gives money to here:
http://www.tides.org/index.php
...which then releases it again on Google's say so. Maybe. My only
evidence for this is really:
http://bit.ly/d5I3PD
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:19:43 -0500
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund
"Tides Foundation offers donor advised funds and other grantmaking
vehicles as well as professional philanthropic advice, institutional
regranting services, comprehensive grants management and much more."
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:26:08 -0600
From: Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
The prior question is, where did the money come
from? I can't seem
to
figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is...
It does seem slightly opaque.
A small amount of digging suggests that Google gives money to here:
http://www.tides.org/index.php
...which then releases it again on Google's say so. Maybe. My only
evidence for this is really:
http://bit.ly/d5I3PD
This response is drawn from my previous knowledge of the Tides
Foundation, and no particular knowledge of how Google is using them:
In my experience in the past, the Tides Foundation manages a
charitable fund for an entity. Essentially, the entity gives money to
this fund, and then says "Hey, these people are doing good work, let's
help them do more of it..."; Tides then goes through and handles the
legal due diligence and the paperworky stuff that no one really wants
to do. :-)
Philippe
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:28:57 -0600
From: Judson Dunn <cohesion(a)sleepyhead.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
The question is, how do we thank the company that has
everything?
>
We can thank them by providing better content to
everyone. That is both what they and us want.
>
And making the API more awesome, which helps everyone. :D
Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:18:02 +0000
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2
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On 17 February 2010 14:44, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
The question is, how do we thank the company that has
everything?
We can thank them by providing better content to
everyone. That is both what they and us want.
Indeed. Note, by the way, I believe we've previously received money
from Microsoft Bing. (Who heavily link and I think mirror Wikipedia
content in their results.)
- d.
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