Wikipedia-l August 2003

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donations
by Anthere 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Anthere- > just an opinion > I agree with Kat it may not be a very good idea to ask > for money in a press release. Erik answered We should not ask for it, but we should subtly make readers aware of the community fundraising process, so that those who already use Wikipedia occasionally and always wanted to give something back and who read the PR know that they now have the opportunity to do so. Regards, Erik ************ The occasionnal reader, seing the PR in the press will probably have the reaction to drop by. Then, he may see a donation link quite well, if placed appropriately on the main page. We can make it quite proeminent during promotion time. Anthere __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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online survey about Wikipedia
by Fernanda Viegas 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hello, I am a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and this summer I'm working on a project that is related to Wikis. A couple of weeks ago I sent out a message to this list telling you about the project and asking whether folks would be available to chat with me about Wikipedia. Since then we have put together an online survey to find out how Wikipedians use and contribute to the Wikipedia site and we would be delighted if you could take the survey and share your insights with us. The survey is anonymous and it should take only five minutes of your time. It is located here: http://smg.media.mit.edu/survey/wikipedia.html Thank you so much for your attention and feel free to email me if you have any questions about the survey. Fernanda Viegas http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/ sociable media group mit media laboratory

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Re: PayPal is set up
by Daniel Mayer 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Jimmy Wales wrote: >I will be adding donation -at- wikipediafoundation.org >as soon as I have access to that, probably later today >(thanks, mav!). You are welcome. But there is no such thing as the Wikipedia Foundation and thus that is not one of the domain names that I purchased for the foundation. But you should now have all the user names and passwords of the wikimediafounation.org/.com. Since there is some confusion and common misuse of Wikimedia vs Wikipedia, it may be a good idea for you to purchase wikipediafoundation.org/.com and forward those domain names to wikimediafoundation.org/.com. The less than 20 US$ a year it will cost to hold these two domain names would probably be easily recouped by donations from people who naively typed "wikipediafoundation.org" instead of "wikimediafoundation.org". However, at the same time we shouldn't go crazy with snagging up and accepting domain names; the cost to maintain these do add up. I would purchase them for the Foundation myself but as of Aug 31 the CA state contract I've been working under is defended due to a historic state budget crisis. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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Re: paypal
by Joachim Kerschbaumer 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Erik Zachte wrote on Sat Aug 23 00:01:50 UTC 2003: > Still I think Germany would be a better start for a non US bank account, > due to its size and number of wikipedians there. It would still be a > worthwile undertaking even if it could not service as an inlet for > donations from other EU countries. It is now free of charge to send money in Europe. I did it already(DE->FR). It works. You just have to ask for the rules and follow them. Joachim (aka Fantasy :-)

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Centralization of documentation on meta (was Re:
by Daniel Mayer 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

ZayPalis set up) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:44:02 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308241744.02256.maveric149(a)yahoo.com> Status: RO X-Status: Q X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: Jake wrote: >Spell checker, eh? I attributed it to some sort of >subconscious malice toward the other projects. >Hmmmmm... Perhaps. But then why am I putting so much time and positive energy into Wikibooks and in International coordination between Wikipedia versions? --mav

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Centralization of documentation on meta (was Re: ZayPal is set up)
by Daniel Mayer 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Replace the second paragraph of my last post with this: <blockquote> Of course this isn't much of a pressing issue for the non-English language versions of Wikipedia since Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikibooks are only in English so far. So it still makes sense to have their documentation on their own wikis but longer term all common Wikimedia and MediaWiki documention should be on meta. </blockquote> In other words replace "decimation" with "documentation" (damn spell checker! :) --mav

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Centralization of documentation on meta (was Re: PayPal is set up)
by Daniel Mayer 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Fantasy wrote: >Can we already put this Informations on >http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donations >or do you prefer to have wikimedia.org up first and only there the >instructions? There should be one place for all this and IMO it should be developed on meta (which in turn should be moved to the wikimedia.org domain). There is little reason to replicate the same English language meta text between Wikipedia, Wiktionay, Wikiquote and Wikibooks. As a matter of fact, I've found that there is a great deal of documentation especially about MediaWiki that could be centrally organized and maintained; meta is a good place to do this. Of course this isn't much of a pressing issue for the non-English language versions of Wikipedia since Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikibooks are only in English so far. So it still makes sense to have their decimation on their own wikis but longer term all common Wikimedia and MediaWiki documention should be on meta. Heck, it might also be neat to develop /all/ wikimediafounation.org pages on meta and then have those displayed as regular webpages to anybody who visits wikimediafoundation.org. Just some ideas. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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Re: Server
by sgilbert＠nbnet.nb.ca 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Merrit L. Perkins wrote: > I think of a server as having several large hard drives and the > related hardware so that it can act as a large database. The subject > is too complicated for a brief description. Oh, no no, Merrit, I'm afraid you've misunderstood. Think "server" as in "food server". We need money to hire a waiter to bring Jimbo his food and spoon-feed him. That way, he can work on Wikipedia 16 hours a day without taking a break to eat. If we have enough left over, we'll also buy him a catheter. Stephen Gilbert

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Server
by Merritt L. Perkins 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

I think of a server as having several large hard drives and the related hardware so that it can act as a large database. The subject is too complicated for a brief description. How servers work is described in "howstuffworks", "How Domain Servers Work". It seems that each server is a large database and that they all can communicate with one another and that several servers communicate with each other to reach the desired information. The same information may be stored on more than one server so that if one server fails the information will not be lost. Why do you want to get a server? Is your present server not working right, likely to fail, or not large enough? Do you want to replace it? Do you want to store a copy of the information on your present server on another server? Will you have backup power supplies on your servers? Merritt L. Perkins

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Re: paypal - free money transfer in EU
by Jitse Niesen 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

Delirium wrote: > Out of curiosity, does this apply across the entire EU, or only within > the euro-zone? For example, could you send money DE->UK (or vice versa) > for free? I did this recently. As Joachim said, it is free if you provide the SWIFT and IBAN code, but there is one catch: it is only free if the transfer is in euros (i.e., if the UK account is in euros). Otherwise, the English bank will charge you - in my case (Barclays), the charge is six pounds. However, if I understand it correctly, the German bank won't be able to charge you; before, both banks charged you. The rule is from 1 July 2003, so not all bank employees know about it. Hope this helps, Jitse Niesen

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