Hi,
I just subscribed to draw the community's attention to:
http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/
Apologies is if this is old news, but I hope people appreciate that the
vast size of the project means that it's very difficult to find out who
is aware, and to what extent, of any particular issue.
Best,
User:Bodnotbod from en.wikipedia.org
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dariusz Siedlecki
Date: Dec 14, 2005 5:31 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Steward elections 2006
To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org
Just wanted to announce we'll be starting the 2006 Stewards elections
in a few days.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006
Please forward this message to wikipedia-l, and every other list which
might be interested in this announcement.
--
Pozdrawiam,
Dariusz "Datrio" Siedlecki
Hello everyone -
The fourth quarter fund drive for the Wikimedia Foundation will start on 00:00 UTC Friday 16
December and last until 00:00 UTC Friday 6 January. There is no specific goal for this drive but
we would like to at least cover all next quarter's spending along with the rest of this quarter.
That will require well over $500,000. A draft budget is on meta and will be open for public
comment soon (announcement will be on foundation-l and metas Goings On page).
Wikimedia needs your help to make sure this drive is a success. Some other charities spend up to
80% of donations on fundraising costs. With your continued help our only fundraising costs are
PayPal and bank fees. This means that over 95% of donations made to us go toward running the
foundation and its projects.
Here is what needs to be done:
1) make sure your language's translation of the fund drive documents are completed. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations
2) get somebody who can edit the foundation wiki to place a copy of your translation there
3) Put your translated fund drive notice on your wiki's [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] page soon after
the drive starts.
Everything else will be taken care of by myself and the Wikimedia team.
Sincerely,
Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
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Hello everyone -
The fourth quarter fund drive for the Wikimedia Foundation will start on 00:00 UTC Friday 16
December and last until 00:00 UTC Friday 6 January. There is no specific goal for this drive but
we would like to at least cover all next quarter's spending along with the rest of this quarter.
That will require well over $500,000. A draft budget is on meta and will be open for public
comment soon (announcement will be on foundation-l and metas Goings On page).
Wikimedia needs your help to make sure this drive is a success. Some other charities spend up to
80% of donations on fundraising costs. With your continued help our only fundraising costs are
PayPal and bank fees. This means that over 95% of donations made to us go toward running the
foundation and its projects.
Here is what needs to be done:
1) make sure your language's translation of the fund drive documents are completed. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations
2) get somebody who can edit the foundation wiki to place a copy of your translation there
3) Put your translated fund drive notice on your wiki's [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] page soon after
the drive starts.
Everything else will be taken care of by myself and the Wikimedia team.
Sincerely,
Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
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To whom it may concern ... Till (read from bottom to top)
## Nachricht vom 13.12.05 weitergeleitet
## Ursprung : till(a)tillwe.de
## Ersteller: lawsuit(a)wikipediaclassaction.org
Criticism
Till Westermayer wrote:
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . till we *) . . .
>
> Hi WikipediaClassAction.org,
>
> could you elaborate a bit more? In which way is your use of the logo
> (and the design and the name Wikipedia in the webside address) fair use?
>
> Regards,
>
> Till
>
>
>
>>Hello,
>
>
>>Two words: Fair use.
>
>
>>Regards,
>
>
>
>
>>Till Westermayer wrote:
>>
>>>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . till we *)
>>>. . .
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I noticed you are using a clone of the Wikipedia logo on your
>>>class action website. Are you sure you are legally using this?
>>>(I don't speak on behalf of Wikipedia, I'm only curious because
>>>if you want to take legal action against Wikipedia, a copyright
>>>problem with your use of the Wikipedia logo would be something
>>>funny).
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Till Westermayer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> __ .
>>> / / / / ... Till Westermayer - till
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> . Hirschstraße 5. 79100 Freiburg . 0761 55697152 . 0160 96619179
> . . . . .
>
>
>
Hi,
I need to switch the logo on the Wiktionary, but I'm not sure on
how to do that. There's a file called Wiki.png, and it's protected. But
what do I do after that?
Thanks,
James
The next Wikimedia fund drive will start on Friday 9 December and will end on Saturday 31
December. There is no specific goal, but we would like to at least cover the budget for the rest
of this year and the first quarter of next year. That means we need at least $500,000.
I therefore encourage all language communities to help make this drive a success by translating
the fund drive documents and placing fund drive notices on their wikis when the drive begins.
The translation coordination page is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations
The General coordinate page is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning
Thank you for any help you can offer. :)
Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
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Hi wikipedians,
perhaps the German speaking wikipedians are interested in the release of
the book "Wikipedia" by Directmedia and the latest Wikipedia DVD with
~300.000 articles (in German only!) and ~100.000 images from de and commons.
You can find information here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiPress
And you can download the stuff here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiPress/Download
Bye, Tim.
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