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=Monday 2 January=
An all time record of 1361 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 18''', yielding the
equivalent of an amazing $38,443.05 USD. This is about $16,000 more than the Day 17 and an all
time record for any day in any drive the Wikimedia Foundation has ever had (the previous all time
record was yesterday)! Much of the increase is likely due to the fact that Jimmy Wales' [[Personal
Appeal]] was linked all day and due to press coverage about the appeal from Slashdot. The average
donation this day was $28.25.
Grand total at end of day: '''241,229.77'''
Breakdown of Day 18 PayPal donations:
AUD 1,063.02 (797.79 USD)
CAD 1,577.45 (1,298.10 USD)
EUR 6,102.54 (7,412.69 USD)
GBP 1,409.44 (2,527.55 USD)
JPY 33,103.00 (299.09 USD)
USD 26,107.83
Total 38,443.05 USD
==Special thanks to those who gave large donations==
Wesley Boyd and an anonymous donor both gave 1000 USD, the largest donation this day. There were
also many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (listed in no particular order);
Rodney A Olsen, James A Rogers, Wilma Leung, Scott Volk, Willem Van Ingen, Jorg Willekens, J W
BARON V HEEMSTRA, Wolfgang Slany, Francisco Javier Aranda Granda, Justin Petszaft, TJ Wilson,
Christopher Liao, Eric Yu, Arne Eide, Emmanuel Benazera, Paul Scott, christoph messmer, Michel
Machado, Christian Hultner, Erard Gilles, Pomin Wu, Michael Mage, John C Partin, william n melton,
John Bresee, Imre Simon, William Lachance, Chris Brookins, Doug Young, Simon Willison, Peter
Lacey, Wayne A Lown, James Gettys, Per Franck, Charles Haynes, Kevin Watt, Sebastian Kun, Carl
Shapiro, Dick Van kirk, Daniel Urman, Debra S Travis, Dave Menconi, Henry Laxen, Brady Jarvis,
Anthony Niesz, Oliver Steinmeier and 53 anonymous donors.
:<small>Note: While large donations are great, it should be noted that about 70% of all the money
donated to the Wikimedia Foundation comes from donations that are the equivalent of $50 or less
and the average donation is about $25.</small>
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:Full listing at: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2006-01-02/detail/
*"Christmas money for Wikimedia, please continue like that!!" by Christoph Helms
*"This is truly one of the most important projects currently in existence - long may it continue."
by Justin Petszaft
*"With hope that this donation will contribute in the struggle to make the knowledge of the world
freely available and neatly packaged." by Henrik Persson
*"You are redefining the social concept of an encyclopaedia, please go on!" by Imre Simon
*"Comme au poker... je mise pour voir ce que sera Wikipédia dans 10 ans, dans 50 ans." by
anonymous
*"Even MediaWiki alone is worth this let alone the Wikimedia Sites" by Aron Rubin
*"Wikipedia is important, and represents the great potential of a global network for social
advancement. Carry on!" by Michael Tyson
*"May the force be with Wikimedia. Greetings from India." by Chandan Haldar
*"When I need background info, Wikipedia is the first place I look." by Rob Manuel
*"Wikipedia is having a huge impact already, and brings me great hope for the future." by Jason
Woofenden
*"Este proyecto demuestra que nos podemos salir del modelo capitalista en la gestion de la
información" by Jose Manuel Perez Pita
*"The best site on the internet bar none. A bottomless source of information and knowledge.
Simply, wikid!" by anonymous
*"Wikipedia is the Internet at its best" by Rodney A Olsen
*"Per la conoscenza libera!" by Nicola Ruggero
*"Wikipedia, where else can you get information on ANY topic you come across?" by Berend van
Berkum
*"いつも参考にしてます。" by
anonymous
*"want to see more of Indian language content!!!" by Rajidhar Etta
*"My own finances aren't too good at the moment, but Wikipedia is one of the things that make life
worth living." by anonymous
*"I'd vote for a UK government forward thinking enough to give Wikipedia funding of £1m per year."
by David Boden
*"Wikipedia is het instrument voor spreiding van kennis" by anonymous
*"Since the wikipedia is becoming my first place to go to for info i thought i'd donate" by
Clayton Parker
*"All wiki's doing, is providing the access; you however will provide everything else." by
anonymous
*"Free textbooks, yes, please." by John Toby Knudsen
Some of my personal favorites:
*"Im doing this for my own daughter, who I hope will grow up in a world where culture is free" by
Khalid Alyahya
*"Wikimedia - The real Internet within the Internet." by Robert Harambura
*"As a teacher, Wikipedia represents the complete and fundamental change in the way I work with
students. Keep up the great work everyone. Pay a little, get a lot!!!" by Jay Kennard
*"Years from now historians will dedicate careers studying the impact of the Wikipedia. If we are
lucky enough to maintain it." by Charles Amrhein
*"Every time you criticize Wikipedia, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens!" by Peter
Hare
*"I really think this is the greatest, most ambitious site on the internet. Keep up the good
work!" by anonymous
*"Thank you for giving us the opportunity to contribute." by Richard G Brooks
*"Wikipedia has the potential for being an extraordinary resource, akin to the Encyclopedia
Galactica. But just as 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty', we all need to get personally
involved!" by anonymous
*"Wikipedia is such an important dream that we should all try to make it come true" by Traci
Loudin
*"Wikipedia got me through school!" by anonymous
*"Freedom isn't free. Support Wikimedia!" by Stephen W Wood
-- Daniel Mayer
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こんにちは。詳細な報告ありがとうございました。
どこかで聞いた覚えのあるバグだな、と思って調べてみたのですが、
このページの「4.54目次が欠ける」にあるものと同じではないでしょうか？
ソースに.AD.の文字列が入っている目次部分は、ノートンのソフトが広告
と誤認して非表示にしてしまうというもののようです。
http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:%E3%83%90%E3%82%B0%E3%8…
このやりとりは1年半ほど前のものですが問題の解明にあたって下さったGhazさんは日本語版
ウィキペディアで今も活動していらっしゃいます。もし詳しい話などを伺いたければ
教えてもらうこともできるかも知れません。
(English)
Hello. Thanks for your detailed description of the bug/trouble.
I felt that I've heard of that bug, and so did a little searching myself.
Would you please read the section 4.54 "TOC part missing." Isn't that the
same troube as you are experiencing? If so, your Norton Anti-Virus software
is misrecognizing a line on TOC with ".AD." in it as an advertisement,
and preventing it from being displayed.
The discussion of the bug happened a year and half ago, but Ghaz, who
brought the answer to the question is still around and active on Japanese
Wikipedia. If you need more information on this, perhaps you can ask him.
Cheers,
Tomos
So, it seems (if I interpret Jimbo's mail on wikitech and the discussion
here correctly) that most of us would like *some kind* of category
scheme in wikipedia. I do, too! But, we seem to differ on the details
(shocked silence!).
So far, I saw three concepts:
1. Simple categories like "Person", "Event", etc.; about a dozen total.
2. Categories and subcategories, like
"Science/Biology/Biochemistry/Proteomics", which can be "scaled down" to
#1 as well ("Humankind/Person" or something)
3. Complex object structures with machine-readable meta-knowledge
encoded into the articles, which would allow for quite complex
queries/summaries, like "biologists born after 1860".
Pros:
1. Easy to edit (the wiki way!)
2. Still easy to edit, but making wikipedia browseable by category,
fine-tune Recent Changes, etc.
3. Strong improvement in search functions, meta-knowledge available for
data-mining.
Cons:
1. Not much of a help...
2. We'd need to agree on a category scheme, and maintenance might get a
*little* complicated.
3. Quite complex to edit (e.g., "<category type='person'
occupation='biologist' birth_month='5' birth_day='24' birth_year='1874'
birth_place='London' death_month=.....>")
For a wikipedia I'd have to write myself, I'd choose #3, but with
respect to the wiki way, #2 seems more likely to achieve consensus (if
there is such a thing;-)
Magnus
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=Sunday 1 January=
A total of 719 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 17''', yielding the equivalent of
$22,694.77 USD. This is about $10,000 over Day 16 and an all time record for any day in any drive
the Wikimedia Founation has ever had! Much of the increase is likely due to Jimmy Wales' posting
of a [[Personal Appeal]]. The average donation this day was $31.56.
CafePress commissions from the start of the drive are $616.84. A total of $54.09 was donated
through MoneyBookers since yesturday, bringing that total to $1476.67. All these updates bring the
grand total above $200,000!
Grand total at end of day: '''$202,786.72'''
Breakdown of Day 17 PayPal donations:
AUD 312.64 (234.64 USD)
CAD 861.54 (708.97 USD)
EUR 2,972.57 (3,610.75 USD)
GBP 990.76 (1,776.73 USD)
JPY 9,947.00 (89.87 USD)
USD 16,273.81
Total 22,694.77 USD
==Special thanks to those who gave large donations==
Peter Hamilton gave the largest donation today, $1000. Three anonymous donors gave $500.00 each.
There were also many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (listed in no particular
order); Kyprianos Theocharides, Andries Krugers Dagneaux, Ajit Jaokar, Ethan Bradford, John Flynn,
Emily Pike, Juan Nuno, Dan Jones, Scot Colburn, Jaco Rheeder, Charlie Wiederhold, John Wilson III,
Todd Griffith, Dave McClure, Leonard Lin, Hansung Jung, Kenneth Kantor, Chris Cole, Maurice Weeks,
Michael Roberts, Alexander Jackl, Jessen Bredeson, Kan Chou, Chris Sun, Randall Seratte, and 33
anonymous donors.
:<small>Note: While large donations are great, it should be noted that about 70% of all the money
donated to the Wikimedia Foundation comes from donations that are the equivalent of $50 or less
and the average donation is about $25.</small>
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:Full listing at: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2006-01-01/detail/
*"First you take my time, now you take my money, and I STILL love Wikipedia. Feels almost like
being married ;) -- Chris 73" by anonymous
*"Wikipedia's power is in its' contributor's clear, accurate prose." by Christopher Cormie
*"Freedom of information! What a novel idea! ;-) Go Wiki - lets take the power back!" by Adriel
Neal-Ogilvie
*"Libertà di sapere, volontà di sapere" by anonymous
*"The Best Thing on the Intenet. Jimmy - I'll hold you to the African child comment." by Mwangi
Wamae
*"Knowledge lifts up all mankind and improves the world for all" by Timothy McMullen
*"Difficult to imagine how I did in the past without Wikipedia" by anonymous
*"This site is amazing...if I could give ten times as much, I would!" by Tricia Maas
*"my absolute favourite website of all times" by Vasily Myazin
*"Gegen die Kommerzialisierung von Information" by anonymous
*"there goes my salary :-)" by Daniel Wool
*"Wikipedia is clearly the Soul of Hylozoism" by Peter Hamilton
*"This site helps me out alot with school. Thanks guys!!!!" by anonymous
*"Wiki is the future. Information without boundaries, physical or otherwise." by Jason Spratt
*"I have learnt so much from wikipedia. Its time to give something back. Keep up the good work!"
by Ajit Jaokar
*"Wikipedia can save lives with its medical pages. It's helped me. Great reason to donate!" by
anonymous
*"Wikipedia: Behold the generosity of the human race!" by Anthony Chisholm
*"for the most useful website ever." by Götz Fabian
*"Wikipedia is amazing! It's so easy to use and you can use it to help you with school, business,
hobbies and just about anything. Viva la Wikipedia!" by Hannes Johnson
*"Wikipedia is the best thing to happen to the Internet since the web." by Thomas Horsten
*"Wikipedia is one of the best laid out resources online that I have spent countless hours
browsing. I look forward to joining your contributors, and I encourage others to do the same. Much
appreciation" by anonymous
*"Wikipedia is the first place I look when I want to know something. Thanks!" by anonymous
*"Libero Sapere, Libera società!" by anonymous
Some of my personal favorites:
*"Eventually, the skeptics will use it, and see what all the buzz is about. Informed opinion is
priceless." by Susan Richardson
*"Long live freedom of information! Long live Wikimedia!" by Joe Aston
*"Thank you for showing us that the Internet isn't all about banner ads or how many pages a search
engine can index, but about presenting accessible and relevant information in the languages that
we speak." by anonymous
*"Wikipedia is the most important development to human knowledge and understanding since the
printing press. Thank you to everyone that contributes and improves it." by Charlie Wiederhold
*"Words are weapons of peace" by Kjetil Teige Ulbaasen
*"Wikipedia is one of the best treasures of the information age." by Michael Skallas
*"You should pay ME for all the time I've wasted err spent on Wikipedia!" by anonymous
*"Wikipedia has grown to be a major collective cultural achievement.!" by anonymous
*"I really want to appear on the selected donor comments list!" by Jeffrey Chang
-- Daniel Mayer
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こんにちは。たまたま気がついたのですが、もしできる事があれば
お手伝いさせていただきます。（あまりお役に立てるかどうかわかりませんが、
日本語と英語はわかります。）日本語でもう少し詳しい報告などを
して頂けたら、英語に訳してこのリストに再投稿することもできる
かも知れません。ただ、技術的なことについての質問なら、Wikitech-l
at wikimedia.org へ投稿するのがよいかも知れません。また、
ソフトウェアのバグであることがはっきりしているなら、
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ に報告して対応を待つことになる
かも知れません。
MediaWiki FAQの日本語版ページを見たところでは、2.7、2.8とも
TOCにきちんと表示されているように見えました。
(rough trans. in English)
Hi. I came across your post. If there is something I could help
resolve the problem, please let me know. I'm not so sure if I could
be much of help, but at least I understand Japanese and English.
If you could explain the problem more in detail in Japanese, I
might be able to translate it and repost it to this list. But if
the question is technical in nature, you may want to ask on
Wikitech-l. And if it is clear that it is a bug in the software,
we might just file a report at bugzilla and wait the fix.
I took a look at the Japanese MediaWiki FAQ page, and
it seems that the TOC correctly lists sections 2.7 and 2.8
as of now.
Best,
Tomos
Magnus Manske wrote:
>I don't know if you've seen my test page, but just below the title,
>there's a line "This is the stable version. The current working version
>is [[here]]".
>
>
Perhaps choosing words that less drastically separate the two versions
will make it psychologically easier to bridge the gap that makes readers
into editors.
"This is the public version. An updated, editable draft is [[here]]."
I think this would still get across the point that one is more stable
and reliable, without creating an atmosphere that denigrates the ongoing
process.
--Michael Snow
No matter what I change "My preferences/math" to, I always get the same
thing, which is mostly PNGs. I've checked on the blahtex web pages that I
can use MathML in my Firefox but the preferences on wikipedia.org don't seem
to do anything. I haven't found anywhere an explanation of why the
preferences/math tab does nothing, not in the preferences tab, not in the
help for the preferences tab, not in the discussion pages.
Can anyone explain to me what's going on, and possibly update
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Rendering_math and even
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences?
Best,
Sébastien Loisel