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Daniel Mayer | 1 Mar 2005 04:41
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Q1 2005 Fund Drive over

We met and then well-exceded the goal to raise $75,000 (USD) in this quarter's
fund drive. See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 for
details (still waiting for final numbers in every source category so final
grand total will be higher). 

I consider 11:59 PM Monday 28 February 2005 (eastern US timezone since PayPal
data are not available in UTC) as the official end of our fund drive for
accounting purposes. As of right now though, all fund drive notes should be
replaced by congratulatory messages that can be left until midnight on Thursday
(UTC). After that, [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] should be blanked until the next
fund drive. 

For reference, here is the message displayed on the English Wikipedia:

<!-- this notice should stay until 12AM Thursday 11 March -->
<div class="fundraising" id="fundraising" style="margin-top:5px;">
You did it! Thanks to your generosity we exceeded our fund drive goal by 15%.
([[wikimedia:Fund drives/2005/Q1|details]])<br>
<small>
Show your pride in Wikipedia by purchasing merchandise through
[http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia our Cafe Press shop].
</small> </div>

My regular home computer will not boot for some unknown reason, so I will not
be able to run the Day 10 (Sunday) report at this time. Day 11 (Monday) will be
the final report for this fund drive. 

Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
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Anthere | 1 Mar 2005 05:33
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Re: Q1 2005 Fund Drive over

Hiya

I am properly amazed by the speed we reached our goal....10 days while 
we had planned 3 weeks ! It is really impressing. The good point is also 
that we can remove the fundraising banner so quickly ...

Mav, thanks *a lot* for your efficiency on the whole issue :-)

Ant

Daniel Mayer a écrit:
> We met and then well-exceded the goal to raise $75,000 (USD) in this quarter's
> fund drive. See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 for
> details (still waiting for final numbers in every source category so final
> grand total will be higher). 
> 
> I consider 11:59 PM Monday 28 February 2005 (eastern US timezone since PayPal
> data are not available in UTC) as the official end of our fund drive for
> accounting purposes. As of right now though, all fund drive notes should be
> replaced by congratulatory messages that can be left until midnight on Thursday
> (UTC). After that, [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] should be blanked until the next
> fund drive. 
> 
> For reference, here is the message displayed on the English Wikipedia:
> 
> <!-- this notice should stay until 12AM Thursday 11 March -->
> <div class="fundraising" id="fundraising" style="margin-top:5px;">
> You did it! Thanks to your generosity we exceeded our fund drive goal by 15%.
> ([[wikimedia:Fund drives/2005/Q1|details]])<br>
> <small>
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Petr Kadlec | 1 Mar 2005 09:34
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Re: Q1 2005 Fund Drive over

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:41:14 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149@...> wrote:
> We met and then well-exceded the goal to raise $75,000 (USD) in this quarter's
> fund drive. See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 for
> details (still waiting for final numbers in every source category so final
> grand total will be higher).

Congratulations and thanks to all!

But I have a question: I always thought the fundraising pages on
wikimediafoundation.org use templates so that they are kept
synchronized all the time, without need for any per-page manual work.
But if I take a look at those pages, each language version contains a
different number in the status graph. I understand that it is a PITA
to have to update each language version separately, but shouldn't it
work automatically by a single update of a template page?

-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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Erik Moeller | 1 Mar 2005 10:35
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Re: Q1 2005 Fund Drive over

I would like to give a big thank you to Daniel for the excellent work 
he's done on this. The daily updates were very nice to read.

All best,

Erik
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Daniel Mayer | 1 Mar 2005 12:52
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Re: Q1 2005 Fund Drive over

--- Petr Kadlec <petr.kadlec@...> wrote:
> But I have a question: I always thought the fundraising pages on
> wikimediafoundation.org use templates so that they are kept
> synchronized all the time, without need for any per-page manual work.
> But if I take a look at those pages, each language version contains a
> different number in the status graph. I understand that it is a PITA
> to have to update each language version separately, but shouldn't it
> work automatically by a single update of a template page?

There are only two pages that got updated with each update; the detailed main
fund drive page and the progress bar graph (which is translated into many
different languages). I have noticed that cache is *badly* out of sync on the
foundation wiki - often edits I would make were not viewable by me until I
cleared my cache. That may be what you are seeing. 

-- mav

		
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Daniel Mayer | 1 Mar 2005 12:54
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--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller@...> wrote:
> I would like to give a big thank you to Daniel for the excellent work 
> he's done on this. The daily updates were very nice to read.

Thanks :). Waerth also helped with updates while I was sleeping or otherwise
away. This was a big help.  

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notafish | 1 Mar 2005 13:38
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Re: fr.wikinews logo

Same here. In doubt and until things are clarified, I added a Beta
sign on the French Main Page.

Cheers,

Delphine

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:30:37 +0900, Aphaia <aphaia@...> wrote:
> A question on "beta" stage of Wikinews came to me.
> 
> Though Wikinews is a prospective project, it is still one of most
> controversial project among us, and hasty action woudn't be good for
> its development in my humble opinion.
> 
> I've understood it is (or has been, I am not sure for that) on its
> beta stage because of the board decision, not depending on its
> activity. The most recent board was held in the last week and there
> was no discussion if Wikinews switched from its beta stage to the
> stage in its real activity. And this decision was made for the
> Wikinews entirely, not to its each local project.
> 
> Now it seems to be suggested the judge of the end of beta stage
> depends only the activites of each local project, not related to the
> board decision. It seems to me a bit strange and adventurous.  It is
> my wrong understanding or I miss some announce on Wikinews?
> 
> --
> Aphaea <at> *.wikipedia.org
> email: Aphaia  <at>  gmail (dot) com
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Aphaia | 1 Mar 2005 14:00
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Re: Q1 2005 Fund Drive over

a bit late, but please let me say

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:54:32 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149@...> wrote:
> --- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller@...> wrote:
> > I would like to give a big thank you to Daniel for the excellent work
> > he's done on this. The daily updates were very nice to read.
> 
> Thanks :). Waerth also helped with updates while I was sleeping or otherwise
> away. This was a big help.

You did it ;-)

Anyway besides the cache synch problem, I suppose many of you visit
the site during the funddrive and found many 'tweak and conceive
possible improvement ideas. Your feedback (here?) or meta:foundation
site feedback will be very appliciated.

--

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email: Aphaia  <at>  gmail (dot) com
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Petr Kadlec | 1 Mar 2005 17:11
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:52:34 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149@...> wrote:
> I have noticed that cache is *badly* out of sync on the
> foundation wiki - often edits I would make were not viewable by me until I
> cleared my cache. That may be what you are seeing.

Yes, that was it, a forced browser reload and everything seems fine
now, but I believe the problem is on the other end (some squid
problems?); when I was testing those problems, I tried to look at many
languages including Hebrew (I believe :-) ), and they was out of sync,
too. I don't really think I looked at that language version before.

But it seems to work fine now, thanks.
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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Delirium | 1 Mar 2005 18:55

Re: Q1 2005 Fund Drive over

Another thanks to mav for the very informative updates!

I do have one question---what's the relationship between the Wikimedia 
Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland?  Is that money to be considered 
part of our overall fundraising, i.e. money that can eventually be used 
for servers, etc., or is it specifically for activities within Germany?

(Not a leading question, I've just never seen the relationship really 
explained.  Someone pointed out that a future Wikimedia Canada would by 
Canadian law have to spend its donations within Canada, and I'm not sure 
if similar laws apply in Germany?)

-Mark
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