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Cary Bass | 20 Jul 2010 20:47
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Re: Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner


Sorry, [TODAY] was a relic of the email I copied this from :/

On 07/20/2010 11:31 AM, Cary Bass wrote:
> (Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email
> announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday.  The date has
> been moved up to Thursday.  The time remains the same.)
>
> On Thursday, July 22, the Wikimedia Office Hour will be hosted
> by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.  The
> Office Hour is from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PDT).
>
> If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
> using a web browser:  First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at
> <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>.  Type a
> nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
> #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
>
> Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
> typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
> the channel.   You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
> which you can click to accept.
>
> Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
> relevant email lists you happen to be on.
>

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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
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bawolff | 23 Jul 2010 23:36
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Re: Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

I for one was very happy to see this email. Many people on Wikinews,
including myself, felt quite left out last year during the fundraiser.
It is very re-assuring to see that an effort is being made to involve
the community, and especially the sister projects, in this years
fundraiser.

thanks,
Bawolff
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Brian McNeil | 24 Jul 2010 11:15
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Re: Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:27 -0500, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

> [[Please distribute widely to various language communities, projects,
> and chapters]]

> I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which
> isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to
> get community involvement early and often.

<snip>

> But the most important part of what we - all of us - are going to need
> to do is what this community has always been good at: thinking,
> researching, and iterating.

I, likely, would not have the spare time to put my name down there;
however, I'll see what I can do to help.

There is just one very, very important point to learn from the prior two
overly-Wikipedia-centric fundraisers...

By plastering "Wikipedia Forever" all over sister projects, the WMF
deeply offends hard-working contributors.

This was done two years running. In both instances I complained. In the
fall-out surrounding criticising the WMF about this last year, I gave up
my position on the Communications Committee. Is there anyone left in
that <s>shadowy Cabal</s> who really represents sister projects? Will
they speak up about that this time round?
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Milos Rancic | 31 Jul 2010 14:59
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[Language committee] Call for applications and advices

For those who don't want to read the whole email, we need:

* A person who is well introduced in Wikinews.
* A person who is well introduced in Wikiversity.
* A person who knows to program in Python and willing to spend 2
hours/week in archiving our mailing list on Meta [1].
* Your advices in defining what "substantial activity" (at Incubator,
Multilingual Wikisource or Beta Wikiversity) means for the approval of
new projects, especially in the cases of new Wikinews and Wikiversity
editions.

Please, send your applications and comments to me at
millosh <at> gmail.com. If you are applying for Wikinews or Wikiversity
"position", please write your thoughts on what "substantial activity"
means for the project type for which "position" you are applying.

It is not hard to define implicitly or explicitly "substantial
activity" for new editions of Wikipedia and for new editions of other
projects which have dynamics similar to Wikipedia (Wiktionary,
Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource). You can write an
article, word definition, quote, book chapter or you can add a source
once and you don't need to see that project for months. In the case of
Wikinews, daily activity matters. In the case of Wikiversity, you need
real people around.

Thus, we need both: your input on question what "substantial activity"
for new Wikinews and Wikiversity editions means; as well as two
persons who would be willing to take care about new requests for
Wikinews and Wikiversity editions. If you have some important note
related to the same question, but about other projects (which have
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