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jklein-DIx0nqDsXdgiIsO2gwdabWKVYkddwLNW@public.gmane.org | 1 Jan 2007 22:01

contact Jimmy Wales

How do I send him an email? I have a unique search engine methodology for
financial services and for managing change, complexity and risk that could
uniquely work with his ventures. Further, I literally wrote the book on
Electronic Trading, past, present and 'next chapter' in the global money
business. Because of Mr. Wales' background as an options and futures trader
and both of us knowing the Oxford Internet Institute, I  would like to see
how we can proceed further together before my other contacts tailor my mass
implementation.  Thank you.
www.EvolutionOfTrading.com
www.electronic-boardroom.com/trademarkuses.html  
The Evolution of Trading: How Technology and Governance are Changing
Finance in the 21st Century by June Klein, CEO Technology & Marketing
Ventures, Inc.

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Katie | 1 Jan 2007 22:06
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Re: contact Jimmy Wales

On Jan 1, 2007, at 16:01, jklein@... wrote:

> How do I send him an email?

jwales@...

Keitei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keitei
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Michael Bimmler | 1 Jan 2007 22:15
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Re: contact Jimmy Wales

On 1/1/07, Katie <katiefromuncyc@...> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2007, at 16:01, jklein@... wrote:
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> > How do I send him an email?
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> jwales@...
Jimbo is probably overflooded with spam anyway, but could you please
use a non-machine-readable notation anyway? something like jwales at
wikia dot com would be just fine...

Thanks
Michael

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> Keitei
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keitei
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>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikipedia-l mailing list
> Wikipedia-l@...
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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Fred Bauder | 1 Jan 2007 22:50

Re: contact Jimmy Wales


-----Original Message-----
From: jklein@... [mailto:jklein@...]
Sent: Monday, January 1, 2007 02:01 PM
To: wikipedia-l@...
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] contact Jimmy Wales

How do I send him an email? I have a unique search engine methodology for
financial services and for managing change, complexity and risk that could
uniquely work with his ventures. Further, I literally wrote the book on
Electronic Trading, past, present and 'next chapter' in the global money
business. Because of Mr. Wales' background as an options and futures trader
and both of us knowing the Oxford Internet Institute, I  would like to see
how we can proceed further together before my other contacts tailor my mass
implementation.  Thank you.
www.EvolutionOfTrading.com
www.electronic-boardroom.com/trademarkuses.html  
The Evolution of Trading: How Technology and Governance are Changing
Finance in the 21st Century by June Klein, CEO Technology & Marketing
Ventures, Inc.

Best for your purpose is to join this mailing list at Wikia

http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/search-l

Fred
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David Gerard | 2 Jan 2007 14:29
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Re: [Wmfcc-l] News flash: WMF is a charity!

[cc to wikien-l, wikipedia-l and foundation-l - this is why the text
on the bottom of each page on en:wp is suddenly a bit longer ... I
shoulda found the MediaWiki message in question a month ago!]

On 08/12/06, florencedevouard <anthere@...> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>>On 07/12/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf@...> wrote:

>>>I want to get your ideas on how we can take this message forward as part of
>>>our PR blitz for the fund drive.  As I think back to the Atlantic and New
>>>Yorker pieces, and even Mick Brown's piece, "the good ones" - "charity"
>>>wasn't really an emphasis.  We have been a "phenomenon" - but not a
>>>phenomenal charity.

> >The message at the bottom of every page of English Wikipedia says:
> >"Wikipedia(r) is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc."
> >How about:
> >"Wikipedia(r) is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation,
> >Inc., a US-registered 501(c)3 tax-deductible nonprofit charity."
> >Or something like that.

> You got it right David !
> With a link under us-registered 501 :
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations

This is actually a Mediawiki message, [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] - so
anyone with admin access on a given wiki can change it once we have a
translation.

I've just put the above text (with link) on en:wp since Florence
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Michael Billington | 2 Jan 2007 16:15
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Re: [Wmfcc-l] News flash: WMF is a charity!

Slight problem I encountered, adding that HTML/wikimarkup un-modified to the
[[MediaWiki:Copyright]] message makes a few broken links. (at least it did
on Wikiversity) To do the same thing on any wiki, you have to swap some of
the {{loaclurl}}s with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, so that the Wikipedia
articles will still link, rather than pointing to articles on your project
which don't exist. Cheers -- Michael Billington
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David Gerard | 2 Jan 2007 16:24
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Re: [Wmfcc-l] News flash: WMF is a charity!

On 02/01/07, Michael Billington <michael.billington@...> wrote:

> Slight problem I encountered, adding that HTML/wikimarkup un-modified to the
> [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] message makes a few broken links. (at least it did
> on Wikiversity) To do the same thing on any wiki, you have to swap some of
> the {{loaclurl}}s with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, so that the Wikipedia
> articles will still link, rather than pointing to articles on your project
> which don't exist. Cheers -- Michael Billington

Ah yes. Whoops! Please note!

(I must say, changing a message on every single page of the site that
generates over half our hits gave me a certain amount of ...
trepidation.)

If your wiki's language isn't English, of course, you probably want
the links to "non-profit" and "charity" to be to those articles in the
wiki's own language.

- d.
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David Gerard | 2 Jan 2007 16:37
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Re: [Wmfcc-l] News flash: WMF is a charity!

On 02/01/07, David Gerard <dgerard@...> wrote:

> (I must say, changing a message on every single page of the site that
> generates over half our hits gave me a certain amount of ...
> trepidation.)

Particularly when I made an HTML error:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Copyright&diff=97952323&oldid=97936696

*ahem*


- d.
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David Gerard | 2 Jan 2007 17:28
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wmfcc-l] News flash: WMF is a charity!

On 02/01/07, Luiz Augusto <lugusto@...> wrote:

> To avoid generating a nonsense phrase in Portuguese language, I've changed
> the word sequence in the translation made for the Portuguese Wikisource.
> This is displayed as " Wikisource é uma marca comercial da Wikimedia
> Foundation, Inc <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/>., uma
> 501(c)(3)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29>
> beneficiente <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization>, dedutível
> de impostos <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations>e
> sem
> fins-lucrativos <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization>."
> ("charity, tax-deductible and nonprofit" instead of "tax-deductible
> nonprofit charity"). I don't know if this is wrong or right for the
> desirable effect on inseting this in the [[MediaWiki:Copyright]].

As long as it makes sense, gets the idea across and is legally
correct. (I've heard no shouting so far, and it's 11:27am in Florida
as I write this ...)

Note that "501(c)(3)" refers to a paragraph in the US Internal Revenue
Code, which is why I referred to "US" in the en:wp version.

- d.
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Virgil Ierubino | 6 Jan 2007 17:30
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Why is MediaWiki so low-tech?

Why is MediaWiki so low-tech?

I understand the imperitive for maximal accessibility, but is it not also
true that, these days, fewer and fewer people are using browsers that can't
handle advanced features? The fact of the matter is that a website's
*usability* is improved by taking advantage of the higher-tech architecture
that modern browsers allow you to use. Can't MediaWiki default to its
current state, but offer a per-user preference to turn on advanced options?

Look at a site like Facebook, (http://www.facebook.com), for example, which
is possibly one of the most beautifully constructed websites I have ever
encountered. It is simple in layout and ridiculously easy to use on account
of very good design, and the use of advanced code generating popups,
immediate editing, etc. Furthermore their code is pristine; I have never
seen an error, even in the advanced features, on any browser.

The kind of MediaWiki advanced features I'm talking about could be something
like instant editing. Think about if you're reading a long section of an
article, and midway down there's a spelling error. There are so many reasons
to not fix it: you'd have to scroll up to click the edit link on that
section, you'd have to wait for it to load, you'd have to find the place
again in the edit box, you'd have to wait for it to load again, and all this
time you won't be able to continue reading your article, and you'll have
lost your place. What if you could just click next to the relevant
paragraph, turning it into an edit box on the same page - no loading - edit
it, save it, and never once have to switch page. Something similar to the
way you can edit posts in vBulletin without having to change pages. I know
for sure that a feature like this would double the speed at which (and the
likelihood of which) articles are improved.
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