[Foundation-l] Fundraising time is approaching!

Sun Sep 5 07:46:41 UTC 2010

Thank you, Gerard.  We are certainly looking forward to working with all
open source and open projects relating to anything Wikimedia.

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi,
> You may want to consider helping the meta translators. The Translate
> extension that is used by translatewiki.net is usable and used for the
> kind
> of texts that are used in the coming Fundraiser.
>
> There are several relevant benefits; a much better user interface makes it
> a
> lot more usable, the statistics at translatewiki.net show clearly what the
> status is for non translated texts, translatewiki.net integrates its
> messages with software all the time so it would make your work easier as
> well.
>
> Just a thought.
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
>
> On 5 September 2010 06:00, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > (sending from personal email since @wikimedia isn't subscribed at the
> > moment)
> >
> > Hello Wikimedians,
> >
> > As many of you are aware, we are now two months away from the Fundraiser
> > for
> > the Wikimedia Foundation, 2010.  We have lofty goals, and we can meet
> them
> > and exceed them!
> >
> > The meta translators are already actively engaged in the annual drive to
> > distribute our messages, but we would like to point everyone to the
> > developments we've made in banner messages- from creation to commentary
> to
> > the ones that will go live for test and for the drive itself in November.
> > It's one of our goals to make sure that all volunteers know that there is
> a
> > place for them in the Fundraising drive.  We've started the setup on
> > meta[1]
> > for both banner submission[2], statistical analysis[3], and grouping
> > volunteers together that would like to find specific focus and work in
> that
> > area[4].
> >
> > This year the Wikimedia Foundation is taking a proactive stance in
> reaching
> > out to each and every Wikimedia project and volunteer to find innovation,
> > collaboration, and collation of ideas from the community driven process.
> > The staff working on this is comprised of long-time Wikimedians with as
> > much
> > care and concern for the success of this drive as the volunteers, and we
> > want you to actively participate and have a voice.
> >
> > Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to
> others,
> > talk to us.  Engagement is what we strive for, without each other we
> would
> > never had made Wikimedia succeed.  Everyone is welcome to contact any of
> us
> > on staff at any time with a timely response to follow.  We actively
> > encourage focusing discussion on meta so we can all work together.
> >
> > See you on the wiki!
> >
> > 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010
> > 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Messages
> > 3. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testing/Stats
> > 4. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Committee
> >
> > --
> > Keegan Peterzell
> > Associate Community Officer, Fundraising 2010
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > kpeterzell at wikimedia.org
> >
> > Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
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> >
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-- 
Keegan Peterzell
Associate Community Officer, Fundraising 2010
Wikimedia Foundation
kpeterzell at wikimedia.org

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