Monthly Archives: January 2012

Stronger than ever

Today, together, the Wikimedia community did a really powerful thing. We raised an incredible amount of awareness about an issue critical to achieving our vision. More importantly, we demonstrated once again the power of our community model. The thousands of … Continue reading

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How many will be affected by #WikipediaBlackout? 100+ million.

The #WikipediaBlackout just started. One question that keeps coming up is, “How many people will it affect?” Let’s put on our stat-nerd hat and build a reasonable estimate. First off, if we want to put this in human terms, we need … Continue reading

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Notes on future of fundraising

For those who are not following it, there is an incredibly interesting, incredibly important, and incredibly long discussion page in response to Sue’s notes on the future of fundraising and funds dissemination. It’s worth a read. To keep track of my own … Continue reading

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RfC: Geography and Wikimedia

Ahead of our scheduled WMF Board meeting in early February, I’ve been thinking through a really hard and thorny movement-wide issue. Last time I was dealing with a similarly hard issue, I put some rough notes/questions up here and asked … Continue reading

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