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    Five fundraising tips for Wikimedia chapters

    Posted on May 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Last year, I started to document myself about fundraising. Originally, I did it because 1. I found the topic very interesting and 2. I intended to use what I would learn to improve Wikimedia France's management of fundraising (which has been very poor in my opinion, partly because of issues I describe below). Turned out, I eventually left Wikimedia France in January for various reasons, but I figured I'd still share a few thoughts that may prove useful to all chapters. Although this page is mainly Wikimedia-focused, the general principles are universal.

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  • Part of a big paper schedule, on which an edit button has been written between brackets, to mimick Wikipedia's edit button

    Public postmortem for the Wikimedia Conference 2009

    Posted on May 10, 2009 | No Comments
    The Wikimedia Conference 2009 was held in Berlin, Germany, on April 3rd-5th. It was composed of three tracks: a track for chapters, hosted by the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs); a track for the Board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, hosted by the T-labs; and a track for MediaWiki developers, hosted at the c-base. About 55 participants attended the chapters tracks, 10 people the board track and 60 people the developers track. Overall, around 130 Wikimedians attended the conference. Social activities where participants from all tracks could meet were proposed.

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  • Details of the satisfaction survey: around the conference (chapters)

    Satisfaction survey for the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin

    Posted on April 8, 2009 | No Comments
    The results of the satisfaction survey for the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin are now available. This article provides the main diagrams; for the full survey (including comments from the participants), see the official page on meta-wiki.

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  • Full schedule for all three tracks of the April 2009 Wikimedia Conference in Berlin

    Full SVG schedule of the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin

    Posted on April 2, 2009 | No Comments
    I am glad to announce that the final full schedule of the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin is now available. It contains all three tracks of the conference: chapters, WMF board & developers. The schedule is available as resizable vector graphics on Wikimedia Commons.

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    Revised schedule for the Wikimedia Chapters meeting 2009

    Posted on March 12, 2009 | No Comments
    After much thought about various feedback from many people, I am happy to propose a revised version of the schedule for the chapters track of the April 2009 Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. I hope it addresses most of the concerns raised, while keeping the advantages. A detailed rationale / FAQ follows.

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