Comment Tard Hunting (Score 1) 33
Can't wait for the moon hoax crowd to jump in on this.
Submission + - Analysis of Wikimedia fund raiser (daniel-lange.com)
Daniel Lange writes: "Wikimedia foundation, the organisation behind Wikipedia, has been rather intransparent about the targets of the current fund raiser. It tracks the number of donors rather than the sum of donations this year and has given no indication on what it wants to achieve. There are quite some negative comments on this procedure and the hefty $4.6m budget plan for the next fiscal year. So I took the public donations page and gave it a drill down to find the running total, the average donation and build a current estimation of what looks achievable. Read the analysis."
Journal Journal: Writing for Wikipedia has its Perks 1
There are many tasks on Wikipedia. Some people fact check. Some people control vandalism. Some people correct spelling and punctuation. The activity that I most enjoy is doing the research to write in-depth articles for Wikipedia. I like to find a musician, an actor, a politician, or a scientist that I am interested in learning more about and write their biography from scratch. Last week my wife and I went to a concert by one
