MediaWiki talk:Centralnotice-quotes

Some suggestions

Hi, here are some suggestions, add them if you like them :-) (when no author is given, it is anonymous) le Korrigan →bla 12:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

• Knowledge sharing as it should be. Keep up the good work! - Jorma de Ronde
• Veni, vidi, dedi - I came, I saw, I gave. - Adam Tekle
• Freies Wissen, für freie Menschen!
• Just paying for my million of pageviews
• Wikipedia gives me faith in human nature. - Grant Marr
• Human knowledge belongs to the world!
• Stand on the shoulders of a million ants.
• Merci de faire partie de ma vie ! - Diana Chebret
• Knowledge is the ultimate wealth. Enrich the world. - Zachary Gidwitz
• Still the freshest, most accurate content on any subject. - Barry Everett
• Longue vie à Wikipédia!
• Free information is a more than worthwhile investment.
• For the freedom of knowledge and the knowledge of freedom - Ilanit Trablus
• Here's another 100 million pages - Stephen Wonfor
• Keep Wikipedia advertising free, please.
• Wikipedia = partager au delà des frontières ...
• Longue vie à cette merveilleuse idée qu'est le partage de la connaissance!!!
• This is simply the best resource I have encountered
• It's the least I can do for a resource I use literally every day.
• c'est peu, mais si tout le monde en fait autant... Axel CHAMBILY
• Le savoir n'a pas de propriétaire. Il est le bien de chacun.
• Pour son utilité indéniable :-)
• This is more than I gave to Radiohead. - Fionntan O Donnell
• This is what the internet was created for!
• Que la connaissance soit !
• Let's make the world wiser!
• Ma dépense la plus utile de l'année ! - Emmanuel Charriere
• Informazione per tutti=libertà per tutti. Grazie Wikipedia! - elena formenti
• my brain-extension (as in xkcd.com/333/). thanks. - Sunil Mohan Ranta
• I couldn't survive uni without Wikipedia - Simon King

Where did you get these quotes from? I'm adding some using Fundraising_2007/comments (the dates part) and don't want to duplicate yours. Cbrown1023 talk 19:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh... well, I got them from donate.wikimedia.org, and I didn't know about all the comments system (I saw a link to thispage from foundation-l). So there may be duplicate indeed... sorry about that... le Korrigan →bla 21:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

It's quite alright! Thanks for trying to help! :-) You can bold the ones that you like on the pages I linked (non-english ones are preferred if you can) and I will add them when I add all the other ones. :-) Cbrown1023 talk 22:06, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll have a look at some point. Meanwhile, you can already add those above which are in a foreign language (they aren't in yet), I just bolded them. le Korrigan →bla 22:40, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Consistent formatting

Could we consistently add attribution, and then remove all quotes that don't have it? Then we can ask Brion to be smarter about the quotation marks. Also, we should be consistent about the — or whatever we use for the attribution.--Eloquence 22:53, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Remember that many quotes are anonymous, so maybe those without shouldn't be removed ? le Korrigan →bla 23:06, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to do some aggressive refactoring, bear with me.--Eloquence 23:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, done. We've got rid of quite a few old ones, which is probably not a bad idea in any case, since it keeps things fresh. But we need more non-English ones.--Eloquence 00:02, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

We need volunteers who understand those languages to select them first... but they're all busy with translations. :-( We also need non-Wikipedia project ones. Cbrown1023 talk 00:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Updates from previous drives

Some selected quotes from the Q1 2005 drive added. Pity about the size limit, since my all-time favorite is (and many of my other favorites are) fairly long:

"Before I knew about Wikipedia, I was afraid. I thought most people in the world were jerks, bigots, or just plain bad people. Then, while looking around at wikipedia and seeing how it worked, I couldn't see how that could be true. Wikipedia just could not exist if it was true: if bad people outnumbered, outgunned, and out-shouted the good. I came to the conclusion that more people in the world were good than bad. That the chances were good that the man you bumped on the train is a good person, that the lady behind the cash register is a good person, that the bus driver is a good person. Wikipedia restored my faith in humanity, and my outlook on life has changed because of it. Thank you." by Christopher Hutten-Czapski

More updates from other drives later. --Daniel Mayer 03:06, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Attributable

• "Bringing the world together!" — Joris de Leeuw
• "Keep the knowledge flowing." — Cameron Knight
• "Thank you for constantly feeding my quest for knowledge" — Drew Ginsburg
• "For the love of information, for the love of freedom." — Matthew Adams
• "Wikimedia has the power to change the world!" — Moritz Zumbuehl
• "I believe in this cause" — Errol Ehrhardt
• "The epitome of free speech, an invaluble reference." — Samuel Jacobson
• "glad to be able to contribute to this great initiative" — Susan Cowan
• "Best damn encyclopedia I have ever used. Period." — Jordan Leonen
• "Informazione per tutti=libertà per tutti. Grazie Wikipedia!" — elena formenti
• "Knowledge is the key to peace and harmony" — Tom H Lautenbacher
• "every little bit helps" — Sarah Weyant
• "Ma dépense la plus utile de l'année !" — Emmanuel Charriere
• "One of the most useful online tools." — Jonathan Seastrunk
• "c'est peu, mais si tout le monde en fait autant..." — Axel CHAMBILY
• "Spreading knowledge is worth a donation.." — Luke Jeremy
• "¡Siempre con la Wikipedia!" — Manuel Méndez Gago
• "Still the freshest, most accurate content on any subject." — Barry Everett
• "I feel I am contributing to a worthwhile project!" — Peter McGinley
• "Merci de faire partie de ma vie !" — Diana Chebret
• "Veni, vidi, dedi - I came, I saw, I gave." — Adam Tekle
• "Because I believe in Wikimedia's goal." — Vanessa R Palmer
• "Knowledge Is Power. Keep Empowering." — Saket Vaidya
• "Wiki is Wonderful !!" — Jim Windgassen
• "El conocimiento es la base de toda sociedad." — Pablo Román Alfaro
• "Knowledge is power! Everyone's gotta have it!" — Sebastian Kannengiesser
• "Wikipedia got me through several of my graduate physics classes." — Thomas Broiles
• "Thanks to the foundation to allow humanity to show its best." — Arnaud LAPREVOTE
• "Hello from Russia! Thank you very much!" — Igor Philippov
• "save the wiki save the world" — Reinhard Pointner
• "Ad maiorem Wikipedia gloriam ;)" — Jakub Dziwior
• "This site is too important not to support, education is freedom." — William Tinney
• "More than a public service, a worldwide treasure!" — Steven Scharff
• "Hours of interactive reading." — Steve Verner
• "Information when I need it." — Markos Douridas
• "Shared information unites people." — Richard Frickmann
• "Free access to information for all!" — Daniel Tedmon
• "Still and always a treasure of the Internet." — Robert Gore
• "Wikipedia is a cornerstone of modern civilization." — Jose Fernando Rodrigues Junior
• "Knowledge should be available to everyone." — Miguel Nogueira
• "Ciao" — Silvestro Giordano

Arabic

Please don't add Arabic quotes to this list -- they don't get along well with ltor text, and they render incorrectly for most of our users who do not have the necessary unicode support for their browsers. If someone would be so kind as to remove the Arabic quotes (I only see one) from the list, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. AmiDaniel 20:42, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

I assume you are talking about the "Persian" one, I have turned that into a non-active line. Cbrown1023 talk 05:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Persian, Arabic ... they're all Greek to me :D Thanks, Cbrown1023. AmiDaniel 07:09, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Joris de Leeuw

Please remove the company name after Joris de Leeuw, per OTRS ticket#: 2007121710011251 Dedalus 18:53, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Done sorry for the slowness. :-) Cbrown1023 talk 22:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)