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New languages mailing list

JP Béland — 2012-09-03T23:36:48

Good day,

I'd like to announce you the creation of a new Wikimedia mailing list
dedicated to languages-related topics: languages-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r< at >public.gmane.org

You can subscribe to it at this link:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/languages

Thanks,
JP Béland
alias Amqui
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Language committee report - January 2012

Robin Pepermans — 2012-02-03T20:03:03

See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2012-01

This is the language committee report for January 2012 (and also December 2011).

=== 2011 report ===
* MF-Warburg wrote a relevant report for the year 2011, see
<http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:News/2011_report>.

=== Approvals ===
* The Wikipedia in Veps (a Uralic language spoken by about 6,000
people) has been created. <http://vep.wikipedia.org/>
* The Wiktionary in Punjabi (in Shahmukhi script) has been created.
<http://pnb.wiktionary.org/>
* The Wikisource in Marathi has been created. There is a bit of
content on the OldWikisource (that still needs to be transferred).
However, the Maharashtra Government has promised to provide free
content for the Marathi Wikisource. <http://mr.wikisource.org/>
* The Wikipedia in Lezgian (a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by
about 784,000 people) is approved by the committee.
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Lezgi>

=== Requ

Yearly report for 2011

MF-Warburg — 2011-12-28T21:37:51

The version on-wiki can be found on
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:News/2011_report

For the first time, an end-of-the-year review of all important events that
affected Incubator has been compiled:

Incubator (http://incubator.wikimedia.org) is a wiki of the Wikimedia
Foundation which serves as a platform where anyone can build up a a new
language edition of a Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks,
Wikinews and Wikiquote) that does not yet have its own subdomain, provided
that it is a recognized language. These so-called "test wikis" on Incubator
can be used like (nearly) any other real wiki. When the community desires
so and there is enough activity, they can request to move to an own
subdomain through the requests for new languages process.

Wikisource and Wikiversity are not mentioned above, as their tests belong
to Old Wikisource (http://wikisource.org) and Beta Wikiversity (
http://beta.wikiversity.org). Regarding test wikis, this report will
however focus on Incubator mainl

Language committee report - September 2011

Robin Pepermans — 2011-10-02T22:46:00

See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-09

This is the language committee report for September 2011.

=== Committee ===
* There will be a Hackathon in Mumbai, India (19-20 November) which
focuses partially on language support. Several members will
participate. More info:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011

=== Approvals ===
* The Oriya Wiktionary (wt/or) has been re-opened. It is the first
time that a closed wiki is unlocked. Though the requirements were not
met, it was approved because there will be a workshop in Bhubaneswar,
India where the Oriya projects will be promoted and because re-opening
a wiki is easy.
* The Northern Sotho Wikipedia (wp/nso) has been approved, but waiting
for creation (bug 30882).
* The Lezgi Wikipedia (wp/lez) and Tachelhit Wikipedia (wp/shi) can be
approved if someone who can verify the content is found.

=== Related ===
* The language code "als" (assigned to Tosk Albanian) is misused by
Alemannic [gsw]. The als.w

Invitation to attend WikiConference India,2011 in Mumbai

2011-09-10T10:12:54



 Dear Chapter Representative(s) and Wikipedians,

 

 

Please treat this invitation as a personal
invite from the Indian WikiCommunity to yourselves and your community to attend
the first annual national WikiConference India scheduled to take place
between 18 and 20 November at the University of Mumbai’s Fort Campus.

 

 

The event is being co-hosted by the
community and the chapter and this would be a wonderful opportunity for Indian
Wikipedians to interact with all of you. Further, we would appreciate any help
that could be extended by yourselves to make this conference a success. 

 

 

Do let us know of any requirements you may
have. Kindly confirm the above at the earliest to allow us to schedule
everything in.
Meta Page: 

  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011

 

 

 

Kind
Regards,

Language commitee report - August 2011

Robin Pepermans — 2011-08-31T18:46:45

See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-08

This is the language committee report for August 2011.

=== Committee ===
* Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Indonesia are collaborating with
the language committee to organise a 2012 Languages Conference in
Indonesia. More info:
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:2012_Languages_conference

=== Requests ===
* Discussion about the request for a Northern Sotho Wikipedia. It
lacks activity, but it has been in the Incubator for years while
having the highest number of articles in a indigenous South African
language.
* Discussion about the request for a Lezgi Wikipedia. One very active
editor, but more contributors are needed.
No formal approval (yet), but both or one of them may be approved soon.

=== Related ===
* The ISO 639-3 standard decided not to retire the language code
'www', even though it conflicts with websites like the
'www.wikipedia.org' portal. The code 'www' is assigned to Wawa, a
language of Came

Re: [Langcom-l] Incubator extension update: info pages

Gerard Meijssen — 2011-08-26T09:33:48

Hoi,
Congratulations... This is nice :)
Thanks,
       Gerard

On 25 August 2011 23:35, Robin Pepermans <robinp.1273-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Incubator extension update: info pages

Robin Pepermans — 2011-08-25T21:35:22

Hi,

The Incubator-specific extension has been updated. The most notable
new feature is that the welcome pages for non-existing info pages are
now live on Incubator. For example
<http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nl> refers you to the Dutch
Wikipedia and <http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/xmf> tells you
that it doesn't exist yet.

Some more info in my previous post:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/incubator/2011-July/000042.html
Detailed info: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikimediaIncubator

Regards,
Robin

Language committee report - July 2011

Robin Pepermans — 2011-08-03T21:11:11

See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-07

This is the language committee report for July 2011, written in Haifa,
Israel (Wikimania 2011) thanks to the scholarship provided to me by
the Catalan Associació Amical Viquipèdia.

=== Committee ===
Some talk about membership of the LangCom and closing projects.

=== Approvals ===
The Mingrelian Wikipedia (xmf.wikipedia.org) has been created.

=== Eligibility ===
Discussion about the request for a Wikipedia in Tunisian Arabic.

=== Related ===
Thanks to Ryan Kaldari
(<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-July/054328.html>),
the Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the
Unicode Consortium.

Re: [Langcom-l] Welcome pages and info pages atIncubator

Robin Pepermans — 2011-07-17T23:55:17

I had already made the code to set a custom logo, so it wasn't that
difficult to implement it.
The variable, that was already used by Special:RandomByTest, is "testwiki".

With the changes I made, if your preference is set to Wx/xyz or if the
URL contains &testwiki=wx/xyz:
*  a custom logo will be displayed on Wx/xyz pages
* non-existing Wx/xyz pages will redirect to the real wiki if it exists
* recent changes is already currently set to limit to changes in wx/xyz pages

You used &title=MainPage&project=wb/xyz but it would be difficult to
implement it so that you can access it without the prefix in &title.

I would like to have these redirects quite soon. Maybe we can talk
about it / propose it at Wikimania.

2011/7/17 Milos Rancic <millosh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>:

Welcome pages and info pages at Incubator

Robin Pepermans — 2011-07-17T00:39:58

Hello,

There is a lot of stuff in development for the Wikimedia Incubator,
and I would like to get a part of it enabled on Wikimedia Incubator
soon, specifically the info pages or welcome pages ("Wx/xx(x)" pages).

For example < http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es >
gives a nice welcome page that refers you to the existing wiki. Pages
like < http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es/Page >
refer you to the existing wiki as well. It is not possible to edit
pages belonging to existing wikis.

Non-existing wikis also have a welcome page:
http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wb/xmf

It directly depends on the list with databases, so at the exact moment
a wiki is created, it will no longer be possible to edit Incubator
pages of that project (which facilitates importing pages to a new
wiki).

Another feature is that <
http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es&goto=mainpage >
will refer you directly to the existing wiki.

What is not yet included (coming later):

Call for image filter referendum

Casey Brown — 2011-07-01T19:55:22

/Please distribute this message widely/

*Call for referendum*:  The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of
the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether
members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in
personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen
particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly.
The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be
conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party.  Referendum
details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will
be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum
shortly.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Language committee report - June 2011

Robin Pepermans — 2011-07-01T19:24:03

See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-06

This is the the Language Committee report for June 2011. It is the
second monthly report.

=== Committee ===
* The closing projects policy is approved by the Board and will be
implemented during the following weeks.
* A new policy draft is started, which will be updated and changed
gradually before final approval.
* The committee has discussed simple projects. They will likely be
allowed under certain conditions.

=== Approvals ===
* The Mingrelian Wikipedia has been approved and is waiting for creation.
* The Arabic Wikiversity has been approved.

=== Rejections ===
* After some discussion with the community, the Ottoman Turkish
Wikisource has been rejected. Ottoman Turkish texts should be hosted
on the Turkish Wikisource.
* The Warmian Wikipedia has been rejected due to the lack of an ISO
639 language code.

Language committee report - May 2011

Robin Pepermans — 2011-06-01T19:30:18

*See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-05*

This is the Language Committee report for May 2011. This is the first
edition of the monthly report. I proposed this at the first real-life
meeting in Berlin and volunteered to write such reports to increase
transparency of the committee.

=== Committee ===
Most of these items can also be found in the LangCom meeting report sent to
foundation-l.
* The committee held its first real-life meeting during the Hackathon in
Berlin.
* Several members volunteer to take care of [[meta:Proposals for closing
projects]]. The [[meta:Closing projects policy]] is pending Board approval.
* If technically possible, wikis that do not exist (yet) will be redirected
to the Wikimedia Incubator instead of showing a "Wiki does not exist" or
"Server not found" error.
* To increase transparency, an observer position has been created on the
LangCom mailing list. Anyone can request to become an observer and receive
mails sent to langcom-l.
*

Re: Etherpad notes

Hydriz Wikipedia — 2011-05-23T13:32:53

Forgot to add the URL link: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WikimediaIncubator

Regards,Hydrizhttp://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz

From: admin-Mo+meGVcVTJxuZdfhUSrJg< at >public.gmane.org
To: incubator-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r< at >public.gmane.org
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:31:52 +0000
Subject: [Incubator] Etherpad notes

Hi guys,
Some of us might know, but others might not. Anyway, we have created a new pad (or notepad) for the future plans of the Wikimedia Incubator. Anyone is welcome to take a look, though we would prefer having the bureaucrats and sysops of the Incubator to be taking care of the pad.
For those in the dark, this pad might be a little complicated, especially with the WikimediaIncubator extension deployment. Just bear with it, we will add notes when necessary.

Regards,Hydrizhttp://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz

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Etherpad notes

Hydriz Wikipedia — 2011-05-23T13:31:52

Hi guys,
Some of us might know, but others might not. Anyway, we have created a new pad (or notepad) for the future plans of the Wikimedia Incubator. Anyone is welcome to take a look, though we would prefer having the bureaucrats and sysops of the Incubator to be taking care of the pad.
For those in the dark, this pad might be a little complicated, especially with the WikimediaIncubator extension deployment. Just bear with it, we will add notes when necessary.

Regards,Hydrizhttp://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz

Re: Want your help

Isaac K. Kosgei — 2011-04-01T13:54:33

I would be glad to help

On 01/04/2011, Srikant Kedia <wikiodisha1-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Want your help

Srikant Kedia — 2011-04-01T11:06:03

Want your Help in developing
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/or/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%82%E0%AC%B3_%E0%AC%AB%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A6
Please Help Me...

Fwd: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers

Huib Laurens — 2010-08-12T21:31:26

forwarding because this hits more people than just wikitech-l

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Stojnic <rainmansr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>
Date: 2010/8/12
Subject: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r< at >public.gmane.org>

Hi all,

We are currently relocating some servers internally in the datacenter.
As a consequence, search snippets, "did you mean..." and interwiki
search are going to be turned off during this time, and only bare
results shown. This will affect all WMF wikis. I expect, if everything
goes well, that in around 4-5h things are going to go back to normal.

Cheers, Robert

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Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation Extended

Casey Brown — 2010-05-22T21:50:11

Due to numerous requests we have extended the submission deadline for
Wikimania 2010 as follows:

* Abstract Registration: May 24, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for workshops: May 29, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for panels, tutorials, presentations: June 3, 11.59
p.m. (Pacific Time)

See the Call for Participation for more details:
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP

Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-)
See you in Gdansk, July 9-11!

With best regards,
 Wikimania Team

Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!

Marcin Cieslak — 2010-04-29T01:48:16

Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects 
around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, 
Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and MediaWiki). The 
conference is a community gathering, giving the editors, users 
and developers of Wikimedia projects an opportunity to meet each 
other, exchange ideas, report on research and projects, and 
collaborate on the future of the projects. The conference is open 
to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers, 
programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the 
Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the 
Wikimedia projects.

This year's conference will be held JULY 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk, 
Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic. For more information, please 
visit the official Wikimania 2010 site:

http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/

Wikimania 2010 will be a mix of submitted talks, open space 
meetings, birds of a feather groups, and lightning talks. 
Submissions will be discussed and s