http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1697 <pre>Sorry for crossposting but it's something that will (hopfeully, IMHO) affect hundreds of wikis and it's interesting to know how to get to it. Nemo -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis Data: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:40:00 +0200 Mittente: とある白い猫 - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Disable_uploads_on_smaller_wikis Feel free to participate. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l </pre> Federico Leva (Nemo 2012-05-08T14:33:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1696 <pre>Hello devs, I am Aashish Mittal and am currently working on a project for creating a 'Book' extension for Wikisource/WikiBooks. There is a bug filed for this feature (check bug 15071&lt;https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071&gt;) by the wikimedia community developers. This extension would enable the users to group selected pages into logical 'books' and use these books as per their needs. We are currently working on defining the scope of this project, but an initial thought to this project defines the following deliverables for this extension: 1. Create a book 2. Page addition wizard (also containing search filters for finding particular pages) 3. Import book metadata (where user can directly add set of pages from his export list) 4. Export book metadata (export the book details containing all page links to a file which can be saved by user, similar to MetaBooks) 5. Add to a book option for every page 6. Table of contents for a book 7. Read a book (navigate through p</pre> Aashish Mittal 2012-02-14T14:00:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1695 <pre>Greetings, The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest version. The upgrade will happen in several stages over the month, starting this week. You can still help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information: * Announcement on the Wikimedia blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/11/mediawiki-1-19-deployment/ * The announcement in other languages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement Thank you for your understanding. -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l </pre> Guillaume Paumier 2012-02-12T13:42:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1694 <pre>Forwarding to missing sister projects' lists. -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations! Steward Elections 2012 Data: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:10:59 +0600 Mittente: Tanvir Rahman Rispondi-a: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; A: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, Wikimedia India list &lt;wikimediaindia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, Wikimedia BD List &lt;wikimedia-bd-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List &lt;commons-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, Wikimedia Translators &lt;translators-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce the beginning of Steward Election 2012 [1]. We are now taking nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can check their eligibility and procedure to submit the nom</pre> Federico Leva (Nemo 2012-01-15T09:40:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1693 <pre>/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 </pre> Casey Brown 2011-07-01T19:55:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1692 <pre>Here's an example of a remarkable publication that we should support capturing, in its elements and its final layout, to support reuse and sharing in other sorts of documents: http://skateistan.org/skateistan_blog/out-now-student-mag-arts-skateboarding http://www.skateistan.org/PDFs/Bridge-Final.pdf We need to improve automation for adding these sorts of things to wikisource: scripts to request and capture license information, and to batch upload PDFs, extracting individual images and text from source files, uploading them separately, and approximating the original layout. Sam. </pre> Samuel Klein 2011-06-26T08:21:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1691 <pre>Dear Wikimedians -- A project to build a national public digital library in the US, the "Digital Public Library of America", is asking for statements of interest from people or groups who have ideas for what this might look like -- and mean to create a prototype or detailed proposal over the course of this summer. Actual proposals, of whatever form, are due in September, but a statement of interest is due by June 15. If you are interested in the subject, or currently working on a project you could see being part of such a public resource, you can submit a statement online: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/forms/statement-of-interest/ See below for background on the DPLA. While this group is focused on a national project for a single country (formed by a consortium of US libraries, foundations, and academics) , they are conscious of the need to do something similar worldwide, and committed to making this process and ersulting tools as open and reusable as possible. SJ ---------- Forwarded message --</pre> Samuel Klein 2011-06-08T19:46:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1690 <pre>Greetings, As you may know, the Wikimedia teach team has started to upgrade MediaWiki on some wikis. MediaWiki is the software that runs all Wikimedia wikis. The most visible change for Wikimedia users will be the deployment of ResourceLoader [1]. ResourceLoader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up its delivery by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount of unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first place. The installation of ResourceLoader may cause compatibility issues with existing JavaScript code. Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw, the main developers of ResourceLoader, will be available on IRC [2] on Monday, February 14th, at 18:00 (UTC) [3], to answer questions and help fix issues related to ResourceLoader. *If you maintain JavaScript code on your home wiki, please attend.* Don't wait until your wiki's JavaScript is all broken. Please spread this information as widely as possible; it's critical to reach as many local JavaScript maintainer</pre> Guillaume Paumier 2011-02-12T09:53:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1689 <pre>---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Alexander &lt;jalexander-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Date: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:26 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Office Hours To: foundation-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, English Wikipedia &lt; wikien-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, commons-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, wikinews-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, wikiquote-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, wiktionary-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Hi Everyone! With the Annual Fundraiser starting in less then two weeks the fundraising team will be having IRC office hours this Friday November 5th at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT, 18:00 EDT 23:00 CET orhere &lt; http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&amp;day=5&amp;year=2010&amp;hour=22&amp;min=0&amp;sec=0&amp;p1=0&gt; for more timezones) in the #wikimedia-office channel of the Freenode IRC network. If you are interested in what w</pre> Alex Zariv 2010-11-03T18:29:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1688 <pre>I suppose this may interest you. Sorry for crossposting; please join the discussion on foundation-l, if you wish. Nemo -------- Messaggio Originale -------- Oggetto: Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects Data: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:33:07 +0200 Da: Federico Leva (Nemo) A: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Despite repeated assurances at Wikimania, on lists and on strategywiki, that the strategic plan was going to consider all Wikimedia projects as important, now at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Five-year_targets the second target, «Increase the amount of information we offer» considers only the number of Wikipedia articles. «We're aware of the challenges around bot-created articles, articles of low quality, etc., and the limited focus on Wikipedia, so this metric shouldn't be seen in isolation, but is an important indicator.» Yes, but a wrong one. I'm, very, very disappointed: I have to conclude that all th</pre> Federico Leva (Nemo 2010-10-10T10:50:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1687 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, [TODAY] was a relic of the email I copied this from :/ On 07/20/2010 11:31 AM, Cary Bass wrote: - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxF71kACgkQyQg4JSymDYnIpgCeK48sr0VSkDPV0r+jAYjaB+h7 mBwAnjF0woO12AiXl7iMSDAm8bZnB11f =P0ku -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre> Cary Bass 2010-07-20T18:47:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1686 <pre>(Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday. The date has been moved up to Thursday. The time remains the same.) On Thursday, July 22, the Wikimedia Office Hour will be hosted by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. The Office Hour is from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PDT). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to </pre> Cary Bass 2010-07-20T18:31:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1685 <pre>Hey everyone, and my sincerest apologies for the late notice, I've been recovering from Wikimania this week and only now got a chance to notify you. Today, on Thursday, July 15, the Wikimedia Office Hours will be hosted by Frank Schulenburg, Head of Public Outreach and Pete Forsyth, Public Outreach Officer. Office hours are from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PST). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other releva</pre> Cary Bass 2010-07-15T15:37:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1684 <pre>Hey everyone! On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read about at &lt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin&gt; Office hours are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 PM PST). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. </pre> Cary Bass 2010-06-10T00:13:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1683 <pre>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 </pre> Casey Brown 2010-05-22T21:50:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1682 <pre>Dear Wikibook Contributor, Thank you for those who participate in the online questionnaire which aims to assess the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors. I am pleased to advise that the analysis of the data from the completed online questionnaires has been finalized. The analysis provides some initial insights into the reasons Wikibookians contribute to Wiki textbook projects. However, some of these results require further investigation to gain a better understanding of the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors. Now, I would like to invite you to participate in the online interview. The interview will take from 30 to 45 minutes. This interview will be in the form of text chat. I have attached a 'Research Information Sheet', which provides more detailed information about the research and interview. This research project has been approved by the University of South Australia's Human Research Ethics Committee. Could you please reply to this email with the appropriate local time for you to meet with</pre> Amal Hanna 2010-02-15T02:54:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1681 <pre>Hello all! Tomorrow's office hours will feature Naoko Komura and the User Interface team, who will be discussing the Vector interface and the changes the new interface will bring. If you don't know Naoko you can read about about her at &lt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Naoko_Komura&gt;. Office hours on Thursday are from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00 AM - 10:00 PM PST). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email list</pre> Cary Bass 2010-04-21T17:13:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1680 <pre>Hey everyone! On Thursday, February 25, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read about at &lt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin&gt; Office hours are from 1800 to 1900 UTC (9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PST) so that those of you who had to sleep last week while he was on may be around this time. If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant</pre> Cary Bass 2010-02-25T00:34:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1679 <pre>Hey everyone! On Friday, Office Hour will be hosted by Mike Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read about at &lt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin&gt; Office hours are from 2330 to 0030 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PST). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. </pre> Cary Bass 2010-02-10T19:56:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1678 <pre>Hello all! Apologies for the very short notice! Today's office hours are featuring Guillaume Paumier, and Neil Kaandalgaonkar, who are Project Manager and Software Developer for the Multimedia Usability Project. Read more about them at: &lt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Guillom&gt; and &lt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:NeilK&gt; Office hours are from 1700 to 1800 UTC (9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PST). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) th</pre> Cary Bass 2010-02-04T17:06:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1677 <pre>Hello all! Tomorrow's office hours will feature Rebecca Handler, the Foundation's Head of Major Gifts. If you don't know Rebecca you can read all about her at &lt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Rebecca_Handler&gt;. Office hours tomorrow are from 2330 to 0030 UTC (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at &lt;http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi&gt;. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. </pre> Cary Bass 2010-01-26T23:26:26 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook