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[Help] About Participate in Wikipedia - knoweldgesharing.

Joanne (雅玲 — 2008-11-27T09:07:00

Dear friend, We are conducting a study on the motivation of the knowledge sharing on the Wikipedia community. The contributors’ experience to Linux is very important to the design and management of this knowledge platform. Would you please post the following on-line questionnaire message to the Wikipedia platform or forward the message to the members? After the survey is done, we will randomly select twenty persons and present them with USB 2GB Flash Drives. Besides, with each valid questionnaire, we will donate US $1 dollar to the Wikimedia Foundation. The result of this survey is analyzed in an anonymous way and is only regarded as the academic use. Please help us to complete the data collection. Thanks so much for your help. Cheers, Joanne [The Message content] Dear friends, We are conducting a study on the motivation of the knowledge sharing on Wikipedia. Your experience of the read from and write to Wikipedia is very important to the design and management of this knowledge platform. The survey will take about two minutes. We deeply appreciate your help on answering the following questions. After the survey is done, we will randomly select twenty persons and present them with USB 2GB Flash Drives. Besides, with each valid questionnaire, we will donate US $1 dollar to the Wikimedia Foundation. The result of this survey is analyzed in an anonymous way and is only regarded as the academic use. Please feel free to fill out the questionnaire. Thanks again for your time and valuable input. May happiness and health be with you everyday! ★ On-line Questionnaire: http://140.119.19.152:8080/wiki/ 　 Shari S. C. Shang Eldon Y. Li Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, National Chengchi University Tel.: +886-2-82374038； Fax: +886-2-29393754 ； E-mail: s1213527< at >yahoo.com. tw _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l< at >lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

[Help] About Participate in CentOS - knoweldgesharing.

Joanne (雅玲 — 2008-11-27T09:06:00

Study on Interfaces to Improving Wikipedia Quality

2008-11-19T19:23:53

Dear All, My name is Avanidhar Chandrasekaran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Avanidhar). I work with GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. As part of my research, I am involved in analyzing the usefulness and Necessity of author reputation in Wikipedia. In lieu of this, I have simulated an Interface to color words in an article based on their Age. Being experienced contributors to Wikipedia, I invite you to participate in this study, which involves the following. 1. Please visit the following Instances of wikipedia and evaluate the interface components which have been incorporated into each of them. Each of these use their own algorithm to color text. a) The Wikitrust project http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/index.php/Main_Page b) The Wiki-reputation project at Grouplens research http://wiki-reputation.cs.umn.edu/index.php/Main_Page 2) Once you have evaluated the two interfaces, kindly complete this survey on Wikipedia quality http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hagN5S1JZHxH6pF9SmXkkA_3d_3d We hope to get your valuable feedback on these interfaces and how Wikipedia article quality can be improved. Thanks for your time Avanidhar Chandrasekaran, GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota

mo.wikipedia.org when will you stop making joke of us?

Cetateanu Moldovanu — 2008-11-12T21:10:18

Hi, I'm a citizen of Republic of Moldova and I want to inform you that in our country everyone is writing Moldovan language with latin letters. When we were under soviet union occupation, they tryed to russificate us and forced to have our language written with cyrilic. In 1991, after getting the freedom to choose, we choose our language to be written with latin letters, as we did before russians conquest us (without ask the people) and divided from Romania (our mother land). Thereby, as a free moldovan speaking man, I'm asking you to remove mo.wikipedia.org (witch is in cyrillic and is very offensive for us) and respect our choice as a independent nation or to make it with latin letters. Thank you.

Wikipedia logo work in progress

Cary Bass — 2008-11-10T19:35:32

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, We're working on an update to the Wikipedia logo, which can be used in 3-D, which will be correcting all the incorrect glyphs, and include many other scripts that are not presently in the logo. The project page is at and we're still looking for community members to discuss, to help sort out characters, font styles and representations for the additional alphabets as well as continue discussing the current glyphs on the talk page at . Your input is greatly appreciated! Cary -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJGI0DyQg4JSymDYkRArwXAJsEYbANI9RrU4HWR9PXjE7Qz4IqxgCgrapl 7IiOfWJ+7jRPaioYuoBXGHg= =nwDW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Wikipedia Academy in Sweden

Lars Aronsson — 2008-11-06T08:21:46

Next week, on November 12-13, we're taking "Wikipedia Academy" to Sweden. It's the first time this event travels north of the latitude 55° (which is Germany's northern shore), but not by far, since the university town of Lund at 55°42' is neighbor to Malmö in the far south of Sweden, and to Denmark's capital Copenhagen. As pioneered in Germany in 2006, Wikipedia Academy is a two-day conference and boot camp for academic researchers and teachers, who need to get deeper involved in Wikipedia, and a chance for the Wikipedia community to get in touch with the research community. Read more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy Lund used to be the seat of Denmark's arch bishop, until Sweden conquered this area in war in 1658. (Imagine France conquering Kent, including Canterbury.) Lund University was then established in 1666 in a move of cultural imperialism. During the 19th century, Lund was one of only two universities in Sweden. It's a small town with an old and huge university, in many ways similar to Göttingen, where Wikipedia Academy pioneered in 2006. But Lund University, and in particular its library, has also been a leader in the new digital cultural revolution of the Internet, with web projects dating back to 1993 and the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org), founded in 2003. That's why we in the Swedish chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Sverige, sought to cooperate with Lund University Library for this first Wikipedia Academy, and this has turned out very well. A group of Swedish wikipedians met with Frank Schulenburg of Wikimedia Deutschland in Göteborg on January 19 for early discussions. Our first meeting in Lund took place on March 5 and 6. Since then, our main contact and organizer has been librarian Åsa Forsberg of Lund University. She deserves all credit. Also in March, we submitted a grant proposal to the Swedish "Internet fund", known to be a generous supporter of projects that "improve the Internet in Sweden". Their money comes from the surplus from domain name registrations under the .SE top level domain. The idea is for this grant to pay for all costs during Wikipedia Academy, so that the attendees don't have to. We were aiming for an event of 40-80 participants with hands-on exercises for some 30-50 users on the first day, and lectures on the second day. The event was announced on various mailing lists, to visitors of the Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication (NCSC), organized by Lund University Libraries on April 21-23, and at Wikimedia Sverige's stand at the Göteborg Book Fair on September 25-28. In June, our chapter chairman Lennart Guldbrandsson visited this year's German Wikipedia Academy in Berlin, bringing back useful observations. During September, we learned that our grant proposal was accepted. Registration for Wikipedia Academy ended on November 1, but with a slight surprise. We now have 120 attendeeds, of which 98 want to attend the hands-on workshop on the first day. That's about twice as big as we had planned, but since our speakers have very modest requirements, we are still close to keeping our budget. We have had to relocate the hands-on workshop to another building where we'll have four parallel computer classrooms. The detailed schedule in Swedish is available at http://www.lub.lu.se/wikipediaacademy/ The event begins after lunch on Wednesday November 12, at Lund University's center for chemistry, with brief initial presentations by Mathias Klang (of Creative Commons, Sweden), by myself, by Wikimedia Sverige's chairman Lennart Guldbrandsson, and by Frank Schulenburg. After this, the hands-on workshop runs for 90 minutes until the coffee break. Two more hours of lectures continue until we break for the evening's social event and more informal discussions. The second day, Thursday November 13, is a full day of lectures and presentations, held at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Center (named after its sponsor, the founder of IKEA), including coffee and lunch breaks. Some of the speakers are long-time contributors to Wikipedia, others are by researchers who are now starting research projects to study mass collaboration. We hope to provide photos and documentation of the event. Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish chapter, was founded 12 months ago, and Wikipedia Academy is just one of many things that we do for the first time. We're sure to make mistakes, but only to have something to learn from. Next year, this will be routine. We hope to organize another Wikipedia Academy in 2009, and maybe it will also spread to other Scandinavian countries. For the hands-on workshop, I wrote up some modular beginner's exercises that can be used individually in no particular order. It's possible that some attendees are far more advanced than beginners, but then their questions can drive the teaching. The beginner exercises are now found on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LA2/Exercises where I have started to translate them to English. Feel free to translate on to other languages and reuse them. Is there already a collection of such exercises? Maybe at Wikibooks or Wikiversity? I guess I should have checked this first, but I didn't.

donation banner

David Monniaux — 2008-10-31T07:51:26

The problem applies to en: but possibly to others: The banner for donations should be hidden by CSS for printing. I don't know which Mediawiki special variable generates this item so I cannot fix it on en:

Donations/Fundrasing

Elias Friedman — 2008-10-29T09:33:47

I took that new survey that's up and the part about donating got me thinking about a couple of things that have been on my mind about the subject. First, when you go to the donations page, it give you an option to make a "one time donation". Personally I'd like to set up an automatic, periodic donation rather than have to remember to wander by manually. Something like $18/month is what I give some other organizations. It would be really nice if that kind of thing could be implemented. Second, what ever happened to our merchandise store? I think the one on Cafepress is still there http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia, but it isn't linked to from the donations page anymore and good suggestions on the talk page on meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Store) have been sitting stale without any action, some for years now. I think the store project should be re-activated and expanded- why should others be making money from the "citation needed" bumper stickers, for example?

Protocol/Etiquette

DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS — 2008-10-28T16:22:55

What is the proper protocol when authoring a page that has multiple references to the page. For example, if I was writing a page and it said: The weather in the USA today is warm. The weather in the USA is always warm this time of year. That's just the way it is in the USA. That uses the acronym USA three times. Is the correct protocol to show all three occurrences as a link to the page on USA, or just the first occurrence of the acronym? Michael P. Deslippe "The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."

Multilingual Wikipedia Survey Launched

Erik Moeller — 2008-10-24T00:18:08

Hello, in collaboration with the the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT (www.merit.unu.edu), we want to invite you to take the first multilingual survey of Wikipedia readers and contributors. For the first time, this survey will provide an overview of the Wikipedia community and how the content of Wikipedia is created, used, and perceived. We therefore encourage everyone to participate in this survey and to fill in an online questionnaire that will be made accessible to you in the coming two weeks. We have prepared survey versions in more than 20 languages. In order to keep the traffic manageable we have chosen a staggered approach for the surveys. The survey is currently running in Dutch, Vietnamese, and Tamil, and we have received more than 2500 complete responses already. (We can track the responses by language, so we can choose to examine any subset we want.) The following language versions will be launched in the coming days: Russian, Arabic, Polish, Portuguese, Greek, Esperanto, Czech, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Afrikaans, Indonesian, French, Thai, Spanish, German, English, Chinese-simplified and Chinese-traditional. The survey will be featured in the sitenotice of those languages. We're currently using the local notices, but we may use the CentralNotice system that is used for fundraising messages for the coming languages, because it has some features which make it more manageable for us. I want to extend a BIG thank you to all the volunteers who have worked on this survey, especially all the translators. We will compile translation credits for the press release when the survey is completed. Thanks also to the UNU-Merit team (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Rüdiger Glott, Herman Pijpers, Jan Philipp Schmidt), and to Naoko Komura, who has been project managing the survey since September. And, thanks to all colleagues who have given feedback along the way. We've tried to design questions that make sense. Please feel free to send any and all feedback to . Translations have been reviewed by multiple people, but if anything is an obvious error, we will try to fix it. We will not be able to address all feedback in this first run, but we will try to learn from it for future surveys. This one won't be perfect, but it will tell us lots of things we've never been able to talk about with any degree of confidence. Finally, a note on the coming analysis, and on privacy. In terms of analysis, UNU-Merit will collect and analyze the data, and publish analyses of the results, available under a Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License on a public website as well as in established academic journals. Anonymized data will be published under a CC-BY license for other researchers to study. In terms of privacy, no personally identifiable information will be released by UNU-Merit or the Wikimedia Foundation without permission of the respondents. Personally identifiable data will also only be retained for a year from closure of the survey, except for participants who provide express permission to be included in a panel for a follow-on survey. I'm looking forward to seeing the first results, and I hope many of you will take the survey. :-)

Rvocations d'Administrateurs.

Budelberger, Richard — 2008-10-21T10:54:00

Bonjour ! J'en ai assez de ces administrateurs (bureaucrates, stewards, etc. d'autres gros mots) tous plus arrogants, incompétents et vandales les uns que les autres. Ils sont ignares (à part une ''valuable'' maîtrise des /manga/...), et considèrent généralement les Wikipedia comme leur propriété personnelle, d'où il convient de chasser tous les intrus. Ils trahissent les idéaux de la Fondation Wikimedia. Les pires de tous se trouvent dans la fr.Wikipedia (il conviendrait de les révoquer *en bloc* !). Mais d'autres ne sont pas mal non plus (bn, bg, wuu...). Je vous demande de participer à ma consultation du ''vulgum pecus'', à savoir nous : * ; *

Wikisource

Florence Devouard — 2008-10-19T09:03:34

Hello, A couple of weeks ago, I went to an event organized in Paris by the French Government about "economics of culture". During that event, I mentionned that the French chapter has several ongoing discussions with various museums to set up content partnerships. Here are two examples of such potential partnerships: * a small museum with very old and precious documents. The museum has limited room for access and documents are fragile, so only a few visitors are allowed to look at them. The museum wants to digitize these docs, but has limited technical infrastructure. Opportunity: we host their documents on wikisource and provide them additional visibility through an article on Wikipedia, featuring their best manuscripts. * a large museum already has a digitization procedure for the documents, as well as a hosting service. However, the digitized version contains mistakes (errors generated in the process) and the museum simply does not have the human power to provide the corrections of the numerous documents digitized by their services. Our members can take care of this task. Wikisources members know all that very well and much better than I. I just summarize that very quickly for reference. In Europe, at least in some countries, we meet several problems * many scholars have a rather bad image of Wikipedia (because written by amateurs, anonymous members, plagued by vandals etc...) * the other wikimedia projects have rather poor popularity and would benefit from more "light" * journalists are bored and need new information (otherwise, they focus on all the bad stories) * some projects are more difficult to advertise than others, because they are full competitors with other commercial projects of very good quality (eg, wiktionary, wikinews...) Besides, my feeling is that contributors and in particular members from chapters need a project on which they can team. I would like to propose that next year be Wikisource year. And since the planet is very large, if this is done in large part through chapters, that it be an opportunity for some european chapters to work together. I am not necessarily thinking of anything very complicated. Examples of efforts we could make together: * leaflets about wikisource updated and available in a large number of languages; * webbuttons to advertise the project on the web; * each time someone gives a conference about Wikipedia, take the opportunity to spend a couple of minutes of Wikisource as well; distribute leaflets; * summarize our best cases on Wikisource; * develop stories about these best cases. Illustrate. Feature these stories on chapter websites; * develop initiatives on projects for cross project challenges (eg, best article with content improved in at least 3 projects); * chapters may write and distribute a couple of press releases about wikisource; * chapters may propose conferences about wikisource (and speakers available to talk about it); * develop arguments for museums etc... Measures of success are numerous, from improvements of Wikisource (number of docs), number of mentions in the press, partnerships established with museums etc... What do you think ? Ant

Wikipedia in today's Questionable Content strip

Elias Friedman — 2008-10-17T08:28:33

No need to censor, people do know to turn off the images.... http://questionablecontent.net/

interwiki conflicts discussion

Amir E. Aharoni — 2008-09-21T13:21:13

Hello everyone, Interwiki conflicts are a pain. Bot operators receive warnings about them, but often do not fix them, probably because they are reluctant to tamper manually with projects in languages that they don't know. The result is that groups of interwiki-linked articles remain unmaintained. One technical solution that may ease this pain is Nikola Smolenski's "Interlanguage" extension. The central hub for its discussion is this page in meta: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link Being very eager about interlanguage linking, i decided to Be Bold and opened a MediaZilla request to enable this extension in Wikimedia projects. It is supposed to be discussed on wikitech-l. However, this is only a partial solution. Enabling this extension will make resolving conflicts technically easier, but it still must be done by a human editor. I am studying linguistics and i have a pretty good intuition for guessing the content of Wikipedia articles in languages that i don't know, so i often make thorough fixes in interwiki conflicts across different Wikipedias. Automatic translation sometimes helps, too. However, i cannot really know all languages and i cannot be familiar with all the different policies and cultures of different projects. Finally, it's way too much work for me to complete all by myself. Therefor, a culture of discussing this between Wikipedias needs to develop somehow. (Other Wikimedia projects can participate in this, too; i am familiar mostly with Wikipedia.) In another Being-Bold initiative, i started this page in meta: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_synchronization It's a very preliminary and experimental page. I have many more ideas about it, but it's a start. You are already welcome to comment on the case that i opened there, "Black box"; comments from French speakers are particularly needed. You are also welcome to add cases of your own. You are welcome to write a bot that will automate the implementation of the discussion outcomes. Etc. I hope that a new era of interwiki links is beginning.

the press release of NTT Resonant Company in Japan

mizusumashi（みずすまし） — 2008-09-20T12:14:26

Hi. I'm mizusumashi, and my home wiki is Japanese Wikipedia. In the press release of NTT Resonant Company in Japan on April 18, 2006, they announced that they cooperated with Wikipedia to provide web　service: http://help.goo.ne.jp/info/detail/619/ (Japanese web site) Are there any information about this by WMF? Can I read it? Sorry for my poor English. Thank you. ---- mizusumashi

Oops

Cary Bass — 2008-09-17T22:21:25

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just released a bunch of old postings held in moderation, looking at the senders (but not the dates). I'm sure all these threads are gone. Sorry to everyone. - -- Cary -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjRguUACgkQyQg4JSymDYmJTwCgkGcBsQeicmZbPNAS1dWNhzuq q4QAoJmMNzDT9t8STeB2bU00hZesU/cY =2LZr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

The Future of Wikiversity: How to make highereducation free once and for all.

Isaac Wojcik — 2007-08-25T18:57:28

Please read the following research paper. In the paper I describe how Wikiversity can be transformed into a real university that grants degrees to million of people for free. The paper is titled "The Industization of Education: Creating a Open Mega-Virtual University for the Developing World". I am presenting the paper at the 2007 World Confernce on E-Learning in Quebec and would like to get some freed back before hand. Thank you Isaac Wojcik _________________________________________________________________ A new home for Mom, no cleanup required. All starts here. http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r< at >public.gmane.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

Wikimedia Board Election is calling for endorsements

Christophe Henner — 2007-06-20T07:25:56

I'm posting it on behalf of Election Committee. -- Schiste Hi Wikimedians, As you may know, we are currently holding the Board of Trustees elections. We are very grateful to your collaborations for sharing the info, through translations, forwarding and other several ways. Last Sunday, June 17, the Board Election has entered its second phase: call for endorsements from the community to the candidates. Only candidates who get 12 or more endorsements in the following week will be able to run in the election. For further information, please see m:Board elections/2007/Endorsements. ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements ) We would appreciate your translation of this message as well as other Election related information. If you'd like to offer further help, just contact your language coordinator and regularly check the list of candidate statements. If there's no coordinator for your language, please consider joining our translations team. Please contact User:Schiste or User:Aphaia on meta if you have any question. Cheers, Wikimedia Election Steering Committee Usefull links: * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees The page about the Board of Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation website. * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007 Board of Trustees elections 2007 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Translations#Coordinators_by_languages Translations Coordinators * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates Candidates Statements

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Christophe Henner — 2007-06-20T07:16:44

Planet Wikimedia reminder :)

Erik Moeller — 2007-04-17T05:14:14

I would like to remind those of you who are bloggers to consider joining Planet Wikimedia, which has grown nicely in recent weeks: http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ (Polish also active, German about to go live) It shows recent wiki-tagged posts from Wikimedians on one page. You can add your blog by putting a request for inclusion on: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia Included blogs should tag their wiki-related posts, or be exclusively about the topic. This policy has made Planet Wikimedia, in my opinion, highly on topic and useful, and I would love to see it scale to hundreds of blogs eventually. Hence, no exceptions. ;-) For those of you from smaller projects: Think of this as an excellent opportunity to promote the best work your project is doing, to get new people excited about it. As an example of this principle, take a look what some English Wikinewsies are doing in the "Original Reporting" group blog: http://wikinewsreports.blogspot.com/ If you don't have a blog yet, you can set one up easily, e.g. at: http://wordpress.com/ or http://blogger.com