http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/55 <pre>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&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org You can subscribe to it at this link: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/languages Thanks, JP Béland alias Amqui _______________________________________________ Incubator mailing list Incubator-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator </pre> JP Béland 2012-09-03T23:36:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/54 <pre>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 &lt;http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:News/2011_report&gt;. === Approvals === * The Wikipedia in Veps (a Uralic language spoken by about 6,000 people) has been created. &lt;http://vep.wikipedia.org/&gt; * The Wiktionary in Punjabi (in Shahmukhi script) has been created. &lt;http://pnb.wiktionary.org/&gt; * 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. &lt;http://mr.wikisource.org/&gt; * The Wikipedia in Lezgian (a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 784,000 people) is approved by the committee. &lt;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Lezgi&gt; === Requ</pre> Robin Pepermans 2012-02-03T20:03:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/53 <pre>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</pre> MF-Warburg 2011-12-28T21:37:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/52 <pre>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</pre> Robin Pepermans 2011-10-02T22:46:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/51 <pre> 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, </pre> wheredevelsdare-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org 2011-09-10T10:12:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/50 <pre>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</pre> Robin Pepermans 2011-08-31T18:46:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/48 <pre>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 &lt;http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nl&gt; refers you to the Dutch Wikipedia and &lt;http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/xmf&gt; 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 </pre> Robin Pepermans 2011-08-25T21:35:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/47 <pre>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 (&lt;http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-July/054328.html&gt;), the Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the Unicode Consortium. </pre> Robin Pepermans 2011-08-03T21:11:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/45 <pre>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 &lt; http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es &gt; gives a nice welcome page that refers you to the existing wiki. Pages like &lt; http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es/Page &gt; 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 &lt; http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es&amp;goto=mainpage &gt; will refer you directly to the existing wiki. What is not yet included (coming later):</pre> Robin Pepermans 2011-07-17T00:39:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/44 <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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/43 <pre>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. </pre> Robin Pepermans 2011-07-01T19:24:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/42 <pre>*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. *</pre> Robin Pepermans 2011-06-01T19:30:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/40 <pre> 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 </pre> Hydriz Wikipedia 2011-05-23T13:31:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/38 <pre>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... </pre> Srikant Kedia 2011-04-01T11:06:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/36 <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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/35 <pre>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</pre> Marcin Cieslak 2010-04-29T01:48:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/31 <pre>The Meadow Mari Wikipedia has been created yesterday, and the content has been transferred by MF-Warburg. It was an urgent request, because today (10 July) there is a big conference for the Mari people, so the Mari Wikipedia can be introduced to them. --&gt; http://mhr.wikipedia.org/ (if it shows "wiki does not exist", refresh the page; there seems to be some problems with the cache) Greetings, SPQRobin </pre> Robin P. 2009-07-10T10:34:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/28 <pre>Dear Wiki incubator, My name is Duc. First of all, God bless Wiki. I do not know whether this mail address is right or wrong. I have a company in Korea for online game service and I hope its name can use "wiki". It will be wikigame and wikiple. Wikigame means only for game service and Wikiple means the people who use wiki whatever. For now wikigame.com is owned by someone else who I do not know while wikiple.com is owned by me. The name Wikiple is created by me and this means to connect all people in the world who use wiki service to make our world better and in effective way. My philosophy is to go with end users and the poors. We plan to donate to them abt 5-10% of Net profit from our service and this will be also helpful to other wiki services under the name of "wiki". Here I would like to ask 2 things; 1st, could we use wikiple.com without your permission? 2nd, we want to join one of your wiki service group. Is this possible? We are very small company of 10 persons. I do not know whether yo</pre> LEE YONG DEUK 2009-06-21T05:31:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/24 <pre>TO: Incubator-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Hi, I'm Lalchhuansanga Pachuau, from Mizoram State of India. I want to start Mizo Wikipedia (http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/lus). Now, I and my friends start working on Khampat .COM (http://www.khampat.com), the Mizo web-portal and we are planning to host an wiki encyclopedia (we called it Wikipatdia) and hosting on http://wiki.khampat.com. But, now we found out that there is a chance that you can host(?) Mizo Wikipedia. So, we are contacting you for how to start it. And, we want to ask these: 1. How many articles you need for us to start Mizo Wikipedia? 2. Who will manage the front page (Main_Page)? 3. Can we/I have more/advanced access regarding the administration by myself or my team? We are waiting for your response. N.B: We already have some knowledge on Mediawiki software, you can check out at http://wiki.khampat.com Thanking you, Lalchhuansanga Pachuau Administrator Khampat .COM </pre> Lalchhuansanga Pachuau 2009-06-11T22:53:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/23 <pre>Wikimedia IRC community, I invite you to read the following announcement and then, if you wish to discuss it, join us on meta at &lt;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IRC/Group_Contacts/Noticeboard&gt;. I am pleased to announce that the IRC Group Contacts team has been changed over to a new group with a strong manifesto. James Forrester, previously chair of the group, has stepped down due to real life commitments inhibiting him from being as active as he once was. On behalf of everyone who uses IRC I'd like to thank him for all the work he has put into the role, and personally I thank him for his guidance while I was deputy IRC Group Contact in fulfilling the role as best as possible; it was invaluable advice. With James leaving the post of chair, I have taken on this role and I now have three new deputies: Casey Brown [[m:User:Cbrown1023]] kibble on IRC, Filip Maljkovic [[m:User:Dungodung]] dungodung on IRC, and Ryan [[m:User:Rjd0060]] Rjd0060 on IRC. James and I, with the involvement of these three and a sm</pre> Sean Whitton 2009-06-11T21:03:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator/20 <pre>Hi,   I think Wiki Incubator makes it really too hard to find a new incubator list. Last night I was on the page for the project for a Jamaican language Wikipedia, and I signed up and contributed articles. Now I can't find that page for the life of me. I think you should do something to make it easier to find links to these things. All I can find links to is individual articles, but not to the list that shows all the articles for that language.   username: Eric Kojo </pre> Eric Caju 2009-05-09T22:17:22 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.incubator