http://blog.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1660 <pre>Hi everyone, This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can read about him at &lt;http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin&gt;. Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT). The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always 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. Go ahead. </pre> Cary Bass 2009-10-06T18:57:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1659 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, this is a reminder that office hours will be tomorrow, Thursday, October 1, at 1600 UTC (9:00 AM PDT) and feature Rand Montoya. The IRC channel that will be hosting Rand's conversation will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always 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. Go ahead. The channel is also available through the Wikizine site at http://chat.wikizine.org/ and picking one of the two gateways, while choosing "wikimedia-office" from the dropdown on the next page. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrD5c4AC</pre> Cary Bass 2009-09-30T23:12:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1658 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! This Thursday, October 1, 2009 between 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM PDT (UTC 16:00 and 17:00) Rand Montoya, Wikimedia's Head of Community Giving will be joining us for office hours. Rand will be online to answer your questions and talk about the role of fundraising for the Wikimedia Foundation and the upcoming Fundriaser. The IRC channel that will be hosting Rand's conversation will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always 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's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate PS: I'll be sending a follow up email to start a thread to discuss the times of the office hours. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4</pre> Cary Bass 2009-09-28T21:41:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1657 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just a reminder about today's office hours with Sue Gardner. Just as a note, we're planning alternating the Friday 22:30 UTC office hours with Thursday 16:00 UTC, which is much easier on our European participants. Cary - -------- As a result of the success of the Strategy planning office hours and the recent "meet the board" presentation on the #wikimedia channel on IRC, we've decided to do regular office hours featuring a Wikimedia Foundation staff member. And to kick things off, this Friday, September 25, 2009, between 15:30 and 16:30 PDT (UTC 22:30 to 23:30), Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, will be online to answer your questions and talk about her role in the Foundation and plans for the future. The IRC channel that will be hosting Sue's conversation, and all future WMF staff office hours, will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access Freenode by going to http://w</pre> Cary Bass 2009-09-25T18:51:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1656 <pre>Hello all! As a result of the success of the Strategy planning office hours and the recent "meet the board" presentation on the #wikimedia channel on IRC, we've decided to do regular office hours featuring a Wikimedia Foundation staff member. And to kick things off, this Friday, September 25, 2009, between 15:30 and 16:30 PDT (UTC 22:30 to 23:30), Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, will be online to answer your questions and talk about her role in the Foundation and plans for the future. The IRC channel that will be hosting Sue's conversation, and all future WMF staff office hours, will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always 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's fine. </pre> Cary Bass 2009-09-21T18:18:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1654 <pre>generally felt to be worthwhile, so I'd like to have another meeting on Thursday April 9 at 21:00UTC. That's 5PM in Philidelphia, for example. Once again, I've started a section on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/Community-building for this session with 2 topics to discuss: changing FlaggedRevs configuration and coordinating feedback about Collections. Hopefully people will be able to make it, especially those who couldn't last time. We'll be meeting in #wikibooks on irc.freenode.net as usual. Anyone who's interested can come - listen, participate, whatever! See you there -Mike ---- Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org </pre> Mike.lifeguard 2009-04-04T22:28:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1653 <pre>After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites. This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce too many new ones. :) * Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811) As usual in addition to lots of offline and individual testing among our staff and volunteer developers, we've done a shakedown on http://test.wikipedia.org/ -- and as usual we can fully expect a few more issues to have cropped up that weren't already found. Don't be alarmed if you do find a problem; just let us know at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or on the tech IRC channels (#wikimedia-tech on Freenode). We should be resuming our weekly update schedule soon -- I won't be doing a mega-crosspost like this every week! -- and will continue to improve our pre-update staging and shakedown testing to keep disruption to a minimum and awesome improvements to a maximum. I'd also like to announce that we've started a blog </pre> Brion Vibber 2009-03-25T13:22:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1652 <pre>Apologies in advanced for the cross-posting. :-) Please circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers and other people that may be interested! This call is also online at http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation == Call for Participation == Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and Wikimedia Commons). The conference is a community gathering, giving the editors and users 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 from '''August 26-28''' in Buenos Aires, Argen</pre> Casey Brown 2009-02-22T15:20:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1648 <pre>Hi Sorry for the spam like email but this is just an email to let you all know about the Wikimania 2008 Call for Participation. I have included this below, and the page can also be found on the Wikimania wiki &lt; at &gt; http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation. Please do forward this onto any local project mailing lists or anyone else who may be interested in this. Also there are translations in the following languages: de/Deutsch&lt;http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Call_for_Participation/de&amp;uselang=de&gt; es/ &lt;http://tr_1203787823173&gt;Español&lt;http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Call_for_Participation/es&amp;uselang=es&gt; fr/ &lt;http://tr_1203787823178&gt;Français&lt;http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Call_for_Participation/fr&amp;uselang=fr&gt; ja/日本語&lt;http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Call_for_Participation/ja&amp;uselang=ja&gt; pt/Português&lt;http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Call_for_Participation/pt&amp;uselang=pt&gt; sv/Svenska&lt;htt</pre> Mark (Markie 2008-02-23T18:00:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1647 <pre>[Please translate this announcement into other languages.] Wikipedia's roots in the more conservative Nupedia project are reflected by many in-depth discussions we've had over the years about quality assurance, filtering, and labeling. In her "4 wishes for the year 2007" [1], Wikimedia Foundation Chair Florence Devouard also identified "reliability" as a key goal for the Wikimedia Foundation. Today we're taking two small steps towards that goal: * the launch of http://quality.wikimedia.org/ as a portal targeting readers and volunteers to summarize key information about current quality initiatives, combined with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquality as a more in-depth description of our plans, * the opening of wikiquality-l as a mailing list for related discussions: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquality-l Notably, these pages describe our current plans with regard to the "FlaggedRevs" extension, a MediaWiki extension developed by Aaron Schulz and Jörg Baach (with financial support</pre> Erik Moeller 2007-09-17T20:58:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1644 <pre>... at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedian_pubs Of course, if such thing already exists, let me know that. </pre> Milos Rancic 2007-04-09T14:05:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1643 <pre>I'm (re)sending this to lots of lists -- people, we need more submissions! Please be bold in sending us your papers -- we'd love to see you in Taiwan this year. :-) Please forward to other relevant lists as well! See http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation/distribution for the ones we've already covered. Erik - - - - Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will be held from August 3-5, 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center. For more information, please visit the Wikimania site: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/ Send your submissions through: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops, and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers and speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Ple</pre> Erik Moeller 2007-04-08T00:18:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1642 <pre>I've started the following page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Toolset to collect a list of open source tools &amp; open formats that are commonly used to support Wikimedia projects. Mainly, this is for external tools, rather than those developed within our community, though I don't mind if it is expanded to cover both. The purpose of having this page is to better inform decision-making processes on all levels: * directing volunteers who want to help us to work on particularly useful open source projects * directing editors to tools that help them with their day-to-day work * possibly, even (when the Foundation is a bit more sustainable) considering awarding development grants to some of them, or at least helping them to pursue them by endorsing their grant proposals to other organizations * identifying key "missing pieces" that are not covered or not covered well by the existing toolset (this might be a separate list). I know many of you use specialized tools that are not well known. There are </pre> Erik Moeller 2007-04-02T03:46:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1641 <pre>Bonjour, Des critiques sont régulièrement faites aux Wikipédiens et à Wikimédia France à propos du traitement inégal entre Wikipédia et les autres projets francophones, à savoir Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource et Wikiversity. J'aimerais éclaircir un peu les choses. 1. Wikipédia est célèbre, les autres projets pas. C'est un constat, pas un point de vue. Wikipédia est le 10e site le plus visité en France. Wikipédia est cité dans la presse écrite, des émissions lui sont consacrées à la radio et on en parle à la télévision. Pourquoi ? Parce que le projet intéresse, soulève des questions. Et surtout, parce que le sujet est polémique et qu'il fait vendre. Une candidate socialiste invente un mot qui se retrouve dans l'encyclopédie ? Un /College/ américain interdit à ses étudiants la citation de Wikipédia comme source ? Un hoax à propos de la mort d'un acteur américain has-been circule grâce à Wikipédia ? C'est de l'événementiel. Ça intéresse la mén</pre> Guillaume Paumier 2007-03-27T13:00:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/1640 <pre>We have just launched http://planet.wikimedia.org/ , which is an aggregator for all on-topic wiki-related weblog (blog) posts by participants in Wikimedia projects. The planet can be found at: http://planet.wikimedia.org/ To get added, please follow the instructions at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia This is a kind of beta test, and right now, the planet is in the English language; however, I have prepared a process for requesting new languages to be set up here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia/New_language So please add your support if you wish to aggregate blog posts in another language. Again, this is for on-topic posts, not for diary entries. All feeds must either point to a blog which is almost exclusively about wikis, or filtered (WordPress, Blogger and other common blog engines all support filtered feeds by categorizing your posts, e.g., adding the "wiki" category to all posts which you want to be included in the planet). If this makes you feel uncomfortable, yo</pre> Erik Moeller 2007-03-11T02:20:30 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook