gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc

Seeking responses to Chapter Finances Survey to aid Funds Dissemination Process

Narayanan, Divya — 2012-05-11T17:22:10

Dear Chapter Leaders,



My name is Divya Narayanan and I am part of the team at The Bridgespan Group working with Wikimedia to design the Funds Dissemination Committee. We are currently working to define a process for the allocation of movement funds across the community.



We would appreciate your help in answering some questions about your chapter finances today and your thoughts on the future funds dissemination process. This information is essential to help design the FDC so that it can provide for the Wikimedia movements' current and future funding needs.



These questions can be found and answered on: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Chapter_Finances_Survey.



We would like all chapters to respond, regardless of budget, so we have a strong understanding of the current state and expectations for the coming financial year.



We need your input by Friday, May 25th, so that it can be considered by the Funds Dissemination Committee Advisory Group and can be used to develop r

отчёты о Тюркской конференции

Amir E. Aharoni — 2012-04-26T09:43:20

Здравствуйте,

Конференция в Алма-Ате была прекрасна.

Я начал публиковать отчёты по-английски:
1. http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/almaty-2012-intro/
2. http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/almaty-2012-chapters-walks/
3. http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/almaty-2012-master-class-china-devs/

Будут ещё. И постараюсь найти время написать по-русски.

Хотелось бы получить отчёты и от других участников :)

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Hello

rahul sharma — 2012-03-28T08:07:02

Off late to much of unnecessary.mails from this service.
folks make a good and wise use of this service.

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2012-03-26T12:12:05

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2012-03-26T12:11:26

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Agus Puryanto — 2012-03-26T02:06:03

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Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printingbooks

Samuel Klein — 2012-03-13T22:49:53

2010's 32-volume set will be its last.  (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old set!)  Future versions will be digital only.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica-halts-print-publication

Britannica president Jorge Cauz notes that their revenue from the
online encyclopedia was already 15x that of the print version -- 15%
of their total, compared to 1%.  Most of their revenue for years has
come from other targeted educational materials.  As he says in the
Guardian,

"Today our digital database is much larger than what we can fit in the
print set. And it is up to date because we can revise it within
minutes anytime we need to, and we do it many times each day."

SJ.

List of all wikipedia macros

Erick Fonseca — 2012-02-14T21:14:48

Greetings,

I'm writing a script to read Wikipedia dump files and generate raw
text from them, much like it would appear in a web browser.
At first, I ignored all macros, discarding anything between {{ ... }},
but I soon learned that some macros generate useful text. Now I need a
comprehensive list of all existing macros, to know which of them I
should treat.
As I believe some macros are language dependent, I am dealing with the
Portuguese Wikipedia.

Thank you for any help,
Erick

[OT?] Wikipedia on display at CES

Samuel Klein — 2012-01-09T08:04:49

Este año < at > CES (el 'Consumer Electronics
Showcase<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Showcase>'
en los EEUU), OLPC <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC> presenta un tablet
con una copia de WP:ES <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wikibrowse> en su
totalidad como el ejemplo de un texto educativo:

http://www.pcper.com/news/Mobile/CES-2012-One-Laptop-Child-get-tablet-too

(mostrando el articulo Astronomía)

Saludos,
SJ

[OT?] Wikipedia on display at CES

Samuel Klein — 2012-01-09T08:04:49

Este año < at > CES (el 'Consumer Electronics
Showcase<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Showcase>'
en los EEUU), OLPC <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC> presenta un tablet
con una copia de WP:ES <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wikibrowse> en su
totalidad como el ejemplo de un texto educativo:

http://www.pcper.com/news/Mobile/CES-2012-One-Laptop-Child-get-tablet-too

(mostrando el articulo Astronomía)

Saludos,
SJ

Creation of a new Wikipedia - Berber language (nativename: Tamazight)

Tussna . — 2011-12-08T15:09:05

Hoi iedereen / Hi all,

I've been reading your e-mails on Ahirani Wikipedia creation. And I wanted
to raise questions about the Berber Wikipedia project: *Wp/ber*

The proposal for a Berber Wikipedia (with the code: *ber*, *ISO 639-2 and ISO
639-5*) was rejected a while ago because Berber doesn't have an ISO 639-3
code. Although, it does have ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-5.

The Wikipedia board argued that Berber "is not a language but is a language
group".

The fact is: it is both.

The Wikipedia board advised to start multiple Berber Wikipedias for the
dozen of Berber dialects which do have ISO 639-3 codes (like Wp/rif,
Wp/shi, Wp/kab, and Wp/tzm). Some call them "languages" because they have
the ISO codes and thus have the status of "language".

But the motivation is low for the Berber dialects. Now the Berber language
(in its unified standard form) is official in the Moroccan constitution and
is recognized as a national language in Algeria's constitution, and is
taught in both countries' schools, there is a sol

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,

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

The UploadWizard is now the default interface foruploading images.

Gerard Meijssen — 2011-05-09T21:55:11

Hoi,
When you are uploading pictures the UploadWizard will provide the new
default interface. It has a much more intuitive interface and, you can
upload 10 pictures at a time.

Enjoy !! It is in my opinion a big step forward.

Thanks,
      GerardM

Knowledge

Marc Riddell — 2011-03-19T01:27:27

"It's the oldest temptation. Not gold or the power it can buy, not love, not
even the deep, drumming fires of lust: What we coveted first was knowledge."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lee_Carrell

"Haunt Me Still"
Chapter 1
Line 1

Volunteer translators needed for Vector rollout

Cary Bass — 2010-06-02T16:42:54

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Hi all!

In advance of the Vector rollout to the remaining top ten languages,
the UX team can use some help translating some pages from the English
Wikipedia; including central notice, a local PR page, and not least, a
local feedback page.

Languages still needing at least some work are: German, French,
Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish.  Thanks to
Marco 27 for the work he put in on the Italian Wiki.

The central coordination page is located here, on the Usability wiki:

<http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Releases/Default_Switch>

One thing I beg you to remember, is that translating these pages does
not necessarily imply endorsement with the Vector switch!  One comment
I received on IRC when I asked about it was: "But I don't like Vector,
I'm switching right back to Monobook when it rolls over".  Well, we
understand and appreciate that--and even more reason to help out with
putting a feedback page on your wiki, and permitting people who

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

(no subject)

David Mestel — 2010-04-04T08:22:19

http://ggyat.refutyeir.com

The imminent Usability improvements

Gerard Meijssen — 2010-03-24T09:23:40

Hoi,
After a long time of development, the software that brings much improved
usability is scheduled to go live around the end of April, the beginning of
May. This will mark a big change in the MediaWiki software. I expect that as
a consequence the composition of the "most used" messages will change. This
means that for those languages that have not localised the messages
associated with the usability initiative the quality of the user experience
will suffer.

While the benefits of the new software are obvious, it means that many
people will need to adjust to the new software. For people who speak English
it will be relatively easy but it is realistic that the people who do not
speak English will suffer.

It is for this reason that I urge everyone on behalf of the teams of both
the usability initiative and translatewiki.net to help us in a drive to have
at least 100 languages completely ready by the time of my birthday .. May 7.
I love surprises so I would not mind if I get more then I ask for :)

When you f

Fwd: [PRESS] Quality of Wikipedia entries depends onauthors'collaboration

Cary Bass — 2010-03-12T16:17:25

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Forwarding interesting article:

http://sify.com/news/quality-of-wikipedia-entries-depends-on-authors-collaboration-news-international-kdmpudgegha.html


Quality of Wikipedia entries depends on authors' collaboration

2010-03-12 15:20:00
Last Updated: 2010-03-12 15:38:12
A new research by an Arizona University Professor of Indian origin has
found that the quality of entries in Wikipedia depends on how authors
collaborate.

Sudha Ram, a UA's Eller College of Management professor, co-authored
the article with Jun Liu, a graduate student in the management
information systems department (MIS). Their report bagged the "Best
Paper Award" at the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems
held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information
Systems, or ICIS.

Ram, a McClelland Professor of MIS in the Eller College, said: Most of
the existing research on Wikipedia is at the aggregate level, looking
at total number of edits for an article, for example,

There is a Malayalam mobile Wikipedia homepage

Gerard Meijssen — 2010-03-02T20:55:58

Hoi,
Last week Thursday there was no localisation for the Malayalam wikipedi, it
did not have a mobile main page.. Today it is the first language of India
that has the best support we can offer to mobile telephones. According to
many, the mobile phone will generate much of our future traffic..

I hope and expect that India will amaze us and grow a vibrant and rich
community for all its languages.
Thanks,
     GerardM

http://ml.m.wikipedia.org