Daniel Mayer wrote:
>Only 45 subscriptions set-up so far (linking contributing membership to that
>and sending people wampum - t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, etc - for donating at
>certain levels will increase that).
>
>Counting both monthly and yearly/12 we can expect to gross:
>
>373.24 USD per month*
>
This is actually already a solid accomplishment - that total is almost
as much as what total monthly donations amounted to earlier this year,
when fundraising was at its lowest ebb. Naturally, I hope this will
continue to increase.
--Michael Snow
Well, here are my answers re wikipeople.
1 Should this project exist?
If there are people who want it, I don't see why not.
2 Should the current Sep11 wiki articles be moved here?
This is a question which should be determined by the people who use the
wiki.
3 Should the Sep11 wiki be removed and redirected to Wikipeople?
That should be up to the people who use the sep11 wiki.
4 Should the creation of this project wait until a Wikidata structure
exists?
I've never heard of Wikidata, so no.
5 Should Wikidata be a project that can hold both Wikipeople and
Wikispecies?
Definitely not. Wikispecies and Wikipeople are completely different
projects created for completely different reasons. Wikispecies is supposed
to be a language neutral subset of Wikipedia. Wikipeople is largely
supposed to be for information not in Wikipedia.
6 Should this be a project in its own right with no links to Sep11 wiki or
Wikispecies?
Certainly.
7 Which domain should be used?
If we own wikipeople.org, that would be the best.
Anthony
Thanks for the information. I think we should spend more effort on getting
those monthly donations, which will be very useful to maintaining the running
costs. Can we, in this final week of the fundraising drive, set a goal, even
minimal, of $1,000 per month?
Danny
Hi,
Mandrakesoft, the company which created and sells the Linux distribution, is
interested to distribute a DVD with an English and French version of
Wikipedia. This DVD will be sold in their web site and included with the next
distribution, due in next April.
Mandrakesoft will take legal responsibilities for this publication and is
ready to donate some money to the Wikimedia Foundation. The amount is still
to be decided.
Mandrakesoft wants that we provide them with a master DVD, and would like to
complete this first edition for Christmas.
As you may have noticed, a mention about this was included in the press
release and the newsletter with the authorization of Mandrakesoft who will
also publish a press release about this project.
The summary below is also available on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Mandrakesoft
== Points fixed so far ==
* It will first be sold on Mandrake web site, then included in the next
version of the distribution.
* It will include only the current version of the English and French
distribution. Mandrakesoft publishes a French version sold in French speaking
countries and an English (international) version sold elsewhere in the world.
The English Wikipedia will be sold with the international version of Mandrake
Linux.
* Mandrakesoft asks that the Wikimedia Foundation provide them with a master
DVD.
* Mandrakesoft will take the legal responsibility for this publication.
* Fair use images should be removed as the publication has to comply with
worldwide copyright standards, not US only. Also images without proper
licensing information have to be removed.
== Questions that need answering ==
* Do we include only complete articles or the whole of Wikipedia including
stubs?
* How do we package it? Several possibilities, see the page on meta.
== What you can do ==
So we need some help to complete this project.
* Work is needed to provide proper lisensing information on all images in the
English Wikipedia.
* Help packaging. Help with technical knowledge is needed here. Med and
Hashar, among others, are already working on this.
Thanks,
Yann
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After discussing the creation of Wikipeople on IRC this evening, I am
no longer convinced that there is a consensus about what the proposed
project is supposed to be.
Personally, I had thought it was supposed to take over what is
currently the September 11 memorial wiki, but perhaps I was mistaken
about that being its aim due to the fact the discussion of Wikipeople
started out at the Wikimorial page on Meta.
I think a lot of questions need answering before the project can be created.
For example:
1 Should this project exist?
2 Should the current Sep11 wiki articles be moved here?
3 Should the Sep11 wiki be removed and redirected to Wikipeople?
4 Should the creation of this project wait until a Wikidata structure exists?
5 Should Wikidata be a project that can hold both Wikipeople and Wikispecies?
6 Should this be a project in its own right with no links to Sep11
wiki or Wikispecies?
7 Which domain should be used?
If anyone has opinions on the above points, please make them at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipeople so that an informed
decision can be made about whether to create this project and what its
aim is supposed to be.
Thanks.
Angela.
A new multilingual mailing list has been set up for people interested
in translations of wikimedia content. You can sign up here :
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
The list will announce new content for translation as soon as it is
created, and provide a place to talk about the progress of
translations. New content includes new Mediawiki: messages and
sitewide notices, and important changes to pages on the
wikimediafoundation site.
--SJ
BBC's "Go Digital" radio programme
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm), have contacted me
about doing an interview for them. They would also like to speak to
someone outside of Europe or the US. The interview will be focusing on
the fact Wikipedia has just reached one million articles, and will
have a global slant since the World Service program goes out
worldwide. The interview could be by phone, or, preferably, in a
studio if someone who lives near a BBC studio could be found. They are
particularly looking for someone who is able to talk about the use of
Wikipedia in their country, not only the editing of it.
I don't know the exact date of when this will happen, but they are
phoning me back to tomorrow hoping for a contact for the other part of
the report.
If anyone would be interested in being interviewed for this, please
contact me as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Angela.
Sometimes I like to have several 'pedias open at once, in tabs,
and it would be nice if they had different favicons. These icons
are in the tabs, so if they did, I could tell which pedia was
in a tab quickly.
I have made some simple ones for Meta, Wikibooks and Wikiquote,
and was wondering if someone could put them on the wikis. They
are at http://yath.phreadom.net/wikicons/.
Thanks!
P.S. They are now a little more internationalized than the ones I
mentioned on wikimedia-l.
On Sep 22, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Bryan Derksen wrote:
> My impression was that this isn't going to be a "reviewed" 1.0-style
> Wikipedia, but rather a plain old snapshot that's had all the images
> lacking the correct licencing tags automatically stripped out, and
> possibly the articles with {{stub}} in them stripped out as well
> (personally I think stubs should be left in, but IMO it's probably not
> a major issue either way). The downside of this approach is that it's
> bound to catch a few articles in a "bad" state, but the upside is that
> it will actually be possible to do it in the timeframe needed.
Certainly we could give them a stripped dump in that timeframe, but I
think they'd be wasting a lot of money pressing it to disc in that
state. I can't support this as described.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hi,
Capitalisation is now only an option in the French Wiktionary.
So, f.e., now [[allemand]] and [[Allemand]] are two different articles.
All language names are lower cases in French.
Thanks,
Yann
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