Brion:
> If the project ever actually makes it as far as having some software, of
> course it would be publicly tested first. So far as I know no code has
> been written
I'm actively working on it, though of course I'm not going to commit
something incomplete to CVS. It will still be a while until we get from
where we are to a working implementation (I'll post an updated timetable
on Meta soon). This is a very large project and I want to get it right
instead of hacking together some simplistic template-based solution over
a weekend. It needs to be flexible and scalable beyond UW itself.
So, personally, I think a discussion about the usefulness of UW is at
this point a bit premature, as the development has been funded and is
underway, and the decision about whether we want to do this should be
made when people have had a chance to look at a working prototype and
comment on it.
There will be no automatism; just because someone develops something,
it's not necessarily going to be used or even accepted into MediaWiki
itself. Gerard's article is a solid presentation of his view on where we
are going to take this, which I share, but it should be self-evident
that this can only happen with the approval and support of the community.
Best,
Erik
Hi all,
Japanese Wiktionary has been unlocked since Monday, June 12, just
after four months locking period to restart. After re-launching, over
60 new articles have been submitted and some were speedily deleted ;-)
Thank you for your help, encouragement and understanding during our
hardest days and your help and cooperation for re-launching project
will be appreciated as well as former ones.
Valeto,
--
Aphaea(a)*.wikipedia.org
email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com
Hello,
I'm glad the set up information of the Japanese edition of Wikinews.
We think about the problem in the Japanese Copyright Law.
While the Japanese version of Wikinews would be related to it, I heard that it doesn't give Japanese leave to relinquish any copyright or make their copyright make PD.
Eloquence suggests us to use CC-by-2.5.
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eloquence)
It helps us, but we should confirm the others' opinions.
--Qqqqq http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:%E3%81%A3
Hoi,
As a result of our exploring opportunities for Ultimate Wiktionary, I
was pointed to LISA the Localisation Industry Standards Association. I
downloaded some information and was asked afterwards for some
information. This in turn led to the question if I was willing to write
an article about Wikimedia and localisation. So I did. It can be found
here: http://www.lisa.org/globalizationinsider/
Thanks,
GerardM
As per the previously noted agreement, I hereby announce the intent to
set up the Russian and Japanese editions of Wikinews. Both meet the
formal requirements and have translated the key pages. Should there be
no specific objections, I will do so in 7 days or later.
Best,
Erik
Dear all,
Please note below communication about the changes to voter
eligibility. The election officials have unanimously decided to change
the wording on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_W…
to read:
"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May
30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote.
The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of
voting."
Cheers,
Bjarte Sorensen, Assistant Election Official
> On 13/06/05, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > A highlight from the first board meeting this month:
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/June_7%2C_2005
> >
> > "The election committee is advised to discuss with their technical
> > contact the software required for the election, and to determine
> > whether the 400 edit limit is technically feasible."
> >
> > Has there been any meeting with Tim yet to check the software will
> > meet your requirements?
> >
> > Angela
> >
>
On 14/06/05, Bjarte Sørensen <bjarte.sorensen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I spoke to Tim earlier about this, and he said it is not difficult to
> check for 400 edits on ONE project, neither is it difficult to check
> the date of the first edit. It IS hard/impossible to check across more
> than one wiki. When we in the end decided that it was going to be
> allowable to vote for people with 400 edits in TOTAL, I assumed that
> we were going to manually check for this with anyone who appealed to
> us. However, it's been pointed out several times the flaw with this as
> people may have different user names on different projects, IP numbers
> are not stored for long enough to check whether two users are editing
> from the same computers, and the whole thing could potentially be
> abused. Not to mention the extra work... :)
>
> So based on this, I propose that we change the current wording
>
> "In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits in total on the
> Wikimedia projects prior to 0:00 May 30, 2005 (UTC) and at least one
> of those must have been 90 days before the time of voting."
>
> to
>
> "In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May
> 30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote.
> The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of
> voting."
>
> From what I understood when I spoke to Tim, this should be fairly
> easy, but I'll run it by him before we put it up on meta.
>
> Everyone agrees?
>
> Cheers, Bjarte Sorensen
>
I'm forwarding this to Foundation-l since Wikisource has no list of
its own yet. Is anyone able to help with this issue or provide
comments on it please?
Angela
---- Forwarded message from tanter <tanter(a)tarleton.edu> ----
Date:
From: tanter
To: board
Cc:
Reply-To:
Subject: [Ticket#: 126217-FW] Emily Dickinson poems
> Hello. On your site, you have posted poems by Emily Dickinson at this
> URL:
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Emily_Dickinson. You need to be aware
> that
> these poems are NOT in the public domain. Harvard University owns the
> copyright to all of Emily Dickinson's poems published in the 1955 and
> later
> editions of her poetry. The editions from the 1890s are public domain
> but the
> ones you seem to have posted are from the Harvard edition. I haven't had
> time
> to go through them all, but I suggest you have an editor review this
> because
> you may be violating copyright.
>
>
>
>
>
---- End forwarded message ----
Hi,
Wikimania's call for papers has concluded, and the Program Committee has
finished reviewing the submissions. Almost 90 proposals for
presentations, workshops, papers, and posters were submitted and almost
60 were accepted as part of the official program. We are currently
notifying all authors - this may take a while because the organising
team is rather small and we are not using a special software for
conference planning (for instance Pentabarf) but a wiki.
We are currently soliciting volunteers to help edit the official
conference proceedings, hosted by Wikibooks[1]. In true Wiki form, the
proceedings will be open to editing by anyone, but we're looking for a
few reliable people to oversee the process. We also need a few
volunteers to liaise with the authors of accepted papers and assist with
program coordination. If either of these tasks interests you, please
add yourself at wikibooks and contact cfp(a)wikimedia.org or find us in
#wikimania on Freenode.
Greetings,
Jakob
[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05
I am posting this to foundation-l and wikitech-l, because there is both
a technical and a policy aspect here.
A small but growing group of Wikinews contributors is actively making
audio recordings of Wikinews stories. This effort is coordinated here:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews
The files are uploaded to the Commons in Ogg Vorbis format. Now, two
members of this group have started to also produce a streamed version of
this, which is broadcast at specific times -- effectively Internet
radio. This could grow into a real independent wikiradio project which
perhaps could encompass more than just news. The usefulness of realtime
broadcasting for news should be obvious.
The current Wikinews page is at:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:WikiNews_Network
Now, here is our dilemma:
Streaming audio in realtime requires special software. WNN currently
uses ShoutCast, which is not free/open source software. It is also not
hosted on Wikimedia's servers, but on the server of one of our
contributors. (We have the same issue with the print edition, but I'll
try to resolve this separately.)
Do we want to run this on our own servers? If so, there is a free
software implementation called Icecast. Would it be possible to securely
set up an Icecast server for this purpose on our hardware?
If we don't want to run it on our servers, should we allow it to be
called "Wikinews Network", or should it use a different name?
Should we set any specific limits for the project's scope beyond NPOV,
or should we let it experiment freely with the format for the time
being? (There was some talk about ads on the program, but I made it
clear that this was absolutely impossible.) As for NPOV, a wiki-radio
project might want to broadcast news *about* the wiki community; do
these have to strictly adhere to NPOV (the German Wikipedia:Kurier, for
example, does not)?
Best,
Erik