> On 9/26/06, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > As you may know, MediaWiki:Sidebar supports defining little boxes that
> > contain navigation links. de.wikipedia.org has used this to customize
> > its sidebar, for example.
> >
> > Should we have a sidebar with the heading "Wikimedia" containing links
> > to wikimediafoundation.org for things like:
> > - About Wikimedia
> > - Projects
> > - Volunteer (info about committees, mailing lists, etc.)
> > - Jobs (those we chooose to publicly advertise)
> > - Chapter information
> >
>
> I think is could a good idea to improve Wikimedia visibility. But 5 links
> are too much imo. If we already have a "Navigation" and a "Community"
> section, another one with 5 links would relegate the search box far away.
> Maybe we could add the 2 more relevant links in the "community" section ?
Prehaps below the toolbox would work instead (they are redesigning the
toolbar on Wikipedia and if it goes ahead one of the developers (Rob
Church I think?) is going to do a ptach for them). Couldn't we just
get a modified version of this and stick it below the toolbox like
they do on http://www.wikia.com . I like the idea of this and it would
definitely improve the visibility of the Wikimedia websites, the wikis
that are displayed in the one on Wikia always get loads more
attention.
The GFDL v2 draft contains the following:
[8b. WIKI RELICENSING
If the Work was previously published, with no Cover Texts, no
Invariant Sections, and no Acknowledgements or Dedications or
Endorsements section, in a system for massive public collaboration
under version 1.2 of this License, and if all the material in the Work
was either initially developed in that collaboration system or had
been imported into it before 1 June 2006, then you may relicense the
Work under the GNU Wiki License.]
Would anyone at the Wikimedia foundation like to make a public comment
about this?
Hi, sorry again for one of those unpersonal mails. And sorry for some
typos - I am not re-reading the mail and my "r"-key still creates problems.
I will crosspost this mail to several mailing lists that could be
interested as well, so you won't see the single recipients.
From your answers I noted that being in different time zones and having
different requirements we probably will not make it to do a real
OmegaT-course online - some also don't have Skype. So I will be online
for sure tomorrow morning from 07:00-09:00 UTC and on Thursday from
07:00-09:00 UTC (corresponds to 09:00-11:00 Italian time). I very likely
will not be here on Friday morning.
Anyway I am online normally every morning in the mentioned hours as well
as in the evening. I'll try to create a schedule I update on a daily
basis so that you can see when you can find me.
Therefore we will do it in a Q&A style in IRC on
irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-translation
I chose the #wikimedia-translation channel, because it is about
translating Wikipedia articles. The how-to material will be online by
tomorrow morning - so I'll give you the link to the various pages during
the Q&A.
Don't panic if you cannot be online tomorow morning for this: since the
poject will last for some time you will find me online for questions
whenever I am at the computer - and that is quite many hours of the day.
Download OmegaT:
Version 1.6 RC10 - including Java for Windows:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_and_JRE_Win_1.6.0_RC10.zip…
(you don't need to care about the installation of Java on your
computer or about updating it)
Version 1.6 RC10 - including Java for Linux:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_and_JRE_Lin_1.6.0_RC10.tar…
(you don't need to care about the installation of Java on your
computer or about updating it)
Version 1.6 RC10 without Java:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_1.6.0_RC10.zip?download
(here you need to have an updated Java version on your computer -
this works both for Windows and for Linux and OSX)
Most of the people adhering to this project will use Windows - so I am
going to work with only Windows during the next days.
Access to the Chat-channel: you can do this in various ways. If you
already have a chat-software installed (for example Chatzilla for
firefox) you simply connect to the channel like you do with othe channels.
If you don't have such software and would like to avoid doing tests here
and there now: there is also a web interface where you can access to the
channel - I tested it with Firefox and Internet Explorer - both work fine.
Go to the URL:
http://www.bitshuffle.org/cgiirc/
As for "Nickname: " choose a name for youself and overwrite the contents
of the box
As for "Server:" please subsitute the contents with: irc.freenode.net
As for "Channel:" please substitute the contents with:
#wikimedia-translation
Then click on login. It can take a minute or so to really access the
channel.
Now to the sample text we will use:
Please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmegaT
Click on edit
Select the whole of the contents
copy it (ctrl+c)
and paste it in an empty .txt file - save the file with UTF-8 (the
windows editor is great for doing that)
From there: we will see from tomorrow on in the chat.
The how to's will be online here:
http://wordsandmore.org/index.php?title=Wordsandmore:Persian_wikipedia_cont…
Actually there is the WikiRead-WikiWrite feature for OmegaT being
programmed - so as soon as we have this it will be introduced. For now
most files will reach you as .txt files (even if this means more
organisational work). The way of doing things like above would be the
actual way to go, but I don't want people, who are new to wiki and
OmegaT to learn too many things at once - it could create more poblems
than doing good.
During the next days the texts to be tanslated will be prepared and I
will start to distribute them among the included translators. You will
see a schedule for each involved translator online so that you also will
be able to see from there who is going to do what and when. The links
will be added to the project page where you also find the how to's.
The Chat-logs will be made available as well through the main project page.
What else: I suppose not much more right now. Well if you feel this can
be interesting for other people: just tell them :-)
Meet you in the chat then :-)
Cheers,
Sabine
*****
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s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it
skype: sabinecretella
IRC channels where you can find me:
irc://irc.freenode.net/wiktionaryzirc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-translationirc://irc.freenode.net/omegat
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Hi, sorry again for one of those unpersonal mails. And sorry for some
typos - I am not re-reading the mail and my "r"-key still creates problems.
I will crosspost this mail to several mailing lists that could be
interested as well, so you won't see the single recipients.
From your answers I noted that being in different time zones and having
different requirements we probably will not make it to do a real
OmegaT-course online - some also don't have Skype. So I will be online
for sure tomorrow morning from 07:00-09:00 UTC and on Thursday from
07:00-09:00 UTC (corresponds to 09:00-11:00 Italian time). I very likely
will not be here on Friday morning.
Anyway I am online normally every morning in the mentioned hours as well
as in the evening. I'll try to create a schedule I update on a daily
basis so that you can see when you can find me.
Therefore we will do it in a Q&A style in IRC on
irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-translation
I chose the #wikimedia-translation channel, because it is about
translating Wikipedia articles. The how-to material will be online by
tomorrow morning - so I'll give you the link to the various pages during
the Q&A.
Don't panic if you cannot be online tomorow morning for this: since the
poject will last for some time you will find me online for questions
whenever I am at the computer - and that is quite many hours of the day.
Download OmegaT:
Version 1.6 RC10 - including Java for Windows:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_and_JRE_Win_1.6.0_RC10.zip…
(you don't need to care about the installation of Java on your
computer or about updating it)
Version 1.6 RC10 - including Java for Linux:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_and_JRE_Lin_1.6.0_RC10.tar…
(you don't need to care about the installation of Java on your
computer or about updating it)
Version 1.6 RC10 without Java:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_1.6.0_RC10.zip?download
(here you need to have an updated Java version on your computer -
this works both for Windows and for Linux and OSX)
Most of the people adhering to this project will use Windows - so I am
going to work with only Windows during the next days.
Access to the Chat-channel: you can do this in various ways. If you
already have a chat-software installed (for example Chatzilla for
firefox) you simply connect to the channel like you do with othe channels.
If you don't have such software and would like to avoid doing tests here
and there now: there is also a web interface where you can access to the
channel - I tested it with Firefox and Internet Explorer - both work fine.
Go to the URL:
http://www.bitshuffle.org/cgiirc/
As for "Nickname: " choose a name for youself and overwrite the contents
of the box
As for "Server:" please subsitute the contents with: irc.freenode.net
As for "Channel:" please substitute the contents with:
#wikimedia-translation
Then click on login. It can take a minute or so to really access the
channel.
Now to the sample text we will use:
Please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmegaT
Click on edit
Select the whole of the contents
copy it (ctrl+c)
and paste it in an empty .txt file - save the file with UTF-8 (the
windows editor is great for doing that)
From there: we will see from tomorrow on in the chat.
The how to's will be online here:
http://wordsandmore.org/index.php?title=Wordsandmore:Persian_wikipedia_cont…
Actually there is the WikiRead-WikiWrite feature for OmegaT being
programmed - so as soon as we have this it will be introduced. For now
most files will reach you as .txt files (even if this means more
organisational work). The way of doing things like above would be the
actual way to go, but I don't want people, who are new to wiki and
OmegaT to learn too many things at once - it could create more poblems
than doing good.
During the next days the texts to be tanslated will be prepared and I
will start to distribute them among the included translators. You will
see a schedule for each involved translator online so that you also will
be able to see from there who is going to do what and when. The links
will be added to the project page where you also find the how to's.
The Chat-logs will be made available as well through the main project page.
What else: I suppose not much more right now. Well if you feel this can
be interesting for other people: just tell them :-)
Meet you in the chat then :-)
Cheers,
Sabine
*****
Sabine Cretella
s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it
skype: sabinecretella
IRC channels where you can find me:
irc://irc.freenode.net/wiktionaryzirc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-translationirc://irc.freenode.net/omegat
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[Argh... Reposting this, since the first mail apparently didn't reach
the list... :/]
Dear All,
a quick report from the 5th Birthday of the Polish Wikipedia, which
took place last Saturday.
We met at the Warsaw School of Economics around 5 p.m. After a brief
introduction by Justyna (Creative Commons Poland) Jimbo gave his talk
on Wikipedia and wikis in general, Polish Wikipedia and Wikia Poland.
After that there was a session of questions and answers (a bit too
long, perhaps, but quite interesting at times even to a long time
Wikipedian such as myself).
Next, we move to two very brief presentations by Wikimedia Poland
members: Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz outlined plwiki's first days and
history, I talked a bit about the future (as in the future of the
project and the future moves and goals of WMPL).
After that it was time to... party! We had a beautiful cake (see [1],
[2]) and champagne (see [3]). There was time for a few interviews and
some socializing. We also sung "Sto lat" ("Happy birthday").
Later we moved to a nearby pub for even more socializing, this time
without the media. You know, the usual geeky gathering - linux jokes,
the latest trolls on wikipl and all that stuff wikipedians like to
chat about. Alek (CCPL) even got Jimbo to drink something we call
"wściekły pies" (Polish for "rabid dog" - vodka with raspberry juice).
Don't worry, Jimmy survived it and only coughed for a little while. ;)
It was a very nice and cheerful event. The only downside was
attendance - we had thought more people would come. I can only hope that
next year there will be more interest.
[1] *The* Cake
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:5._urodziny_polskiej_Wikipedii_-_Wi…>
[2] Jimbo with *The* Cake
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:5._urodziny_polskiej_Wikipedii_-_Ji…>
[3] Champagne... and a lot of it
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:5._urodziny_polskiej_Wikipedii_-_Sz…>
[4] Wikimedians (and a few CC guys and gals ;))
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pi%C4%85te_urodziny_pl_wiki_rodzina…>
More photos here:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/5th_birthday_of_Polish_Wikipedia>
--
Lucas "TOR" Garczewski
President of Wikimedia Poland
Wikimedia projects exist in over 100 languages. Many of those
languages are spoken in countries which do not have chapters yet.
Would it be a worthwhile experiment, for every wiki that is in a
language without a chapter in the country/countries where it is
spoken, to put a note in the _registered user_ site notice, such as:
"If you are interested in starting a Wikimedia Foundation chapter in
[country/countries], please go to [page on Meta]"?
The process could be similar to the Wikinews language creation
process, i.e., there would have to be a minimum number of supporters,
who might also have to do some grunt work to prove commitment. Then
they would get their own chapter mailing list.
Unregistered readers would not see this notice.
We might define some preconditions for this:
1) Single login to make it easier to switch over to Meta
2) Logo / trademark agreements fully sorted out with existing chapters
3) Best practices document in place
4) Dismissable site notice so users won't be permanently annoyed by it.
But in general, do you think it's an idea worth exploring?
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, all views or opinions expressed
in this message are solely my own and do not represent an official
position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
Hi Everyone,
Bengali Wikipedia (http://bn.wikipedia.org ) has reached the milestone
of 10,000 articles today. This is the 50th language to reach the
milestone, and the 2nd language from South Asia to do so.
Bengali is spoken by almost 220-250 million people, making it the 7th
largest language in terms of total speakers. Bengali Wikipedia has
seen a growth from 500 articles in March 2006 to 10,000 as of now.
There are now 20-25 active editors who edit Bengali wikipedia on a
regular basis. These editors are mainly from Bangladesh, and also from
West Bengal (India). The main thrust has been the Bangladesh Open
Source Network (BDOsn), and the Bangla Wiki project, which has raised
awareness, involved the media, and recruited more editors to work on
Bengali Wikipedia.
We also have article improvement projects, aiming at having at least
1000 or so Good articles (similar to English wikipedia) by May 2007.
Thanks
Ragib
bn:User:Ragib
en:User:Ragib
--
Ragib Hasan
PhD Student
Dept of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
201 N Goodwin Avenue
Urbana IL 61801
Website:
http://www.ragibhasan.comhttp://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/www
Even better news.
The board approved a conflict of interest policy by 4 support, 1 abstention.
I invite all participants to the projects to read it.
Resolution:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Conflict_of_interest
Policy: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_policy
Pledge of personal commitment:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Pledge_of_personal_commitment
This pledge will be publicly hosted on WMF website, and shall be
reconducted at least once per year.
Conflict of Interest Questionnaire:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Conflict_of_Interest_Questionnaire
This questionnaire will have to be filled up and modified each time the
situation change. It will be reviewed by the legal counsellor and be
viewable upon request by board members only.
This policy applies to the Foundation’s board members, officers, and
executives.
I will consequently ask that
* all 5 board members
* all staff members
1) Fill the pledge and post it on Foundation website themselves under
their own user account before 45 days.
2) Send an email with the pledge and their signature on this very list
before 45 days.
3) Fill up the questionnaire and send it to Brad, who shall be the
repository of these documents and so, before 45 days.
Since any board member can request to see these documents anytime, I
suggest the best choice is that Brad (as legal counsel) post the
questionnaire of each board member and staff member on the board wiki.
These documents will have to be posted by Brad on the board wiki before
46 days from today (The board wiki is accessible only to Brad and the
board).
Brad will have to ensure that any person having forgotten to fill up
pledge and questionnaire, will be personnaly reminded at least 10 days
before the deadline by email or any suitable trackable method (phone is
not).
I recommand that all staff and board members make the extra effort to
fill up these questionnaires before the board retreat. Though it is not
mandatory, it will be considered a good move and greatly appreciated.
Staff and board members will also note that they should mention any
change of their situation with respect with that policy as soon as
possible. Failure to respect decent times will be considered bad will
and prone to sanction.
Board members are reminded that they should retract voluntarily and
spontaneously from any vote which might cause a conflict of interest.
They are reminded as well that they should notify the board when their
participation to a vote might be perceived by the board or others to
cause a conflict of interest.
Failure to respect this policy can lead to be removed from the
organisation, and this, whether staff or board member.
Florence Devouard
24 of september 2006 (considered to be official date of notification).
Yes, you can take a "inside room" in the Grand Hotel. BTW, it should be
called as "Budget Room".
http://www.grand-hotel.org/newsite/html/e/ci01.htm
Also there are many nice hotels nearby CTOYAC and they can be easily reached
from Jian-Tan station by using the Metro Rapid Transportation of Taipei.
Best regards,
H.T.
EN:WP:User:Htchien
ZH:WP:User:Htchien
-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ray Saintonge
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:23 PM
To: valdelli(a)bluemail.ch; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
valdelli(a)bluemail.ch wrote:
>Good news,
>considering that all is paid by sponsorship (Halls and rooms,
>accomodations, catering) I think that these strong opportunities could
>offer to the wikipedians the incentive to make a long journey in a
>pleasant town.
>
>In any case I don't understand if only 450 beds are paid for
>sponsorship or if the sponsors will pay all 889 beds (http://meta.
>wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007/Taipei#Accommodation) because a room
>in a Grand Hotel is expensive.
>
I saw the hotel room quotes for the Grand Hotel. I stayed there in 1981
after being advised to ask for an "inside room"; the price for that was
quite reasonable compared to the regular price. Are any of the given quotes
for an inside room?
Ec
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