<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>Are you interested in red carpet photography,
or reporting on the Academy Awards? I'm trying to get one reporter for
Wikinews, and one photographer for Wikimedia Commons/Wikinews/Wikipedia into
the whole red carpet/backstage stuff. Press credentials for the Oscars are
being released '''now''', so we need to act fast.
I'm looking for someone that is clearly reliable, if not skilled with the
camera. Being an entertainment buff with a good memory for famous faces is a
big plus (so you don't miss stars, and shoot photos of random people), and
living in or around California, particularly in or around Los Angeles are
also big pluses. The photographer is my main concern, the reporter is less
critical
Post your reply info and a sample <gallery> of four photos, at least one has
to be of a human, and at least one has to have been taken in natural light,
and at least one photo has to have been taken in artificial light. Don't
want to upload to Wikipedia? Email me the samples. Submit your interest or
questions to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/user_talk:zanimum
<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>Nick
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.
Regards
Ilario
----Messaggio originale----
Da: walter(a)vankalken.net
Data: 25.09.06 2.21
A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
Yes finally a wikimania in my neighbourhood. It was a shame
Singapore
fell out earlier though
Waerth
>The Wikimania jury has met and are pleased to announce that
Wikimania
>2007 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei had the winning
>combination of a dedicated and experienced bidding team, a great
venue
>with centralized accomodation and community areas, and strong
>sponsorship opportunities. Taipei also provides the opportunity
to
>focus attention on the growing Asian language projects and the
>international aspect of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as
learning
>about other free knowledge efforts and projects in the region.
>
As a developer at least on the client side, I'd be interested in looking
into this WikiLogic. I'd post on the talk page but it is still not yet
active.
This seems like an interesting alternative over just adding more items to
the cluttered wiki mark up box.
It would be nice to have some sort of unified forum to discuss extensions
before even asking developers, as they are often busy and unwilling to
impliment something that may not have wide support/use.
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Well, no, it's not a real one, but a very vitual one :-)
The Neapolitan wikipedia
(http://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paggena_prencepale ) today is one year
old. No, I am not going to tell you about statistics. Why? The sense of
this wikipedia is more than a "collecting numbers" - primarily it means
being part of a very particular community that deals with themes that
sometimes are not easy. Work on such a small wikipedia is very different
to working on the big ones.
So I would like to take the occasion to thank all contributors, readers
and friends for their help and support during the last year.
We are now at a stage that we have already an automatically changing
main page - one of my goals to be completed by the end of this year.
Thank you again and I hope you have as much fun as me in this project!
Sabine
*****
Be' non è un vero party, bensì uno virtuale :-)
La Wikipedia napoletana
(http://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paggena_prencepale ) oggi compie il primo
anno di vita. No, non vi parlerò di statistiche. Perché? Il senso di
questa wikipedia va oltre di "raccogliere numeri" - in primo luogo
significa essere parte di una comunità molto particolare che tratta
tematiche che talvolta non sono facili. Lavorare su di una Wikipedia
"piccola" è molto diverso dal lavorare su quelle "grandi".
Quindi vorrei cogliere l'occasioni per ringraziare tutti quelli che
contribuiscono, i lettori e amici per il loro aiuto e supporto nell'anno
passato.
Siamo ora ad un punto che abbiamo già una pagina pricipale che
automaticamente cambia - una delle mie meta è di aver completato questo
progetto per la fine dell'anno.
Grazie ancora e spero che vi divertiate tanto quanto me con questo progetto!
Sabine
Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!
http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com
(thread 1 in a 3-thread microseries)
The long-term discussion about planning for, devotion to, and passing
on the message and goals of the projects falls to all of us -- not
just the 700 people subscribed to this list, nor the 2000 contributors
to Meta, nor just the 100,000 active editors across all the
projects... but also those who care enough to donate money or critical
rants or expert advice, readers who would not dare contribute to an
encyclopedia but have relevant experiences in other areas of life to
add to planning discussions, and the friends and colleagues and family
of the above, interested enough to participate in such discussions if
they knew about them but not yet aware they exist.[2]
Questions: what are the most important goals over the next few years
a) for Wikipedia,
b) for Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Commons and any further media
repository, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, Wikiversity
[I would forward to the other lists but for some of them it might
double their annual list traffic]
c) for Wikipedia and its sister projects in their secondary
capacities of language preservation, debate facilitation, education,
archiving
d) for the Wikimedia Foundation, as a supportive entity and as an organization
e) for each of us individually as community members
[forgive me for lumping together all of the smaller projects; and all
languages, large, small, living, and dead]
Let us seed a longer discussion about planning for the future. To
begin with, it would be helpful to gather together the many places
where related discussions have already been held.
For instance, here is a new page on the subject:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_committee/strategic_goals
And an older page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Three-year_plan
And a series of essays:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads
There are similar pages on individual projects and mailing lists, and
in many languages other than English. Perhaps you have run across one
before. I've started an Yet Another MetaMeta page on meta. Please
contribute links to it and translate it:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_for_the_future
++SJ
[1] Perhaps a very long time.
http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/17778.html
[2] For those who feel broad-based discussions are criminal, or wastes
of time: the process of discussing plans for the future helps
strengthen shared purpose and naturally passes on the message of the
projects. And we don't have enough people talking about these ideas
now; even excellent suggestions for investigation and research are
allowed to lie fallow. We are very far from having too many voices
offering their pearls of wisdom.
Hello all,
last friday Wikimedia Germany realised a pilot scheme for a new project
called "Wikipedia at schools". It is based on the fact that Wikipedia
evidently is the most popular source of information for german pupils
today. During september 2006 we asked 98 pupils at the age of seventeen
of the "Andreanum" [1] at Hildesheim (about 25 km southeast of Hanover)
which source of information they would prefer to prepare their homework.
A total of 63 per cent stated that they favor Wikipedia and Google
(which will lead them to Wikipedia in nearly all cases) over printed
works. The pupils answers to other questions clearly showed us that they
fully trusted in all of the information they find online. Almost never
they challenge those information nor do they analyze its quality. But
beside the fact that Wikipedias quality increases each day we have to
admit that there are certain areas where quality improvement is badly
needed. We should feel responsible to the pupils for the clarification
of this fact and for tips how to recognize the quality of a Wikipedia
article (does the editor cite reliable sources? is the article written
from a neutral point of view? etc.)
So we organized a day of information about Wikipedia for all pupils of
the eleventh grade of the Andreanum as well as for their teachers and
parents. The day started at 10 o'clock in the morning with a general
introduction about the goals, history and functionality of Wikipedia.
Afterwards we had two workshops for pupils and one workshop for
teachers, taking two hours each. In particular the workshop for teachers
cleary showed us a great need for detailed information about the
functionality of Wikipedia. None of the teachers knew much about how the
articles emerge and which instruments of quality improvement already
exist. After a short break we had another block of workshops for pupils
and for parents. At five o'clock in the evening all 110 pupils and about
20 teachers and parents had attended at least one workshop. The day
ended with a lecture held by a teacher of a school at Fulda (about 80 km
northeast of Frankfurt) who wrote a short article for the english
Wikipedia with the pupils of her English class in 2005[2] and who gave
us a detailed report about her experiences.
Our next goal will be to evaluate our work and to compile a short
guidebook about Wikipedia for pupils and teachers[3]. Together with the
Andreanum at Hildesheim, Wikimedia Germany will enter a contest called
"Deutscher Innovationspreis für nachhaltige Bildung" (German Innovation
Award for Lasting Education)[4].
Photos we took at Hildesheim can be found on Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Schulprojekt
Wikimedia Germany is deeply indebted to the two administrators
User:Finanzer and User:Markus_Mueller who worked with the pupils last
friday and to the Andreanum Hildesheim for its cooperation.
Greetings,
Frank Schulenburg
Board member of Wikimedia Germany
Phone +49 (0)551 2726447
Frank.Schulenburg [at] wikimedia.de
[1] Founded before 1225, the "Andreanum" is one of the oldest schools in
Germany http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_Andreanum_%28Hildesheim%29
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Norris
[3]
http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Projekt:Online-Nachschlagewerke_in_der_schul…
[4] http://deutscher-innovationspreis.de/
I have written an extension to make it easy to write Formal Logic into
wikitext. It isn't tested yet, and could do with some looking over. And
testing. The basic premise could be expanded to cover basic maths too. Put
simply it's an informal parser (where something like LaTeX is a very rigidly
formal parser that you have to learn - this one should be intuitive).
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLogic
IMHO at least two other bids has had "the venue and accommodation on
a single site".
If people are looking for another reason it could because there is
not a simple reason like this.
Regards
Ilario
----Messaggio originale----
Da: beesley(a)gmail.com
Data: 25.09.06 14.20
A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Copia: <translators-l(a)wikimedia.org>, <wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
> It was almost certain that a decent bid from Asia would be
successful.
No it wasn't and I wish people didn't have this misconception.
All of the bids were considered against a range of criteria, not
only
location. Amongst many other factors, Taipei offered the venue and
accommodation on a single site, and their organizing team had
prior
experience from running the Chinese Wikimania this year. It's
unfair
to them to suggest they only won because they're in Asia.
In a message dated 9/25/2006 4:08:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com writes:
The Wikimedia Foundation is NOT Wikipedia. Boardmembers should have an
obvious interest in what we do. Being notable does not qualify people. If
you want someone notable, ask Kofi Anan to become a board member when his
tenure as the secretary general of the United Nations has ended. This is
what I call notable; notability as an IT person is not what I would think
qualifies a person as a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation.
No one is suggesting that notability is the sole criteria. However, we are a
project devoted to education, so bring in educators, we are a project devoted
to free culture, so bring in people who are at the forefront of the free
content movement. And yes, we are a project devoted to reaching out to the
developing world, so bring in people with experience in that world. Larry Lessig
or other people like seem like a good idea. And if someone of the stature of
Kofi Anan asked if he could help Wikipedia by serving on its board, we should
be grateful.
Danny
Absolutely not.
The criteria could not consider the alternation of continents.
Also FIFA has changed this rule because it's difficult to follow.
IMHO it's important to verify the availability of Wikipedians to
have a long journey to reach the host town.
A preliminary vote of wikipedians combined with a vote of dedicated
team could be the good solution.
Ilario
----Messaggio originale----
Da: klempert(a)gmail.com
Data: 25.09.06 3.36
A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
[CUT]
We really have to find a way to avoid such inevitable (and
probably
huge) frustration among teams and sponsors. Perhaps a list of
preferred continents could help, or a much earlier involvement of
the
jury, whatever. Please don't encourage Wikipedians all over the
world
to waste their time (and the good will of sponsors) again.
-- Arne
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