FYI
> By this message I would like to thank all of you that helped me with
> my survey about copyright in the digital age.
> I collected a respectable number of responses and I received a lot of
> comments and suggestions.
> Now I am going to close the survey in a few days. So before starting
> in processing the data I'd rather to ask you a last effort in
> promoting the initiative.
> I will be very grateful if you could spread the link for the last
> time. And if you did not have the chance to fill the questionnaire,
> please do it soon.
> Here is the link: http://www.aliprandi.org/en/survey .
> If you are on Facebook, you can help me sharing the public event and
> the fan-page that I created: they are available searching by the
> Facebook search-engine the words "survey copyright digital age".
> Thanks very much for your support.
> --
> Simone Aliprandi - Ph.D. Candidate at Bicocca University of Milan
> http://www.aliprandi.org/en
>
On 10/04/11 22:47, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
> Of course. No doubt about it. We have now reached a level beyond
> personal attacks. Now my name is used as a thread. So much for "focus
> on the comment, not the person making the comment."
>
> Will I ever address the comments made? As sure as day follows night.
You are complaining about being considered as an inconvenience since may
2009. What about taking this less personally and get back to the [edit]
button?
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Ashar Voultoiz
Hi.
I'm not sure about other people, but one of the primary reasons I get on
Facebook is that Facebook reminds me to get on. It sends notification
e-mails about a Wall post or a comment or whatever. Without these, I
wouldn't check it more than once every few days.
There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I
would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high
priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve
the user experience and user retention/return, but this piece of fruit seems
particularly low-hanging.
Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to
go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone
edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller
sites have had these types of notifications for a long time. The
notification system is built in to MediaWiki, it's just not enabled on
larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220>.
MZMcBride
Hi,
an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia
at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but
You can guess it -- it's in form of
www."popularwebencyclopedianame".ee ).
His web clone looks just like real Wikipedia site. How can an
unknowing web user be sure, that his site follows WMF privacy policy?
Is that kind of usage of Wikipedia and WMF logos ok for the WMF?
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Raul
[xpost foundation-l/commons-l]
Hello all,
By now surely you have heard of Wiki Loves Monuments, an event
destined to populate Wikimedia Commons with photos of listed monuments
across the
world. As advertised some time ago, a logo contest has been launched
to find a great logo for Wiki Loves Monuments.
It has prompted more than 50 entries, some of which unfortunately did
not match the rules. [1] However, competition yielded a lot of very
good ideas and it's now time to choose.
After review of basic compliance with the rules of guidelines, more
than 30 logos are left to choose from. It's a lot, so we need lots of
eyes to tell us what logo they'd like to see on caps, mugs, flyers et
al. for the Wiki Loves Monuments events.
Voting has now opened and we need your participation!
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest…
Please visit this page and vote.
Voting is opened until the 27 of April.
Have fun voting!
Best,
Delphine
[1] removed entries from the competition can be seen on this page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons
Talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest/Submissions
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@notafish
NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost.
Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org
Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org
Hi all;
We know that websites are fragile and that broken links are common.
Wikimedia (and other communities like Wikia) publish dumps of their wikis,
but, that is not common. Most wiki communities don't publish any backups, so
their users can't do anything when a disaster occurs (data loss, attack), if
they want to fork, etc. Of course they can use Special:Export, but that
requires a huge hand-made effort, and the images are not downloaded.
I'm working in WikiTeam,[1] a group inside Archive Team, where we want to
archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest ones. As I said, Wikipedia
publishes backups, so not problem here. But I have developed a script that
downloads all the pages of a wiki (using Special:Export), it merges them
into an unique XML file (as pages-history dumps) and downloads all the
images (if you enable that option). That is great if you want to have a
backup of your favorite wiki, or to clone a defunct wiki (abandoned by its
administrator), or you want to move your wiki from a free wikifarm to a
personal paid hosting, etc.
Also, of course, you can use this script to retrieve the full histories of a
wiki, and research, just as a Wikipedia dump.
We are running this script in several wikis and uploading the complete
histories to the download section[2], building a little wiki library. Don't
be fooled by their sizes. They are 7zip files which usually expand to many
MB.
I hope you enjoy this script, make backups of your favorite wikis and
research them.
Regards,
emijrp
[1] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/downloads/list?can=1
Hi.
Someone pointed out to me that in 2006, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees
approved a resolution to create a fundraising committee:
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee>.
A few months later, it passed a subsequent resolution specifying the
fundraising committee's membership:
<http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee/Membership>.
In 2010, the Board passed a resolution about fundraising principles:
<http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_fundraising_principles>.
The history of the fundraising committee (and what happened to it) is what's
confusing me. Did a subsequent resolution/motion abolish it? Was it simply
disbanded (and is that possible with the force of a Board resolution behind
it)? There are now fundraising staff, but I'm not quite sure how that
happened or what happened to any type of committee/workforce.
Any pointers to pages about this or info about this would be appreciated. It
would make it much easier to update pages such as
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_committees#Fundraising_committee>
with accurate information.
MZMcBride