There is a long thread on the Commons and Gendergap lists about today's
featured image on Commons:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-May/
It's an original piece of art by a Wikimedian, "in the style of" erotic
manga:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg
The picture was removed from the main page by a WMF staff member, acting as
an ordinary editor, and then restored a few hours later by a Commons admin.
Aspects of the image that have been discussed include the fact that
* it has no noteworthy artistic value
* it is used to showcase a Wikimedian's artwork on the project main page
* it lacks educational value, being the work of a non-notable Wikimedian
* it makes the Foundation look puerile
* it might turn off serious educators
* it might turn off older people
* it might turn off schools
* it might turn off women
* it might turn off institutions owning valuable content from donating to the Foundation
* it is the victim of cultural fascism directed against manga/anime
* it is the victim of prudery
* it is the victim of censorship
* not showing the image on the mian page would undermine the Foundation's mission
etc. etc.
This is really a Foundation topic though. Are projects' main pages there to
showcase Wikimedians' fine art? If yes, then why do we not have songs by
unsigned garage bands "in the style of ..." as featured media of the day?
Should the Foundation establish guidelines on what type of content to feature
on project main pages?
Crossposted to Foundation-l, Commons-l and Gendergap.
Andreas
Email notification for user talk page changes is now enabled on all wikis.
The issue came up at the MediaWiki developer meeting here in Berlin. A
few ops people were sitting together, we couldn't think of any reason
why it wasn't enabled yet, so we just did it on the spot.
- Tim Starling
Hello all,
As part of the community grows older (yes, we do), I suppose that many
more of us have kids. And maybe you were thinking... "what i I bring
my family to Wikimania?" and thought "na, too complicated". Well, the
Haifa organizing team has been looking into babysitting/child care
solutions, and we have a potential solution for those of you who would
like to bring their kids to Haifa.
This said, we'd need to know whether or not you actually intend to
bring your kids. I'm bringing mine, they're a lot of fun, and would
love to have playmates to have fun with. So if you were asking
yourself whether this could be an option, I would love to know whether
or not it's something you've considered and if you've toyed with the
idea, think again, as we may have the perfect solution for you to
attend the conference and still make this a family holiday.
If you're interested in taking part in a babysitting solution, or
still have questions about whether or not it makes sense to bring your
kids, please send me an email at delphine [at] notafish (punto) org,
and we can discuss our options.
Best,
Delphine
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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
(Please pardon my not quoting earlier emails)
I think a URL shortener is a great idea if we can make it work right.
We do need, however, to sort out our issues, e.g. the following list:
*Choice of domain name(s) (or a TLD)
**Acquisition of domain name(s)
**Registration of TLD (if applicable)
**Maintenance and admin. of the above, including costs
**Length of domain name/TLD
*Implementation of URL shortening
**Namespacing for projects/languages
**Whether to encode pagenames/IDs/etc.
**How to encode pagenames/IDs/etc.
I'm not particularly familiar with the process for TLDs, and I don't
mind the choice of domain much as long as it's short, but I pondered
Wikimedia URL shorteners one day and came up with the following system
for a Wikimedia URL shortening service:
*The domain wi.ki (at 5 characters, it's among the shortest, and is
very obvious despite the problematic "wiki" vs. "Wikimedia" confusion)
*First, a base 64 encoded ID number for project and language. This has
the advantage of fitting up to 4096 projects before needing three
characters, and would allow some of the most heavily-used wikis to use
only one character for their ID. One potential snag is that we would
want to substitute other characters for "a" and "A" in this area so
that the URL didn't start with http://wi.ki/a/ and confuse us with
Wikia.
*Next, a slash to separate the project number from the page number.
*Next, a base 64 encoded revision ID. By using the revision ID to
determine the target page, we get around the problem of page-moves,
and we could add the option of adding a control character (e.g. +) at
the end to make a permanent link to that particular revision, an
option that many proposals don't allow for.
*An ideal implementation would allow one to prepend a control
character to use a transparent link.
Thus, we'd have links something like these:
http://wi.ki/0/ZXh8ghttp://wi.ki/0/ZXh8g+http://wi.ki/0/+Foobar
In the above examples, the first would go to [[w:en:Foobar]], the
second to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foobar&oldid=425598752
, and the third again to [[w:en:Foobar]] but in a more transparent
way. "Foobar" might be a bad example, since the title itself is so
short that encoding it doesn't save many characters.
Nihiltres
Hello, everyone.
I'd like to publicly welcome our colleagues at Wikimedia Macau on being
recognized as a Wikimedia Chapter.
May you create and share much knowledge!
Asaf Bartov
Head of Global South Relationships
Wikimedia Foundation
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Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
German and Catalan wikis was created on March 2001
2011/5/11 <foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Happy birthday.
>
> If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says:
>
> "Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix."
>
> But in the list there are 11 languages.
>
> The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English
> Wikipedias coming online.
>
>
>
>
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:13:55 -0700
> > From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias
> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Message-ID: <BANLkTi=BUtCZyCPV589iOrjqjp1Wkvv4-g(a)mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
> > since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
> > Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
> > sites were:
> >
> > catalan.wikipedia.com
> > chinese.wikipedia.com
> > esperanto.wikipedia.com
> > french.wikipedia.com
> > deutsche.wikipedia.com
> > hebrew.wikipedia.com
> > italian.wikipedia.com
> > japanese.wikipedia.com
> > portuguese.wikipedia.com
> > spanish.wikipedia.com
> > russian.wikipedia.com
> >
> > (from
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html)
> >
> > The idea of having Wikipedias in multiple languages came from Jimbo in
> > March 2001 (
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html
> );
> > note that the original German Wikipedia was actually set up at that
> > time, making it the second-oldest Wikipedia. Though the idea of using
> > two-letter domain codes was first raised then, after the above sites
> > were brought online in May there was further discussion, and the sites
> > were switched to two-letter codes a few days later:
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000132.html.
> >
> > Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!) May all of our
> > language editions flourish.
> >
> > -- phoebe
> >
> >
> > --
> > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
> > <at> gmail.com *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Анатолій Гончаров
mailto:ahonc@wikimediaukraine.org.ua
ICQ: 364-176-156
Happy birthday.
If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says:
"Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix."
But in the list there are 11 languages.
The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English
Wikipedias coming online.
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:13:55 -0700
> From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=BUtCZyCPV589iOrjqjp1Wkvv4-g(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
> Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
> sites were:
>
> catalan.wikipedia.com
> chinese.wikipedia.com
> esperanto.wikipedia.com
> french.wikipedia.com
> deutsche.wikipedia.com
> hebrew.wikipedia.com
> italian.wikipedia.com
> japanese.wikipedia.com
> portuguese.wikipedia.com
> spanish.wikipedia.com
> russian.wikipedia.com
>
> (from
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html)
>
> The idea of having Wikipedias in multiple languages came from Jimbo in
> March 2001 (
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html);
> note that the original German Wikipedia was actually set up at that
> time, making it the second-oldest Wikipedia. Though the idea of using
> two-letter domain codes was first raised then, after the above sites
> were brought online in May there was further discussion, and the sites
> were switched to two-letter codes a few days later:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000132.html.
>
> Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!) May all of our
> language editions flourish.
>
> -- phoebe
>
>
> --
> * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
> <at> gmail.com *
>
>
>
>
>
