Hi everyone,
Wikimedia Nederland invites all developers to the Amsterdam Hackathon 2013.
The hackathon is an opportunity for all Wikimedia community developers
and sysadmins to come together, squash bugs and write great new features
& tools. Unlike the previous years (2012, 2011, etc.) this Hackathon
won't be in Berlin, but in Amsterdam.
The event is open to a wide range of developers. We welcome both
seasoned and new developers as well as people working on MediaWiki,
tools, pywikiedia, gadgets, extensions, templates … .
It takes place from 24-26 May. If you’d like to attend, please save the
date!
There will not be an entrance fee for the event itself, but a
registration is mandatory. There will be a limited number of
scholarships available, details to be provided ASAP. We're currently
finalizing the arrangements of the venue. When we're done with that
we'll open registration.
Keep an eye on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013
for updates!
Check this page for updates!
Maarten
Ps. Please spread the word
Hi.
As I understand it, loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis (such as
YouTube videos or Google Analytics JavaScript) is not allowed. The basic
principle is that any remote resources must be loaded from domains that
also adhere to Wikimedia's privacy policy (such as toolserver.org) or be
opt-in (such as the recent fundraising videos that were on YouTube, but
carried an explicit warning).
Is this correct? And if so, is this documented anywhere? I looked at
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy>, but this didn't
seem to be explicitly mentioned there. Perhaps there's a page on Meta-Wiki
somewhere? Does anyone know?
MZMcBride
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has just published its annual report for the 2011-12 fiscal
year (which covers the period from October 2011 to September 2012).
The report is available on our chapter wiki at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_report_(2011-2012). We will also be
uploading a copy to meta shortly.
As always, any questions or comments are very welcome!
Cheers,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi <
i.abhishek.suryawanshi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> *BTW I'd like to join this "Wikipedia club pune" of yours along with 3
>> other brazilians, one of them might be under 18 - I'm not sure. I'd like to
>> join and speak on its behalf please. *
>>
>
> You are welcome to join it. and relax - below 18, above 18 is last thing
> we care. Special thanks for bringing in diversity to Club.
>
> Call us older generation, but we prefer facebook for communication :
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaClubPune/
> Stay connected via group to get updates about club. :-)
>
> More than joining, if you 'like' to like things - then you can join 3767
> Club followers - https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune
>
>
Thank you.
I'd now like to speak on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune. We would officially
like to change our language preference to Portuguese, and affirm that Pune
is the second bestest place in India, after Delhi. Also We like Cheese!
Thank you that is all.
Anyway, please look forward to having more brazilian members of your club
than pune ones. Some of those would be underage boys and girls, but you are
from an "older generation" of course. :P
BTW in case you haven't realized, that was not to ask for membership but
point out how important it is to have a resident as a member unless they
start speaking for a country or a city they know nothing about. The 18 is
the age requirement usually set by the law, and when you decide to
officially register your organization as a society, I'll point you to the
age requirement law or why parental supervision becomes necessary in some
cases.
Regards
Theo
Apparently, Wikipedia Pune Club member
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Keating <chris.keating(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: 9 February 2013 17:10
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia UK has reached an agreement
with Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden regarding the ownership of QRpedia.
The intellectual property in QRpedia and the qrpedia.org and qrwp.org
domains will be transferred to Wikimedia UK, which will maintain and
support the development of the QRpedia platform for the future. Roger
and Terence will act as honorary advisors to Wikimedia UK in this, as
well as retaining their moral rights of attribution, but will not
receive any financial consideration for this.
I am very pleased we have reached an agreement. I look forward to
Wikimedia UK working to support QRpedia's future development. This
includes defining our future involvement with the MonmouthpediA and
GibraltarpediA projects. A fuller statement will follow.
Regards,
Chris Keating
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Chris Keating
Chair, Wikimedia UK
@chriskeating
chris.keating(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable
Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No.
6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513.
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London EC2A 4LT
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I'd like to ask your support the project I started:
<http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedi…>
asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second sample
of their speaking voice, for use on those articles.
An example script is "Hello, my name is [name]. I was born in [place]
and I have been [job or position] since [year]".
So far, the participants:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voice_intro_project>
include Sue Black, Cory Doctorow, Bill Thompson and Dave Winer; and
we've just had our first recording in French - but we need many more.
Do you know anyone who has an article about them? Do you know of tools
that would simplify the process of making ogg files, open licensing
them, and uploading them to Commons? How can we include more speakers
of other languages?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
I just wanted to take a moment to thank all the people who write
summaries and reports of what they and their groups are doing. For
instance, the chapters' reports, the GLAM newsletter, the weekly
Wikipedia Signpost, and the monthly WMF-wide reports are valuable to me;
in practically every one, I learn something that helps me do my job
better. I know that each one takes time to put together and I
appreciate your work. Thank you.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Andy Mabett wrote:
>
> People could use AudioBoo, for example, if it had a Flickr-like way
> for uploaders to open-license a recoding. I'ive reached out to them
> suggesting that, with no luck yet.
The open source solution for voice recording with the largest
cross-browser and cross-platform support is WAMI recorder:
http://code.google.com/p/wami-recorder/
It uses Flash because of the strictly utilitarian fact that doing so
covers the largest number of clients with microphones. But it records
to .wav files which are easily converted to Ogg Vorbis (e.g. with
oggenc) for upload to Commons etc. The free GNU Gnash player has been
able to record audio via Flash applets on many platforms since 2009,
by the way: http://wiki.gnashdev.org/MicrophoneGST
QRpedia is still owned by Roger Bamkin I think
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia The projects code appears to be
open source.
What does this mean for long term stability? How is the site licensed?
What authority do the volunteers / cities putting these up involved
have over its functioning?
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Hi,
WMDE's Silke wrote at
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.toolserver/5674
regarding the promotion of additional toolserver roots:
| DaB is right: WMF as the database owner accepts only paid roots.
| [...]
Is that statement correct, and what is WMF's rationale for
it?
Tim