Greetings all,
My apologies for cross-posting lists. I would like to invite everyone
interested in the proposal for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons[1] to
join our third Office Hours today, 20 November, from 19:30 to 20:30 UTC[2
for time conversion]. The conversation is free to join on IRC using
freenode[3] in #wikimedia-office.
Discussion will continue about the different possible data structures, very
early development work, and touch base on some work that was done during a
small hackathon in Amsterdam[4] working with structured data and GLAM. As
always, other questions and discussion about the topic are always welcome.
I look forward to seeing you there!
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
2.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&d…
3. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office
4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2014
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Product
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Wikimedians!
The Wikimedia Board of Trustees will have a board meeting on November 21 at
the Wikimedia Foundation office. This meeting has the following agenda:
== November 21, 2014 ==
* Welcome and Introduction
* Updates from Board Committees
* Update on the Board Candidate Search
* Housekeeping: Review of Updates to the Board Handbook
* Operational Updates from Staff
* Executive Update from Fundraising
* Legal Presentation
If you have additional comments or questions please feel free to leave a
message on the Board noticeboard:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard
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Patricio Lorente
Vice Chair
Wikimedia Board of Trustees
Hello all,
We had a great founding event in the drawing rooms of the president of the
Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
A good step also has been taken for getting Freedom of Panorama in Belgium!
The Chamber of Representatives also Twitters, and did send this tweet
today: https://twitter.com/DeKamerBE/status/535105474916798464
On the photo the President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and 6
of 7 board members of Wikimedia Belgium
And be aware, Belgium hosts the European Commission and the European
Parliament as well largely, we like to think beyond the borders of language
and country and like to work together and engage with other organisations
and people inside and outside Belgium.
You want to help us?
The difficulty of Belgium is that we have multiple official languages. To
move forward, we will need help in getting short and longer texts,
translated and improved, in multiple languages. So if you want to help to
translate or improve some text for us in English, French, German or Dutch,
let us know!
You got interested?
Membership of Wikimedia Belgium is open to anyone, also for you!
See: http://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Be_a_member_of_Wikimedia_Belgium
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_BE
Join our mailinglist to stay informed:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabe-l
Next events in Belgium:
* 26 November in Brussels: prize giving ceremony Wiki Loves Monuments
http://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_the_prize_giving_ceremony_of_Wik…
* 24 January in Brussels: general assembly
The first general assembly will be organized on 24 January 2015. More
information will follow later.
You want to contact us, see:
http://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact_page
Wikimedia Belgium has arrived!
Romaine
Allow me to crosspost this...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Emmanuel Engelhart" <kelson(a)kiwix.org>
Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:18 PM
Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books
available to everybody, everywhere, offline
To: "Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline" <
offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org>, <
wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: "kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <
kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, "kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net"
<kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
Hi,
The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg
(http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format:
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11.zim.torre…
.
We also provide a few language specific versions here
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg.
This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet)
and it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org). This allows anybody
with a computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books
big library. You can also make it available for read to other people on
your network, they only need a web browser.
In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML
(directly readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have
created a custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few
clicks you can find your book, read it or download it. What is also
unique is that Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books
content. You can see by yourself using this demonstration web site:
http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/
Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France
by four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the
Fondation Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia
CH. The Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use
it already for its own deployments in Africa.
The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is
available here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows
to release easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project
and we will release periodically new version of this offline version of
the Project Gutenberg.
We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free
books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add,
this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available.
We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which
are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We
also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a
hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor
needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here:
https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues
Regards
Emmanuel
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Hello Everyone!
We're sending out another call for new Grant Advisory Committee (GAC)
members!
The GAC are community volunteers who are explicitly invited[1] to review
and evaluate grant proposals made in the Wikimedia Foundation Project and
Event Grants Program[2], and offer advice to both grant applicants and the
Foundation.
Read all about it on the Candidates page[3]. The deadline for signing up
for this round is December 30, 2014, so be sure to step forward before
then. New members will be inducted by the middle of January 2015.
Please help this message reach as many people as possible, by relaying it
to appropriate lists and village pumps.
And many thanks to our current and former GAC members[4]!
Cheers,
Alex
[1] _everyone_ is implicitly invited!
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candida…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee
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Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: alexvwang
Hi all,
A local newspaper in the Netherlands had today as headline:
Eredocteraat voor Timmermans en Wikipedia
Translated: Honory degree for Timmermans and Wikipedia
* Who is coming to Maastricht?
* Can we organize a wikimeet that day in Maastricht?
Romaine
Rough translation of the newspaper:
Maastricht University (UM) awarded an honorary doctorate to Frans
Timmermans and
the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. They will be honored for the
exceptional contributions they, directly or indirectly, have made to
academic education and research.
Commissioner Frans Timmermans is praised for his great contributions to both
European and international relations. The American Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia has established
a platform accessible to everyone, which (in particular) for students not to
imagine that it does not exist as infinite source of information. The
honorary doctorates will be awarded during the official celebration of Dies
Natalis, which takes place on 16 January 2015 at Sint Janskerk in
Maastricht. Besides Timmermans and Wales, are also academics Michelle
Craske (nominated
by the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Wolfgang Wahlster (nominated
by the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences) awarded an honorary doctorate.
Original in Dutch below:
Eredocteraat voor Timmermans en Wikipedia
De Universiteit Maastricht (UM) reikt een eredoctoraat uit aan Frans
Timmermans en de oprichter van Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. Zij worden gehuldigd
voor de uitzonderlijke bijdragen die zij, direct of indirect, hebben
geleverd aan academisch onderwijs en onderzoek.
Eurocommissaris Frans Timmermans wordt geprezen om zijn grote bijdragen aan
zowel Europese als internationale relaties. De Amerikaan Jimmy Wales heeft
met Wikipedia een voor iedereen toegankelijk platform opgericht, dat (in
het bijzonder) voor studenten niet meer weg te denken is als oneindige bron
van informatie. De eredoctoraten worden uitgereikt tijdens de officiële
viering van de Dies Natalis, die plaatsvindt op 16 januari 2015 in de Sint
Janskerk te Maastricht. Naast Timmermand en Wales worden tevens academici
Michelle Craske (genomineerd door de Faculty of Psychology and
Neuroscience) en Wolfgang Wahlster (genomineerd door de Faculty of
Humanities and Sciences) onderscheiden met een eredoctoraat.