This feature on multilingualism online and the digital language divide
from the Guardian is thought-provoking:
http://labs.theguardian.com/digital-language-divide/
It summarizes a bunch of recent research on language online, including
the work from the Oxford Internet Institute on Wikipedia.
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I guess I see this as making it easier for people to generate files to put
on their ipod or for those with a limited ability to read who might not
have figured out more complicated solutions. Those who are blind have
likely already figured out good solutions. It is those of us who are
sighted that need the help.
I know that I personally would find such a button helpful. But through a
great many steps I could likely figure out a work around. People prefer
stuff that is simple.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are
available for only a fraction of our articles.
Why don't we have a "Listen" button beside our read button that when
clicked will read the article for the person in question?
There are 37 open source text-to-speech listed here
http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/text-to-speech. Some of them
support up to 50 languages. This of course would require the support of the
Wikimedia Foundation.
I guess we could also do it with a gadget initially. Thoughts?
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Hello everybody,
I have to login to Wikimedia projects every single time I begin a session
on my iPad1 now because I cannot select the button on the user login page
next to the text "Keep me logged in (for up to 30 days)"
I think it's a java mismatch with my old built-in iPad1 safari browser
(which cannot be updated, as far as I know). Is there anyplace to check
this box in some other way? Also, is there a reason this box looks like
this?
Thanks in advance,
Jane
Dear all,
On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am honored to announce the
recognition [1] of a new User Group in the United States - the North
Carolina Triangle Wikipedians. As their name implies, they are mostly
active in the region known as the Research Triangle, or simply "The
Triangle". They have already organized activities in the region,
especially at Duke and UNC related to MediaWiki, edit-a-thons and the
Education Program. We'll see more of that in the near future :-)
So please, let's welcome the newest member of the family of affiliates!
Congrats!
Regards,
Carlos
1:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/North_Ca…
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The draft Annual Plan for FY 15-16
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2015-16> is
available for
community input and
comments. Please post any suggestions on the Talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annu…>
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The objective of this process is to
make certain that we have
community feedback on
this initial
draft
of the
annual plan for next fiscal year (7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016)
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We value this input to
assist in the improvement of
the final version
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This
draft
version of the
annual plan is also being reviewed by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees so that the Wikimedia Foundation can review input from the Board
of Trustees and community at the same time.
T
he final version of the Annual Plan is scheduled to be
submitted to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
for a vote
on June 15, 2015
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Garfield
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Hi,
In Amical Wikimedia we have read with attention the reports of APG, the
grants concedeed by the Wikimedia Foundation to the diferents chapters in
order to run their activities. These comments by the WMF have
recommendations for the other associations in order to learn from their
errors and their success from the others and improving together. In this
post we want to highlight those things that to us looked more positive from
the advices and reflexions that we have analized.
https://www.wikimedia.cat/2015/04/08/aprenent-dels-altres-chapters-llicons-…
David Parreño Mont
Communications
Amical Wikimedia