The Webby awards are generally considered to be prestigious, and major
web sites and companies appear to take them seriously. In the past,
there was a big awards ceremony in San Francisco, etc.
But now it seems that the Webby organization may have fallen on hard
financial times, because they no longer put on a ceremony, and -- get
this part -- the statue is no longer given freely, but the winners
are eligible to buy them, as well as to buy "frame ready" certificates
for members of the team.
The price for the statue is $350, the price for the certificate is
$35. I will not be spending any donor money on this, and since I'm
not actually expecting to ever have a regular job with a regular
office where I need to illustrate to customers how impressive I am,
I'm doubtful as to whether I will personally want one of these.
But it occurred to me that these things might be valuable to some
contributors, and apparently I can order them for anyone who wants
them. If you work in the Internet industry, especially at a big
company, then having a Webby trophy or certificate for your office
might be nice. It would be a good way for a freelance web designer
with a small office to decorate the office and show clients that you
have experience with something great.
So I thought I'd just mention it here, in case there's interest.
Contact me. I won't order one for anyone who has been banned or
anything like that, unless they want to donate double to the
foundation. ;-)
--Jimbo
Hi guys
Help me out, here, please. I'd like to translate the Wiki interface into Cherokee. I am good with the Cherokee language, and I'm plugged into a community of fluent speakers who can always help.
I've read over the tutorial, and I know where it is. Please help me by creating a Cherokee wiki, and I'll get going! ISO 639-2: chr
Thanks,
Jeremy
BTW, the native Cherokee name for the Cherokee language is "Tsalagi." :) Try that. Thanks again!
Hi guys
Help me out, here, please. I'd like to translate the Wiki interface into Cherokee. I am good with the Cherokee language, and I'm plugged into a community of fluent speakers who can always help.
I've read over the tutorial, and I know where it is. Please help me by creating a Cherokee wiki, and I'll get going.
Thanks,
Jeremy
BTW, the native Cherokee name for the Cherokee language is "Tsalagi." :) Try that. Thanks again!
On June 13, 2004 - one day after the "Wikipedia and Friends" panel at the
Wizards of OS conference, see http://www.wizards-of-os.org - there will be
a Wikipedia/Wikimedia community meeting in Room H2033 of the Technical
University Berlin (main building at Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Straße des 17.
Juni). See
http://www.tu-berlin.de/eng/about_tu/anreise.htm
for more information on how to get there. There are over 60 seats.
This will be an opportunity to meet Wikipedians from Germany, Europe, the
United States and elsewhere, including Jimmy Wales. It will also give us
eight hours or more to discuss issues of importance to Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Foundation.
One primary concern for the German Wikipedians is the setup of a German
daughter organization of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. The formalities of
this process will be discussed.
The results of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, closed
on Saturday, will be officially announced. The meeting can also be used to
discuss Wikipedia's internal policies, those of our sister projects like
Wikibooks and Wiktionary, possible future projects for the Wikimedia
Foundation, effective fundraising, quality control mechanisms, and the
print edition.
A tentative agenda is being developed at
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Community_Day
This page will be translated into English as soon as it has reached a
stable state. If you don't speak German you can already register yourself
and suggest issues to discuss on the talk page ("Diskussion" link). If
there's enough international interest we can move the whole thing to Meta
and continue to develop it there.
I'm looking forward to meeting everyone who will come.
Regards,
Erik
"Jimmy Wales" <jwales(a)bomis.com> schrieb:
> I'm not sure what you mean, but let me just say that it was not my
> intention to favor anything specific about Erik's proposal for a
> commons over other proposals that may have been put forward at various
> times. I very much appreciate, Andre, all your incredibly
> contributions to the project and would regret it very much if
> something I said seemed to lack respect for you and your ideas. That
> was not my intention at all.
It wasn't felt as such... As I said, I like Erik's ideas. If it seemed
anything else, then my apologies as well. I guess I had just some
irritation to get rid of.
We don't really disagree on the goals. There's some discussion between
us on what to include and what not, but nothing that I would feel too
unhappy to lose the discussion on, and I don't think this is different
for Erik. There is however a huge difference in the road we want to take
there.
Andre Engels
I just looked over Jimmys time table for his trip to Europe on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales
On June 23 I find a meeting with Fantasy. However, please keep in mind that on
June 23 there will be (as far as I know) the Gala for the Prix Ars
Electronica in New York:
http://www.sap.com/company/events/prixarselectronica.asp
So, the question is: Is anything arranged concerning that Gala? Did anybody
contacted the organisators already??? Have the organisators contacted us? Who
of us is going to go there if Jimmy is in Europe?
Please keep in mind that among the people who already won the Prix Ars
Electronica are people like Linus Thorvalds, and that there is a price money
of 10.000 € for us. So somebody really should show up there! It would be very
embarrassing if they call up Wikipedia and nobody is there!
Uli
"Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> schrieb:
> Jimmy-
> > I just wanted to say that I really strongly support the central
> > ideas put forward by Erik here:
> > http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons
>
> Thank you for your support. I would like to again invite all interested
> parties (especially developers, but also writers, photographers etc.) to
> add themselves on the above page, so that we can together move this
> project forward after MediaWiki 1.3 has reached a stable state. As the
> above proposal states, I hope that we can also implement single sign-on in
> one fell swoop with the Commons itself, which would be one important step
> to bring the individual Wikimedia projects closer together.
I am still willing to help and aid in this project. However, as things
look now, the only help I can offer you is to discontinue any plans I
myself have in this direction until you are ready.
One time there was just the English Wikipedia, then other languages
were made. I have the feeling that I'm like someone wanting to set
up another language and getting the answer that it's a good idea, but
that in half a year there will be a new software with language links
and the possibility to have an interface adaptable to languages, and
I just wait for that.
It's not that I don't like your plans. I do. And when the time
comes, I'll join in. For now I'll just count my losses. And wonder
why you might succeed and I do not. Is it because you are a
developer and I'm not? Because your plans are grand and mine
down-to-earth? Because I'm not brazen enough? Anyway, I lost.
Again.
Andre Engels
----- Original Message -----
From: "fabiform" <fabiform_wikipedian(a)yahoo.com>
> If you really want to encourage wikipedians to use wiktionary, how about
> simply adding a wiktionary search box next to/under the wikipedia one?
Yes, much simpler. And if we had a kind of feedback showing the most common
words searched while reading an article, we could also improve their clarity
and simplicity.
It's a bit off-topic here, but I wanted to reach a larger audience, so
here goes:
Seeing that the Chinese Wiktionary is empty, I decided to start some
work on it, but I found out that even the name needs attending to, as
there are three different names that people have referred to as the
Chinese term for Wiktionary. In traditional Chinese, they are: 維基字典,
維基詞典, and 維基辭典.
Now, the first one is used in the English Wiktionary entry on
Wiktionary as its Chinese translation. The second is used in the
Chinese Wikipedia to refer to Wiktionary, and the third was what I put
down when I wrote down the Chinese main page (as well as some
appendices/indices that should be similar to the Wiktionary Appendix
namespace).
字典, 詞典, and 辭典 all mean the same thing, but (at least in the dialect of
Chinese I use - a hybrid of Cantonese and Putonghua) 字典 is a dictionary
of single characters, 詞典 is a dictionary of single characters and
multiple character phrases (ciyu), and 辭典 I use as a "blanket term"
(despite the fact that according to ''Xinhua Cidian'', 辭 is synonymous
with 詞) for dictionaries, and thus I favor the use of 維基辭典 for
Wiktionary. I don't know what the MediaWiki software uses (I think
it's 維基詞典 based on probabilities).
I'm sure that there are people who disagree with me on this, but what
should be done?
PS. After this debacle, a lot of the text in the Chinese Wiktionary
still refer to it as Wikipedia, and I can't do those changes. Perhaps
someone can help me out.
We're going to be upgrading the software on the live site to the current
development version, over the next 24 hours or so. However, we won't be
releasing a tarball just yet. Before we do that, we want to obtain
translations for the new interface text, and also to fix a few
user-friendliness issues with the installer. We'll probably upgrade the
smaller wikis first, and do the English Wikipedia fairly late in the peace.
There might be short periods of downtime during this process.
A list of new features is at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap
-- Tim Starling