Hi,
About some 6 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a
newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like
"Foundation", "Community", "Media" , "Technical news" and so.
The idea is to try to inform the reader about what is going on in the
Wikimedia family. Wikispecies is I believe the least known project of
all Wikimedia projects. I would like to change that a bit.
First step is to introduce Wikispecies to the other projects.
You can help be writing a small introducing about Wikispecies;
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Village_Pump#publicity_offer.…
Further would some frequent reports be useful to inform the others
about this project. When making Wikizine I sometimes also to take a
look in the Village Pump of Wikispecies to see I can find news. But
that is no guaranty I will see it or that there is something written
in the Village pump about it.
So if you have news about your project please report it. Let the
readers of Wikizine know there is more then Wikipedia.
To make it more easy to report news to Wikizine and also for not
forgetting it consider putting a Wikizine-banner on some suitable
project page (maybe on to of the Village pump?)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners
There are large and small banners. Then people can easy read the most
current Wikimedia-news and if there is something to say about
Wikispicies drop a line to Wikizine.
I hope to receive some news from Wikispecies!
Greetings,
Walter
The guy from Wikizine
http://www.wikizine.org
To subscribe;
mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=subscribe
Hello,
CommonsTicker is a special tool created by
(commons:,meta:,:de:w:)User:Duesentrieb to allow for greater
communication and transparency between the Commons and local projects
(all projects, all languages) that use the Commons. When it is set up,
a log page is created and a bot posts updates about any critical
events that occur to any Commons images that are being used by that
project. Critical events are: image replacement (a new version of an
image being uploaded over the top of an existing one), an image being
marked or unmarked with a deletion tag (including no source, etc), and
an image being deleted.
This allows local project users to immediately identify any images
that have been nominated for deletion, giving them plenty of notice to
take part in the deletion discussion, as well as checking that image
replacements are not vandalism and removing any red links from deleted
images.
CommonsTicker is completely translatable (if you provide a
translation). All it needs to be set up is a project admin to
"sponsor" it through the early days. Now taking requests! :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker :
instructions on set-up, contact, translation, request queue
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:CommonsTicker : Example
Ticker in English
(There are also Tickers already set up in German, Indonesian, Italian,
Dutch, Chinese and Slovak.)
cheers,
Brianna (commons:user:pfctdayelise)