Hey all - if anyone's got a chance today, could this be posted to the foundation wiki in the beautiful previous formats that have been established? :)
Thanks!
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:26:57 -0700 From: Jay A. Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org Reply-To: jwalsh@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Organization To: press-release@lists.wikimedia.org
SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom & SAN FRANCISCO CA - October 22: SOS Children UK, in coordination with the Wikimedia Foundation, has released a complete 2008/9 revision of the Wikipedia Selection for Schools, which is perhaps the most successful "checked content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. Previous revisions have been distributed off-line widely across the globe including by the Shuttleworth Foundation to South Africa Schools, by the Hole in the Wall project to rural Indian children and through SOS offices worldwide. The updated selection has the content of a 20 volume encyclopaedia - with 34,500 pictures, 20 million words and articles on more than 5500 topics. This revision, which can be freely downloaded or collected free from SOS Children is selected and organised around the UK National Curriculum and aimed at 8-17 year olds who broadly follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world.
Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, remarked:
"The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to work with SOS Children. Our goal is to make Wikipedia accessible to as many people as possible around the world, and SOS Children is a great partner who helps us make that happen. Wikipedia content is released under a free content license so that individuals and institutions can easily adapt, reuse and customize its content: we encourage others, like SOS Children, to do exactly that."
Dr Andrew Cates, CEO of SOS Children (and also a Wikipedia administrator) said:
"Wikipedia is an incredible phenomenon, and we are proud to have helped improve the accessibility of Wikipedia content to include users requiring remote access, child-friendly access and checked access. This year, general quality improvements on the English Wikipedia (particularly on requiring reliable sourcing for material) means the single most important selection criterion is now relevance or interest to children and manual content checking is slowly becoming secondary."
This selection which was originally designed for remote developing world schools without internet access, has been widely put on first world school intranets and websites. Although it is mainly an off-line project, even the online browsable copy at http://schools-wikipedia.org gets on average well over ten thousand human surfers a day. Around 15% of last year's article selection has been removed as no longer meeting rising relevancy standards and more than fifteen hundred more relevant topics have been added, as now of high quality. All articles were reviewed and updated as needed.
SOS Children's Villages is best known as the world's largest orphan charity (UK Charity No. 1069204) but is also a very large educational charity running 192 schools with 91,000 pupils in the developing world. See www.soschildren.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable foundation that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The Foundation was established by Jimmy Wales in 2003, two years after creating Wikipedia, to build a long-term future for free knowledge projects on the internet. The Foundation, now based in San Francisco, California, maintains the technical infrastructure, software, and servers that allow millions of people every day to freely use Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Summary points:
* The selection is organised around National Curriculum subjects * The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for and usefulness to children * Website: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ * Download: a full download of the content should be available via BitTorrent by 23rd October. It is current being seeded.
Contact:
* David Gerard, UK media contact, Wikimedia Foundation: wp[at]davidgerard[dot]co[dot]uk, +44 7733 223584
* Andrew Cates, CEO, SOS Children UK: andrew[at]soschildren[dot]org, +44 1223 365589
* Elizabeth Rodgers, Press Officer, SOS Children UK: elizabeth[at]soschildren[dot]org, +44 1223 365589
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Having had a sneak preview, this is covered on Wikinews...
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/2008-09_Wikipedia_for_schools_goes_online
Includes an interview segment.
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: comproj-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:comproj-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jay A. Walsh Sent: 22 October 2008 18:35 To: Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group Subject: [ComProj] [Fwd: SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools]
Hey all - if anyone's got a chance today, could this be posted to the foundation wiki in the beautiful previous formats that have been established? :)
Thanks!
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:26:57 -0700 From: Jay A. Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org Reply-To: jwalsh@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Organization To: press-release@lists.wikimedia.org
SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom & SAN FRANCISCO CA - October 22: SOS Children UK, in coordination with the Wikimedia Foundation, has released a complete 2008/9 revision of the Wikipedia Selection for Schools, which is perhaps the most successful "checked content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. Previous revisions have been distributed off-line widely across the globe including by the Shuttleworth Foundation to South Africa Schools, by the Hole in the Wall project to rural Indian children and through SOS offices worldwide. The updated selection has the content of a 20 volume encyclopaedia - with 34,500 pictures, 20 million words and articles on more than 5500 topics. This revision, which can be freely downloaded or collected free from SOS Children is selected and organised around the UK National Curriculum and aimed at 8-17 year olds who broadly follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world.
Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, remarked:
"The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to work with SOS Children. Our goal is to make Wikipedia accessible to as many people as possible around the world, and SOS Children is a great partner who helps us make that happen. Wikipedia content is released under a free content license so that individuals and institutions can easily adapt, reuse and customize its content: we encourage others, like SOS Children, to do exactly that."
Dr Andrew Cates, CEO of SOS Children (and also a Wikipedia administrator) said:
"Wikipedia is an incredible phenomenon, and we are proud to have helped improve the accessibility of Wikipedia content to include users requiring remote access, child-friendly access and checked access. This year, general quality improvements on the English Wikipedia (particularly on requiring reliable sourcing for material) means the single most important selection criterion is now relevance or interest to children and manual content checking is slowly becoming secondary."
This selection which was originally designed for remote developing world schools without internet access, has been widely put on first world school intranets and websites. Although it is mainly an off-line project, even the online browsable copy at http://schools-wikipedia.org gets on average well over ten thousand human surfers a day. Around 15% of last year's article selection has been removed as no longer meeting rising relevancy standards and more than fifteen hundred more relevant topics have been added, as now of high quality. All articles were reviewed and updated as needed.
SOS Children's Villages is best known as the world's largest orphan charity (UK Charity No. 1069204) but is also a very large educational charity running 192 schools with 91,000 pupils in the developing world. See www.soschildren.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable foundation that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The Foundation was established by Jimmy Wales in 2003, two years after creating Wikipedia, to build a long-term future for free knowledge projects on the internet. The Foundation, now based in San Francisco, California, maintains the technical infrastructure, software, and servers that allow millions of people every day to freely use Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Summary points:
* The selection is organised around National Curriculum subjects * The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for and usefulness to children * Website: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ * Download: a full download of the content should be available via BitTorrent by 23rd October. It is current being seeded.
Contact:
* David Gerard, UK media contact, Wikimedia Foundation: wp[at]davidgerard[dot]co[dot]uk, +44 7733 223584
* Andrew Cates, CEO, SOS Children UK: andrew[at]soschildren[dot]org, +44 1223 365589
* Elizabeth Rodgers, Press Officer, SOS Children UK: elizabeth[at]soschildren[dot]org, +44 1223 365589
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Jay A. Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all - if anyone's got a chance today, could this be posted to the foundation wiki in the beautiful previous formats that have been established? :)
Thanks!
Done.
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Hi all.
I need some quick help needed to create the "button graphics" from all languages. The GiMP xcf files are located on meta in the Fundraising 2008 media category[1] and the different language text that needs to be put on is located on meta at "Fundraising 2008/core messages/support Wikipedia"[2].
Requirements: GiMP (or Adobe Photoshop if you must) and the Georgia font. Contact me if you'd like to help, but we need to complete these asap.
Cary
[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fundraising_2008_media [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2008/core_messages/support_Wikipedia
hi,
Photoshop can't open these files, but are these the buttons displayed at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/5/55/Thank_You_Page_2008.png ?
They would look much better with a smallcaps font, preferably in the Wikipedia font Hoefler text. You should have it in the office (if not, ask Frank Schulenburg, he has it).
greetings, elian
2008/10/30 Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org:
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Hi all.
I need some quick help needed to create the "button graphics" from all languages. The GiMP xcf files are located on meta in the Fundraising 2008 media category[1] and the different language text that needs to be put on is located on meta at "Fundraising 2008/core messages/support Wikipedia"[2].
Requirements: GiMP (or Adobe Photoshop if you must) and the Georgia font. Contact me if you'd like to help, but we need to complete these asap.
Cary
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Hi,
As the original graphics have already been produced, the non-English versions need to match the English . I guess GiMP opens PSD files but Photoshop won't open gimp files, but of course, I wanted to be able to save on meta, so I had to make it the GiMP version.
Cary
elisabeth bauer wrote:
hi,
Photoshop can't open these files, but are these the buttons displayed at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/5/55/Thank_You_Page_2008.png ?
They would look much better with a smallcaps font, preferably in the Wikipedia font Hoefler text. You should have it in the office (if not, ask Frank Schulenburg, he has it).
greetings, elian
2008/10/30 Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org: Hi all.
I need some quick help needed to create the "button graphics" from all languages. The GiMP xcf files are located on meta in the Fundraising 2008 media category[1] and the different language text that needs to be put on is located on meta at "Fundraising 2008/core messages/support Wikipedia"[2].
Requirements: GiMP (or Adobe Photoshop if you must) and the Georgia font. Contact me if you'd like to help, but we need to complete these asap.
Cary
[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fundraising_2008_media
[2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2008/core_messages/support_Wikipedia
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Note: the graphics are going to be uploaded onto the Foundation wiki.
Cary
Cary Bass wrote:
Hi,
As the original graphics have already been produced, the non-English versions need to match the English . I guess GiMP opens PSD files but Photoshop won't open gimp files, but of course, I wanted to be able to save on meta, so I had to make it the GiMP version.
Cary
elisabeth bauer wrote:
hi,
Photoshop can't open these files, but are these the buttons displayed at
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/5/55/Thank_You_Page_2008.png
?
They would look much better with a smallcaps font, preferably in the Wikipedia font Hoefler text. You should have it in the office (if not, ask Frank Schulenburg, he has it).
greetings, elian
2008/10/30 Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org: Hi all.
I need some quick help needed to create the "button graphics" from all languages. The GiMP xcf files are located on meta in the Fundraising 2008 media category[1] and the different language text that needs to be put on is located on meta at "Fundraising 2008/core messages/support Wikipedia"[2].
Requirements: GiMP (or Adobe Photoshop if you must) and the Georgia font. Contact me if you'd like to help, but we need to complete these asap.
Cary
[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fundraising_2008_media
[2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2008/core_messages/support_Wikipedia