See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-08
This is the language committee report for August 2011.
=== Committee ===
* Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Indonesia are collaborating with
the language committee to organise a 2012 Languages Conference in
Indonesia. More info:
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:2012_Languages_conference
=== Requests ===
* Discussion about the request for a Northern Sotho Wikipedia. It
lacks activity, but it has been in the Incubator for years while
having the highest number of articles in a indigenous South African
language.
* Discussion about the request for a Lezgi Wikipedia. One very active
editor, but more contributors are needed.
No formal approval (yet), but both or one of them may be approved soon.
=== Related ===
* The ISO 639-3 standard decided not to retire the language code
'www', even though it conflicts with websites like the
'www.wikipedia.org' portal. The code 'www' is assigned to Wawa, a
language of Cameroon spoken by about 3000 people.
* The Wikimedia Incubator now has "welcome pages" -- for example
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nl links to the Dutch Wikipedia
at http://nl.wikipedia.org/ while
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/aa says that it doesn't exist
and invites users to start that project. This will in the future
replace general "wiki does not exist" placeholders. More info:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/08/wikimedia-incubator-improvement…
See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-07
This is the language committee report for July 2011, written in Haifa,
Israel (Wikimania 2011) thanks to the scholarship provided to me by
the Catalan Associació Amical Viquipèdia.
=== Committee ===
Some talk about membership of the LangCom and closing projects.
=== Approvals ===
The Mingrelian Wikipedia (xmf.wikipedia.org) has been created.
=== Eligibility ===
Discussion about the request for a Wikipedia in Tunisian Arabic.
=== Related ===
Thanks to Ryan Kaldari
(<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-July/054328.html>),
the Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the
Unicode Consortium.
I had already made the code to set a custom logo, so it wasn't that
difficult to implement it.
The variable, that was already used by Special:RandomByTest, is "testwiki".
With the changes I made, if your preference is set to Wx/xyz or if the
URL contains &testwiki=wx/xyz:
* a custom logo will be displayed on Wx/xyz pages
* non-existing Wx/xyz pages will redirect to the real wiki if it exists
* recent changes is already currently set to limit to changes in wx/xyz pages
You used &title=MainPage&project=wb/xyz but it would be difficult to
implement it so that you can access it without the prefix in &title.
I would like to have these redirects quite soon. Maybe we can talk
about it / propose it at Wikimania.
2011/7/17 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>:
> That's great :)
>
> My general suggestion for that is the next:
> * You should create a new variable, called something like "project".
> So, there would be two different ways of seeing the content. One as
> ".../index.php?title=wp/xyz/MainPage", the other as
> "../index.php?project=wb/xyz&title=MainPage". The last one would be
> used for regular approach to the Incubator, the first one for
> approaching "virtual project".
> * If someone approaches to the project=wp/xyz, everything would be
> seen as it is a separate project: different logo, different links. For
> example, "Recent changes" link should lead to the RC limited just on
> wp/xyz project. Search as well; and so on. But, if someone approaches
> to the title=wp/xyz/MainPage, everything would be as it is now on
> Incubator.
> * After that, you should interpret redirected URL. If the URL is
> "xyz.wikipedia.org" (i.e., not the name of the main project), then you
> would redirect it directly to "project=wp/xyz&title=<whatever>".
>
> With those enchantments, Incubator Extension would be ready for
> redirects implementation. (OK, at that moment you should ask others to
> test the extension. If you want, I could point a couple of DNS entries
> to your site; if you want hosting with regular mod_rewrite, I can give
> it to you.)
>
> _______________________________________________
> Langcom-l mailing list
> Langcom-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom-l
>
Hello,
There is a lot of stuff in development for the Wikimedia Incubator,
and I would like to get a part of it enabled on Wikimedia Incubator
soon, specifically the info pages or welcome pages ("Wx/xx(x)" pages).
For example < http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es >
gives a nice welcome page that refers you to the existing wiki. Pages
like < http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es/Page >
refer you to the existing wiki as well. It is not possible to edit
pages belonging to existing wikis.
Non-existing wikis also have a welcome page:
http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wb/xmf
It directly depends on the list with databases, so at the exact moment
a wiki is created, it will no longer be possible to edit Incubator
pages of that project (which facilitates importing pages to a new
wiki).
Another feature is that <
http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/es&goto=mainpage >
will refer you directly to the existing wiki.
What is not yet included (coming later):
* A check for the validity of the language code
* Alternative codes like bat-smg / sgs => Wp/bat-smg will refer you to
the wiki, while Wp/sgs will say it doesn't exist yet
* Welcome pages for Wikiversity and Wikisource that refer you to the
respective wikis
* Possibility to use the template for test wikis that are actually on Incubator
Any suggestions, ideas, comments, bug reports, etc. are certainly welcome!
Regards,
SPQRobin
/Please distribute this message widely/
*Call for referendum*: The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of
the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether
members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in
personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen
particular types of images strictly for their own account.
Further details and educational materials will be available shortly.
The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be
conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum
details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will
be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum
shortly.
For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-06
This is the the Language Committee report for June 2011. It is the
second monthly report.
=== Committee ===
* The closing projects policy is approved by the Board and will be
implemented during the following weeks.
* A new policy draft is started, which will be updated and changed
gradually before final approval.
* The committee has discussed simple projects. They will likely be
allowed under certain conditions.
=== Approvals ===
* The Mingrelian Wikipedia has been approved and is waiting for creation.
* The Arabic Wikiversity has been approved.
=== Rejections ===
* After some discussion with the community, the Ottoman Turkish
Wikisource has been rejected. Ottoman Turkish texts should be hosted
on the Turkish Wikisource.
* The Warmian Wikipedia has been rejected due to the lack of an ISO
639 language code.
*See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-05*
This is the Language Committee report for May 2011. This is the first
edition of the monthly report. I proposed this at the first real-life
meeting in Berlin and volunteered to write such reports to increase
transparency of the committee.
=== Committee ===
Most of these items can also be found in the LangCom meeting report sent to
foundation-l.
* The committee held its first real-life meeting during the Hackathon in
Berlin.
* Several members volunteer to take care of [[meta:Proposals for closing
projects]]. The [[meta:Closing projects policy]] is pending Board approval.
* If technically possible, wikis that do not exist (yet) will be redirected
to the Wikimedia Incubator instead of showing a "Wiki does not exist" or
"Server not found" error.
* To increase transparency, an observer position has been created on the
LangCom mailing list. Anyone can request to become an observer and receive
mails sent to langcom-l.
* We have discussed a lot of other things, such as macrolanguages and
renaming projects.
=== Approvals ===
* The Mingrelian Wikipedia has been approved after some time searching for
an expert who could and wanted to verify its content. It is now passing
Board approval and will be created within some time.
=== Rejections ===
* A request for a Montenegrin Wikipedia has been rejected for the fourth
time.
-- User:SPQRobin
Language Committee member
Hi guys,
Some of us might know, but others might not. Anyway, we have created a new pad (or notepad) for the future plans of the Wikimedia Incubator. Anyone is welcome to take a look, though we would prefer having the bureaucrats and sysops of the Incubator to be taking care of the pad.
For those in the dark, this pad might be a little complicated, especially with the WikimediaIncubator extension deployment. Just bear with it, we will add notes when necessary.
Regards,Hydrizhttp://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz