Inaugural Quarto news, in brief :
Finished HTML newsletters are available in English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Chinese. We have
good partial translations in Arabic and Korean, and the founder's
letter was also translated into Dutch, Kannada, and Finnish.
Please distribute links to the appropriate newsletter when explaining
Wikimedia in other languages.
Finished newsletters online :
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Quarto
Partial newsletter translations : see the language-list at the top of
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WQ/1/En:
REMINDERS:
* There is a separate low-traffic mailing list for people interested
in working on the newsletter (quarto-l) and another for translation of
this and other project-wide content (translators-l)
* There are sign-up lists for people who want PDF or print versions of
the newsletter
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WQ
* We interviewed Larry Lessig and Brad Fitzpatrick for the second newsletter.
Who to interview next is still up in the air. Please add to the list of
suggested interviewees here :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia Quarto/Interviews
* Letters to the editor and content submissions (of clever images, quotes,
or articles about local projects) can be sent to : newsletter(a)wikimedia.org
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Aurevilly did some magnificent work on the cover, and produced something
both beautiful and easy to internationalize, capturing the joyful
spirit of this
past year. It still gives me pleasure every time I see it, and that is probably
how I will always remember The Year Before The Year Of The Wiki.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Image:Newsletter_1_Cover_FR_800px.png
I was also regularly surprised by the enthusiastic body of translators,
who invested more time into the newsletter production than anyone else.
Aphaia in particular has devoted herself to translation and helping others
do the same, and is now helping with much of the development of the
second newsletter. Most recently, hpnadig has hacked out a Kannada
translation of the first newsletter, and is excited about using it to teach
people in India about Wikipedia.
More recently, the number of active translators for Translation of the Week
has grown to include 30 languages; I hope there will be letters, project
reports, and other content submissions from each of those languages in the
future.
Glad tidings to all,
+sj+
For all of you linguaphiles out there, the first sections will be
ready for translation starting this week. To keep up with
translations, watch [[m:WQ/Translation]] and [[m:Translation
requests]], or just add yourself to the translators mailing list :
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
To join the team of editors, designers, and interviewers, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Team , or sign up for the newsletter
mailing list :
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/quarto-l
With winter cheer and quartile love,
Sj
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:46:54 -0800 (PST), Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As a reminder, Wikimedia Quarto is the quaterly
> publication which reports on the Wikimedia Foundation
> activity, all wikimedia project, as well as evolution
> and well-being of the community.
>
> It is meant both for wikipedians and for outside
> people who want a quick overview of the whole project.
>
> The last issue is available here :
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Quarto/1/En
> And exists entirely translated in 9 languages.
>
> A publication is planned for january, and several
> people are currently working on it to try to make it
> the most informative possible.
>
> If you are interested in joining a nice and very
> international team, you are just welcome. Good english
> is not required :-) We look for designers, editors,
> photographs, translators etc... and mostly, we need
> to hear about you and your projects. This must be
> emphasized for smaller projects as well. If there is
> something special going on, we would love to hear
> about it.
>
> There is a special page dedicated to international.
> You can place on it any information about your
> language project, in your own language. Please, use
> this, for example to report a future great event or a
> grant or a local chapter brainstorming.
>
> Also, if you have questions to ask to the board, on
> which you would perhaps love that we make a public
> statement, THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME. Ask us anything
> :-) (send me a mail).
>
> Discussion is live on the irc channel #quarto and
> drafts and discussions are available here :
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Draft
>
> Your contact :
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User%3ASj
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> Anthere
>
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The second edition of the newsletter is underway, with an eye to
finalizing draft content by the 17th. Please add yourself to the list
of contributors if you are interested in any aspect of its production;
we need more people in every department!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Team
Please translate the above into other languages and post it on the
appropriate project sites (or just post it on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/NL-2#En )
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New content : An excerpt from it:Utente:Vala's sociology thesis,
reports from last weekend's Dutch convention, a summary of reviews of
WP content and MW software.
Interviews:
* Brad Fitzpatrick (creator of livejournal) is being interviewed
tomorrow; you can see and edit some of the questions I'll be asking
him here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Interviews#Brad_Fitzpatrick
* Prof. Lawrence Lessig has been on the hook for an interview all
month... it may not happen in time for this edition, but you can find
a longer list of questions for him on the same page.
Contests:
Here's your chance to change the newsletter's name! There is a
contest on meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Name --
suggest new names and vote on your favorites.
There is also a cover-design contest, with an aesthetically pleasing
prize to be determined. Submit your best sketches, or just ideas!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Cover
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And finally, there will be another Quarto meeting in the coming week,
to bring together thoughts on the first newsletter and discuss
versions of the next; perhaps Monday or Tuesday next week.
+sj+
