Hi Members,
I know that I have been unable to copyedit much of the current version of Quarto. I
am truly sorry about this. Unfortunately, I have been dealing with some rather serious
medical problems.
I did read both Sj's and Anthere's remarks on the state of WQ/3 and their
plans to announce publication this Monday. I, immediately, went to the site, in hopes
that someone had done some of the copyediting/proofreading, which I have been unable to
get to. Unfortunately, other than the removal of some material, I see neither copyediting
nor proofreading done on the English version.
Therefore, there remain numerous proofreading errors and some copyediting errors.
Further there are numerous references to events, etc. after March 31.
I really think you should reconsider whether publication at this time is appropriate.
The Quarto, in a way, represents Wikimedia. To publish it full of errors does nothing to
improve our image.
Further, I feel that no task should depend on the availability of one member. I did
contact everyone, who signed up as a copyeditor. As far as I can tell, there are no other
active English copyeditors. This is a bad situation.
I am including just a few errors, to give you an idea of the sort of problems that
still exist in this edition.
Page 3 - Overview
With the collected money, we already purchased some technical equipment
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware) in 2005. Last orders were done in january
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_ordered_January_2005) and may
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_ordered_May_2005). Less purchases were done than
expected early 2005 due to the numerous hosting proposals we received.
The donator of the first french squids donated three additional ones, soon to be hosted by
Lost Oasis for free. In early april, the Wikimedia Foundation signed an agreement with
Yahoo ! (see special report below).
Page 3 - Caches Installed near Paris
The caches work as follows: if they hold the requested page in their local memory, they
serve it directly; otherwise, they forward the request to the main Florida servers, and
memorizes the answer while passing it to the browser of the Wikipedia user.
The Paris servers, on the other hand, have much smaller rountrip times from the countries
they serve.
I, sincerely, hope you will reconsider your decision. I think all contributing
members, who speak English, should read the English version and express their opinions.
As Ever,
Ruth Ifcher
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From: Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com>
A constellation of counterpoints.
First, Sj reported that we now really have a
design team, taking care of the
images, cover and pdf version. I saw a couple of days ago an example of a
pdf version and I was really impressed; I can't wait :-) When do you
perceive the pdf will be available ? One week ? More ?
My plan is to finish the English version by tomorrow (yes, so it can
be announced on Monday!), and to have draft pdf pages for an octavo (a
16-pg layout) sometime next week.
I have to talk to zanimum and schneelocke to make sure this is possible.
I'll dig up the last announcement made for
Quarto2 and will put it in meta
pages for improvement. It would be great to announce at the same time the
mail system is now up and a PDF version will be available.
Good. I think we can safely announce that we will release a pdf
version of WQ3; that should be translated also. There are currently
66 people signed up to receive this mail.
I think this version was definitly easier than
issue 1 and 2, so the way the
pages are
cut/displayed might be the good solution.
There seems to be general agreement here :-) And I also hope that
people will feel more free to just add their content directly; or at
least to create meta pages directly with complete articles. We have
been encouraging that of all contributors to this past edition;
I will more actively moderate the draft pages so that new contributors
feel welcome.
Fifth, Sj, could it be possible that you put the
working frame of version
number 4 as soon as possible.
Yes, perhaps as soon as Monday. The draft page for WQ 4, for anyone
who has lost it among the growing number of Quarto pages, is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Draft/future
It will be moved to [[m:WQ/Draft]] once the current English edition is
finalized.
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+sj+
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