Please also translate this short notice, to be used as a sitewide
notice across the projects (there may be slight changes over the
course of today, before the notice goes up, but the basic message will
not change):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/June_notice
Please also pass on to other lists the information that this notice
will be put on all Wikimedia projects for a week.
Cheers,
SJ
On 6/18/06, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Travel scholarships are available for people travelling to Wikimania 2006.
> Please translate the following scholarship information into your local
> languages.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/Scholarships
>
> --SJ
>
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.)
(Note that it will not be possible to set up on English Wikipedia
until the toolserver issue is resolved.)
If you could help spread the word about this, eg. advertise on your
Village pump or native language mailing list, it would be greatly
appreciated.
cheers,
Brianna (commons:user:pfctdayelise)
Dear all, a few things:
The Wikimania program is really coming together. The program team
worked through some marathon reviewing sessions over the past week
(review teams, you'll be getting your own updates), and we now have a
good part of the program worked out; including panel and session
matchings, a number of promising posters, and a collection of
lightning presentations.
Registration is now open in 5 (magical) languages; if you think you
might need an invitation letter to be able to come, for funding or
visa reasons, please register asap. Some visa information is
available here : http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visas
Spread the word:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/Announcementshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/Registration_opens_…
Finally, if you are making travel plans and want to coordinate with
others, remember to make a note on the website :
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel
Greatly looking forward to the summer,
--SJ
It's recently become clear to us, having met with chapter organizers
and talked with various members of the community, that the role of the
newly formed Chapters Committee is still not well-understood (or
well-known). Here's an overview:
The Chapters Committee [1] is a Wikimedia committee [2] created on 15
January 2006 to coordinate Wikimedia Foundation efforts regarding
local chapters. Its duties include:
* Facilitating the creation of Wikimedia chapters [3], acting in an
advisory capacity and responsible for granting final approval of
bylaws, etc.
* Acting as the Foundation's point of contact for chapters, and the
line of communication with chapters from within the Foundation.
* Negotiating agreements between the Foundation and chapters, as for
fundraising, sponsorship, and trademark use.
* Coordinating interchapter communication.
* Generally acting on behalf of the Foundation to serve its interests
in chapter matters.
A more complete overview of the work of the Chapters committee can be
found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee/Scope_and_area_of_delegat…
The committee consists of five members:
* Nathan Carter (m:User:Cartman02au)
* Łukasz Garczewski (m:User:TOR)
* Austin Hair (m:User:Austin) - vice chair
* Delphine Ménard (m:User:Notafish) - chair
* Hari Prasad Nadig (en:User:HPN)
And two advisers:
* Arne Klempert (m:User:Akl)
* Andrew Lih (en:User:Fuzheado)
In a word or in a hundred, if you don't know what a chapter is, if you
want to create a chapter, if you wonder what a chapter can do, if you
want to get in touch with a chapter, do not hesitate to contact us,
either on IRC in #wikimedia-chapters or by mailing chaptercommittee-l
AT wikimedia PUNTO org. English is preferred, so that all of us
understand, but we get by in Spanish, French, German, Polish, Kannada,
Italian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Chinese...and I think that's it.
Thank you,
Delphine
for the Chapters Committee
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_committees
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters
PS. Could the translator-l addressees translate/forward this message
to their language list? Thank you!
Hi all,
I am looking for someone who is an administrator on the Russian Wikipedia.
Please email me at dmenard AT wikimedia DOT org so you can help me
with an email I have received.
Thank you :-)
Delphine
Участник:НотаФиш
--
~notafish