WikiEN-l April 2010

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"Citation needed" in popular culture
by David Gerard 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

How long until there's an entry on [[Citation needed]]? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Anatomii-of-a-Hack.aspx - d.

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Office hours this Friday, October 9
by Cary Bass 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi everyone, This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>. Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT). The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. Go ahead. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Strategic Planning Office Hours
by Philippe Beaudette 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Wednesday, 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: -Tuesday (8-9pm PST) -Tuesday (11pm-12am EST) There has been a lot of tremendous work on the strategy wiki the past few months, and Task Forces are finishing up their work. Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation philippe(a)wikimedia.org mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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declining numbers of EN wiki admins
by WereSpielChequers 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

The number of admins on the English Wikipedia may possibly have peaked, and the number of active admins is 20% down on its peak of a couple of years ago. Dec 2009, Jan 2010 and February 2010 had only 19 successful RFAs between them, with December and January both equalling the previous all time low of 6. March 2010 is not yet over, but with less than 7 days left and no-one running, it looks like 2 is a new record monthly low for RFA, and 15 a new record low for a quarter. Those who are becoming admins are mostly the tale end of the classes of 2006/7, as we currently have only 34 admins who started editing in 2008, and only 4 from the class of 2009. Are other projects experiencing a similar phenomena? What are the likely results of a dwindling number of admins, and a growing wikigeneration gap between admins and other editors? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/RFA_by_month Regards WereSpielChequers

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IPA issues
by stevertigo 02 May '10

02 May '10

(Crossposted to wikien and foundation:) Some points about IPA on all language wikis. 1) As a rule, all language wikis should use International Phonetic Alphabet as their standard pronunciation scheme. Very few appear to actually do. 2) All language wikis should attempt to use IPA to pronounce the endonym of a foreign word, not the exonymic re-pronunciation (ie. Iraq = /iːˈrɑːk/ not /ɪˈræk/). 3) With rare exceptions, IPA should be the default phonemic transcription scheme, and alternate schemes such as [[Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key]] should be avoided or deprecated. 4) Feedback from languages about IPA should be useful. IPA is actually quite flexible about exactness, while still being phonetically precise. If there are flaws in IPA itself, the Wikipedia community can help raise them for the Internation Phonetic Association. 5) Ambiguity about how it is supposed to be used is a cross-project issue should be dealt with at the Foundation level (ie. global not just inter-wiki policy). -Stevertigo

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Flagged Protection update for April 29
by William Pietri 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. We continue to work on UI display issues and on getting up a Labs version of the German Wikipedia. We're pretty close to release, and we believe only minor UI issues remain. If you'd like to verify that for yourself, start here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page To see the in-progress and upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current and Backlog: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157 We expect to release to labs again next week, and each week thereafter until this goes live on the English Wikipedia. William

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Linking Dates
by Marc Riddell 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Folks, Would someone help me here? What is the current policy regarding linking dates such as Birth and Death in biography articles? Thanks, Marc Riddell

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Reviving and reforming the new project policy
by Kristofer Bjornson 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

As an attempt to revive and reform the new project policy page on meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy), the content scope task force at strategy.wikimedia.org has written a new draft. Feedback, additions and changes to that page is very much appreciated. The draft is found at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Content_scope/Project_policy_… /Dafer45 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth
by David Gerard 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Please cc: responses to sender. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julia Kasmire <J.Kasmire(a)tudelft.nl> Date: 26 April 2010 12:45 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Dear Wikipedia Mailing list, I am doing some research on the increasing structure in information transmission and I am very interested to know some information on the history and growth of infoboxes, or other machine searchable extracted information, in wikipedia. Could you tell me, or tell me how to find, the following: the date of the first infobox on wikipedia? the rate of increase in infoboxes, or at least the number of infoboxes at several points in time and the date that number was measured? The discussion page "How many Wikipedia articles covered by DBpedia?" gives two such infobox data points and one approximate date, but I want to flesh out the history a bit. Thank you very much in advance, and please feel free to ask me if there is any more information I can provide you with! Kind regards, Julia Kasmire PhD Researcher TU Delft _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!
by Marcin Cieslak 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and MediaWiki). The conference is a community gathering, giving the editors, users and developers of Wikimedia projects an opportunity to meet each other, exchange ideas, report on research and projects, and collaborate on the future of the projects. The conference is open to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers, programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the Wikimedia projects. This year's conference will be held JULY 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk, Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic. For more information, please visit the official Wikimania 2010 site: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania 2010 will be a mix of submitted talks, open space meetings, birds of a feather groups, and lightning talks. Submissions will be discussed and selected in an informal process on the wiki. If your submission is not added to the schedule, you will still have many opportunities to bring topics forward on-site. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submitting workshop, tutorial, panel and presentation proposals: May 20 * Notification of acceptance: May 25 (workshops), May 31 (panels, tutorials, presentations) * All proposals and presentations will be welcome in the Open Space track of the conference, whether or not they are accepted in this initial process. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Submissions will be reviewed informally by a team of volunteers. TRACKS This year Wikimania will offer three tracks for submissions for members of wiki communities and interested observers to share their own experiences and thoughts and to present new ideas: People and Community The People and Community track provides a unique forum for discussing topics related to people using/building wikis. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Wiki Community: Conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; * Wiki Outreach: Promotion of wikis and Wikimedia projects among the general public; * North meets south, east meets west: How can people of a different cultural background create an encyclopedia according to common rules? Same subject in the eye of different cultures. * Special: Wikipedia in Central/Eastern Europe: this theme will provide a forum to present and discuss the latest progress of Wikis in the central/eastern European community. Knowledge and Collaboration The Knowledge and Collaboration track aims to promote research and find exciting ideas related to knowledge... * Wiki Content: New ways to improve content quality, credibility; legal issues and copyrights (is free knowledge free?); use of the content in education, journalism, research; * Semantic Wikis: The use of semantic web technologies, linked data; semantic annotation and metadata (in particular manual vs. automated approaches). Infrastructure Track The Infrastructure track at Wikimania will provide a forum where both researchers and practitioners can share new approaches, applications, and explore how to make Wiki access ever more ubiquitous: * MediaWiki development: issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; * Moving beyond MediaWiki: what other Wiki-like platforms exist; what tools and features do we need for collaboration on different types of knowledge? * Mobile Wikis: The Web is moving off the desktop and into mobile phones, how we use wikis on mobile devices?; wiki-based Augmented Reality (AR) applications, location based services * User Interface Design: Usability and user experience; accessibility, adaptive interfaces and personalization; novel UI designs. WIKISYM 2010 Please note that Wikimania 2010 is co-located with WikiSym, The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. More information about WikiSym can be found on the conference website: http://www.wikisym.org/ SUBMIT A PROPOSAL To submit a proposal for a presentation, workshop, panel or tutorial, please visit: http://bit.ly/Submit2010 Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! -- Marcin Cieslak Wikimania 2010 Gdansk

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