Wikimedia Australia is pleased to announce a partnership with the
Australian Paralympic Committee to intended to increase the depth and
quality of information about disability sport on Wikipedia (English,
German, French), Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons.
Wikimedians to the Games (W2G) is a an opportunity for two Australian
Wikimedians to go to London and cover the 2012 Summer Paralympics held
in London for Wikinews, Commons and Wikipedia. W2G is played and won
by skill of editing. The purpose W2G is to encourage content
improvement related to the history of the Paralympic Movement in
Australia and make editing on Wikipedia fun.
Wikimedians to the Games begins on 10 January 2012 (today) and is
structured as a two round tournament. The plan for the tournament is
as follows:
Round one: 10 January 2012 to 20 April 2012
We start with one group of all participants, with the top 4 from that
group progressing to the second round. These four will be given press
passes to cover the 2012 Paralympic Games.
Points reset to zero at the end of the first round.
Round two: 22 April 2012 to 30 June 2012
4 participants remain – the top two win transportation and
accommodation to cover the Paralympic Games in person.
For the full rules clarifying for what points can be awarded and other
rules, see attached document and the wiki version:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/HOPAU/W2G/Rules
However, the spirit of the rules are more important than the letter,
and the judges reserve the right to deny points to anyone deemed to be
abusing the system, as well as remove persistently problematic users
from the competition. The judges for W2G include Laura Hale and John
Vandenberg. They will be assisted by other judges including
Sp33dyphil. They can be reached by their talk pages, the W2G talk
page, by email or in the Wikimedia Australia IRC channel,
#wikimedia-au.
If you believe one of the contestants is abusing the spirit of the
rules, intentionally submitting subpar articles with the aim of
getting more W2G points, or anything similar, please contact one of
the judges by email. They will look into the matter and take action if
necessary.
You can sign up at any time between 10 January and 20 April 2012 by
following the directions at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/HOPAU/W2G/Participants
There is an ongoing discussion about this program at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_bo…
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John Vandenberg
Is anyone able to deal with this image? (Or ask someone else or repost
this someone suitable?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Southampton-Cenotaph.jpg
The Wikipedia copy needs rotating (or deleting).
The Commons image is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southampton-Cenotaph.jpg
That is the right way round.
This article is on DYK on the Main Page at the moment, so it would be
nice if the image people see when they click through to the article is
the right way round. Not sure if everyone is seeing it the wrong way
round, or if it is just me. I presume the default is to show the
Wikipedia file if there is a file of the same name both here and on on
Commons.
Carcharoth
Hey guys!
Just dropping a quick note to tell everyone that we'll be holding another
office hours session on the new Article Feedback Tool (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5)
this Friday, in #wikimedia-office, at 19:00 UTC. I'll be staying in the
channel until 23:00, so if anyone can't make the session "on time", you're
welcome to pop in at any time in the following four hours :). If you can't
make the session at all, just drop comments or ideas on the talkpage. The
agenda (broadly construed) is:
*Reviewing the data we've gathered on various types of feedback form;
*Taking a look at the feedback page design, and providing comments so we
can improve how it looks and works;
*Commenting on what classes of users should be able to use specific
elements of the tool (the "hide" button, for example), and starting off the
Request for Comment we'll be running on this and similar issues;
*Anything else about the tool people want to discuss.
Hope to see you all there!
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Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation
A remarkably succinct summary of what Wikipedia is for recently
occurred to me: "freedom of knowledge"; "the freedom to know things."
This freedom was, of course, hard-fought and hard-won. And the battle
actually continues.
Do either of the quoted phrases sound like good summaries of what
Wikimedia is actually about? I eagerly await the fine pedants of this
list picking them to pieces.
- d.
