WikiEN-l January 2012

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Wikimedians to the Games
by John Vandenberg 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

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… -- John Vandenberg

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Image rotation request
by Carcharoth 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

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

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Managing knowledge
by Carcharoth 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

Thought some here might be interested in this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16443825 It's about the history of managing knowledge and information. Carcharoth

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Article Feedback Tool 5 Office Hours - 19:00 UTC, 6th December
by Oliver Keyes 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

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! -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation

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The freedom to know things
by David Gerard 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

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.

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