Wikimania-l March 2006

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Banner for 'mania 2006
by Aphaia 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello all, please accept my gratitude, you fellow translators, by the way, have you visited [[m:Wikimania]] recently? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania We have there our (own?) banner. Though I love the last year version, I will be happy to have a newer one. I guess you are too. Even with only some letters' modifications ... -- Aphaea(a)*.wikipedia.org email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com

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IRC meetings
by Alex Schenck 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi everyone, Do we have a schedule or something posted that lists the IRC meeting dates? I've been trying to contact various Wikimania volunteers (besides myself :P) but I haven't been successful. Thanks, --Alex

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automated response
by John Cass 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

I am on vacation and will be returning April 10th. If you have any questions please contact Stephen Turcotte at ext 210 or David Nagger.

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Wikimania translation update
by Aphaia 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello all, Here is Wikimania translation update / 4th week of March == General == * Translation of CfP are being translated on meta * Translation of CfP announcement was updated, translated and distributed to local projects and mailinglists. * Stuffs need to translate and their status are now found at the website. See http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Translations == CfP translation == * Translation of CfP is now in its last stage. Quite few language versions, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Japanese are waiting for proofreading. You can help to review it and join in last minute editing. * German translation is going on. If you speak German, you may want to join and work with Martin ;-) * French translators are being called for. Everyone can start the page requested. * Wouldn't you like to have CfP in your own language? Create your lang version or contact User:Aphaia or User@:Sj on meta. Workplace: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006_Call_for_Participation == Main Page translation == * Translation coordinators are now trying to make sure if it is already ready to translate. It will be not afar from now that Wikimania main page is available in many languages. == Editorial == Have you thought if not only content, but also administrative documents like CfP could be helpful to recruit new editors? A Japanese Editor, Mr. Ota has recently confessed it was the CfP in his own language that had made him to attend last year conference - Wikimania 2005. Now he is known one of most active contributors on wikija-l mailinglist, and enjoying Wikimania translation on meta. Translation is not always remarkable parts of our activities, and hardly recognized. But it doesn't mean no result come forth from it. As for recognition, we can remind a Chinese legend; a Chinese king walked around in one day, and he met an old man who tapped his own berry, satisfying meals. The old man said to the king he has no interest at what the king did at all. The king was very pleased - he thought, if he would have governed the kingdom wrongly, then the merry old man should have concerned with his king and what he had done and would do. The better work, the less concious - like air to the living. Wikimania 2006 Translators' team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania -- Aphaea(a)*.wikipedia.org email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania translation update
by Aphaia 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello Phoebe, you might intend to reply to the list? On 3/28/06, phoebe ayers <brassratgirl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Aphaia! Will you let us know when translations are ready to be > linked directly from http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call for > participation? Sure. And already our proofreaders has begun their work! # かずたそさんくす;-) I expect those materials catch more attention on the Wikimania website rather than plain links. Ideally each major langs will have at least two pages - main page and CfP in my opinion. How do you think, folks? > Can we use the language template that's on the contact page, or is there a better one? Definitely, yes. They should. The better navigation will get the better reaction. I am in laity on design, so any suggestion of improvement of language template is welcome. For discussion, you can use [[Wikimania:Tea party]]. Okay, it is 4 o'clock for me; a good hour to have a tea break ... -- Aphaea(a)*.wikipedia.org email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com

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Links related to translation
by Aphaia 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hello all, and thank you for all who have helped to translate and/or distribute our reminder, These are the pages related to Wikimania translation which I am aware now. You could kindly let me know what I miss. Requests *TR/Wikimania ** http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania Status *now drafting - you can find it on ** http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aphaia/Translations Lists *Coordinators for particular language - N/A yet ** *Translators ** http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Teams#Translators Hoping it is helpful for you, Cheers, -- Aphaea(a)*.wikipedia.org email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Apologia Aphaeae
by Samuel Klein 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Greetings from the other side of the world. On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Aphaia wrote: >>> Another thought: the recently created communications committee has a >>> special subcommittee for informing local projects on foundation >>> matter. Wikimania CFP could be one of such information which those >>> people are interested in caring for. Or not? (Of course, before they Yes, that's a good place to bring it up (though it is not just an issue of project communication). The committee talk page might be a good place to comment. > Having no responce than Angie's yet, still taking risks to create > existant works, I'll begin my attempt to organize stuffs further and > ask some editors if they help us. Related links (and then involved > folks hopefully) will be posted on Friday (evening, +0900). This would be great. --SJ

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Apologia Aphaeae
by Aphaia 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

O citizens of Athens, nope sorry to all about mistake. hello all and let me apologize to make a so late apology on my January test; 1) it is always a bad manner to make a test on maillist 2) and gave no reply, because it succeeded on a half, but failed on another half; I failed to subscribe this list, hence this is my first substantial post. 3) according to the custom of my ethnic, every greeting should start from apology. my fellow ci^h^hWikipedians, expectedly you are so friendly to bear a series of newbie's questions; I was on a wikibreak since last year, and everything is new to me on this brave new world. Well, where is the translators, more precisely, organizers? And where can I know what they (sorry for my own absence) have been doing until now? What kind of schedule we have now and who manage the necessary deadline(s), if necessary? (and from my experience, it should exist). It is not a criticism, but I really want to know it to avoid wasting time & work, not to put my feet on other's toe, and I find difficulties to track others' work specially in this sphere. *CFP announcement distribtion Spring has come and we set a special wiki already (thanks for devs and all involved editors), and CFP has already been announced (thanks for Sj, Angela and all who helped to distribute this information on their favorite projects). Ideally CFP would distribute on every major langs, their maillists, their pumps: is there anyone who tracks either the whole or parts of distributions? AFAIK, March 30 or 31 might be the submission deadline for workshops and tutorials, so if some big projects still lack such information, they are better to be informed as soon as we can. Another thought: the recently created communications committee has a special subcommittee for informing local projects on foundation matter. Wikimania CFP could be one of such information which those people are interested in caring for. Or not? (Of course, before they distribute, translation should have been done. But if we find helps, it is great). *Website Website has been set with some contents. Though I wrote on the foundation-l that translators would work on meta, but now I'm not sure. On the current wiki, everyone can create their account. Is there any policy on account and workplace among involved people already? *... and its langs We need to translate some pages into various languages. Is there any fixed policy which languages are must, strongly expected, welcomed but not necessary (i.e. we needn't go to mad, if no translator to this target lang is available)? If not already, who can determine? (I have my own idea, but it is another matter). *Volunteers, teams and organizer(s?) sorry for my lengthy talk and thank you for your patience, that is my last section of questions. Do we have one main organizer about this year's conference? In other words who is now playing the role of Elian in the last year? I heard somewhere Delphine was appointed to be the organizer, but at the same time the community decides still their matter - she would care for finantial matters on the behalf of WMF at least according to my understandings (your correction will be appreciated, if wrong). Or in my own case, as one of volunteering translation coordinators, with whom I should talk when I need to make a decision whose effect is somehow unignorable? As for coordinators, who is responsible in the last minute? All of five (Sj, me, Dpalma01, Solensean, Wikipedius according to the page) or none? We need a communication channel if we work as a team, but as far as I know, there isn't such. We are hoped to have it within team, or allowed to use this list to communicate with other coordinators? (As for one of those, I have no idea where s/he comes from. There is no user page on meta, so I hope s/he is already on this list). Thank you for your patience again and sorry for boring you. Nope I have one another question still - why is this list so hidden? It doesn't appear on http://mail.wikimedia.org and that is one reason I couldn't reach for a long time. Apologies is there are unappropriate questions to this list. Suggestions of alternatives will be welcome. Now it is already late, we must to go. -- Aphaea(a)*.wikipedia.org email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com

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Wiki conferences this August, and logos (fwd msg)
by Samuel Klein 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

August seems to be "Wiki conference month" this year : WikiSym is moved back to Aug 21-23 (in Odense), and both Dutch Wikimedians (ca. August 20) and the Chinese Wikimedians (August 27-29) are arranging August meetups around Wikimania. I like the familiar look of the Chinese page... but there are logo / name issues involved. How should we deal with this? Should people create their own names, and fit "Wikimedia Conference" into them somehow, as the Dutch event is doing? 'Wikimania' is a useful unique nickname for the global conference, but it would be nice to have a way of indicating solidarity among other related events. (For geeks in the US, think 'Foo Camp' vs. 'Bar Camp') http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCN http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2006%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%B6%AD%E5%9… Below is an email sent by Siriudie from Chinese Wikipedia to the foundation, asking whether they could use a derivative of the foundation logo for their satellite event... which raises the question: what do we want to do for Wikimania proper? Does it make sense to have a separate icon for Wikimania, in addition to the (unaltered) Wikimedia logo? There was a recent suggestion that we use a version of Ben Yates' swoosh logo for Wikimania: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_ideas/Cafe_Press#Print-On-Demand… Regards, SJ On 3/13/06, wikimania-l-bounces(a)wikipedia.org <wikimania-l-bounces(a)wikipedia.org> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Wikimedia Foundation <board(a)wikimedia.org> > To: siriudie(a)mail.sdu.edu.cn > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:35:44 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Ticket#2006031310004535] Request for grant of the logo. > Dear Siriudie, > > Thank you for your mail. > > I forward it to wikimania mailing list, because I am not entirely sure what > you mean by Chinese Wikimania 2006. They will certainly be able to help you. > > Greetings > Anthere > > Siriudie <siriudie(a)gmail.com> écrit: > > > Dear Sir, > > > > I am a wikipedian from China. And "Chinese Wikimania 2006" is now under > > preparation. So, I modify the logo of WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION for the logo for > > "Chinese Wikimania 2006".Someone tell me that I should be authorized by > > WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION before we use it, so that I'm writing to request for > > grant. > > > > Yours Sincerely. > > > > *Siriudie* > > > > Yours sincerely, > > Florence Devouard > > -- > Wikimedia Foundation > http://wikimediafoundation.org/

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A few Wikimania updates
by Samuel Klein 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Dear all, At long last, a few Wikimania updates. We have a new website : http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org Check it out, and feel free to comment. There is also an FAQ; new questions can be added to its talk page: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ We are developing the Wikimania program at the moment; comments and speaker suggestions are welcome. If you are interested in the program details, please contribute ideas and suggestions here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program_ideas You are also encouraged to distribute the Call for participation (which is being translated at the moment). If you are interested in helping review papers along one of the tracks, you can note your interest on the Program Team page. http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_participation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program_Team Regards, SJ

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