Wikimedia-l September 2004

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[Foundation-l] Re: Quick thoughts on fundraising
by Michael Snow 26 Sep '04

26 Sep '04

Daniel Mayer wrote: >Only 45 subscriptions set-up so far (linking contributing membership to that >and sending people wampum - t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, etc - for donating at >certain levels will increase that). > >Counting both monthly and yearly/12 we can expect to gross: > >373.24 USD per month* > This is actually already a solid accomplishment - that total is almost as much as what total monthly donations amounted to earlier this year, when fundraising was at its lowest ebb. Naturally, I hope this will continue to increase. --Michael Snow

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[Foundation-l] Wikipeople
by Anthony DiPierro 26 Sep '04

26 Sep '04

Well, here are my answers re wikipeople. 1 Should this project exist? If there are people who want it, I don't see why not. 2 Should the current Sep11 wiki articles be moved here? This is a question which should be determined by the people who use the wiki. 3 Should the Sep11 wiki be removed and redirected to Wikipeople? That should be up to the people who use the sep11 wiki. 4 Should the creation of this project wait until a Wikidata structure exists? I've never heard of Wikidata, so no. 5 Should Wikidata be a project that can hold both Wikipeople and Wikispecies? Definitely not. Wikispecies and Wikipeople are completely different projects created for completely different reasons. Wikispecies is supposed to be a language neutral subset of Wikipedia. Wikipeople is largely supposed to be for information not in Wikipedia. 6 Should this be a project in its own right with no links to Sep11 wiki or Wikispecies? Certainly. 7 Which domain should be used? If we own wikipeople.org, that would be the best. Anthony

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Re: [Foundation-l] Quick thoughts on fundraising
by daniwo59＠aol.com 26 Sep '04

26 Sep '04

Thanks for the information. I think we should spend more effort on getting those monthly donations, which will be very useful to maintaining the running costs. Can we, in this final week of the fundraising drive, set a goal, even minimal, of $1,000 per month? Danny

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[Foundation-l] Partnership with Mandrakesoft
by Yann Forget 25 Sep '04

25 Sep '04

Hi, Mandrakesoft, the company which created and sells the Linux distribution, is interested to distribute a DVD with an English and French version of Wikipedia. This DVD will be sold in their web site and included with the next distribution, due in next April. Mandrakesoft will take legal responsibilities for this publication and is ready to donate some money to the Wikimedia Foundation. The amount is still to be decided. Mandrakesoft wants that we provide them with a master DVD, and would like to complete this first edition for Christmas. As you may have noticed, a mention about this was included in the press release and the newsletter with the authorization of Mandrakesoft who will also publish a press release about this project. The summary below is also available on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Mandrakesoft == Points fixed so far == * It will first be sold on Mandrake web site, then included in the next version of the distribution. * It will include only the current version of the English and French distribution. Mandrakesoft publishes a French version sold in French speaking countries and an English (international) version sold elsewhere in the world. The English Wikipedia will be sold with the international version of Mandrake Linux. * Mandrakesoft asks that the Wikimedia Foundation provide them with a master DVD. * Mandrakesoft will take the legal responsibility for this publication. * Fair use images should be removed as the publication has to comply with worldwide copyright standards, not US only. Also images without proper licensing information have to be removed. == Questions that need answering == * Do we include only complete articles or the whole of Wikipedia including stubs? * How do we package it? Several possibilities, see the page on meta. == What you can do == So we need some help to complete this project. * Work is needed to provide proper lisensing information on all images in the English Wikipedia. * Help packaging. Help with technical knowledge is needed here. Med and Hashar, among others, are already working on this. Thanks, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

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[Foundation-l] Wikipeople
by Angela 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

After discussing the creation of Wikipeople on IRC this evening, I am no longer convinced that there is a consensus about what the proposed project is supposed to be. Personally, I had thought it was supposed to take over what is currently the September 11 memorial wiki, but perhaps I was mistaken about that being its aim due to the fact the discussion of Wikipeople started out at the Wikimorial page on Meta. I think a lot of questions need answering before the project can be created. For example: 1 Should this project exist? 2 Should the current Sep11 wiki articles be moved here? 3 Should the Sep11 wiki be removed and redirected to Wikipeople? 4 Should the creation of this project wait until a Wikidata structure exists? 5 Should Wikidata be a project that can hold both Wikipeople and Wikispecies? 6 Should this be a project in its own right with no links to Sep11 wiki or Wikispecies? 7 Which domain should be used? If anyone has opinions on the above points, please make them at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipeople so that an informed decision can be made about whether to create this project and what its aim is supposed to be. Thanks. Angela.

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[Foundation-l] New mailing list for translators
by Sj 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

A new multilingual mailing list has been set up for people interested in translations of wikimedia content. You can sign up here : http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l The list will announce new content for translation as soon as it is created, and provide a place to talk about the progress of translations. New content includes new Mediawiki: messages and sitewide notices, and important changes to pages on the wikimediafoundation site. --SJ

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[Foundation-l] BBC Go Digital
by Angela 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

BBC's "Go Digital" radio programme (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm), have contacted me about doing an interview for them. They would also like to speak to someone outside of Europe or the US. The interview will be focusing on the fact Wikipedia has just reached one million articles, and will have a global slant since the World Service program goes out worldwide. The interview could be by phone, or, preferably, in a studio if someone who lives near a BBC studio could be found. They are particularly looking for someone who is able to talk about the use of Wikipedia in their country, not only the editing of it. I don't know the exact date of when this will happen, but they are phoning me back to tomorrow hoping for a contact for the other part of the report. If anyone would be interested in being interviewed for this, please contact me as soon as possible. Thank you. Angela.

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[Foundation-l] favicons
by Joshua Swink 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Sometimes I like to have several 'pedias open at once, in tabs, and it would be nice if they had different favicons. These icons are in the tabs, so if they did, I could tell which pedia was in a tab quickly. I have made some simple ones for Meta, Wikibooks and Wikiquote, and was wondering if someone could put them on the wikis. They are at http://yath.phreadom.net/wikicons/. Thanks! P.S. They are now a little more internationalized than the ones I mentioned on wikimedia-l.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Partnership with Mandrakesoft
by Brion Vibber 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

On Sep 22, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Bryan Derksen wrote: > My impression was that this isn't going to be a "reviewed" 1.0-style > Wikipedia, but rather a plain old snapshot that's had all the images > lacking the correct licencing tags automatically stripped out, and > possibly the articles with {{stub}} in them stripped out as well > (personally I think stubs should be left in, but IMO it's probably not > a major issue either way). The downside of this approach is that it's > bound to catch a few articles in a "bad" state, but the upside is that > it will actually be possible to do it in the timeframe needed. Certainly we could give them a stripped dump in that timeframe, but I think they'd be wasting a lot of money pressing it to disc in that state. I can't support this as described. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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[Foundation-l] Capitalisation on the French Wiktionary
by Yann Forget 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Hi, Capitalisation is now only an option in the French Wiktionary. So, f.e., now [[allemand]] and [[Allemand]] are two different articles. All language names are lower cases in French. Thanks, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

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