I think that GNU FDL is perfectly fine for Ultimate Wiktionary and there
is no need to change the license. The license is perfectly compatible
with the .DICT format, so there should be no problems at all.
Thinking about how to import data from wiktionary in the ultimate
wiktionary may pose a few puzzles with respect to FDL compliance, but I
don't see any significant problems. The import script should keep track
of who contributed to a chunk of data and take note of that fact. The
history may be a little more problematic, and I think we will want to
get advice on exactly how to do it.
But changing the license to something else would require throwing away
all existing work in wiktionary, which seems quite unwise to me.
--Jimbo
Hello
The elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation are now
open. In order to accommodate all projects, every effort will be made to
translate the election notice into all of the languages used by the Foundation.
As such, we are asking that everyone pitch in to ensure that the Election
regulations are translated before candidates issue their statements. Please see
_http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_…
edia_Foundation%2C_2005/En_
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_W…)
for more details.
Qualified individuals may submit their candidacies
from Tuesday, 0:00 June 7, 2005 (UTC)
to Monday, 24:00 June 27, 2005 (UTC)
The voting will take place:
from Tuesday, 0:00 June 28, 2005 (UTC)
to Monday, 24:00 July 11, 2005 (UTC)
On behalf of the election organizers, I want to wish all of the candidates
the best of luck in this election. We are confident that the election will be
conducted in the spirit of fairness and goodwill that are hallmarks of our
projects' success.
Bjarte, Britty (Aphaia), Danny, Datrio
A couple of points to Brion, Dammit, JeLuf, Eloquence, Danny, Elian,
Soufron and all others interested.
* Could someone update http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Official_position
so as to reflect last decisions ? I'll help :-)
* It would be nice that all current officers list themselves on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_organigram&action=edit.
A little bit of sauce around their names, such as a minimum of
information about each of you would be great. Pictures... personal
statement, whatever... When the page is properly set up, it will be
transfered to the Foundation website. As far as I remember, we already
have this information for Dammit, Brion and JeLuf (in the developer
page), but they might wish to give different information.
* it would be great as well that roles of each position is properly
written somewhere. If short, on the organigram page, if long, on a
separate page linked to the organigram page.
* If you want some business cards and do not have yet any, you may
contact James Forrester or Elian or notafish to get some done, or get
the file to make yours.
* If you do not have yet an account on WMF site, please ask Angie or
myself to set up one for you.
* I also suggest that each of you send a mail to the board reminding a
couple of little things such as addresses and phone number... We'll save
them privately somewhere.
I wish that you feel free to act in your position as you feel is best.
If you feel you need help, do not hesitate to gather a team around you.
Animate your mailing list, whatever.
It would be great if you could go "ahead" of board wishes and feel
entitled to keep us informed before we ask :-) I do not want to be a
pain on this... but keep in mind we also set up such roles to try to be
more organised and to delegate more. Hum, if some of you could
sponteaneously update the foundation main page news if you feel an
important point occured in your department, please do so as well.
/me goes to the Bahamas now...
ant
tpryor(a)media.mit.edu a écrit:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know more about specifics of the Wikimedia Research "exclusion
> procedure" as that doesn't seem to have the characteristic open
> definitiveness
> I would expect from this group.
>
> I haven't contributed anything to the wikipedia code base, but I am
> working on
> alternative dynamic interfaces for wikipedia. I think it would be
> sensible to
> coordinate with the formative research team. I created a brand new wikipedia
> user account 'Dppl' (yes, indeed, I have no editor identity) and tried
> to join
> but seem to be in exclusion land.
>
> Here are some of the wikipedia research topics I'm interested in and
> have done a
> little R&D on already:
>
> 1. Hallways
> 1. Integrate dynamic menuing system, called Hallways, as a skin.
> 2. Inferential menu tree options using centroid clustering of
> choices
> across users.
> CHEAPO MOCKUP (in development):
> http://www.bostoncoop.net/~tpryor/wiki/hallways_related_files/hllwys.php
> 2. Wikipedia Suggest
> 1. Similar UI to Google Suggest using the power of memcache.
> CHEAPO MOCKUP (in development):
> http://www.bostoncoop.net/~tpryor/wikisug/wikisug.html
> 3. "StoryMap"
> 1. Nodal person and real time placecoding for nodal storytelling.
> 1. Orthomap, street address photos, navigation, phone,
> audiotagging, (multi-interface; content delivery over http)
> 2. Examples, compelling web interface, fun to use on the
> street.
> MOCKUP REQUIRES MODIFICATION.
> 4. Wikiself
> 1. Autobiographical mind mapping (similar/related to blogging using
> mediawiki - I simply think this could be an interesting research area
> and would
> like to discuss possibilities, existing examples, etc.)
>
> 5. "Wikipictionary" -- Icons-for-word-meanings inline transclusion
> 1. Collaborative creation of icon/image/animation for every
> meaning of
> every word.
> 2. The ability to hover over any word in a body of text and see the
> representative permutation of definition's representative image flip up for
> translanguage conceptual recognition... which I believe would/will also
> helpful
> in learning a language.
> SORRY, NO MOCKUP.
>
> I spoke about a couple of these potential projects (Storymap and
> Wikipictionary)
> when Jimmy Wales spoke at Harvard some weeks ago. There seemed to be some
> interest. I hope to be able to work the Wikimedia Research Team...
> otherwise I
> suppose I will be a renegade by default. Regardless, I'd appreciate a
> response.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Pryor
Hello
I do not consider someone participating to our projects, and not
belonging to the Research Team, should ever feel or made him felt he is
a renegade. You are free and welcome to help, within or outside the
Research Team.
This is very essential point.
Anthere
Dppl-
> I created a brand new
> wikipedia
> user account 'Dppl' (yes, indeed, I have no editor identity) and tried
> to join
> but seem to be in exclusion land.
There seems to be some confusion here - anyone can add themselves
directly to the members list. I'll explain in private.
Anthere: Yes, joining the WRT is of course not a condition for anything.
Best,
Erik
Hello.
I'm glad to report MediaWiki won the first prize at les Trophées du
Libre ( http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2 ),
a french event geared towards free software, in the category 'special
php prize' created just this year.
Many people often forget that, backing Wikimedia Foundation's
projects, lies MediaWiki, an amazing piece of software. Today
developers's efforts were recognized.
The Trophées du Libre, 2nd edition this year, gathers people from
companies, associations, and also administration. Many people from
many different backgrounds, working in or with open source software,
sharing ideas, concerns (for instance software patents), solutions.
Many thanks and kudos to all developers who make it easy & fun to work
on Wikimedia's projects!
Nicolas Weeger
Guys !
We made it !
More information to come when Ryo and nota have
finished the champaign.
Anthere
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--- Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, we may be slowly countering our own systemic bias, but
> we
> are still enormous geeks -- half of the positions are related to
> technology! And the rest to money, glory, and the Law. Content
> and
> usability must fit in somewhere... I suppose those are too
> fundamental
> and important to have made the list, rather than too boring and
> silent. Still, a usability group and a content quality group are
> much
> needed; and similar officers would have work enough to stay busy.
I agree.
I also suggest that mediation, and mentoring get contact points.
Mediation I think would be an aggregator role, with added
responsibility to formulate guidelines for mediators.
Mentor would really coordinate efforts to increase mentoring activity
among members, with the end-result that content quality will
increases (hopefully) and that less friction will occur. This role
could also contribute to the creation of material geared at educators
that want theirs students to experience wikipedia.
Perhaps I would also look for "government relations" to act as the
liason point for establishing and maintaining relations with
government bodies, from education and cultural institutions to
whatever.
Chris Mahan
818.943.1850 cell
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
chris.mahan(a)gmail.com
http://www.christophermahan.com/
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--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
> Although many people do wonderful for Wikimedia and its projects, I
> would like to formally recognize a few of those people today. Daniel
> Mayer has had the title of Chief Financial Officer for the last year,
> and has done some amazing work in this role, often despite being in
> the difficult situation of not having access to the Foundation's bank
> account. I would like to invite him to continue in this role for the
> following year, with the promise of getting him better access to the
> data, by changing banks if necessary. (Don't get me started about
> stupid online banking systems!)
Thank you for the compliment and I accept your nomination. There is still so
much I would like to do in this position that is dependent on having near real
time access to the foundation�s financial data. So I very much so look forward
to getting read access to the foundation�s bank account (I will call the bank
today to get a detailed explanation on how you can set that up).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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