Hi all,
Just to advise everyone of a public meeting today for anyone
interested in the Special projects committee and its work. This will
take place on irc.freenode: #wikimedia-spcomm @ 19:00 UTC. Please note
that the meeting had originally been scheduled and announced for
tomorrow (ie the 18th) - apologies for all those this may have
inconvenienced.
You can list your attendance or items for the agenda at:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_committee/Meetings#October_…>
Hope to see you then,
Cormac
Cherokee Messages Files have been posted for MediaWiki-1.8.2 and
additions to Names.php for Cherokee Phonetics (non-Syllabary)
as a new language code 'chrp'. They are released under the GFDL and may
be incorporated into future MediaWiki releases.
Changed Files:
languages/Names.php
languages/messages/MessagesChr.php
languages/messages/MessagesChr.php
The bz2 archive containing the Native Cherokee Messages files for
mediawiki-1.8.2 is located at:
ftp://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/MediaWiki/MessagesChr-1.8.2-20061016.tar.gz.b…
Jeff
Hi,
I'd like to delegate the task of coordinating Wikinews language
editions. The task consists of the following:
1) Keep an eye on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Start_a_new_edition
for language editions which have at least 5 supporters.
2) When that threshold is reached, contact the supporters and ask them
to prepare the necessary translations / page creations at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_language_pre-launch
3) Keep an eye on that page as well for editions which are ready to go.
4) When an edition is ready to go, file a site request at
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
For bonus points: A new language edition initially needs to have
uploads enabled until it uploads its own logo, then uploads need to be
disabled until a fair use policy is established that clarifies under
which circumstances users are allowed to upload files.
Wikinews editions also need to be licensed under CC-BY, not GFDL.
Beyond acting on your own, you would also be the first point of
contact for all questions about the process. I'd be happy to go
through it with you once more via Skype or phone.
If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please contact me
privately at erik AT wikimedia DOT org, and I will try to pick the
person a) most qualified and b) most likely to do the work. ;-)
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
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private interests of others with whom I have a relationship, in a way
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In every instance in which I represent the Wikimedia Foundation, I will
conduct my activities in a manner to best promote the interests of
Wikimedia Foundation.
In all matters that come before the board of trustees for a vote that
may favorably impact my own financial interests, or the private
interests of others with whom I have a financial relationship, or any
organization of which I am a part, I will reveal that relationship and
abstain from a vote in the matter.
When a conflict of interest arises, or when a potential conflict of
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conflict, to the Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation and to the
Chairman of its board of trustees and seek a resolution of that issue.
Entered into on this the 17th day of October, 2006.
Florence Devouard
Member, Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Conflict of Interest Questionnaire added on the board wiki.
The Creek Nation has been added and active translations of Wikipedia are
in process for this Muskogean Dialect.
I have been away from things for about a month due to family issues, but
I am back to work now.
Jeff
Hello,
Here is the list of Wikimedia website pages:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Site_map
Most of pages are available in a few languages (around five or six).
So we need to ask translators help. And here a matter of priorities
arises, since most of translators would like to know from where they
are expected to start.
To determine the order of requests, I would like to hear from the non
Egnlish communities. Which page do you want in urgent? And why?
This question is independent from another which information the
Foundation would like the world to know in my opinion. To find the
best way to satisfy the audience, I would like to know what could be
"the largest happiness of the majority", that is why I make that
question.
When I talked with a speaker who is good at English as second/foreign
language as well the majority of his native language community, he
suggested that his community would be happy to have some pages in
their own page even if they are not heavily troubled to read English
documents. On the other hand, a community which are tend to be
xenophilophobia would answer "all" - but I expect not every community
says so, and since we cannot do everything in a moment, we would do a
better job, knowing what is the most needed and what is the less, even
if we provide all in translation at last.
If you bring this question to your language community, either mailing
list or wiki discussion page, and gather the answers, it will be a
great help for our further working.
Cheers,
--
Kizu Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* Nessuna poesia prima di noi *
Thanks to Arne Klempert, at long last, we now own the wikimedia.com
domain name in addition to wikimedia.org. To me this is a good time to
revisit the question what to do with the www.wikimedia.com/.org
website.
Right now it's a minimal portal with logo links to the projects
(currently missing Wikiversity). One point that has been made is that
"Wikimedia" can refer to any of the chapters or the Foundation, while
"Wikimedia Foundation" is specific to the Foundation.
So I think it makes sense to keep wikimediafoundation.org the way it
is, also for reasons of Wikimedia/Wikipedia confusion. But we could
turn wikimedia.org into a portal which shows
1) a link to the Foundation website
2) links to the chapter websites (slightly smaller)
3) links to the projects (slightly smaller still).
The site itself should avoid language, but I'm sure we can make it
spiffier than the current one.
Is this general pattern acceptable? If so, I suggest we launch and
advertise a design contest.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, all views or opinions expressed
in this message are solely my own and do not represent an official
position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
We are working on Wikimedia Domain Names.
So far, Wikimedia has:
www.wikimedia.orgwww.wikimedia.comwww.wikimedia.info
I was going to set-up www.wikimedia.co.nr, I would have been breaking their terms.
Please share feedback.
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