Since there was not so much media activities, I didn't send report every
week.
12. February 2006.
- The article about Rancic Milosh's visit to Zagreb was published on the
site seecult.org
- The article about Rancic Milosh's visit to MAMA (Zagreb) was published on
the site of daily Danas
14. February 2006.
-Milos Rancic speaked in the program called Digital icons, on the second
channel of Belgrade radio.
16. February 2006
-Milosh Rancic had an interview for the radio B92. It will be broadcasted on
18th or 19th February
18. February 2006.
-Wikipedia was shown up as the main news on the National television website,
at the part called "intersting".
3. March 2006.
-Cultural portal of the southeastern Europe, SEECULT.org published article
about WIkipedia at the part called "intersting".
Jovana Milicevic
Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro
Another VfD has come up on English Wikibooks that brings to mind the
issue again of having a seed wiki somewhere, and the sense that perhaps
Wikibooks is a logical place to host new projects. For some specific
details see:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks%3AVotes_for_deletion#Errata
I think this is an ideal candidate for inclusion with a brand-new seed
wiki, with perhaps the Wiki for Standards proposal that successfully won
a vote on Meta and is technically going "before the board" as per the
new project policy.
My question again that I'm throwing up to the community (again) is if
the seed wiki should be started as a seperate project, or should
Wikibooks serve in that role. I have heard opinion from four board
members (Angela, Anthere, Jimbo, and Tim) that this is inappropriate for
Wikibooks and they should be developed elsewhere. Yet both this Errata
and the Wikimania proceedings were put on Wikibooks, both with the idea
that there was no other place to put content like this and it was simply
the "best fit" even if it didn't quite fit Wikibooks policies or match
Wikibooks content as being a textbook. This has happened within the
past year for both of these projects. Wikierrata was even proposed as a
new project on Meta about the same time this content was put on
Wikibooks BTW.
Is the real solution Wikicities? Should we simply tell people that are
interested in setting things like these or the dozens of other projects
that have been proposed on Meta that their only option is to go to
Wikicities or start it on their own dime on a seperate server? With
Wikiversity taking over seven months to go from proposal to still not
being turned on, even after an overwhelming vote of support from the
user community, nor really rejected by the board either and being in
limbo. The sheer bureaucracy in trying to get it going has frustrated
many individuals, and in the case of Wikiversity they have a "seed wiki"
that they are working on: Wikibooks.
Other projects are told to stay away, with the hint that some sort of
seed wiki is eventually going to be started to help deal with these
kinds of projects. Projects like Wikitree have already been developed
as independent projects after the users involved decided the whole
Wikimedia new project process was just simply too much, even though that
went through at least the initial stages of becoming a new Wikimedia
project and followed the policy mentioned on Meta before going off on
their own.
I suggest this because it seems like Wikimedia community members are
going to Wikibooks with new projects even with the official
pronouncements that it shouldn't be done, and it being formally listed
as an official policy on Wikibooks this shouldn't be happening. At
least six different projects of this nature have occured in this past
year alone, most removed through VfD processes or some sort of community
concensus that it shouldn't be on Wikibooks, or that the content
"mutated" into a textbook after policies were explained to the
participants. There are others that are even starting on Wikibooks this
year, and it seems "oh no, not again". I try to nip it right as it is
being created when I can catch it, but in the case of Errata the users
who have been developing the content have about 100 pages of content and
they justifibly are upset that they are told to pack their bags now.
I guess I'm asking what is the official policy going to be on this issue
as to the place for creating new Wikimedia projects, and what would the
guidelines be for starting a new project with a seed wiki? Since a seed
wiki doesn't exist, what is going to be required to get one started?
Should it simply be Wikibooks or Wikicities? (Good reasons for either
or both) Should we instead try to go through the whole process of a
formal vote and new project creation for a Wikimedia seed wiki site?
(with hopefully a much better name as SeedWiki is already used
elsewhere). As the need is already acknowledged by board members and
has even been discussed on the agenda of several board meetings, I'm not
sure if the need is there for going through the whole new project
creation process, but it might iron out some details before such a
project is started.
--
Robert Scott Horning
Our projects are forums. Always and forever. Remember that please!!
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Glad we are not in New Jersey
Robert Scott Horning wrote:
>Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hoi,
>>I found this http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM
>>My question, if this happened in Florida, would we indeed insist on
>>knowing the names of our users ? Or would we say that our projects are
>>not a forum?
>>
>>Thanks,
>> GerardM
>>
>>
>>
>>
The link provided is not working in Thunderbird for me. Does anyone
have a different link or if could past in the txt of the link rather
than the html perhaps mine would work.
If no better link is available or a response to this request is ill
advsied; sweat it not! I will try a search eventually, I got to a web
site. Looks odd. Thin for an official site.
Meanwhile, I have some local legal research to complete regarding
public/private capital resources and abitrary direction from adujicating
enforcers either ignorant (or unwilling to share knowledge regarding
same) of ORS when making threats. Gotta update my local ideology and
practice maps and check in with a couple of cogs in the local political
machinery.
If this lands me at one of the local animal shelters. I am confident I
will be back in communications within a few months one way or another.
later
lazyquasar
>None of this even addresses the legal knot of trying to see exactly
>what servers would be under New Jersey law. Even if this were U.S.
>Federal law instead, the legal issues would be a mess just to see if a
>server could even qualify for enforcement of this law.
>
>
>
We ain't teen nothiingk yet. What jurisprudences when Yanker fans for
teams to establish BOINC clients for Mnet's/GnuNet's phase lag JVM or
PVM. I mean nobody wants a distributing computing or dc problem like a
disgrantles NSA whistleblower or 13 script kiddie in the Phillipines to
be able to knockdown Wall Street for a week while they try to reset New
York grid because of a logic bomb attack at the xpilot finals of the Del
Rey Foundation's Sahara's solar sailing cup or Rocket Jockey's jersey
swaps? I mean the electrical and signal guys know how to
design/instrument/run the complex planes but not all of it can be
eprom's and firmware jit rev level delivery at extremely high net
margins. Ala SEL SS backup vs IFDAPS. Some of it need to be ladder
logic at juice levels adequate to keep the air conditioning running in
Air Force one while its in the middle of LAX or Boston International for
an emergency trim to face the nation on the why to an appropriate
terminal bunker? Sorry if I garbled that, only saw a few minutes of
ending of ToraTricerRexus, White Kaavick, at local londons alleged
location circa nuclear birth certificate. RAPIDS indeed. Maybe better
send a little rocky road to the gsa3t10s in recognition and belated
appreciation for past services rendered? fractalis fidelis missoni you
guys got any mango juice? my dad drank mine weeks before the word was
publically given, a few cans have been going stale in benchstock for
months and suddenly it is long gone? I still have the cans with the
logistics codes. Probably will reinvest the nickels soon, I never cared
much for the key management end of things. Key archivals are like
anchors, need good tax base for stability and security.
Rather RMCC some liquid or real sunshine than play treasure farm. Anyone
think it worth cc to Wankel, he might go for it.
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Hoi,
I found this http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM
My question, if this happened in Florida, would we indeed insist on
knowing the names of our users ? Or would we say that our projects are
not a forum?
Thanks,
GerardM
Matt Brown wrote:
>On 3/6/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>The idea was the users who are just care about getting something
>>uploaded will be satisfied, and the image will survive only with the
>>help of more established users. We don't want new users changing the
>>notice, even if this means that some users who could have selected the
>>right license will not do so... it's better to have 5 more images
>>flagged for review than 1 incorrectly flagged as free licensed.
>>
>>
>I wonder if we should prompt more explicitly for image sources in the upload?
>
>
I've been advocating this as a required field for a long time.
--Michael Snow
Hi Wikipedians,
please note, that you can find first results of the second usability
test ("Editing Information in the German Wikipedia") from
OpenUsability.org here:
http://openusability.org/download.php/89/germanwikipedia_usabilitytest_edit…
This isn't only interesting for Germans.
Bye, avatar.
--
telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
Trying 942884947298374923847982472983.2398749874987249247.2398472372349.
3249782374927898324.2987238479874987398634.2987428901171209471.
23987432923.23478987923. (Julien Oster gibt 'IPv6' Beispiel)
Apparently around since February:
http://wikiversity.at/
This means that, with http://de.wikiversity.org/ , there are now two
German-language "Wikiversity" projects. Perhaps they should be asked to
change their name, or we could change ours (*cough* Wikisophia *cough*).
Alternatively, the projects could be merged.
Erik
Just found this press release (
http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&search…),
the second of the paragraphs that I've quoted is the most important...
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Access Copyright and Creative Commons Canada Announce Public Domain Registry
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - March 3, 2006) -
Ground-breaking project will feature globally searchable catalogue of
Canadian culture
Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency and Creative
Commons Canada, in partnership with Creative Commons Corporation in the US,
today announced the development of a Canadian public domain registry. The
ground-breaking project - the most comprehensive of its kind in Canada -
will create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that
are in the Canadian public domain.
...
The innovative registry's backbone will be Access Copyright's Rights
Management System, the largest database of copyright information in Canada.
The Wikimedia Foundation, developers of the popular online encyclopedia
Wikipedia, will supply software that will allow the public to contribute
information to the registry. Individuals will be able to use the registry to
determine whether a published work is in the public domain. The registry
will also link to digital versions of the work, and provide information
about where a paper copy of the work can be purchased.
----
This sounds like we're in partnership with the Creative Commons, which, to
my knowledge (as a member of the Communications Committee), we're not.
I'd love if we were, and they could just upload the content to Wikimedia
Commons, but they're not. It's rather deceptive.
Nick
Thanks to Zhengzu, Brane, Nikerabbit and Brion, Serbian Wikipedia is
now in Cyrillic, Latin, Ekavian and Iyekavian variant. This is the
great news! We have a lot of work now. I am going to write
documentation and bots :)