Hi guys.. Im all for wikis although I have not contributed to any (yet) but
find them wonderful resources.
I have made a text-based virtual world which is multi-user, browser based
and someone commeted that since anyone can login and create and contribute
its like a "wikiWorld"
Admitidly all written in perl using MySQL with a whole bunch of javascript
(ajax) forthose who want it, could it be included in the wiki stable?
I call it Creative Object World (cow) and you can login here:
http://creativeobjectworld.com
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"What is the world coming to!"
Please, look at that test page.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Przykuta/Album:Jasna_G%C3%B3ra
I think about Wikialbum, as a book of our quality images.
Color of backgrond, italic or other problems are open. At commons galleries show images at small boxes, desription is in all languages and usualy it is week desprition.
Commons is useful for as, wikimedians, but it is not the best for users who want to look for galleries of ouer images. We have a lot of week images. To almums we can choise the best or quality images.
So, problem is - new Wikimedia project or new space at Wikibooks or at Commonswiki. I think that better will be new project for Wikialbum. Album or atlas are not book like "How to do"
with regards
przykuta
Hai,
I am working on my course project using Wikipedia dump.
The file I have download was a large xml file (abt 6.2gb).
I am not able to understand the semantics used in the file.
Can any one help me ?? R there any links regarding this.
regards,
Saikrishna.
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`The Stratton family could use some financial help if there is anyone out there who is able. allester6(a)msn.com<mailto:allester6@msn.com>
> Stratton homestead to be lost to history
>
> I recently attended the final July 4th picnic at the
> historic 120-year-old Stratton Mill in the
> Highlands. I can't tell you what a sad occasion it
> was for me.
>
> Friends and family gathered and said their goodbyes
> to the mill and its surroundings.
>
> Some of us took small pieces of the mill building
> just for our own memories.
>
> As I walked through the grounds, I thought about the
> rare turn-of-the-century water-powered sawmill that
> supplied the lumber for the Butte mines. I thought
> about the historic significance of this ground
> beneath my feet. I thought about how soon there
> would be no trace that it ever existed. It sickened
> me.
>
> Then, as I sat watching everyone visiting and
> reminiscing, I couldn't help recalling how Sen.
> Conrad Burns had told Vadis Stratton (with a hug and
> a kiss) that she would never lose her home or the
> mill.
>
> I recalled the pleas, the phone calls, and the
> letters and e-mails sent to Burns, Max Baucus and
> Dennis Rehberg, which eventually all fell on deaf
> ears.
>
> I remembered how prime land in the Beaverhead County
> was offered as an exchange and refused, as well as
> petitions with over 4,000 signatures were unaccepted
> by the Forest Service.
>
> Vadis Stratton truly believed Burns would help her
> save her husband's family homestead. She believed
> that the historic 120-year-old structures would not
> be destroyed. She has clung to the hope that her
> senators and congressman would help her.
>
> An historic homestead has been taken away from a
> native Montana family that arrived in the Highlands
> by covered wagon. On Aug. 31, the Stratton's will be
> leaving their home and memories of over 100 years.
>
> The public voice was ignored when the Forest Service
> employees refused to accept the petitions from the
> Strattons.
>
> (They stated they weren't taking any petitions at
> that time.)
>
> The public voice was also ignored when all the
> correspondence fell on deaf ears by our Montana
> delegation. Don't believe this could not happen to
> you.
>
> I hope those 4,000-plus voters who signed those
> petitions will remember the fatal outcome of the
> Strattons. I still believe that more than 4,000
> votes could be powerful in an election.
>
> Readers...remember the Strattons when you step into
> that voting booth.
>
> Becky Benson Taylor
>
> 126 Bluebird Lane
>
> Whitehall
Dear all,
I was trying to find a permalink to a mail (to this list) that I had
in my Inbox from August 2005. After ages of searching, doublechecking,
and much confusion, I'm pretty sure that a substantial chunk of the
archive from that month is missing.
If you go to the 'by date' view for that month
<http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-August/date.html>,
there's a post from Robert Horning sent on the 6th [1], immediately
followed by a post from Walter van Kalken sent on the 14th [2].
So, I'm wondering if anyone else can shed some light on this, or how I
could go about referencing a mail sent between those dates?
Thanks,
Cormac
[1] Subject: "Licensing wikinews"
<http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-August/003839.html>
[2] Subject:"Re:Google Techtalk"
<http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-August/003840.html>
Dear all,
The Special Projects Committee is holding an open meeting this Friday
at 2200 UTC on IRC (channel to be determined). Please sign up on meta
if you are interested in attending, and add notes to the agenda
whether or not you can be there at that time:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Special_projects_committee#Public_meeti…
The meeting is expected to last around two hours. Note that there is
also a public mailing list, spcommittee-l, that you can subscribe to
discuss projects before and after.
Best,
SJ
This hasn't been done for a while, so I'll try to sum up changes in
our operations since November, 2005.
There has been much less insane headless chicken run and we've seen
quite steady operation operation (except few hiccups) lately.
First of all, we could afford for a while ordering hardware before we
were completely overloaded - it was constant tune in previous years.
There were lots of system architecture changes lately too - the way
how we store data, the way how we serve and cache images, and text.
==Hardware==
One of good news is that we can still stay at same class of database
servers, which even are getting much cheaper than before.
Database server cost per unit went from $15000 in Jun, 2005 to $12500
in October, 2005, to $9070 in March, 2006.
We got four of these servers in March and called them... db1, db2,
db3 and db4.
For application environment we did a single $100000 purchase, that
provided us with 40 high performance servers (with two dual core
opteron processors and 4GB of RAM each).
This nearly doubled our CPU capacity, and also provided enough of
space for revision storage, in-memory caching, etc.
For our current caching layer expansion we ordered 20 high
performance servers (8GB memory, four fast disks, $3300 each), which
should appear in production in ~one month.
We're investigating possibilities of adding more hardware in
Amsterdam cluster. We might end up with 10 additional cache servers
there too.
We also purchased $40000-worth of Foundry hardware, based on their
BigIron RX-8 platform.
We will use that as our highly available core routing layer, as well
as connectivity for most demanding servers.
As well, this will allow flexible networking with upstream providers.
Our next purchase will be image hosting/archival systems, and now
there's still ongoing investigation whether to use our previous
approach (big cheap server with lots of big cheap disks), or to
deploy some storage appliance.
We reallocated some aging servers to search cluster and other
auxiliary, and still continue this practice, so that we'd end up with
more homogenous application environment.
==Software==
There were lots of improvements in MediaWiki itself, but additionally
Tim and Mark ended up in Squid authors list - changes made in it's
code were critical to proper squid performance.
We did split database cluster, with English Wikipedia ending up on
separate set of boxes.
Some of old database servers got their new life being slaves just of
few languages, thus compensating lack of memory or fast disk system.
Additionally revision storage was moved from our core database boxes
to 'external storage clusters', which are our application servers
utilizing their idle disks.
In optimization work multiple factors are being worked on.
"Make it faster" means not only having more requests per second
served, but also reducing response times, and both issues are worked
on constantly.
And of course, as always, team has been marvelous ;-) Thanks!
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Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]
I rolled Brion's fixes together and this tar.gz of MediaWiki 1.7.1 runs
with the unmodified XML Dumps currently posted at
Wikimedia.org for the Native Wikipedia. This version also rolls in all
of the Native Cherokee MediaWiki language messages and editing tools --
Machine translators and mirroring tools not included in this mediawiki
release.
ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/MediaWiki/mediawiki-1.7.1.WG.tar.gz
Jeff
Hoi,
Wikimania was a conference that I expect to be of great importance for
stimulating the African interest in MediaWiki and Wikipedia content. I was
excited that both Kasper Souren and Martin Benjamin gave a presentation. I
was thrilled to meet Paa Kwesi Imbeah at Wikimania, who was informed that
the work on InstantCommons can start.
As a result of the Wikimania, a yahoo group was started, afrophonewikis, and
it has already a lifely and interesting group of people interesting in
making. Topics range from using machine translation to the number of women
being literate in the indigenous languages. The overriding theme is: how do
we get people interested in creating content in the languages of Africa that
is of interest to the people of Africa in African Wikipedias.
The first hurdle to take is by making MediaWiki easy to use. There are
several technical things that can be done; the user interface can be
localised, the user instructions can be translated and we could experiment
with the WYSIWYG. On a community level, we can have provide help by
demonstrating MediaWiki and Wikipedia in a workshop format, we can create
technically great articles with examples of how you can do things, thing
that are there to be copied. We can help with the conversion of closely
related languages.
Practically, we have started in cooperation with the IICD, a Dutch NGO
active in Africa, with a project plan to localise MediaWiki and stimulate
the use of MediaWiki in Ghana. On the kasaharow wiki we have started writing
in a wiki format a project plan on doing all that. This plan is a plan that
is to be truly for the people involved in this project. So when you write
their, be sure that you want to put your effort where your mouth is.
The kasahorow people are working on dictionaries for the languages of Ghana,
one of their aims is to use it for machine translation. With the current
interst in machine translation (the Cherokee project - apertium) it would be
really great if these efforts come together and the content created in one
language can become available in another as well. Using tools like OmegaT is
one other option in easing the translations from one language to another.
IICD and many other NGO's have a wealth of information often specific to
"their" topics that they would love to make available, certainly if this
results in providing their content with more eyeballs. They are quite ready
to make it available as either Wikibooks or Wikipedia content. The current
phase of the projectplan is very much one of brainstorming.
There are many opportunities to open up Africa to the way of the wiki.
Important is that the aim is to make it work in Africa for Africans. Some of
our preconceptions about wikis will prove to be culturally biased. It will
be exciting, relevant and important to observe how we will morph in a more
international organisation.
For me, the localisation of MediaWiki will help make WiktionaryZ useful. I
have discussed in the past cooperating with kasahorow in sharing our content
and technology. When we can do this in Ghana, we can do it in Nigeria and in
India and.... Spending time on this will have big benefits. The key factor
for success is and will always be that the people that use it feel that it
is THEIR Wikipedia, THEIR WiktionaryZ and THEIR MediaWiki.
Thanks,
GerardM
Some links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afrophonewikis/http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2006/08/technology-wikipedia-in-local…http://www.kasahorow.org/wikihttp://WiktionaryZ.org