Hello
Last week, I participated in a forum in Geneva, focused on "toward
global access to health", in a session dedicated to medical on-line
information. One of the organiser of this forum is involved in a project
called RAFT. The core activity of the RAFT is the webcasting of
interactive medical courses. They put the emphasis on knowledge sharing
across care professionals, usually in the form of presentations and
dialogs between experts in different countries. The technology for the
webcasting works with a slow (25 kbits/sec) Internet Connexion.
They feature several activities. But a strong emphasis is put on the
development of capacities for the creation, maintenance and publication
of quality medical didactic content. More is available on
http://raft.hcuge.ch
After discussion with them, it seems that two domains should be
developed. Amongst those the creation of content...
People in charge know our project, and invited us purposefully to the
forum to make contact. After discussion, we decided to meet for a longer
time and with more people involved to discuss potential paths for
collaboration. It so happens that I'll be again in Geneva, in transit,
next week, so I will take this opportunity to meet them again.
I'll be very happy that those of you who are healthcare professionals
have a look at the project. It is limited to french speaking countries
(with a country in focus, Mali), but many documents are translated due
to the international implications. I find such projects absolutely
fascinating. I doubt very much the very specialised content could ever
be produced on our projects (likely, wikibooks), but if it is produced
under a free licence, we might host it. Besides, they could make use of
our general content to support their own content. Last, this project
imply the creation of "internet spot", with tech support. It could be
possible to stimulate/organisation participation to Wikipedia using this
frame.
This was just the 10 minutes to inform you of stuff being discussed.
More later.
Ant
Forwarding to Foundation list - this is being put as a trademark
question, not a technical question.
The question: is it allowable to translate the "Powered by MediaWiki"
and "A Wikimedia project" logos? Given the puzzle globe is routinely
translated ...
- d.
On 04/09/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
> Rob Church wrote:
> > It is not technically possible to translate the "powered by MediaWiki"
> > logo at present.
>
> So many things that need to be parameterizable, so little time... :-)
>
> > I'm not from the Foundation, but I think that translating the "powered
> > by MediaWiki" logo will lead to inconsistencies with other uses of the
> > software; that button brands all MediaWiki wikis, and should be kept
> > as such.
>
> I'm not from the Foundation, either (and know less about it than
> Rob does), but it seems to me that retaining the image part of
> each image, and the names "Wikimedia" and "MediaWiki", and the
> background shading and the text font and color and the overall
> look and feel and everything, while changing only the words
> "A ... project" and "Powered By" to proper translations in a
> wiki's local language, ought to be perfectly acceptable (if it
> was technically possible).
>
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On 04/09/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > or perhaps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin
> 90% of australians edit on the enwiki only :( I'm sure there are many
> more than 10% of AUS wiki users who are fluent in a second language of
> which there is a wiki (frankly you'd be hard pressed to find a
> language spoken by Australians that didn't have a wiki).
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 12.7% of people in
the 2001 Census speak a language other than English at home. Full
stats:
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310116.NSF/85255e31005a1918852556c200550…
(Excel spreadsheet ... I shudder to think what they're using for a CMS
to get URLs like that)
> How regularly
> are the stats updated?
Yes, we need dates on the dataset. I want to refer to this page for
press reasons - en:wp editors by country is something they're
interested in for some reason.
- d.
In a message dated 9/4/2006 7:49:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dgerard(a)gmail.com writes:
It'll be amusing when US contributors are a minority on en:, they'll
find out how UK contributors sometimes feel ;-p
The real problem is the possibility of English-as-a-second-language speakers
(or third or fourth language) becoming a majority of users on en.wiki and
the impact that this would have on the basic quality of writing. It has already
becoming an issue in some areas of content related to India, where the prose
requires inordinate cleanup just to make it legible.
To be clear, I am *not* saying that these contributions should be
discouraged--only that they come at some cost.
Danny
(who has already spent some time adding spaces after punctuation)
Hello Wikimedians,
Please note that users can vote only once across all Wikimedia wikis,
even if they have the technical ability to use the voting system on
more than one wiki. Multiple votes will be removed by the Election
Officials.
Sincerely,
The Election Officials
To translators: please translate this message and put it to your
Village pump or the equivalent on your wiki. (Village pump is a
general discussion page on the English Wikipedia). You may want to
work at meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/quick_translation
--
Kizu Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* vivemus, mea Lesbia, amemus *
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Counter-Vandalism_…
Despite much attempt at sweet reason, they insist on continuing
egregious violation of the logo policy, and apparently won't listen to
anyone but you.
Alternately, if there's a Commons admin who can speedy the pics in
question as an utter violation of all such rules, it would probably be
a good idea.
(And that's not even getting into their strange notion that they can
vote themselves exempt from any sort of civility policy.)
- d.
You could find the solution here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-logo-af.png
it seems to be under guidelines: http://wikimediafoundation.
org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines
and you should ask a permission, but it is also strange look for a
permission for a Wikipedia logo in Wikipedia contents: it is a
paradox.
Ilario
----Messaggio originale----
Da: tuvic.tuvic(a)gmail.com
Data: 03.09.06 18.36
A: <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: [Foundation-l] Use of Wikimedia-Logo's in articles
Because of an ongoing editwar in the Dutch wiki, I have a question
about the
use of the Wikimedia logo's.
Like most Wikipedia's, we have an article about Wikipedia itself (
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ). Recently, this article
was the
center of an editwar.
The discussion is about the logo's: some editors say the content
of
Wikipedia is GFDL, and the logo is not, so the logo should not be
in the
article.
Others think the use is allowed, because the logo's are the
Wikipedia-logo's, and if we themselve can't use them, they are
just
obsolete.
Eve other just say: it's on Commons, so it's alright.
I've been looking for a policy on meta and on the foundation's
site, but I
really can't find any clear and definite policy: only that they are
looking
into it 'now', and that the board is talking about it.
Does anyone have a solid and conclusive answer on the question if
the logo's
may be used in the articles or not. Also, is there some official
policy of
the board about this, and if not, can a policy be written about
this matter.
We really need solid answers on this question, to stop this kind of
editwars
once and for all.
Greetings, Tuvic (nl-wiki)
(P.S. Apologies for any typo's, or for incorrect spelling or bad
grammar)
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In July 2004 I was appointed to the official position of Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia
Foundation. The expectation, backed up by repeated calls from myself, was that I would be replaced
by a relevantly trained paid professional when the needs of the foundation became greater than
what I, as a part time volunteer, could provide.
During my tenure, I have helped with bookkeeping, budgeting, financial reporting, and with
fundraising. I am most proud of my work coordinating several fundraisers that together brought in
nearly a million dollars for the foundation. I am least proud of the last nine months, a time when
the board repeatedly failed to meet to discuss proposed budgets I submitted to them or to give me
direction on what we could or could not publish to the community in regards to spending.
Last week, the board informed me that a selection process has been initiated to hire a paid
professional to help run the foundation's finances from the Wikimedia office in Saint Petersburg,
Florida, USA. At the same time, the board informed me that they approved the membership of a
fundraising committee. I will be serving on that committee.
I therefore resign as Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation but will continue to
help where needed during the transition process.
It truly amazes me how long we, as an organization that runs one of the top sites on the Internet,
can go on volunteer time alone. So it is both a sad and happy day for me as I prepare to hand the
baton to a paid professional.
Yours in the wikiway,
Daniel Mayer,
Wikipedian
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I have an email addres, wp(a)davidgerard.co.uk, set up for en:wp press
queries. Of course, it gets used as a sort of OTRS replacement.
One query I've gotten a bit lately is "may we reuse this text?" or
"may we reuse this image?" I email back explaining how the original
contributor owns it and there will be a license attached, which may be
easy or hard to keep to the terms of.
There is [[Commons:Licensing]], which seems mainly to be for
contributors. But is there a page on Commons that is a simple guide to
people wanting to reuse content? If not, should there be? Is there a
page anywhere else that serves this purpose?
(Let's assume for the moment I have little interest in diving
headfirst into Commons politics.)
- d.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:election_officials2
Resolved that: The Board appoints James Forrester and Jon Harald Søby as
additional Assistant Election Officials. This appointment is aiming to
reduce the current workload of Election Officials.
Approved by Michael, Angela and Anthere
