Wikimedia-l September 2006

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[Foundation-l] RAFT
by Anthere 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

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

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Translation of "A Wikimedia project" and "Powered by MediaWiki" images
by David Gerard 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

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). > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin
by David Gerard 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

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.

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin
by daniwo59＠aol.com 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

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)

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[Foundation-l] [Election] Notice on duplicate votes
by Aphaia 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

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 *

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[Foundation-l] Angela, a little word on the en:wp CVU ...
by David Gerard 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

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.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Use of Wikimedia-Logo's in articles
by valdelli＠bluemail.ch 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

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) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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[Foundation-l] Resignation as CFO
by Daniel Mayer 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Foundation-l] Commons content reuse how-to?
by David Gerard 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

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.

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[Foundation-l] Elections official: James and Jon okay
by Anthere 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

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

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