Today I was blocked on 24 hours on serbian wiki sr:Корисник:Шолевић because I started to do same thing as others are doing, but I was little bit workaholic. They have thousands of articles with years BC. (before Christ), many years in future and centuries in future. They were reluctant to delete these articles since as I understood numbers of articles will fall down. Even administrators were doing same thing as I had done on hundred of articles, I have done ReDirection of 45. century to 4. milenium like other administrators, but they have first told me that I should not do that since number of articles will fall down. I ignore that and they blocked me. (SasAstefanovic, but DungoDung and Kale are also behind that action). Today I started to ask what policy they followed. They say obstruction of project.
Please do something. I think serbian wikipedia is really needed some rearangement. Out of 42.000 articles they have more than 10.000 articles with french small villages with usually less than 100 inhabitants. They have maybe 5.000 articles about years, but with nothing in it. They plan to do entering of 100.000 articles with minerals automatically. I could say they had crazy ideas and they need outside control.
At least there is need to check all administrators. They have over 40 administrators and they maltreat normal users as soon as you start working.
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Today I was blocked on 24 hours on serbian wiki sr:Корисник:Шолевић because
I started to do same thing as others are doing, but I was little bit workaholic.
They have thousands of articles with years BC. (before Christ), many years in future
and centuries in future.
They were reluctant to delete these articles since as I understood numbers of articles will fall down.
Even administrators were doing same thing as I had done on hundred of articles,
I have done ReDirection of 45. century to 4. milenium like other administrators,
but they have first told me that I should not do that since number of articles will fall down.
I ignore that and they blocked me. (SasAstefanovic, but DungoDung and Kale are also behind that action).
Today I started to ask what policy they followed. They say obstruction of project.
Please do something. I think serbian wikipedia is really needed some rearangement.
Out of 42.000 articles they have more than 10.000 articles with french small villages
with usually less than 100 inhabitants. They have maybe 5.000 articles about years,
but with nothing in it. They plan to do entering of 100.000 articles with minerals automatically.
I could say they had crazy ideas and they need outside control.
At least there is need to check all administrators. They have over 40 administrators
and they maltreat normal users as soon as you start working.
Solevic Dragan
Belgrade
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exists, please let me know to delete the page.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bot_aid
A lot of small projects (or even WikiProjects on larger Wikimedian
projects) don't have people who are able to make bots. This page
intends to become a place for people who don't know to work with bots
-- to ask for help.
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Well, after a couple of snags that pushed back the release dates, Wikipedia 0.5 is finally available for commercial distribution. Thanks to Linterweb, one of the long-term goals of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team in the English Wikipedia has been accomplished.
The release consists of an eclectic selection of 1964 articles, selected over a period of one year, which span from Art to Zeus. It draws heavily on the English Wikipedia’s featured article base, to have it also be a showcase of the best of our work. The CD is available at http://www.wikipediaondvd.com, and sells for approximately €12 ($15 USD, £8.50) with part of the sales going directly to the Wikimedia Foundation. The CD is also publicly viewable online, and the CD’s ISO file is available as well.
Either way, as the number "0.5" indicates, we are not done; static releases, just like Wikipedia itself, are not finished, as they are works in progress. We're starting work on Version 0.7 soon, and as everything else on Wikipedia, "more eyes are always more better" (the bad grammar is intentional ;) ). After v0.7, if things go as planned, we intend to finally publish Wikipedia Version 1.0 and accomplish our goal. But we need everyone’s help.
As part of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, I hope that you will enjoy and use our work, and we hope to provide you with more news of this kind soon.
Titoxd.
Dear Wikimedians,
I am zh:User:Theodoranian <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Theodoranian>,
Wikimania 2007 organizer. The registration of Wikimania 2007 has been open
for near one month. Your enthusiastic participation will make this event
successful.
The 3rd edition of Wikimania is from Aug. 3 to Aug. 5 ,2007. We choose Chien
Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center (Taipei City, Taiwan) as the event venue.
Wikimedians from all over the world will get together to know each other, to
exchange opinions in this event. You can imagine that Wikimedia Projects
participators from more than 20 countries learning, conferencing, having
lunch, drinking, and chatting all together. You will meet those Wikimedians
you never met in real life, and you will find you are just like old friends.
This is really a good chance for global partners who share the same vision
and dreams to contact face-to-face. I think Wikimedians will know more about
the similarity and differences between each other via this event. I hope
Wikimania will help Wikimedians getting a closer connection, no matter among
Wikimedia Projects, or among nations/regions.
In this event, many scientists who research Wikimedia community will address
their fruitful results; many wiki technology developers will release their
new inventions; many important participators will share their experience
upon participating Wikimedia Projects. By attending this event, you may have
plentiful harvest on the internet hottest issues: Wiki-culture, wiki-tech,
and free access to knowledge.
Before the main conference, we will hold Hacking Days & Extra (Aug. 1 to
Aug. 2), and also Citizen Journalism Unconference (Aug.2). We will have a
big Wikimania Party in the evening of Aug. 4 at a historical heritage Red
Theater which is a tea-house now. In the party, we can drink beers,
cocktails, Taiwanese tea. Since Red Theater was a movie theater before, the
organizing team are trying to find some Wikimedia related films and will
play them in the Party. After the conference, we also arrange a friendly
tour agent which provides optional 1 to 3 days Taiwanese Cultural Tours
around the island.
Wikimania 2007 organizing team have devoted much time and efforts from last
September. We hope the first held-in-Asia Wikimania will be a good
experience for all attendees. Thanks for assistance from all over the world,
and thank for giving Taiwanese Wikimedians a chance to host. Please register
and come to Taipei to enjoy our hospitality. For more information please see
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration.
See You in Taipei.
Best Regards,
Theodoranian
I'm (re)sending this to lots of lists -- people, we need more
submissions! Please be bold in sending us your papers -- we'd love to
see you in Taiwan this year. :-)
Please forward to other relevant lists as well! See
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation/distribution
for the ones we've already covered.
Erik
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Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also
open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will be
held from August 3-5, 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas
Youth Activity Center. For more information, please visit the
Wikimania site:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/
Send your submissions through:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission
We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops,
and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers
and speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Please note
the details below and be bold in your submissions!
== Important dates ==
* 1 March – 30 April: Submission
* 1 May – 31 May: Feedback and notification of acceptance
* 3 – 5 Aug 2007 : Wikimania
== Conference Themes ==
Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:
* Wikimedia Communities – Interesting projects and particularities
within the communities (we explicitly invite you to present your local
Wikimedia project's community!); policy creation within individual
projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and
identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies.
* Free Content – Open access to information; ways to gather and
distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in
education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and
usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with
Wikimedia projects.
* Technical infrastructure – Issues related to MediaWiki
development and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for
development (including usable case studies from other wikis or similar
projects).
Your topic must be related to Wikimedia projects and its communities
or to the creation of free content in general.
== Types of Submissions ==
We are seeking submissions for
* presentations (10–30 minute talks with optional short or full papers)
* posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own)
* workshops (30–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience)
* panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject)
* Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) (45-60 minute informal meetup of group
discussion on a particular topic)
* artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or
other representations of some aspect of the projects)
== Guidelines ==
Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us to minimize
wasted effort by following these guidelines carefully before
submitting and be sure not to forget anything that is mentioned here.
All submissions must explicitly include the following:
* an English title
* a short English abstract of 50 to 100 words. The abstracts should be
provided as plain text, and not as file attachments. This abstract
will be used as public description of your submission in the
conference program
* a detailed description (or full paper) of at least one page (300
words or more). This description will not be published unless you want
it, but used for reviewing your submission. Give an overview of the
areas to be covered or taught. State clearly the relevance to the
Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki
project. You may use any language, but we strongly suggest English or
Chinese. Full descriptions may include a link to a full paper or
slides in HTML or PDF, if available.
* full name, email address, and a short bio of 1–3 sentences for each
author. You may also add wiki usernames and nicknames.
* the type of submission (presentation, poster, workshop, panel, BoF, artistic)
* the language(s) you are going to talk in (or the language of your poster)
Please tell us with your submission whether you will attend to
Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is
accepted, or (d) only if we provide travel and/or accommodation.
Additionally, please specify:
* the target audience you are going to reach and what previous
knowledge is needed
* special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if needed
* images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available
* for panel submissions short biographies of each suggested panelist
* whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length.
* BoF proposals should describe the significance of and community
interest in the topic, and name the proposed discussion leader(s).
For poster sessions there are additional guidelines:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poster_session
Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later and the Creative
Commons Attribution License.
== Submissions ==
Once you are sure you have included all of the required information,
please send your submission by the respective deadline through our
submission system:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission
Please do not send submissions by email. If you need help for
translating your work please visit our translation help page.
Questions, but not submissions, may be directed to cfp(a)wikimedia.org.
== Hacking Days ==
Before the main conference there will also be informal Hacking days
for MediaWiki developers who are familiar with the software, If you
are interested in joining it, please visit:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning/Hacking_Days_Extra_2007
== See also ==
* About the venue: http://www.cyh.org.tw/
* Brainstorming page for program ideas:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Ideas
* Editable list of attendees: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees
* WikiSym 2007 (October 21-23, 2007, Montreal), an alternative wiki
conference: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
Ehm, guys, although I am as well interested in the answer as you are,
maybe it is wise to discuss this in another thread :) Here you go! (to
keep the subjects seperated)
Lodewijk
2007/4/6, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com>:
> But who?
>
> On 4/6/07, daniwo59(a)aol.com <daniwo59(a)aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 4/6/2007 2:35:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > beesley(a)gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Perhaps we should also have a rule that results won't be leaked to
> > candidates this time. Or even not made available to anyone at all
> > until the end of the voting period. The situation with the last
> > election was a disgrace.
> >
> >
> >
> > The best way would be to have a completely outside organization audit the
> > elections.
> >
> > Danny
> >
> >
> >
> > ************************************** See what's free at
> > http://www.aol.com.
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Hoi,
We now have a procedure on how we can get new language files in the
Incubator. What we now need is to know is if people want to start with
the English language for their initial start or with another language.
We can imagine that you want to start for Ottoman Turk with either Arab
or Turkish. For Palatinate German it could be better to start with German.
Please let me know within a week what you want for this and we will
accommodate you in this way.
For the Kabyle language we will use the work that is currently done in
BetaWiki. It is not sensible to start with a Kabyle file now in the
Incubator. We do not want to do things twice..
Thanks,
GerardM
Hello Wiki folk,
After approximately two and a half months of inactivity, I have decided to
return to Foundation-l. And today, I would like to address something: an
overhaul of Meta.
The Wikimedia Meta-Wiki is, in my opinion, the portal of things relevant to
every single involved member of Wikimedia projects. All of them. Yet, Meta
is not quite to my standard. I remember some time ago there was an effort
for cleaning up, but that seems to have turned to dust. This won't be some
fancy project, this is just what I am thinking about and I want to see if
you all get where I am heading at.
1) The current primary navigation system, [[Meta:Index]], is looking unhappy
with needless branching out. I could probably do this on my own, but I was
thinking that Meta:Index should be condensed as much as possible and -be
restricted to functions on Meta only-. Things for other projects can have a
similar navigation page. Likewise, the Meta:Index page should link to each
of the language categories. Additionally, I would like to see the Index page
more prominently featured on Meta.
2) The three messageboard pages -- Meta:Babel, Metapub, and Meta:Babylon --
have very terrible names, considering their purposes. You'd think Meta:Babel
would be about languages, but it's about Meta. You'd think Metapub would be
able Meta, but it's about the WMF in general. Meta:Babylon may hint towards
the idea of languages, but Meta:Babel sounds like a better candidate. I
discuss this more here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Renaming_some_pages
3) The Main Page is a bit big. It's not really a problem, but some things
could be transitioned over to Meta:Index or similar pages.
4) The feature where you get to select a language and then the interface is
in that language is really cool -- but I think its implementation should be
more conspicuous. For registered users, if they haven't selected their
language(s) of preference yet, they should be able to set the options in
Preferences. When this feature becomes available, there should be a message
in the Sitenotice advertising such a thing. For anonymous users, it could be
cookie-based; if there is no evidence that there is cache of Meta since the
implementation of such a feature, then before they could view any other
pages, they must set their language of preference first. This way, it is out
in the open, and there is little possibility for confusion.
5) I've heard about discussion of this, but I think the translation
functions of Meta should be moved to their own wiki. It would operate a lot
more efficiently (more main page space could be dedicated to translation),
and through special features made for translation wikis, it would be much
more convenient as well. A translation community, so-to-speak, could
establish a presence on such a wiki.
These are ideas to consider. Additionally, I have thought of an idea
involving streamlining communication throughout the Foundation, but I'll
have more information on that later.
Sincerely,
MessedRocker
(you can call me James)
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Aphaia wrote:
> Besides that, I think it would be a good idea to have a new namespace
> for translation work, since some of page names are shared on the wmf
> wiki and meta, we find sometimes name collision on importing item from
> wmf to meta (cf. [[Board of Trustees]]). Does anyone find demerit to
> create a new namespace "Translation" to those two wiki?
A new namespace could also work... since this also offers options for filtering
RC and watchlists.
SJ