Sue Gardner wrote:
> Is Mike leaving the Wikimedia Foundation because he did something egregious?
>
> Not at all. The Wikimedia Foundation believes Mike has always acted in
> what he believes to be the Wikimedia Foundation's best interests.
This is an odd answer.
MZMcBride
This time from Microsoft Research:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/10/18/wikibhasha/
Has anyone used this one? How is it?
Did Google ever commit to releasing the translation pairs? If so, we
should certainly ask Microsoft for the same.
- d.
At its meeting on 9 October, the Movement Roles working group
presented an update on its current work and an outline for the coming
year. Thanks to everybody who participated in the preparation of the
proposal. The Board approved the direction of the group, and
encouraged all interested parties, particularly chapters and other
stakeholders as outlined in the proposal, to engage in the process.
You can find the proposal on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project/Proposal
After working mainly on the framing of the process over the past
weeks, we're now starting with the real work. For example, over the
next few months we will be reaching out to hear from a broad range of
Wikimedians. For anybody who wants to engage in the process or just
wants to learn more about the movement roles project we will have an
open meeting next Thursday. The agenda will be to update you on
progress to date, lay out the process going forward, and to find out
how you might be able to help us.
Please join us at 1500 UTC on Thursday, 21 October on IRC in the
#wikimedia-roles channel.
If you do not have an IRC client, you can join using a web browser: go
to http://webchat.freenode.net/, type in the nickname of your choice,
and choose #wikimedia-roles as the channel.
If you're interested in participating in the process and can't make it
to the open meeting, you can send an e-mail to adhair(a)gmail.com, or
comment on-wiki—see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project. We are
particularly interested to hear your answers to the list of questions
we plan to ask Wikimedians, which you can see at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project/Questionnaire
On behalf of the working group,
Austin Hair
I would like to raise your attention on a topic related to movement roles.
It seems that activities of movement roles working group has not raised high
interest at meta probably because it is a one year term job.
One week ago I wrote a list of comments and proposals at talk page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_roles_working_group
Those proposals are addressed to improve the Chapters, the Chapters
committee and relationship between chapters and projects.
They are mainly focused in giving transparency to the activities of Chapters
and Chapters Committee, and giving voice to the projects in important
decisions related to chapters.
I think there are issues that should be solved without waiting for one year
until movement roles working group has his job done. In particular chapters
like the Catalan one that according to the interpretation the ChapCom gives
to the Board resolutions they don’t recommend its approval.
Oops, again with shortened urls, and text only format
For those of you who want to follow this closely:
The following two charts show daily page views as counted by our squid log
post-processing server.
Same data, with different time scales, one of 13, one for 34 months.
http://tinyurl.com/2w9pcubhttp://tinyurl.com/3ytachh
As you can see there's been an instantaneous *reported* dramatic page view
increase on 9/27-9/28.
Mind you we have no idea yet whether these are actual extra messages
received or some internal artifact.
Incidentally the earlier server congestion on locke from mid November to mid
July also shows clearly.
It may be useful to generate this chart with regular intervals.
Erik Zachte
Hi!
We've set the date for RecentChangesCamp Canberra. It will be held from
January 28 to January 30. More details are available at
http://recentchangescamp.org/wiki/Canberra . We're working on setting the
venue and date for Boston and are looking at March.
Recent Changes Camp was born from the intersection of wiki and Open Space.
Since 2006, participants from all over North America and the globe have
gathered together for a common purpose: discussing the past, present, and
future of the technology and collaborative method that is wiki. RCC is a
chance for everyone in the wiki community, something we like to call Wiki
Ohana, to meet and have a fun, productive conversation about our passion for
wikis of all stripes. Going far beyond technology, we're interested in wiki
culture and other networks/groups/etc. that share many of the values
implicit in it — from cultural creatives, to public participation and free
culture advocates. If you use a wiki or you value open collaboration, Recent
Changes Camp is created for you. RCC is about openness and inclusion,
collaboration and community, creativity and flow.
This unconference/BarCamp has been held at least once every year since 2006
(and twice in 2007). Unlike a conventional conference, where everything's
pre-planned and structured, RecentChangesCamp is a gathering where we decide
for ourselves what we're going to get out of it by offering sessions each
morning on whatever we want (and of course ad hoc sessions can form at any
time). There's no agenda until we make it up! Now, that might sound a bit
chaotic if you've never been to this type of gathering, but be prepared to
be surprised at how much people can learn and create when they collaborate
spontaneously.
We're hoping that by announcing it this early, you'll have enough time to
plan to attend. We'd really love to see you there. The Canberra version
will be the first full three day RecentChangesCamp held outside of the USA
and Canada. Any support you can provide would be very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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twitter: purplepopple
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Hello,
Four new language editions of Wikimedia projects have been approved
and created: the Banjar Wikipedia at <http://bjn.wikipedia.org>, the
Hill Mari/Мары йӹлмӹ Wikipedia at <http://mrj.wikipedia.org>, the
Komi-Permyak/Перем Коми Wikipedia at <http://koi.wikipedia.org>, and
the Persian/فارسی Wikinews at <http://fa.wikinews.org>. The
Gagauz/gagauzça Wikipedia has also been approved and is only awaiting
final details (logo, namespace translation, etc) before creation.
(As usual, this is a personal message and not an official language
committee announcement.)
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Yours cordially,
Jesse (Pathoschild)