It seems that no one actually announced the creation of the
"newprojects" mailing list yet!
The mailing list[1] is an announcement-only list for new Wikimedia
wikis[2]. The way it works is that the addwiki.php[3] script that
sysadmins use to create the wikis automatically sends a mail to the
list, so (provided there are no bugs with the script) subscribers will
get an e-mail when every Wikimedia wiki is created.
This list should be especially useful for people who need to know when
new wikis are created so that they can update their tools or scripts.
Of course, people who are just interested in knowing about new wikis
are welcomed to subscribe too. :-)
[1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects
[2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
[3]http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Add_a_wiki
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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Dear colleagues,
I personally think that this "Russian Wikiversity story" is primarily a
grotesque replica of the so-called "Border Control" philosophy that was
flourishing in Russian Wikipedia some time ago. It's a return fire of some
kind.
One of implications of the "Border Control" philosophy is that one who
overly criticises a project or its users, or insults its users (especially
leaders) outside the project, should be banned from the project.
That is what happened here: one overly criticised Russian Wikiversity and
mildly insulted its leader. And was blocked as a result.
However, everything has its good side: despite Yaroslav already makes mostly
wise decisions, but now, when he knows what do the blocked users feel, it
will help him to make even wiser decisions.
The "Border Control" philosophy is a bad idea... I don't share it, and I'm
quite happy that Yaroslav has been unblocked.
Saying that, I completely agree that Russian Wikiversity has serious
problems that have to be addressed.
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Vladimir V. Medeyko
phone: +7-921-940-39-79
Hi folks,
Just a heads up that Thursday at 22:00 UTC (15:00 Pacific), we'll be
running some very light banner testing to make sure that the tools we
use for the fundraiser are fully optimized before we launch. We'll
also take the opportunity to do a little bit of message testing. The
banners will serve to a very low set of editors, but I didn't want you
to be surprised if you got one.
The test is anticipated to run for one hour.
Thanks!
pb
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Head of Reader Relations
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
ofc: +1 415 839 6885 (x 643)
mobile: 918 200 WIKI (9454)
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
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WM NYC and WM Serbia are organizing teleconference at Saturday, August
28th between 16:20 and 17:00 UTC (12:20-13:00 EDT and 18:20-19:00
CEST).
This is a kind of experiment and anyone who is willing to join is
welcome. You can participate by giving ideas at the event page [1] or,
if you are in NYC or Belgrade, you can join us.
We want to explore possibilities for making such events in the future
between chapters and other groups of Wikimedians. All inputs are
welcome.
[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWormhole_Belgrade_-_New_York_City_2010#P…
Hi all,
I wanted to very quickly bring you up to speed on the work we're doing
for Wikipedia in higher education through the Public Policy Initiative [1].
Today, we've announced the eight professors who will be participating in
the Initiative this upcoming term. You can see the announcement in a
Wikimedia Foundation blog post [2].
If you haven't already, please check out the WikiProject:United States
Public Policy [3] to see what we're doing and track the progress of the
students in these courses throughout the term.
LiAnna
[1] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative
[2]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/08/19/wikimedia-registers-for-classes/
[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Pol…
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LiAnna Davis
Communications Associate - Public Policy
Wikimedia Foundation
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hi all,
Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will
be having office hours this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PT, 13:00 ET)
on IRC in #wikimedia-office.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Head of Reader Relations
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
The Wikimedia Announcements list appears not to be forwarding to
Foundation-L anymore -- apologies for the delay in getting this message
to you.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia blog: First U.S.
Wikipedia student club starts at the University of Michigan
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:13 -0700
From: Frank Schulenburg <fschulenburg(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
<wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
I've posted a new article on the Wikimedia blog about our first U.S.
student club, started by Wikipedian Cheryl Moy at the University of
Michigan. We're very excited to see what Cheryl and her fellow club
members do this year, and we hope to hear about other student clubs
springing up on campuses across the world.
Please check out the post and leave a comment if you know of other clubs:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/08/17/first-u-s-wikipedia-student-club-…
Thanks,
Frank