Hi all,
This is just a reminder that the main scholarship application process for
Wikimania 2011 will end on January 31st at 23:59 UTC.
Applications received after that time will be discarded [see note].
If you or any of your friends were planning to apply for a scholarship but
haven't done so yet, I would advise you to do so now, before it's too late.
Even though we already received many hundreds of applications, we will be
sorry to see anyone left out just because he or she missed the application
deadline.
All information about scholarships and how to apply for them is at
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships.
Note:
Wikimedia Austria and Wikimedia Switzerland have announced separate
scholarship programs for people in their respective countries.
Applications for those will be made through the same website and will remain
open till February 28th, 2011.
Other chapters might follow suit soon, so stay alert for announcements from
your local chapter.
Regards,
Harel Cain
Wikimania 2011 local team
A friend showed me this thing "qwiki" today which appears to pull text from
Wikipedia and images from various sources (commons, what have you) to
produce a movie out of any Wikipedia article.
An interesting example: http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Hood_River,_Oregon
I love the concept, and they do announce that the content is licensed under
CC-SA, so assuming someone sets them straight I'm sure they'll be glad to do
the actual attribution that they're required to do. I just think it's a
really neat concept, and it seems to be working quite well.
-- Matthew P. Del Buono
Forwarding to the list on behalf of a non-member.
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From: Finn Aarup Nielsen <fn(a)imm.dtu.dk>
Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Subject: First Call for Papers WikiSym 2011
To: foundation-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CALL FOR PAPERS - WikiSym 2011 - 7th International Symposium on
Wikis and Open Collaboration
October 3-5, 2011 | Mountain View, California
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011
The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is the
premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In 2011,
WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and community
innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft Research Campus in
Silicon Valley.
Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details
are available on the conference website:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/submitting:start
* Research Papers, Panels, Workshop: April 1
* Posters, Demos: May 13
* Notification of Acceptance: June 17
The conference program will include a peer-reviewed research track, as well
as workshops, a doctoral consortium, invited keynotes and panel speakers.
Evening social events will follow, because wiki folks know the value of a
good party for sparking conversation and collaboration. As always, Open
Space, a participant-organized track will also run throughout the
conference. Many of the most innovative technology companies in the world
have a presence in Mountain View, which makes it an ideal venue for hatching
new ideas and thoughtful debate about collaborative computing among
technologists, researchers, educators, and activists.
Topics appropriate for research submissions include all aspects of the
people, tools, contexts, and content that comprise open collaboration
systems. For example:
* Collaboration tools and processes
* Social and cultural aspects of collaboration
* Collaboration beyond text: images, video, sound, etc.
* Communities and workgroups
* Knowledge and information production
* New media literacies
* Uses and impact of wikis and open resources in specific fields, such
as
- Education/Open Educational Resources
- Law/Intellectual Property
- Journalism
- Art
- Science
- Publishing
- Business
- Entertainment
In addition to research and development topics, WikiSym also invites
innovative proposals for wiki-style art and performance.
Felipe Ortega, Conference Chair
University Rey Juan Carlos
http://felipeortega.net/
Andrea Forte, Program Chair
Drexel University
http://www.andreaforte.net/
Greetings,
I'm happy to tell you a little more about myself and the scope of this
short-term research project I'm undertaking, and I'm as happy to assume
that you fully intended for your messages to come across as decorous and
rational.
I've been on the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation for some
time now, and there have been large periods where I've done nothing, and
many periods when I've done a lot. This, I suspect, is the case for many
fellow Advisory Board members; overall, I can say for myself that it's
been a rewarding and interesting experience. I'm involved in various
aspects of the Wikimedia movement - from helping to organise communities
in India and South Africa to looking at broader, more global questions
around the work of the Chapters Committee and the possibility of other
kinds of affiliation that might usefully exist within our world. All of
this work, as it should be, is completely open and transparent, and is
in no way forced or mandated.
Funnily enough, I wasn't very involved with the strategic 5-year plan; I
started off trying to look at what community members from India might
want to do, but the exercise didn't get very far, and I sort of gave up
in between. I'm glad it went forward with the help of a whole lot of
others from India, and I'm glad it exists, but I haven't even read what
it says yet. So I'm forced to confess (like Shaw almost said) that
reports of my influence are greatly exaggerated. I am, however, involved
on a daily basis with all kinds of work that is related to the movement,
and I'm delighted to be of use to you.
As for me, I work on intellectual property rights as a researcher, and I
also write. I've worked in India, Guyana and South Africa, mostly as an
activist on access to medicines and access to knowledge; I am now
engaged in writing a larger piece of work that is unrelated to
intellectual property.
Now to the project. I see that neither of you gentlemen has any thoughts
on it, and I welcome your engagement. The problem with oral knowledge
vs. published knowledge is an old one, and there are many interesting
ways in which the sum of published material in the world reflects the
order of the world. For us, unfortunately, it also means that in some
cases, to make Wikipedias work in languages where scholarly publishing
is not that strong is a difficult task. This problem applies not just to
languages with a primarily oral tradition (such as many of those in
circulation in sub-Saharan Africa today) but also for those with a
non-Latin written tradition but with a lower output of published
material (like many South Asian languages today). What excites me about
this is that I am interested in the idea of 'legitimate' knowledge - and
the manner in which our ideas of authenticity, reliability and
certification can be shaped and changed in our own lifetimes. This
spirit of consistent reinvention, I think, is central to the idea of
Wikipedia and everything else that comes under the umbrella of our movement.
I have a fairly good understanding of the academic literature on this
subject; I've had excellent discussions with Wikipedians working in
languages across India and South Africa where this is a tangible
problem; and working together with them, I think we can make a useful
contribution to this topic, or at least mark a starting point from which
to make this movement truly inclusive, plural and global.
I'm looking forward to it very much. As I am certain you are too.
Fondest wishes, etc.
Achal
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I agree with what he said.
After looking him up, the only qualification I can find of this person is
that he's on the advisory board, No idea, how he got there and for how long
is his "term", makes me think that maybe there is a Cabal. Most places
mirror his description on the Advisory Board page. I am tired of seeing the
same names, doing the rounds over and over again, from groups to committees
to fellowships to whatever that comes next.
Will anyone else from the Advisory board or maybe even the board, past or
present members included, going to receive a "fellowship" now? Does it
matter that they are mostly unknown by the community, obviously not.
E. Forrester
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:23 PM, MZMcBride<z at mzmcbride.com <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>> wrote:
>/ Hi.
/>/
/>/ As Daniel noted in his earlier e-mail to the list, Achal Prabhala is now a
/>/ Wikimedia Fellow.[1] I actually missed this announcement as it didn't hit
/>/ wikimediaannounce-l or this list (foundation-l), it apparently only got
/>/ posted to the blog, but that's not really here nor there.
/>/
/>/ There have been rumblings about some of the surrounding circumstances that
/>/ I
/>/ think warrant consideration and discussion. Achal is a member of the
/>/ Advisory Board[2] but isn't very active in wikis/open source. A few
/>/ questions pop up in my head. Is there a concern about such an individual
/>/ being a Wikimedia Fellow? That is, someone who's not particularly attached
/>/ to wikis/open source? All of the other Wikimedia Fellows have fairly strong
/>/ editing backgrounds. The edits by Achal seem to be rather sparse:
/>/ http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=Aprabhala <http://toolserver.org/%7Evvv/sulutil.php?user=Aprabhala>
/>/
/>/ More importantly, is there a concern about an Advisory Board member being
/>/ chosen as a Wikimedia Fellow? Is there a conflict of interest there? Is
/>/ there a concern about the appearance of impropriety?
/>/
/>/ Achal has a growing influence on Wikimedia, particularly its new operations
/>/ in India. This has included being part of the hiring decisions, etc. This
/>/ is
/>/ more of a consultant role, making his selection as a Wikimedia Fellow even
/>/ stranger. And his growing influence and power in such a big part of
/>/ Wikimedia's five-year strategy is making people wary. I think conversation
/>/ and engagement (on this list and elsewhere) would be very good in a number
/>/ of ways.
/>/
/>/ MZMcBride
/>/
/>/ [1]http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=2748
/>/ [2]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board
/>/
/>/
/>/
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FYI.
Regards,
Jyothis.
http://www.Jyothis.nethttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothishttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com
woods are lovely dark and deep,
but i have promises to keep and
miles to go before i sleep and
lines to go before I press sleep
completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources)
+ ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
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From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/1/25
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1
million edits milestone
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear All,
I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh (1
million) edits* milestone on *2011 January 22*. Malayalam wikipedia is
the *first
Indian language wikipedia to cross the 10 Lakh milestone*.
With almost 250 active
editors<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%…>Malayalam
wiki community continues to be one of the most active Indian Wiki
community. That is the the main reason behind this achievement. Malayalam
wikipedia also has the *most number of edits per article *(more than 30)
among all theIndian wikis.
The information about the *total number of the edits* in some of the major
active wikis is provided below.
Language wikipedia Number of edits since the wiki is set up Malayalam
1002375 Hindi 913612 Tamil 688891 Marathi 665774 Telugu 578760 Urdu
376948 Kannada 186771 Gujarati 133134 Sanskrit 101517
Data is collected on 2011 January 24.
Thanks
Shiju Alex
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From: Anoop <anoop.ind(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/1/25
Subject: [Wikiml-l] മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ 10 ലക്ഷം എഡിറ്റുകൾ
To: Malayalam wiki project mailing list <wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
സുഹൃത്തുക്കളേ,
ഒരു സന്തോഷ വാർത്ത നിങ്ങളെ എല്ലാവരെയും അറിയിക്കുകയാണ്. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ
10 ലക്ഷം തിരുത്തലുകൾ (Edits) തികഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇക്കഴിഞ്ഞ ജനുവരി
22-നായിരുന്നു 10 ലക്ഷം തിരുത്തലുകൾ തികഞ്ഞത്. ഈ കടമ്പ കടക്കുന്ന അമ്പത്തി
ഒന്നാമത്തെ വിക്കിപീഡിയയാണ് മലയാളം[1]. ഈ കടമ്പ കടന്ന ഏക ഇന്ത്യൻ
വിക്കിപീഡിയയും മലയാളമാണ്[1].
ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെ എണ്ണം വർദ്ധിപ്പിക്കുക എന്നത് പ്രാഥമികമായ ലക്ഷ്യമാക്കാതെ,
കാമ്പുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങൾ സൃഷ്ടിക്കുക എന്ന ലക്ഷ്യത്തോടെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതിന്റെ
ഫലമായാണ് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ ഡെപ്ത് ഉള്ള ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ
തിരുത്തലുകൾ നടത്തിയ ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും മലയാളമായത്. ഈ സ്ഥാനം എന്നെന്നും
നിലനിർത്തിപ്പോരാൻ നിങ്ങൾ ഓരോരുത്തരുടെയും സഹകരണം ആവശ്യമാണ്.
മറ്റു പ്രധാന ഇന്ത്യൻ ഭാഷാ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ തിരുത്തലുകളുടെ എണ്ണം കാണുക.
*ഭാഷ (language)* * തിരുത്തലുകളുടെ എണ്ണം (Number of edits
since wiki is set up)
* മലയാളം (Malayalam) 1002375 ബംഗാളി (bengali)
922606 ഹിന്ദി (Hindi) 913612 തമിഴ് (Tamil) 688891 മറാത്തി (Marathi)
665774 തെലുഗ് (Telugu)
578760 ഉർദു (Urdu) 376948 കന്നഡ (Kannada) 186771 ഗുജറാത്തി (Gujarati)
133134 സംസ്കൃതം (Sanskrit)
101517
[1]
ഈ നേട്ടത്തിൽ പങ്കാളിയായ എല്ലാവർക്കും നന്ദി.
*അവലംബം*
1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
അനൂപ്
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In a message dated 1/20/2011 11:37:00 AM Pacific Standard Time,
dgerard(a)gmail.com writes:
> There's a lot of knowledge in fields which
> everyone assumes, and which are transmitted academically, but not in a
> format that teenage en:wp admins can grasp in five seconds.
>
Knowledge transmitted academically, but not actually ever published?
For example?
A few editors on the English Wikipedia have been noticing a problem since
around January 15 of "connection timed out" messages, very slow performance,
and being logged out.
Preview is getting hard to use because so slow, or failing entirely, and
some edits are not being saved.
Some discussion here --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Slownes…
Does anyone know whether there's work going on that might be causing it?
Sarah
