http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/wikipedia-spanish-fork?page=1
Interesting. This article could be titled "Spanish Fork: In which
Edgar Enyedy made Wikipedia what it is today." Who knew his unilateral
decision to take things out of context and proportion was the crucial
determining factor in the future of the English Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Foundation?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 January 2011 17:24, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> I do think that the early history of WP is quite a good example of why
>> we need historians, not just more self-serving memoirs. Even then I
>> doubt we'll fully understand why things turned out the way they did.
>
>
> I must say, I found it made things a lot clearer to see that it was
> Larry Sanger. Who, in his 2011 reply, insisted advertising was the
> right idea *even though it made an entire language community get up
> and leave*. Such community management skills are truly remarkable.
>
>
> - d.
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Hello All,
Following in quick succession from the recent announcements of fellowships for both Achal Prabhala and Lennart Guldbransson I am pleased to announce our sixth fellow, Liam Wyatt, based in Sydney. During this one year project Liam will be working to build the capacity of the Wikimedia community to undertake partnerships with cultural institutions - known as GLAMs [Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums] a term he popularized.
Liam has been a board member of the Australian Wikimedia chapter and was a longtime panelist on the Wikipedia Weekly podcast. He is a Wikipedia historian, having won the university medal for his 2008 thesis ‘the academic lineage of Wikipedia’. The focus of his Wikipedia work for the last two years has been the GLAM sector - he was the convener of the GLAM-WIKI conferences in Canberra and London and last July became the world’s first “Wikipedian in Residence” at the British Museum (previous blog entry).
Several different types of collaboration with the cultural sector have been successfully run with institutions across the world over the last few years - including multimedia content donations, “backstage pass” tours, residencies, and editing and photography events. Not only do these increase the quality and reliability of Wikipedia but also meet the goals of the GLAM institutions to share their expertise with a wide audience - especially for those that do not have a web presences of their own.
The priorities for Liam’s fellowship include: building communication channels so the existing community of Wikimedians working with GLAMs can better share their knowledge; applying what we have learned with the university “campus ambassador” system to create a global network of Wikimedia GLAM ambassadors; creating clear how-to documentation for common GLAM project with real-wolrd case studies to match; and improving the metrics tools available to measure the usage of GLAM content.
<Photo of Liam: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2009_-_Liam_Wyatt.jpg>
If you would like to join in any aspect of the cultural partnerships initiative please visit the project pages at glamwiki.org/. If you represent a cultural institution and want to engage in a project please write to glam(a)wikimedia.org.
Best,
-Daniel Phelps
Human Resources Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
Hola: soy candidata al doctorado en Sociedad del Conocimiento y la informaciòn de la Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, mi tesis se llama "wikis para la gestión del conocimiento en la universidad". Trabajo en la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia como Directora Nacional de Planeación. La Universidad tiene 20 sedes en el país y 50000 estudiantes por nuestra estructura organizativa desde hace varios años hemos recurrido a las comunidades virtuales para movilizar los temas estratégicos del plan de desarrollo, ahora con el desarrollo de la web 2.0 considero que existen enormes potenciales para seguir cualificando nuestra gestión con su uso, concretamente con los wikis construidos de manera colaborativa en las comunidades virtuales existentes. Avanzando en esa linea tenemos un proyecto piloto "Wikis en las comunidades virtuales para la gestiòn del conocimiento en Economìa Social" con el propósito de generar un modelo que integre a los casi cien investigadores que están trabajando sobre el tema.
Cómo podría la fundación apoyar nuestros proyectos?
Colombia Pérez Muñoz
Dirección Nacional de Planeación
"Integración por el Desarrollo"
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=== 2010 ===
[News of the Wiki: year 2010] - Wikizine totally failed at informing
you about Wikimedia news last year. This was regrettable but
unavoidable due the lack of active staff. Fortunately, "The Signpost"
looks better than ever and provides an excellent overview about the
main topics of the past year in the Wikimedia world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-03/2010_i…
=== Technical news ===
[Virginia Data Center] - the WMF has rented space in a data center in
Virginia, USA. Installation of the hardware has been scheduled for
February 2011. This location will soon become the main WMF data center.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Data_Center_Virginia
[Article feedback] - a function to give readers the option of rating
the quality of an article has been activated on a few pages of the
English Wikipedia. The test showed that anonymous users give a much
higher score than registered users. It started in September 2010 and
is ongoing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion -- an article with the feedback
function enabled
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot_Phase_2
[WMF Engineering Update] - an extensive overview of technical news,
events and more.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/wmf-engineering-update/#more-1268
=== Request for help ===
[Keep your news clippings] - Do you see an article about Wikipedia in
a newspaper or other printed media? Keep it. Contact your local
chapter (if it exists) to ask if they can keep it safe for your local
community. When there is no chapter, just keep it yourself --
especially if you are from a small language Wikipedia. Every article
that appears in print is something to collect.
=== Foundation ===
[Founder] - A video message from Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to
the world
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WalesCalltoAction.ogv
=== Agenda ===
[StrataConf 2011] - February 1-3, 2011, Santa Clara, California ? Many
Wikimedians will be attending the O'Reilly conference, and there will
be a an informal meetup with foundation staff member Erik Zachte on
Wikimedia Data.
http://strataconf.com/strata2011
[FOSDEM] - February 5-6, Brussels, Belgium ? Tomasz Finc, Arthur
Richards, and Roan Kattouw will be at FOSDEM 2011 this year. They will
be speaking about data collection at Wikimedia.
http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
=== Community ===
[Celebrations] - A collection of photos from many Wikipedia 10
community events are available on the "Ten Wikipedia". All of these
photos, especially the "international birthday cakes", are very nice
and worth a look. Online you could see that there was something
special at the English Wikipedia which used the special Wiki10 logo,
and at the Dutch Wikipedia which used the old Wikipedia logo for one
day.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_gallery#Wikipedia_10_Cakeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-17/News_a… -- report about Wiki10 by the
Signpost
=== Media ===
[10 years] - There has been a huge amount of media coverage. A very
long - and totaly incomplete - list of links to articles can be found
at the "Ten Wikipedia". There has been also radio and television
interviews, not only with WMF key figures but also with regular users.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage
[A few links] - A very small selection of recent articles about the
10th anniversary of Wikipedia. For more, see above.
http://www.wired.co.uk/topics/wikipedia-weekhttp://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899/http://www.slate.com/id/2281294/
=== Other news ===
[Translating EN WP] - A common misconception is that the many language
editions of Wikipedia are actually translations of the English
Wikipedia. In the case of Thai, however, this is correct. "Asia
Online" created a complete translation of EN Wikipedia to the Thai
language. This was done through advanced machine translation and a
staff of 10 proofreaders.
http://www.globalwatchtower.com/2011/01/13/asia-online-thai-wikipedia/
=== Did you know ... ===
... there are two Spanish language "Wikipedias"?
The ES Wikipedia forked to an independent project in the early days of
Wikipedia: "Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español". At first the new
project was very successful, but ES Wikipedia overtook the fork in
2004. A couple of days ago the Spanish language Wikipedia passed the
700,000 article mark and remains the 7th largest Wikipedia. The fork
is still bravely working on their own version and has a respectable
46,000 articles. It would be 53th largest Wikipedia if it were part of
our club.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre_Universal_en_Espa%C3%B1olhttp://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/2011/01/15/spanish_fork/
-- read me; long interview with Edgar Enyedy, early ES Wikipedia about
the fork and Wikipedia
=== Quote ===
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should
be afraid of their people."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)
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As an update, we've added a second stream. This one is free & high def and
only requires you having VLC [1]
The URL for the stream is: http://transcode1.wikimedia.org:8080 - All you
need to do is launch VLC > Media > Open Network Stream.
Again, there is no warranty on the stream. I've got no idea how well the
upload bandwidth will hold out or if the transcode server will survive.
Speak of, A big thanks to Mark Bergsma for setting up the transcode/server
side of this little project with exactly zero heads up.
-Jon
[1] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
PS. The video is being uploaded at 300k/s, video at 96k/s then transcoded on
the server
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 09:41, Jon Davis <jdavis(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> All,
> Since not everyone can attend WCWC11 [1] or a Wikipedia X party, we're
> trying to webcast [2] the event(s). Until about 4 PM PST (UTC-08), the
> stream should be at WCWC11 in San Francisco. Later on in the evenings
> (after 6PM PST), the stream should be from the San Francisco Party [3].
>
> I make not promises about the streams being interesting or even working.
> Feel free to email me comments off list though.
>
> Thanks
> -Jon
>
> [1] http://2011.westcoastwikicon.org/wiki/Main_Page
> *[2] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wcwc11-wikix*
> [3] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Celebration
>
> --
> Jon Davis
> Office IT System & Network Administrator
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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All,
Since not everyone can attend WCWC11 [1] or a Wikipedia X party, we're
trying to webcast [2] the event(s). Until about 4 PM PST (UTC-08), the
stream should be at WCWC11 in San Francisco. Later on in the evenings
(after 6PM PST), the stream should be from the San Francisco Party [3].
I make not promises about the streams being interesting or even working.
Feel free to email me comments off list though.
Thanks
-Jon
[1] http://2011.westcoastwikicon.org/wiki/Main_Page
*[2] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wcwc11-wikix*
[3] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Celebration
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Office IT System & Network Administrator
Wikimedia Foundation
