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[Foundation-l] Gift from Barcelona Castellers to Wikipedia 10th anniversary.
by Joan Goma 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Today is the 10th anniversary of Catalan Wikipedia. Barcelona Castellers sent us this gift. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castellers-Barcelona-Viquipedia-10an… http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Castellers-Barcelona-Viq… This is a bottom up raised pillar as Wikipedia is bottom up raised. And this is the reproduction of the first construction they did 41 years ago: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Primera_actuacio_castellers_de_barcelon… They wish us we can continue growing Wikipedia as they have done reaching bigger and stronger constructions: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:4d9f_c_Castellers_de_Barcelona.jpg http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellers_de_Barcelona <http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:4d9f_c_Castellers_de_Barcelona.jpg>

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Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list
by Joan Goma 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

If we could filter the noise, in each monolingual list and then record the signal and translate it to the other languages this could enrich the conclusions and make all the people feel part of the global project. But I don’t know how to do this. > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:01:19 +0100 > From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=Z8WEF_ZsOqGnHW7Q+sksTGuHASwHdbJbvQW9D(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Milos, > > thanks for your attempt - it is appreciated :) I think you grasped it > well, and I can imagine that a native Serbian speaker has more trouble > with Dutch than a native English speaker. But yeah, probably neither > of you would be able to understand it fully. > > My last sentence was referring to the fact that spelling mistakes > suddenly have much larger consequence when you are using translation > devices. There is no "did you mean" option, the word will just remain > untranslated. It was no important remark, but rather a short comment > and actually useful when you *don't* want others to understand you ;-) > > Lodewijk > > 2011/3/15 <dex2000(a)pc.dk>: > > > > > >> Fra: Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> > >> Til: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > >> <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > >> Dato: Tir, 15. mar 2011 04:19 > >> Emne: Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list > >> > >> 2011/3/14 Lodewijk lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org [mailto: > lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org]: > >> > >> > >> > Het enige lastige van meertalige lijsten is dat spelfouten ineens > >> veel > >> > grotere consequenties hebben. > >> > >> If Google Translator has given the right sentence structure, this > >> sentence is not so structurally complex. However, translation is not > >> guessable. May you word your sentence in some other way? (Translation > >> is: The only tricky multilingual spelling lists is that suddenly many > >> greater consequences. ) > >> > >> * * * > > > > My guess based on a certain knowledge of "European" language would be, > > that "spelfoutens" means spelling faults. They are inded an additional > > problem for machine translators :-) > > Regards, > > Sir48/Thyge > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > >

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[Foundation-l] Sad for a wikimedian leaving on zhwiki
by HW 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Dear all, I am just so sad for a wikimedian leaving which active on zhwiki & commons. User:JerryofWong, a wikipedia editor on zhwiki, a upload on commons. In zhwiki VP, this user said "I can't access Internet any more. Stasi threaten me and asked my parents to stop my internet connection.--Jerry Wong (留言) 2011年3月11日 (五) 10:55 (UTC)" And the reason, you can look at the photo this user upload on commons. Thank you for your attention. HW (User:Waihorace)

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Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)
by Melissa Hagemann 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

On Mar 8, 2011, "Andrea Zanni" <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > We certainly have many individual contacts with the OA community, > > including Melissa Hagemann, who is on our advisory board :) This is > > also an area of professional work for me. What kinds of lobbying did > > you have in mind? > > > > I was just waiting the librarians to weigh in :-) > I'm really not sure of what we can do together, but I certainly was > astonished when few years ago I learned about open access. We have many > things in common, and in a certain sense we are more closer to the OA > movement than the free software one. > Nonetheless, the OA is mainly known by librarians, and (at least in Italy) > few scholars and researchers. > I think the Wikimedia could do his part to promote OA, and discuss with > members of OA to build common strategies. Or at least get to know each > other, there are plenty of things we can learn from one another. It would be wonderful if we could find a way for the WMF and OA communities to more closely collaborate. Aubrey is right in that to a large extent, OA is not well known outside the library community. Given the reach of WMF, there seems that there must be a way to try to raise greater awareness of the materials which are being made available through OA. And if there is interest in advocating on this issue, SPARC developed the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/index.shtml) which represents universities, libraries, patient advocacy groups, and physicians working to promote OA. > Furthermore, another direction could be discuss about licensing: OA has a > "weird" form of licensing scholarship, and a way to make the main OA > licenses (e.g Bethesda) compatible with CC-BY or CC-BY-SA could be an huge > step forward. Many OA journals use CC-BY and the DOAJ promotes its use, see http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=080423. Melissa > > Aubrey >

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[Foundation-l] Job openings - Bugmeister
by Jan Kucera (Kozuch) 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi there, what about this job opening? Has it been filled already? Greetings, Jan Kucera (Kozuch)

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[Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?
by Peter Carney 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Validly licenced images of this building and thousands of others are routinely deleted due to Wikimedia Commons' 'FoP' policy. Clearly this damages our educational mission and impacts many projects. One proposed remedy is a tweak to the policy on the lines of that arising from the National Portrait Gallery dispute. Opponents of change say things like "Commons only accepts free content" which was never strictly true even before the NPG/PD-art policy change. The question which I'd like to hear your views on is: Can you think of any valid arguments to the effect that deleting these images has an upside - a benefit to our mission? P Carney

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Re: [Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart
by dex2000＠pc.dk 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Sorry for refering to my earlier mail which was not added. It was my mail from 25.2.2011, but I think i summarized the suggestions later anyway. Regards Sir48/Thyge

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: a sociological research about copyright in the digital age
by musicali＠libero.it 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

An interesting survey by an Italian researcher. Bye. E.T. >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >Object: A survey about some sociological issues related to copyright >in the digital age > >By this message I would like to introduce a survey that I recently >created in order to go more in depth with the study of some >sociological issues on the topic "Copyright in the digital age: >attitudes, social perception and level of awareness". > >The questionnaire takes approximately 15 minutes to complete; it is >online and completely anonymous (we do not ask your name and we do not >record your IP address; so please relax and answer sincerly to the >questions). > >The results of this research will be included in my Ph.D. thesis and >made available with an open access/copyleft approach. Each person's >attendance is important in order to accomplish my research, so I hope >that you will be able to dedicate the time to answer the survey. It >would also be very useful and appreciated if you could share this >announcement with your friends and collegues. > >HERE IS THE WEBPAGE FOR THE SURVEY: http://www.aliprandi.org/en/survey > >Thanks. >Simone Aliprandi – Ph.D. candidate at Centro Qua_SI >of Bicocca University of Milan

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Re: [Foundation-l] The Psych That Almost Wasn't
by Yaroslav M. Blanter 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:10:39 +0000, "Virgilio A. P. Machado" <vam(a)fct.unl.pt> wrote: > I regret to inform that there is indeed an article on Zick Rubin on > Wikia, like Zick Rubin writes: "I was alarmed to find the following > item, from a Wikia.com site on psychology" > (http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Zick_Rubin). >>It looks like there is no article on him, and the NYT article is clearly a >>reliable source. Sorry, I meant there is no Wikipedia article on him (at least not in English), though he is notable, and the NYT article can be used as a source to create such an article. Cheers Yaroslav

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[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 11 – 14 March 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

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