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The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 34 – 22 August 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

News and notes: Girl Geeks edit while they dine, candidates needed for forthcoming steward elections, image referendum opens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-22/News_a… In the news: Journalist regrets not checking citation, PR firms issue advice on how to "survive" Wikipedia (but U.S. Congressman caught red-handed) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-22/In_the… WikiProject report: Images in Motion – WikiProject Animation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-22/WikiPr… Featured content: JJ Harrison on avian photography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-22/Featur… Arbitration report: After eleven moves, name for islands now under arbitration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-22/Arbitr… Technology report: Engineering report, sprint, and more testers needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-22/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/ http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost

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[Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...
by rupert THURNER 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

hi, openstreetmap tries to switch to a new license: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ one of the disadvantages of the license is that it does not exist e.g. in german. what is the best strategy to get it in german as well? i am asking because in switzerland 1% of the swiss osm data was provided by one wikipedian who happened to also be mapper who was not able to agree to the license for a very long time. just before the zürich meetup on saturday he finally agreed. at the meetup he made clear that not having the license in german was one of the main obstacles that he did not agree for so long. if a mapper does not agree to the license change this would mean that his data gets deleted (but i do not know if osm has a deadline for the license change ...). deleting somebody's data in osm can be tricky as one has to delete work of others as well which builds up on this persons changes. an example is a street which got entered, and others adding details to it. does wikimedia have some community which might be helpful with such an issue? rupert.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful
by Κωνσταντίνος Σταμπουλής 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

There is also @el_wikinews bringing all the latest published articles. I've tried to make @el_wikipedia to also publish the FA of the week (not so many FAs in el.wikipedia) and 2-3 pieces from "in this day" but I technically failed. I believe those would be much more interesting instead of the article counter, so if anyone has a solution on how to do it please help. -- Konstantinos Stampoulis geraki(a)geraki.gr http://www.geraki.gr ---------- Προωθούμενο μήνυμα ---------- > From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:11:21 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful > Of course there's the infamous @wikipedia_mk and @itwikiquote :) > > 2011/8/18 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> > > > On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote: > > > More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes > > > for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly. > > > > > > When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe > > > new pages into Twitter. It's still running: > > > http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts > > > > Wikimedia article feeds on twitter: > > > > @en_wikinews > > @dewikinews > > @wikinews (Chinese) > > > > @el_wikipedia is an article counter > > @wikipedia_de is the daily FA > > @zhwiki_newpages is all new pages > > @ZHWP is some form of selected article feed > > > > Anyone know of other active ones? > > > > The German approach here seems a pretty good one, at least to test the > > water - daily featured article, plus possibly other front-page > > content. Perhaps a feed of all new (rather than featured-that-day) > > "quality" content would be interesting, to give people something they > > might not see from the main page? A feed of enwiki's newly graded FA + > > GA + FP would be about ten a day, which seems quite a reasonable > > figure; I'm not sure what the figures are like for others, though, and > > this would be a bit more unpredictable than the daily feeds. > > > > As far as new articles, well. Feeding an unfiltered list would get a > > lot of junk (and, perhaps more annoyingly, a lot of quickly dead > > links). If we look at *surviving* pages, and assume we somehow would > > be able to not send out the ones that are going to get deleted, then > > we're looking at an article every forty seconds on enwiki, five > > minutes on itwiki, ten minutes on jawiki, twenty minutes on huwiki... > > > > (This might be an interesting tool for trying to stoke interest in > > less active projects - feeds slow enough to not be annoying, but > > varied enough they might catch people's attention. Hmm. I wonder what > > overlap there is between [language groups common on twitter] and > > [small WP projects needing users].) > > > > -- > > - Andrew Gray > > andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2011 H2 - Steward Elections
by Tanvir Rahman 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

FYI. :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jyothis E <jyothis.e(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:33 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2011 H2 - Steward Elections To: Malayalam wiki project mailing list <wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mlwikilibrarians(a)googlegroups.com, wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org All, Please note that the Steward elections for the second half of 2011 is beginning in Meta Wiki. If you wish to nominate yourself as a candidate, please read the guidelines carefully. It is mandatory that you should be 18 or older and have a three months of admin experience to be a candidate. Candidate should also be willing to identify themselves to the foundation as well. Please read the Guidelines page listed below for all requirements. Candidate submissions are open from 21 August 2011, 00:00 until 7 September 2011, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until 14 September 2011, 23:59 (UTC). The voting will begin on 15 September 2011, 00:00 and end 6 October 2011, 23:59 (UTC). Candidates must meet the criteria and obtain at least 30 votes in favor with an 80% support ratio. You are welcome to help with translations as well. More information on the links below: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2/Guidelines Kindly reach out to me or one of the election committee members should you have any questions. Regards, Jyothis. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia

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[Foundation-l] Report your news for Wikizine 125
by Milos Rancic 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Wikizine 125 [1] is under construction and it will be published at August 25. If you don't want to be bold and edit the page, you can use this form [2] to report your Wikimedian news. Anything related to Wikimedia is relevant for Wikizine, so don't be shy! Note just a couple of temporal issues: * Wikizine is a weekly, so events older than two weeks at the time of publishing are likely outdated. Events younger than two weeks in the future are likely to be premature. (Note that it doesn't need to be true if it is about important and big events; so your reports from Wikimania are still welcome.) * If something will happen at August 24, that's the past for this edition and should be covered after the event, not before. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-125 [2] http://ur1.ca/4y4vw

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[Foundation-l] Call for referendum
by Philippe Beaudette 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

*Please distribute widely* * * * * *Call for referendum*: The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account. Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum shortly. For the coordinating committee, Philippe (WMF) Cbrown1023 Risker Mardetanha PeterSymonds Robert Harris ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) philippe(a)wikimedia.org

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[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues
by Milos Rancic 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

(It seems that mail server is not functioning properly. I've got "local delivery failed". Trying again or tomorrow.) On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 04:14, Andrew Garrett <agarrett(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> While it is not a big deal for me to get six emails (including one in >> Polish) instead of once, I want to say that I already added pattern >> for my bot accounts at the Wikimedia nomail list and it existed at >> Friday morning there, at least [1]. > > Sorry, that list doesn't accept regular expressions. It's a straight > list of account names, which, until yesterday, had to go through about > twenty minutes of preprocessing before it was useful. I supposed that's the problem. Anyway, may you do something like: * Check for accounts with the same email address. * If some of the accounts have "bot" in the name (something like "bot($|\W)"), remove them. * If none of the accounts have it, don't touch. * If all of the accounts have it, don't touch.

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 34 Number: 124
by Milos Rancic 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Wikizine is alive :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: EN Wikizine <info-en(a)wikizine.org> Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 22:47 Subject: EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 34 Number: 124 To: announce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year:2011 Week: 34 Number:124 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Foundation === [Image filter referendum] - Voting has started and it will last up to August 30th. You can discuss it as well. It is about providing the reader the opt-in option to hide certain types of images that reader does not like to see. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/en http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/en === Chapters === [Wikimedia Hungary] - Wikimedia Hungary published reports for March and April 2011. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma… http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma… === Community === [Wikimania 2011] - has come and is gone. It was in Israël, city of Haifa, this year. Media is available online. Reports about it can be found in The Signpost. Next Wikimania, the 2012-edition, will be in the United States of America, Washington. http://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaIL -- video of Wikimania 2011 on Youtube http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2011 -- media at Commons http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012 [Stewards election] - Candidate submission for the second election for stewards this year will be open between August 21st and September 7th. Voting will be held between September 15th and October 6th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2 [Mingrelian Wikipedia] - Wikipedia in Mingrelian language has been created in July. Mingrelian is a Karvelian (South Caucasian) language spoken by 500,000 people in Georgia. There are now 282 Wikipedias but not all are active. http://xmf.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingrelian_language [Language committee] - Language committee report for July has been published. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-07 [Research committee] - Next Research committee meeting will be held on September 2nd. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2011-09-… === Meetups === [Manila 14] - August 27, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Manila_14 [RegioWikiCamp Brest (France)] - September 2, 2011 http://wiki.regiowiki.eu/RegioWikiCamp_2011 [Manchester wikimeet] - September 17, 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Manchester [Berkeley Wikipedia Meetup] - September 17, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley (Meetups section is filled from Wikipedia:Meetup page at English Wikipedia. Please, add your meetup there and it will be published by Wikizine.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup === Request for Comments === [Stewards] - A proposal has been made to simplfy the rules for granting admin and bureaucrat rights by Stewards. This only relevant for small wikis that have no (active) bureaucrat. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stewards%27_question:_H… http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/54567 === Media === [Wikipedia Signpost] - Volume 7, Issue 33 ? 15 August 2011 has been published. Stories in this edition: Women and Wikipedia, Chapter funding and what skeptics and Latter Day Saints have in common, Wikipedia a ?sausage fest?, Chicago Wikipedians (?the people you?ve probably plagiarized?), and other silly season stories, WikiProject report: The Oregonians and so on. http://www.wikipediasignpost.com/blog/?p=369 === Stats === [Wikipedia] - Chinese Wikipedia is again in the top 10 Wikipedias by page views and it seems that it will stay so in August, as well. For the period July 2010 - July 2011 Kazakh Wikipedia raised visits for 514%. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm [Wikinews] - Page views raised for 16% during the last year, mostly thanks to the raise of French, German and Portuguese editions. Persian Wikinews raised for almost 6000% during the past year. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm [Wikisource] - The first 13 Wikisource editions by page views have increased level of visits for the last year. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm === Was ist das? === "OpenZim" - if you have used the function on the wiki to make a "book" you maybe have noticed that besides PDF and ODT as export option there is also "OpenZim". Kiwix is the program you need for that. It is a project to offer a offline reader for Wikipedia. The have just released a new beta-version, version 0.9. Supported are; GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows. Kiwix provides a user experiences that is very close to reading the live wiki. You can view a selection of articles you have bundled yourself or someone else, like The Signpost (see "book edition"). You can also download the database of a specific language edition of a Wikipedia. This gives a very convenient way to have a offline version of Wikipedia. http://www.kiwix.org PS; do not confuse it with "kwiki" when installing form repository. === Did you know ... === ... you can edit your Galaxy? When Wikipedia started 10 years ago it was revolutionary; a encyclopedia that everybody can edit. How to top that? Edit your own galaxy! http://www.galaxiki.org/ === Quote === "It's a bad idea, and should be strangled at birth." -- mailing list responds about the idea to include a "like button" to edits http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/54328 ////////////////////////////////////////// @@@@@@@@ Wikizine seeks editors @@@@@@@@@ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Editor(s): Millosh, Walter Contact: http://report.wikizine.org Website: http://www.wikizine.org °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° @@@@@@@@@ Wikizine seeks editors @@@@@@@@ ////////////////////////////////////////// Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of accuracy, validity and especially but not limited to, correct grammar and spelling. Satisfaction is not guaranteed. Some content can be highly inspired or directly copied from other sources. Those sources are listed above at "Sources-Attributions". Wikizine.org is published by [[meta:user:Walter]]. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe; mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=unsubscribe

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[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues
by Andrew Garrett 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Hi all, I've just started sending out over 750,000 emails to folks who are eligible to vote in our Wikimedia Referendum. I've learned from past mailouts in trying to exclude more bots, multiple accounts and folks who've already voted. However, if you receive an email which doesn't apply to you (for example, if you're not eligible to vote, or you've requested to be excluded from such mailouts), or if there's a problem with the email that you receive (for example, it's in the wrong language), I've set up a page [1] where you can report it. Remember that you can always opt out from all future mailings [2]. I'm hoping that having a central page for this information will help in investigating the issues associated with errant mail, and allow future mail to be better targetted. Thanks a lot for your help, —Andrew [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Email/False_positives [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation agarrett(a)wikimedia.org

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[Foundation-l] SAGE Open
by Fred Bauder 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

A breakthrough from an unexpected source: http://sgo.sagepub.com/ Fred

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