Wikimedia-l September 2013

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Fwd: FOSDEM update
by Quim Gil 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Hi, just a heads up about http://fosdem.org - Brussels 1 & 2 Feb 2014. One of the biggest and coolest grassroots open source events in the World - and the main one in Europe. European orgs and individuals loving software freedom: Wikimedia wants to have a stand. Let's do something cool! Get involved. Discussion better at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM or wikitech-l. Thank you! PS: read below -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FOSDEM update Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:39:58 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, about FOSDEM - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2014 On 1 Oct we will know whether our proposal for a Wiki DevRoom has been accepted or not. This is a DevRoom we have proposed together with XWiki and TikiWiki and is open to all wiki topics. If we we get it accepted we will organize a call for participation for this DevRoom. The call for main track session proposals is open until 1 Oct. https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-08-06-call-for-participation/ ... and the call for lightning talks and stands is open until 20 Nov. https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-09-17-call-for-participation-part-two/ You are encouraged to submit lightning talk proposals! Don worry if you are unsure between submitting a session for a lightning talk or a devroom: you can contact both and then they suggest you what to do. Wikimedia wants to have a stand, and we have received an offer to help from the nascent Wikimedia Belgium chapter. Probably more help can be aggregated from CH, DE, FR, NL, UK + other tech contributors in the region? Let's do something really cool! To be discussed. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Office hours to discuss VisualEditor
by Maggie Dennis 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Hello. I wanted to let you know that the engineering department is hosting two office hours next week to discuss VisualEditor. The first of these will be held on Monday, 30 September, at 1700 UTC.[1] The second will be held on Wednesday, 2 October, at 0000 UTC.[2] Please join as Product Manager James Forrester discusses VisualEditor and upcoming plans. Thanks! Maggie [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=00&min=00&sec=0&d… -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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Call for feedback on Welcome to Wikipedia brochure
by LiAnna Davis 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

(Please excuse cross-posting) Over the next few months, I will be overhauling the Welcome to Wikipedia brochure[1] to better reflect what new editors need to know when learning how to contribute to Wikipedia. I'm hoping to get a wide variety of feedback on what people like and do not like about the current brochure so I can create a new version that reflects the best knowledge we collectively have about outreach to newbies. Please see more details and add your feedback here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_(Bookshelf)/2013_e… LiAnna [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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Media Release about WMAU's collaboration with the Australian Paralympic Movement
by Craig Franklin 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi All, As you may be aware, Wikimedia Australia (WMAU) has been working for a period of time now to improve the quality of coverage on Wikimedia projects of Paralympic and disabled sports. A joint project between WMAU, the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) and the University of Queensland (UQ) has recently been successful in attracting funding from the Australian Research Council. Our friends at UQ have issued a media release on behalf of those involved in the project that gives a bit of background as to what it's all about and what we hope to achieve: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=26747 At WMAU, we feel that apart from making more information available on Wikimedia on this often neglected area, projects like this one have a role in increasing diversity on our projects, in this case, encouraging more disabled people to participate by providing outreach and editing workshops focusing on a topic that is of interest to many of them. Regards, Craig Franklin President - Wikimedia Australia

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Fwd: German University of Tubingen partners with Malayalam Wikimedians to digitize the works of Herman Gundert.
by CherianTinu Abraham 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi all, Some of you would have already heard about the recent partnership between Malayalam Wikimedians & German University of Tubingen to digitize the works of Herman Gundert. Dr. Hermann Gundert was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), the Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India. Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert The corpus of nearly 80 manuscripts, 150 printed works and some palm leaf manuscripts of the German scholar available with the university runs into some 42,000 pages. A detailed history of this effort can be read here http://shijualex.in/tubingen-university-gundert-collection/ ( Blog by Shiju Alex in Malayalam) Project Page in Malayalam WikiSource : https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9… The project named “Gundert legacy – a digitization project of the University of Tuebingen” will be started soon. Some News Coverage : The Hindu : http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/german-university-gifts-malayalam… Times of India : http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA5Lz… New Indian Express : http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/German-University-to-digitise-Mala… Kudos to Shiju Alex and the Malayalam Wikipedian/WikiSource Community who are part of this effort. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Google interface to Wikipedia
by James Salsman 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

> They are really interested in finding ways to feed back into the ecosystem Interested enough to link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:TAFI/Blurb ?

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New Google interface to Wikipedia
by Anders Wennersten 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and I suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page. It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook does. It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not 100% as the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than Wikipedia/commons. Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have they developed this all by themselves? Anders [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm

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Office hour with WMF researchers
by ENWP Pine 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi everyone, WMF researchers have agreed to participate in an office hour about WMF research projects and methodologies. The currently scheduled participants are: * Aaron Halfaker, Research Analyst (contractor) * Jonathan Morgan, Research Strategist (contractor) * Evan Rosen, Data Analytics Manager, Global Development * Haitham Shammaa, Contribution Research Manager * Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst, Strategy We'll meet on IRC in #wikimedia-office on April 22 at 1800 UTC. Please join us. Pine

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Fwd: Wikimedia UK's wiki migration notice
by Maarten Dammers 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hi everyone, I just got this email from Wikimedia UK. Are more chapters considering this? I see some pro's and con's on https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/IT_Development/This_wiki , but it doesn't list the most important con: Waste of movement effort and money on for example debugging a mangled database (see https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=GLAM-WIKI_2013%2FAttendees&… and than click contribs). Maarten -------- Origineel bericht -------- Onderwerp: Wikimedia UK's wiki migration notice Datum: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:30:02 +0000 Van: WMUK Wiki Migration Team <wikimigration(a)wikimedia.org.uk> Aan: Multichill <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> Dear contributor Since its creation, Wikimedia UK's wiki has been hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The hosting for this site was migrated from the Foundation's datacenter to the Wikimedia UK's over the last week-end of September (28-29th September). It was not possible to migrate non-public account information. This includes watch lists, account preferences, contact email, or current password for registered users. We have recreated 'stub-accounts' on the migrated site and want to communicate to you your new password: * user: Multichill * password: xxxxxx We invite you to change it as soon at possible: http://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin If you want to know more about this migration: https://wiki.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMUK_wiki_migration Kind regards Wiki migration team -- This email was sent by WMUK Wiki Migration Team to Multichill by the "Email user" function at Wikimedia UK.

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Planned school curriculum by MPAA
by David Gerard 28 Sep '13

28 Sep '13

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/ “This thinly disguised corporate propaganda is inaccurate and inappropriate,” says Mitch Stoltz, an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who reviewed the material at WIRED’s request. “It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on others’ ideas always requires permission,” Stoltz says. “The overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on corporate profits.” I suggest we see if WMF commenting, possibly in a blog post or similar, would help avert such anti-sharing foolishness. - d.

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