Hoi,
I have asked and received permission to forward to you all this most
excellent bit of news.
The linguist list, is a most excellent resource for people interested in the
field of linguistics. As I mentioned some time ago they have had a funding
drive and in that funding drive they asked for a certain amount of money in
a given amount of days and they would then have a project on Wikipedia to
learn what needs doing to get better coverage for the field of linguistics.
What you will read in this mail that the total community of linguists are
asked to cooperate. I am really thrilled as it will also get us more
linguists interested in what we do. My hope is that a fraction will be
interested in the languages that they care for and help it become more
relevant. As a member of the "language prevention committee", I love to get
more knowledgeable people involved in our smaller projects. If it means that
we get more requests for more projects we will really feel embarrassed with
all the new projects we will have to approve because of the quality of the
Incubator content and the quality of the linguistic arguments why we should
approve yet another language :)
NB Is this not a really clever way of raising money; give us this much in
this time frame and we will then do this as a bonus...
Thanks,
GerardM
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:49:35
From: Hannah Morales < hannah(a)linguistlist.org >
Subject: Wikipedia Volunteers
Dear subscribers,
As you may recall, one of our Fund Drive 2007 campaigns was called the
"Wikipedia Update Vote." We asked our viewers to consider earmarking their
donations to organize an update project on linguistics entries in the
English-language Wikipedia. You can find more background information on this
at:
http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/wikipedia/index.cfm.
The speed with which we met our goal, thanks to the interest and generosity
of
our readers, was a sure sign that the linguistics community was enthusiastic
about the idea. Now that summer is upon us, and some of you may have a bit
more
leisure time, we are hoping that you will be able to help us get started on
the
Wikipedia project. The LINGUIST List's role in this project is a purely
organizational one. We will:
*Help, with your input, to identify major gaps in the Wikipedia materials or
pages that need improvement;
*Compile a list of linguistics pages that Wikipedia editors have identified
as
"in need of attention from an expert on the subject" or " does not cite any
references or sources," etc;
*Send out periodical calls for volunteer contributors on specific topics or
articles;
*Provide simple instructions on how to upload your entries into Wikipedia;
*Keep track of our project Wikipedians;
*Keep track of revisions and new entries;
*Work with Wikimedia Foundation to publicize the linguistics community's
efforts.
We hope you are as enthusiastic about this effort as we are. Just to help us
all
get started looking at Wikipedia more critically, and to easily identify an
area
needing improvement, we suggest that you take a look at the List of
Linguists
page at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguists. M
Many people are not listed there; others need to have more facts and
information
added. If you would like to participate in this exciting update effort,
please
respond by sending an email to LINGUIST Editor Hannah Morales at
hannah(a)linguistlist.org, suggesting what your role might be or which
linguistics
entries you feel should be updated or added. Some linguists who saw our
campaign
on the Internet have already written us with specific suggestions, which we
will
share with you soon.
This update project will take major time and effort on all our parts. The
end
result will be a much richer internet resource of information on the breadth
and
depth of the field of linguistics. Our efforts should also stimulate
prospective
students to consider studying linguistics and to educate a wider public on
what
we do. Please consider participating.
Sincerely,
Hannah Morales
Editor, Wikipedia Update Project
Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable
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Hi,
I'm curious as to what level of reading skill you are writing this for and
also what level of understanding/adulthood.
I see these as two different issues and both are likely to vary sharply
especially between different countries with very different education
systems.
A childrens' encyclopaedia written for nine year olds would surely be very
different than one written for thirteen year olds. And content that parents
of fourteen year olds thought was age inappropriate in Alabama might be
thought appropriate or even bowdlerised by parents of ten year olds in
London.
In other words, are you sure that one single childrens' encyclopaedia is
the answer to either the problem of reading age or age appropriate content?
Where I think that Wikipedia could and should change re this is in our use
of jargon. To my mind a "general interest" english language encyclopaedia
should be written in plain English. I suspect other language versions have
similar issues. Perhaps if we focussed more on this we would make it
easier for those who wish to create childrens' versions.
Regards
WSC
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> From: Neurodivergent Netizen <idoh.idreamofhorses(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia
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> >> That wouldn't be a wise choice that WMF host such a wiki if it brings
> the risk of being legaly attacked on that ground, even for bad reasons and
> unsuccessfully, whereas it never happened to Vikidia in 15 years (and very
> few kind of bad buzz like "look what they teach to the children").
>
> And of course, any WMF-affiliated wiki would be more at-risk simply
> because of the association with the more well-known Wikipedia.
>
> > The document is not really public yet. :-)
>
> I think I can wait until it’s public and proofread. :-)
>
> From,
> I dream of horses
> She/her
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 22, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > At the moment I am working on a document that extensively explains how
> > we work on the Klexikon. If someone is interested, please send me a
> > private message. The document is not really public yet. :-)
> > Kind regards
> > Ziko
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klexikon
> >
> > Am Mi., 22. Juni 2022 um 19:27 Uhr schrieb Mathias Damour
> > <mathias.damour(a)gmx.fr>:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> De: "Neurodivergent Netizen" <idoh.idreamofhorses(a)gmail.com>
> >> I think a particular hurdle for a standalone WMF-affiliated kidipedia
> project is the COPPA, and other similar laws both in the US and elsewhere
> that could potentially increase civil liability. Another hurdle is that
> America is very aware, perhaps overly aware, of the potential safety risks
> when children are involved in websites. Then you add in the fact that kids
> are likely to continue editing Wikipedia instead of Kidipedia, and it’s not
> worth the extra effort. This effort would include hiring/reassigning staff
> so you can have a team of people for just Kidipedia, along with the
> background checks and identity verification needed. None of that are
> obstacles that aren’t in the way of kids editing the existing projects.
> >>
> >> I predict a WMF-affiliated kidipedia would largely be abandoned quite
> quickly.
> >>
> >> You are probably right. I would say COPPA may not be the biggest
> hurdle, yet the british "UK Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006" is
> another one, and moreover the fact that "America is very aware, perhaps
> overly aware, of the potential safety risks when children are involved in
> websites" (and I would also say that "America" weight more the right of
> parents to control what is taught to their children and less the right of
> the children to inform themselves - the latter being upheld by the
> Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the US didn't ratificate -
> compared to other countries).
> >> We reviewed it on https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Legal_matters
> >>
> >> That wouldn't be a wise choice that WMF host such a wiki if it brings
> the risk of being legaly attacked on that ground, even for bad reasons and
> unsuccessfully, whereas it never happened to Vikidia in 15 years (and very
> few kind of bad buzz like "look what they teach to the children").
> >>
> >> You tell about "hiring/reassigning staff so you can have a team of
> people for just Kidipedia", well, that's quite exactly the point I adressed
> on this blog post :
> >> Vikidia, l’anti-professionnalisation
> >> https://www.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-lanti-professionnalisation/
> >> ...to tell that the vision of children needing to be only alongside
> their closed family and professionals workers - and that it should be the
> same if a wiki for children is set (that we would need professionnal
> educators either to write the articles, to design the project or to manage
> the community or all that together) - did cause much delay to the wiki
> encyclopedias for children, and how we do otherwise on Vikidia.
> >>
> >> Reminder, the Wikikids project was developped on this page and subpages
> :
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids
> >>
> >> Envoyé: mercredi 22 juin 2022 à 12:37
> >> De: "Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga" <galder158(a)hotmail.com>
> >> À: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> >> Objet: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia
> >> From our experience, is just the opposite: Wikipedia is not asking any
> extra step nor age confirmation, and legally you can have an account even
> if you are underage. Children are consulting Wikipedia without limits, and
> they can find adult content easily. We don't have any advice about that,
> nor filters at Commons, where you can find even porn using words that were
> not intended for that. The place is open, and we have massive visits from
> children, so providing them a better place, thought for them (as our
> strategic direction says) is better that not providing at all.
> >>
> >> I can only agree!
> >>
> >>
> >> Mathias Damour
> >> [[User:Astirmays]]
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Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours Tuesday, 2022-07-05. Find your local time here
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To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
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