*Preface*
User:Lucas Werkmeister https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister started last week's WMYHTW email thread on Wikimedia-l and I was waiting for an Amharic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic_language translation, so I decided to delay this content from the week of 13 October to the week of 20 October. The Amharic translation was kindly provided by User:ክርስቶስሰምራ https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%AD%E1%88%B5%E1%89%B6%E1%88%B5%E1%88%B0%E1%88%9D%E1%88%AB .
*English Wikiquote of the Day for 30 September*
"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight." — Rumi https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi
*New affiliate recognitions from the Affiliations Committee*
- North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group - Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Saint_Petersburg_User_Group - Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Santali_Language_User_Group - Wikimedia Stewards User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Stewards_User_Group
*English Wiktionary Words of the Day*
"pleach" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleach: (transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
"dojo" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dojo: 1. (martial arts) A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training. 2. (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities, such as meditation or software development. 3. The dojo loach, Japanese weather loach, or pond loach (*Misgurnus anguillicaudatus*), a freshwater fish native to East Asia.
"orient" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orient: 1. (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward. 2. (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature. 3. (transitive) To direct towards or point at a particular direction. 4. (transitive, reflexive) To determine which direction one is facing. 5. (transitive, often reflexive, figuratively) To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation. 6. (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group. 7. (intransitive) To change direction to face a certain way.
*Images from Commons*
- Image 1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunset_in_The_Trossachs,_Scotland.jpg: Sunset in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Lomond_and_The_Trossachs_National_Park (Scottish Gaelic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language: *Pàirc Nàiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Tròisichean*), Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland. Photo by User:Podzemnik https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Podzemnik. - Image 2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knapweed_fritillary_(Melitaea_phoebe)_underside_Bulgaria.jpg: Knapweed fritillary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapweed_fritillary (*Melitaea phoebe*) butterfly, seen in Bulgaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria. Bulgaria declared independence on 5 October 1908. Photo by User:Charlesjsharp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp. - Image 3 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Praha_Spanish_Synagogue_Dome_01.jpg: The dome of the Spanish Synagogue (Hebrew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language: בית הכנסת הספרדי, Czech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language: *Španělská synagoga*, German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language: *Spanische Synagoge*) in Josefov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefov, Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague, Czech Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic. Photo by User:Uoaei1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Uoaei1. - Image 4 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spanish_Synagogue_in_Prague_inside.jpg: Another view of the synagogue. Photo by User:Stefan Fadinger https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stefan_Fadinger.
*Product and Technology news*
- Desktop Improvements Project Information at mw:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements. - Documentation regarding using Docker for MediaWiki development started by David Barratt at mw:Docker/Hub https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Docker/Hub.
*Newsletter news*
- The final issue of the *Discovery Weekly Update* newsletter was published. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2019-September/001798.html Thank you to User:CKoerner (WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF) for writing so many issues of the newsletter. - The *WikiProject India Newsletter* on Wikidata published its first issue https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Newsletter/2019_10_01 . - The *Technical Community Newsletter* published its first issue https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2019/October .
*Off wiki*
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize was awarded to Abiy Ahmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiy_Ahmed, the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia and a former cyberintelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberintelligence officer. He helped to resolve a lengthy armed conflict and has made reforms in Ethiopia's government. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/abiy-ahmed-ethiopian-prime-min....
Closing comments
Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Again, thanks to User:ክርስቶስሰምራ https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%AD%E1%88%B5%E1%89%B6%E1%88%B5%E1%88%B0%E1%88%9D%E1%88%AB for the Amharic translation. What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
What's making me happy this week is the news about 21 dictionaries in 21 indigenous languages being relicensed under CC licenses.
On October 17, 21 dictionaries in 21 indigenous languages of the Indian state of Odisha were relicensed by online education portal Odisha Virtual Academy under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
https://globalvoices.org/2019/10/19/the-indian-state-of-odisha-publishes-onl...
https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1184565946834444293
This opens up a whole new world of opportunities—from enhancing Wiktionary entries in the respective indigenous languages to adding translations on Wikidata to build translation tools for many languages that don't exist at the moment to simply adding these books to Wikisource. Odia Wikimedians User Group member and Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik (User:Saileshpat) worked closely with the government officials of the Odisha government's Electronics and Information Technology Department for a long time for this negotiation.
Subhashish
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:20 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
*Preface*
User:Lucas Werkmeister https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister started last week's WMYHTW email thread on Wikimedia-l and I was waiting for an Amharic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic_language translation, so I decided to delay this content from the week of 13 October to the week of 20 October. The Amharic translation was kindly provided by User:ክርስቶስሰምራ < https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%AD%E1%88%B5%E1%89%B6%E1%8...
.
*English Wikiquote of the Day for 30 September*
"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight." — Rumi https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi
*New affiliate recognitions from the Affiliations Committee*
- North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group
- Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Saint_Petersburg_User_Group
- Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Santali_Language_User_Group
- Wikimedia Stewards User Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Stewards_User_Group
*English Wiktionary Words of the Day*
"pleach" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleach: (transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
"dojo" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dojo:
- (martial arts) A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a
hall or room used for such training. 2. (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities, such as meditation or software development. 3. The dojo loach, Japanese weather loach, or pond loach (*Misgurnus anguillicaudatus*), a freshwater fish native to East Asia.
"orient" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orient:
- (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
- (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so
that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature. 3. (transitive) To direct towards or point at a particular direction. 4. (transitive, reflexive) To determine which direction one is facing. 5. (transitive, often reflexive, figuratively) To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation. 6. (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group. 7. (intransitive) To change direction to face a certain way.
*Images from Commons*
- Image 1
< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunset_in_The_Trossachs,_Scotland.jp...
:
Sunset in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Lomond_and_The_Trossachs_National_Park%3E (Scottish Gaelic < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language%3E: *Pàirc Nàiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Tròisichean*), Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland. Photo by User:Podzemnik https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Podzemnik.
- Image 2
< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knapweed_fritillary_(Melitaea_phoebe...
:
Knapweed fritillary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapweed_fritillary (*Melitaea phoebe*) butterfly, seen in Bulgaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria. Bulgaria declared independence on 5 October 1908. Photo by User:Charlesjsharp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp.
- Image 3
< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Praha_Spanish_Synagogue_Dome_01.jpg
:
The dome of the Spanish Synagogue (Hebrew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language: בית הכנסת הספרדי, Czech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language: *Španělská synagoga*, German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language: *Spanische Synagoge*) in Josefov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefov, Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague, Czech Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic. Photo by User:Uoaei1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Uoaei1.
- Image 4
< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spanish_Synagogue_in_Prague_inside.j...
:
Another view of the synagogue. Photo by User:Stefan Fadinger https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stefan_Fadinger.
*Product and Technology news*
- Desktop Improvements Project Information at mw:Reading/Web/Desktop
Improvements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements.
- Documentation regarding using Docker for MediaWiki development started
by David Barratt at mw:Docker/Hub https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Docker/Hub.
*Newsletter news*
- The final issue of the *Discovery Weekly Update* newsletter was
published. < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2019-September/001798.html
Thank you to User:CKoerner (WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF) for writing so many issues of the newsletter.
- The *WikiProject India Newsletter* on Wikidata published its first
issue < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Newsletter/2019_10_...
.
- The *Technical Community Newsletter* published its first issue
< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2019/October
.
*Off wiki*
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize%3E was awarded to Abiy Ahmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiy_Ahmed, the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia
and a former cyberintelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberintelligence officer. He helped to resolve a lengthy armed conflict and has made reforms in Ethiopia's government. See
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/abiy-ahmed-ethiopian-prime-min... .
Closing comments
Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Again, thanks to User:ክርስቶስሰምራ < https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%AD%E1%88%B5%E1%89%B6%E1%8...
for the Amharic translation. What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
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