I would like to celebrate the fact that the 100th official edition (not even counting the extra editions, preliminary editions etc) of WIKIZINE has been sent out today by Walter! I think we owe him a lot for keeping us up to date a bit with all the lot of things that happen in wiki world, and the great work he does.
However, as you have noticed probably, the rate went down in the past time, due to time shortage, and I think he could use some help :) So all, help Walter as a thank for his great work, and lets keep it up!
Hooray!
Lodewijk
Yes I would like to thank Walter, whom happens to have the same RL name as me, as well for his effort and time spend on doing this. You are doing a great job Walter even if it is sometimes underrecognized.
Walter
I would like to celebrate the fact that the 100th official edition (not even counting the extra editions, preliminary editions etc) of WIKIZINE has been sent out today by Walter! I think we owe him a lot for keeping us up to date a bit with all the lot of things that happen in wiki world, and the great work he does.
However, as you have noticed probably, the rate went down in the past time, due to time shortage, and I think he could use some help :) So all, help Walter as a thank for his great work, and lets keep it up!
Hooray!
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Yeah, a huge thanks to Walter! Wikizine is an extremely useful resource to stay updated in the Wikimedia universe – he has done and continues to do a tremendous job on it. Thanks!
2008/10/2 effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com
I would like to celebrate the fact that the 100th official edition (not even counting the extra editions, preliminary editions etc) of WIKIZINE has been sent out today by Walter! I think we owe him a lot for keeping us up to date a bit with all the lot of things that happen in wiki world, and the great work he does.
However, as you have noticed probably, the rate went down in the past time, due to time shortage, and I think he could use some help :) So all, help Walter as a thank for his great work, and lets keep it up!
Hooray!
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effe iets anders wrote:
I would like to celebrate the fact that the 100th official edition (not even counting the extra editions, preliminary editions etc) of WIKIZINE has been sent out today by Walter! I think we owe him a lot for keeping us up to date a bit with all the lot of things that happen in wiki world, and the great work he does.
However, as you have noticed probably, the rate went down in the past time, due to time shortage, and I think he could use some help :) So all, help Walter as a thank for his great work, and lets keep it up!
Hooray!
Lodewijk
Congrats Walter !
I just read it a few minutes ago. I love the quote at the end of the issue :-)
Ant
(and seriously, I love all of it, not only the quote)
Thank you everybody for your sign of appreciation.
It is appreciated :)
Wikizine did not turned out like I intended, hoped, it would evolve. My hope was to receive news from the many of the hundreds of language wikis and different projects. And to gather a stable group of core editors to work with on the newsletter.
And so creating a very good newsletter at a stable rate with truly news from all the projects and languages.
Wikizine does get reports from people of different languages and projects and assistance but those are very few and always from the same few people. I say explicitly thank you to those people.
The translation projects of Wikizine are also very fragile.
I am very well aware that Wikizine is not as good as it could, should be. Wikizine is more English language projects centric then I would like it to be. That comes mostly because due of the language barrier I have no direct access to most wikis.
Also the news in Wikizine is often already old when it is discovered by me. That does not stop me from reporting it but it is not ideal. What also can be problematic for getting the best result is that I not always truly understand the topic I am reporting about.
Despite this I am nevertheless very happy to make it to number 100 and also with this issue itself that I find is of an acceptable quality.
In the last months I seriously doubted of I would be able to get there. And of if I made it to 100 of I would use it to end Wikizine at a nice round number.
The problem is not a lack of time like Effeietsanders wrote, although that sounds better, but a decrease of interest. That comes mainly because I think; why am I doing this? Does anyone actually cares? And then again getting the motivation for making once more a new edition of Wikizine.
Because of this I value your signs of appreciation posted here to convince myself it has some use what the people who make Wikizine are doing and to continue with it.
There will be a Wikizine number 101. That can I promise you.
The new goal that I have with Wikizine is to try to keep up the current level of quality and to try get a publication rate of at least 2 editions a month. That is realistic and possible I believe.
Thank you.
Walter
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 15:21, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
The problem is not a lack of time like Effeietsanders wrote, although that sounds better, but a decrease of interest. That comes mainly because I think; why am I doing this? Does anyone actually cares? And then again getting the motivation for making once more a new edition of Wikizine.
For what it's worth, I care.
Thank you.
Delphine
I get two copies of every wikizine, both in my email inbox and in my blog aggregator. I love them both.
--Andrew Whitworth
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 15:21, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
The problem is not a lack of time like Effeietsanders wrote, although that sounds better, but a decrease of interest. That comes mainly because I think; why am I doing this? Does anyone actually cares? And then again getting the motivation for making once more a new edition of Wikizine.
For what it's worth, I care.
Thank you.
Delphine
-- ~notafish
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Walter I care to!
Walter/Waerth
Thank you everybody for your sign of appreciation.
It is appreciated :)
Wikizine did not turned out like I intended, hoped, it would evolve. My hope was to receive news from the many of the hundreds of language wikis and different projects. And to gather a stable group of core editors to work with on the newsletter.
And so creating a very good newsletter at a stable rate with truly news from all the projects and languages.
Wikizine does get reports from people of different languages and projects and assistance but those are very few and always from the same few people. I say explicitly thank you to those people.
The translation projects of Wikizine are also very fragile.
I am very well aware that Wikizine is not as good as it could, should be. Wikizine is more English language projects centric then I would like it to be. That comes mostly because due of the language barrier I have no direct access to most wikis.
Also the news in Wikizine is often already old when it is discovered by me. That does not stop me from reporting it but it is not ideal. What also can be problematic for getting the best result is that I not always truly understand the topic I am reporting about.
Despite this I am nevertheless very happy to make it to number 100 and also with this issue itself that I find is of an acceptable quality.
In the last months I seriously doubted of I would be able to get there. And of if I made it to 100 of I would use it to end Wikizine at a nice round number.
The problem is not a lack of time like Effeietsanders wrote, although that sounds better, but a decrease of interest. That comes mainly because I think; why am I doing this? Does anyone actually cares? And then again getting the motivation for making once more a new edition of Wikizine.
Because of this I value your signs of appreciation posted here to convince myself it has some use what the people who make Wikizine are doing and to continue with it.
There will be a Wikizine number 101. That can I promise you.
The new goal that I have with Wikizine is to try to keep up the current level of quality and to try get a publication rate of at least 2 editions a month. That is realistic and possible I believe.
Thank you.
Walter
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