He he he... Wy bad, that was the completly wrong list! The naming scheme on these lists are to similar. It should go to our internal list at WM Norway. Its an on-going discussion about implementation details for a joint effort between WM Norway and a company that sells access to news paper archives, and the discussion are about how active wikipedians can have free access. What the heck, its already on our signpost and has been for some time! But for the continued discussion, the list wikino-l@lists.wikimedia.org or wikimedia-no-styre@lists.wikimedia.org would be a better place... ;)
John (which spanks himself for being so sloppy)
It's fine, don't worry... you won't get shot or banned for it, although someone would actually want us to so, it seems.
These things happen and really, I for one would not be that unpleased with some linguistic diversity on this international list ;-)
Michael
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:08 PM, John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no wrote:
He he he... Wy bad, that was the completly wrong list! The naming scheme on these lists are to similar. It should go to our internal list at WM Norway. Its an on-going discussion about implementation details for a joint effort between WM Norway and a company that sells access to news paper archives, and the discussion are about how active wikipedians can have free access. What the heck, its already on our signpost and has been for some time! But for the continued discussion, the list wikino-l@lists.wikimedia.org or wikimedia-no-styre@lists.wikimedia.org would be a better place... ;)
John (which spanks himself for being so sloppy)
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:08 PM, John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no wrote:
He he he... Wy bad, that was the completly wrong list! The naming scheme on these lists are to similar. It should go to our internal list at WM Norway. Its an on-going discussion about implementation details for a joint effort between WM Norway and a company that sells access to news paper archives, and the discussion are about how active wikipedians can have free access. What the heck, its already on our signpost and has been for some time! But for the continued discussion, the list wikino-l@lists.wikimedia.org or wikimedia-no-styre@lists.wikimedia.org would be a better place... ;)
John (which spanks himself for being so sloppy)
Hi John,
Since you emailed the foundation list, I may as well reply on topic, and about my favourite topic ...
Wikisource collects newspaper articles...
English Wikisource has a significant collection:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Newspapers
One of our best quality articles was featured earlier this year:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/The_Late_Mr._Charles_Babbage,_F.R.S.
Here is another article which is even higher quality, using our proofreading system.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fatal_fall_of_Wright_airship http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:NYT_-_Fatal_fall_of_Wright_airship.d... http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:NYT_-_Fatal_fall_of_Wright_airship_-_tra...
I *think* I have found a newspaper article over on Norwegian Wikisource:
http://no.wikisource.org/wiki/Artikkel_om_J._E._Sars_i_Verdens_Gang_34,_1880
It would be good if you encouraged Norwegian Wikipedians to archive any public domain newspaper articles onto Wikisource so that the Wikipedia readers can see the source as well. The company providing free access might not like wider dissemination, however you could promote it by telling the company that their website will be cited as a source. We usually record this on the talk page:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Talk:The_New_York_Times/Mark_Twain
You could also discuss with the newspaper archive company the opportunity of Wikimedians performing transcription for them, cleaning up their OCR. Norwegian Wikisource doesnt yet have the proofreading system set up, but that can be remedied quickly. Here are the statistics of adoption rates of this technology for the languages which have installed it:
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage_Statistics
-- John V (jayvdb)
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