Hello Everyone
After completion of Phase 1 , we are now finally rolling out the Phase 2 of
Wiki Loves Food.This phase will be the main face of our competition. This
will be held between
*May 15th to June 15th.*
Prizes for Phase 2 will be as follows -
1. 1st Prize - INR 20,000
2. 2nd Prize - INR 15,000
3. 3rd prize - INR 10,000
4. Community Award - INR 5,000
To register please click here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1P6XR9R2BVmXTi_8XD7tv6bJN5xN3ElP173JdVHUNnb…>
Also Please remember that *participants who have already registered for
Phase 1 need not register for Phase 2.*
& all Images for Phase 2 should be uploaded under
*Category:Images from Wiki Loves Food 2015
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Food_2015>*You
can find all the details related to the event here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food>
So happy Clicking !!!! *:)*
Yohann Thomas
yohannvt(a)gmail.com
Ashwin Baindur is travelling now, if anyone of you can give me a Tatkaal
passport annexure F sign, that would be very helpful.
I'll require it for Mexico Wikimania
Hello everyone, this year Wikimedia Foundation specifically invited Indic
wikimedians to be a part of its diverse board. In the past 4-5 months, i
feel that the bonding of
Indic wikimedians has increased. If someone from India could lead us in
WMF board we could take major steps in Wikipedia Revolution in India.
I have nominated myself for this election, Thiswill be a great opportunity
for me to gain some experience and bring the leadership quality within me.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_electi…
My top most priority will be the growth and improvement of Indic
Wikipedias. Till then i hope for the support from my community and may the
best person win.
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Regards,
Sailesh Patnaik
User:Saileshpat
Member Wikimedia India Chapter
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge."
Finally, a team that would be dedicated to building things the community
specifically asked for. :)
I think it these openings may interest some of you.
A.
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From: Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:43 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech jobs posted
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all --
I wanted to give you an update on the Community Tech team. We've posted job
descriptions for open positions on our jobs page that we'd like to bring
your attention to:
Community Tech Developer
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62666?t=m5pcy0#.VUgfhjvF_FI>
Community Tech Engineering Manager
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62669?t=d51bks#.VUgfhjvF_FI>
Please encourage qualified folks to apply!
I want to say that I'm really excited to be working with Luis to help build
this team. I'm very appreciative that Lila and the other execs have
identified this gap in our community support and have made resources
available to address it.
-Toby
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Exciting new access opportunities for secondary sources!
A.
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From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:34 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New free research accounts in The Wikipedia Library
To: "wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi!
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
* MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and
social sciences (200 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:MIT>
*Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical
Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:Loeb>
*RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:RIPM>
*Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States
(10 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:SAGE _Stats>
*HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000
law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25
accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:HeinOnline>
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on: <
http://enwp.org/WP:TWL/Journals>
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team
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Guys, please join Indic Wikimedians to avoid fragmentaion of groups.
Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin) on en:WP
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Akshay Agrawal <kooldudeakshay(a)yahoo.in> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I was just wondering if if it would acceptable to all to form a Facebook
> group or some other form of non-email interaction to help us communicate
> faster and allow us to contribute more of our time to article write and
> other related activities than checking our mail.
>
> Im sorry if there is already some channel and i am unaware of it. Please let
> me know if it is so.
>
>
> If you agree, please join this interim group created on facebook so that we
> can discuss and form the appropriate communication channels
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/700702266740422/
>
> Cheers.
> Akshay Agrawal
> kooldudeakshay(a)Yahoo.in
>
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Hi,
I got this message in my spam folder. Talks about paid wikipedia.
Anyone knows about this or any similar things?
/me curious...
-Sudhanwa
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From: Svart Magikern <smagikern(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:35 PM
Subject: Hi
To: smagikern(a)hotmail.com
Good afternoon!
I want to introduce you to a new entity and startup - Paid Wikipedia
Here you will be able to create articles and get paid for new articles
and editing articles
http://t-biblioteca.com/
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Dear Vishnu,
Thank you for everything you have done for free knowledge in your time with
CIS-A2K. You have always modelled a mature and professional approach to
the work and to engagement with our communities, never at the expense of
warmth, sympathy, and genuine interest in what volunteers care about and
aspire to. All jobs in the Wikimedia world are complex, but you came in to
a particularly complex ecosystem, with multiple stakeholders, many
different communities, and not a little bit of baggage and history, not all
of it helpful. :)
Your integrity and hard work inspired all around you, and paved the way to
great improvements in communications, community and inter-organizational
relations, and, of course, programmatic impact.
You will certainly be missed.
Asaf
P.S. We are yet to have our friendly hot-spicy-food competition. :) It's a
small world.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Vishnu T <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> This is my last day as the CIS-A2K Program Director.
>
> The last 2 years and 3 months have been immensely exciting with tons of
> learning and work!
>
> I have loved meeting many Wikimedians, face to face, across the length and
> breadth of India. The interactions I had with many of the Wikimedians in
> India have been immensely useful to my learning.
>
> The diversity of our community and the Wikimedia projects in India is so
> rich and intricate - I wish I could map out my entire set of impressions,
> to only give a slight glimpse of it!!
>
> Signing off as the Program Director for now. See you on-wiki, here on the
> lists and in real life whenever our paths cross.
>
> A quick update: The next A2K Program Director selection is under process
> and hopefully we should all be able to welcome the new incumbent in June,
> 2015. Until then the A2K team is being internally monitored by CIS
> leadership.
>
> Best wishes,
> Vishnu
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Apologies for more cross-posting.
ContentTranslation is deployed in Gujarati, Kannada and Punjabi
languages as of now! :)
Regards,
Kartik
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From: Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:53 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-i18n] ContentTranslation gets to 2000
To: wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mediawiki-i18n
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Dear Wikimedians,
The 2000th article that was written using the ContentTranslation
extension was published today.
Article #2000 was translated from English to Greek, and it's about
Škocjan Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Slovenia.
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0kocjan_Caves
Translated: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B1_%C…
In case you're wondering what ContentTranslation is, here's a brief
summary: ContentTranslation is an extension that helps Wikipedia
editors to create articles quickly and easily by translating them from
other languages. It's being developed by the Language Engineering
team. Its design started in the summer of 2013 and its coding started
in early 2014. You can find more info at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CX as well as in the following blog
posts:
* http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/
* http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/
* http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/
* http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/
Some more data about ContentTranslation:
* Our first deployment was in mid-January to Catalan, Spanish,
Portuguese, Esperanto, Norwegian Bokmal, Danish, Indonesian and Malay.
Now we support 43 languages, and this number is growing every week as
we extend the deployment (a special thank-you to the Ops and Release
Engineering people, who continuously and tirelessly support our
deployment effort).
* In all the Wikipedias in which ContentTranslation is deployed, it is
currently defined as a Beta feature, which means that it is only
available to logged-in users who opted into it in the preferences.
* The 1000th article was written on April 10th, so it took much less
to get to 2000 than to 1000.
* The language into which the most articles were translated is
Catalan: 762. The Catalan Wikipedia community always had a strong
inclination to translation, it was the first one that volunteered to
test the tool in labs in the summer of 2014 and provided a lot of
useful feedback, and it also has good machine translation support
thanks to the Freely-licensed Apertium engine.
* The second most popular target language is Spanish. It started
slowly in the first couple of months, but it's quickly growing since
March.
* Other target languages that are quickly growing lately are French,
Portuguese and Ukrainian.
* The language from which the largest number of articles is translated
is English. It is followed by Spanish, from which a lot of articles
are translated to the closely related Portuguese and Catalan.
* The total number of people who published at least one translated
article into any language is 663.
* Of more than 2000 articles that were created, about 60 were deleted,
so we have a reason to think that the quality of the created articles
is pretty OK.
* In Catalan we see that ContentTranslation has some influence on the
number of articles created per day - it was usually between 60 and 90
before 2015, and in January and February it was over a 100. It's too
early to say how does it influence other languages, but we are
optimistic ;)
* A community discussion about enabling the tool in the French
Wikipedia ended with 50 "votes" in support of the tool and 0 "votes"
against it ;)
Some of our plans for the coming months are:
* Enabling more languages, including big ones like English, Russian
and Italian, as well as right-to-left languages.
* Improving the support for links.
* Creating support for smart suggestions of articles to translate, as
well as "task lists" for translation projects.
* Starting to get the tool out of beta status :)
I'd like to thank all the Wikimedia volunteers around the planet who
are participating in this effort by translating articles, translating
the extension's user interface, testing the tool, assisting other
wikipedians to translate, organizing translation workshops, reporting
useful bugs, submitting patches, and generally proving day after day
what an incredible community they are - hard-working,
massively-multilingual, helpful, patient, creative and talented.
Thank you - we have a lot more to achieve together \o/
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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