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Numero degli articoli in dialetto lombardo
by Andreas Michel 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

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FW: [Wikitech-l] New side project, Extension:PatternFilters
by mike.lifeguard 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

This is exciting news for those working on the meta blacklist!! Mike -----Original Message----- From: DanTMan [mailto:dan_the_man@telus.net] Sent: July 19, 2008 11:28 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikitech-l] New side project, Extension:PatternFilters A few people have convinced me to start work on a side project (My main project as always is ElectronicMe), an extension short discussion ended up calling PatternFilters. Currently we have a number of blacklist extensions -- SpamBlacklist, SpamRegex, RegexBlock, UsernameBlacklist, TitleBlacklist, BadImagesList, BlockTitles, etc... -- and there is very little consistency among them. Some match plaintext and some match regexps. Some have a specialpage interface and some use a article page. The idea of PatternFilters is a single extension replacing all of these with one extension founded around the singular principle all of these extensions share, Filtering (blacklisting and whitelisting) some part of user interaction using some sort of pattern. However other than just combining a mess of extensions together I hope to improve some other things. Primarily making the interface for filtering things more intuitive. Firstly, using a special page rather than a page on the wiki with cryptic syntax. And secondly, giving a helpful interface on that special page which helps give an estimate on what the filter will affect on the wiki. Just as an extra, it could easily validate a regex on it's own before adding it to avoid issues like with the other blacklists where a bad regex breaks the whole filter. As well the extension would properly support global/local modes. For example, if you were to go to [[Special:PatternFilters]], select global, select blacklist, select regex, select 'block existing users', 'block user creation', and 'block title editing' with 'Restrict to namespaces' on User and User_talk, and fill in the pattern 'Fo+Bar' then hit the check button the page would help give an estimation on what the filter would do by listing out existing usernames which match that regex, and also existing pages which match it as well. Things like url backlisting would work nicely to with the externalinks table. For a little more ui simplicity I plan to support wildcards as well. The text blacklist of course can't go hunting through the entire DB, so rather than that it'll display a text field you can use to check and see if a filter will catch something inside a block of text, probably even highlight it. Also separate from url and title, comments could be blacklisted as well. Of course some checks are DB heavy, so there's a special right already in so you can disable use of those simply by not giving out that right. Currently I only have a small special page but the start of it can be viewed at: http://svn.nadir-point.com/viewvc/mediawiki-extensions/trunk/PatternFilters/ I've also created some dev wiki dedicated to the extension (Don't want filtering experiments going awry on my demo wiki): http://spam.dev.wiki-tools.com/ http://zeta.spam.dev.wiki-tools.com/ http://omega.spam.dev.wiki-tools.com/ The number of wiki is for a variance in testing. The root spam.dev wiki is the one that is configured as the global db so I want to test out an interface change when you are editing the global db directly as a global db instead of pure local. zeta and omega are normal and so you can test global and local blacklists, probably add a global blacklist, whitelist on one wiki, and test something on both. Though I may tweak it and turn one of those into a local only setup to test the interface for that. Currently there isn't much at all to test or do, but once the PatternFilter extension, well... filters ;) then I'll consider tweaking my right configurations on the wikis to allow people to grant themselves the check, heavy, immunity, global, and edit rights for the patterns. -- ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of: -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com) --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com) --The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org) --Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org) -And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) --Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) --Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)

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Re: [Wikimediameta-l] [Foundation-l] Wikimedia mouvement
by Guillaume Paumier 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hello, [CCing to wikimediameta-l] On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Given that I was the one who originally suggested that it would be a > good idea to open wmf editing thanks to flaggued revisions, I am not > going to say it is a bad idea. > > However, considering wmf site as the official hosting of information > regarding all of our organization would be a huge mistake. > > WMF needs to control its editorial content as it is a corporate website. I concur ; wikimediafoundation.org is the website of the Foundation, and that's all. > Could this be hosted on meta ? > > Yes, certainly. At least for a while. > But again, the role of that new site would be different from the role of > meta and this might enter in conflict, in particular with regards to the > main page. In my opinion, meta-wiki already is the wiki of the wikimedia movement / community / <insert your preferred word here> ; it's the wiki where people from various Wikimedia communities, chapters, and foundation all gather. Wikimedia projets tend to have two main pages : one main page for content (e.g. [[Main Page]]) and one main page for the community (e.g. [[Project:Community portal]]). We could use this system on meta to have two landing pages, one for PR and one for internal stuff (just like on other Wikimedia projects). I agree that meta tends to be a mess and it should be cleaned up. It's not a new idea (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MetaProject_to_Overhaul_Meta ) but the project was abandoned. Some months ago I was thinking about creating a new namespace (say Historical:) to archive all the old stuff and clean up the wiki a bit. In a word, we shouldn't open a brand new community wiki just because we're too lazy to clean up the one we've already got for years. -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] "Scribitur ad narrandum, non ad probandum." Quintilian

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Highlighting of keywords in articles
by michael cole 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi, Not sure if this is the correct place to ask. In Wikipedia articles, a small number of words are bolded in the body of the article text, I'm interested to know the basis for selecting these words and whether it is carried out automatically or by the author. Is there some ontology used? Thanks, Michael Cole Library and Information Science Rutgers University -- Michael Cole mcole(a)scils.rutgers.edu

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Re: [Wikimediameta-l] [Foundation-l] meta EDP
by Casey Brown 10 May '08

10 May '08

How about we discuss this on the Meta-Wiki mailing list, WikimediaMeta-l, as well? :-) (CC'ed there for notification) On 5/8/08, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote: > Hello, > > There is a handful of people discussion meta EDP. I'd be happy if others > could join, because there is rather little chance that essentially two > people with very different views will come to an agreement. We > consequently need more "food" for thought. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta_talk:Exemption_doctrine_policy#1_C.29 > > The origin of the discussion came from Wikimania-related images being > listed as non free, and prepared for deletion (eg, images of building, > used to "advertise" a bid). > > Thanks for joining > > Ant > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Board elections: now accepting candidates
by Majorly 09 May '08

09 May '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jesse Plamondon-Willard Date: 2008/5/9 Subject: [Foundation-l] Board elections: now accepting candidates To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Hello, All eligible users may submit themselves as candidates for the 2008 board elections from now until 22 May 2008. The voting will start on 01 June 2008. See <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008#candidates> for eligibility requirements and a description of what to expect as a board member. For information on submitting a candidate statement, see "How to submit your candidacy" in that section. See also: * elections information: < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008> * translation: < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation> * ask a question: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2008> (or on this mailing list) -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Wikimania 2008: Registration opened
by Casey Brown 05 May '08

05 May '08

With less than three months to go until the fourth annual Wikimania conference, registration has finally opened and will remain so until the 15th of June. This year Wikimania starts with the a promise to "Change the Shape of Wisdom" as it is hosted by Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the reincarnation of the ancient Library of Alexandria, one of pillars of this Earth when Philosophy and Wisdom are bought into question. In Alexandria, from the 17th to the 19th of July, ideas will be shared and discussed between people from all over the globe, once again igniting the golden cosmopolitan age of the city. As always, the conference will take place over 4 different tracks, with a variety of speakers: Keynote, invited, and other. The conference tracks this year are: * Wikimedia Communities - Interesting projects and particularities within the communities; policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies. * Free Knowledge - Open access to information; ways to gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects. Free Content in Middle-East/Africa countries. * Technical infrastructure - Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for development (including usable case studies from other wikis or similar projects). * Scientific track - Papers submitted to the scientific track were peer reviewed by scientific standards and accepted or rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings afterwards. Based on the number and the quality of the submission, a journal special issue may be pursued This year the conference is taking an interesting direction that hopes to enlighten third world and Middle Eastern countries about the new digital realm that is continuously expanding and evolving; as such, along with many well reputed figures, an emphasis has been put on bringing in Arab speakers. Speakers include Ahmed N. Tantawy, the Technical Director of IBM in the Middle East; Eliane Metni, the founding director of the International Education Association; Tim Spalding, the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing; Eric M. Johnson, the team leader for the Knowledge Management Action Team at the U.S. Department of State; and Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s executive vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Take part on one of the most important IT events of the year. Check the registration prices online. <http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration> While these prices do not include accommodation, the local team has taken the effort to make all sorts of housing opportunities available, starting from dorms up to luxury hotel rooms. Check these when your registering. You will also be pleased to know that transportation is available to and from Cairo International Airport in the 2 days before and after the conference. And what is a gathering without fun? Tours and parties are being planned out for the participants of the event. After all Alexandria is cultural city that brims with hospitality and the main idea of the event is to provide a gathering place. Hope to see you there! The Wikimania Local Team ---- Please forward this message along to whomever you think will be interested! (Sorry if you've already this e-mail more than once!) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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list
by Rene Pratasis 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hello. Since I am new to this site, first I want to ask if how does this thing works on my site. That's all for now. Thank you. -- rpratasis

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Fwd: Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation
by Casey Brown 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Please spread the word to all those who are interested and on to your local Village pumps. :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> Date: Feb 2, 2008 9:15 AM Subject: Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Program committee list <wikimania-program(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Please circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers and other people that may be interested! This call is also online at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation == Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation == [[w:Wikimania|Wikimania]] is an annual global event devoted to [[foundation:Main Page|Wikimedia]] projects around the globe (including [[w:Main page|Wikipedia]], [[:w:b:en:Main page|Wikibooks]], [[:w:s:en:Main page|Wikisource]], [[:en:n:Main page|Wikinews]], [[:w:wikt:en:Main page|Wiktionary]], [[:w:v:en:Main page|Wikiversity]], [[:m:q:en:Main page|Wikiquote]], [[:species:Main page|Wikispecies]], and [[:commons:Main page|Wikimedia Commons]]) and for its editors and users to gather, meet each other, exchange ideas, and report on research and projects. It is a community event, which is also open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will be held from '''July 17-19, 2008''' in [[w:Alexandria|Alexandria]], [[w:Egypt|Egypt]] at the new Library of Alexandria ([[w:Bibliotheca Alexandrina|Bibliotheca Alexandrina]]). For more information, please visit the Wikimania 2008 Home page at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org We are accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open spaces, and artistic artifacts. Please carefully follow the submission guidelines below. Submissions can be sent via the following link: :https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission/wikimania2008 === Important dates === * 1 February – 16 March : Submission * 17 March – 30 April : Review, feedback and notification of acceptance * 17 – 19 July 2007 : '''Wikimania''' === Conference Tracks === Submissions should address one or more of the following themes: ; Wikimedia Communities : Interesting projects and particularities within the communities; policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multi-lingualism, languages and cultures; social studies. We explicitly invite you to discuss your local Wikimedia project's community. ; Free Knowledge : Open access to information; ways to gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects. Free Content in the Middle-East/Africa. ; Technical infrastructure : Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; Wikimedia's technical infrastructure; new ideas for development (including case studies from other wikis or similar projects). ; Scientific track : Papers about massively collaborative work, open and free content creation, community dynamics, the social or economic aspects of the Wikimedia projects, and other topics related to Wikimedia projects. Papers submitted to the scientific track will be peer reviewed by a reviewing committee regarding their novelty, rigour, and estimated impact, and accepted or rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings afterwards, and depending on the number and the quality of the submissions, a journal special issue may be pursued. Scientific track papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words (or 15 pages LNCS). Your topic must be related either to the Wikimedia projects and their communities, or to the creation of free content in general. === Types of Submissions === We are seeking submissions for * presentations (10–30 minute talks with discussion afterwards) * workshops (60–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience) * panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject) * posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own) * artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or other representations of some aspect of the projects) In addition there will the possibility to give [[lightning talks]] (5 minute short presentations). These will be organized on the Wikimania 2008 wiki without need to submit via the submission system. === Submission Guidelines === Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us minimize wasted effort by submitting via the [[submission]] system and following these guidelines. All submissions MUST explicitly include the following: # an English "Event title" # a short English "Abstract" of your event in 50 to 100 words. The abstract will be used for the public schedule. # the "Track" your submission fits in best (Wikimedia Communities, Free Knowledge, Technical infrastructure, or Scientific) # the "Event type" (presentation, workshop, panel, poster, artistic...) # information about the speaker (full name, email, a short description of at least 2 sentences...) # for submissions to the scientific track: set "Submission of paper for proceedings" to "yes" and upload a paper instead of the "Description" below as "Attachment". Papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words. In addition you can add some more information like a a subtitle of the event, an image (will be resized to 128x128px) and private "Submission notes" for reviewers and conference organisation. In particular you should give: * a more detailed "Description" of your event in English or Arabic. The description is essential for review: please give an overview of the areas to be covered or taught. The better you describe your submission, the more likely it will get accepted. State clearly the relevance to the Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki project. You can also include links. The description will later be used for the public schedule but you can edit it before. * special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if needed * the language used for presentation * whether you want to submit a paper for proceedings * whether you want to submit presentation slides * whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length * the target audience you are going to reach and what previous knowledge is needed * images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available * for panel submissions a suggested moderator and short biographies of each suggested panelist In the "Submission notes" you should tell us whether you will attend to Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is accepted, or (d) only if we provide travel and/or accommodation. You can also add yourself to the public list of attendees at the Wikimania 2008 wiki: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later ''and'' the Creative Commons Attribution License! By submitting for Wikimania 2008 you agree to this condition. For more information see the submission guidelines at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission ===Submissions=== Once you are sure you have included all of the required information, please send your submission before the respective deadline through our '''submission system''': :https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission == See also == * About the venue: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue * Brainstorming page for program ideas: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas * Editable list of attendees: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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Rewriting proposal of Stewards Policy to be voted upon
by effe iets anders 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Dear all, As announced earlier, a vote will start on January 15, 00.00h UTC (in roughly 15,5h) about the updating proposal of the Stewards Policy. For the vote, please see [1] and for the proposal [2]. Voting will be possible for two weeks (ending January 28, 23.59h UTC), and a 66,7% majority is required. Anyone can vote provided that they have a valid account on meta with a link to at least one user page on a project where they participated in the project for at least three months (not just edits to their own user page) - Counting January 15, 2008 as date for calculations. Please pass this message on to your local community, so that everybody who is interested in this policy can state his/her opinion on the changes [3]. Best regards, Lodewijk Gelauff / Effeietsanders [1]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Rewriting/Stewards_policy/Vote [2]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Rewriting/Stewards_policy&… [3]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta%3ARewriting%2FStewards_pol…

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