Bots are able to make up to date a lot of things which one news agency
(which Wikinews is) needs. From simple statistics pages, to global
weather system, stock data and so on.
Let's try to organize our work on automatic pages on all Wikinewses. To
do that, I need to map our possibilities. So, I need to know the next:
From Wikinewsians who are willing to participate in keeping up to date
automatic pages, creating new tasks and so on -- please, tell to the
list what do you know:
1) to program in Python
2) to use GNU/Linux system (cp, ls, mv, vim, joe, ./program -opt1 arg1 etc.)
3) don't know that, but you are willing to learn it.
After we know how many people are willing to work on bots, we may start
with organizing our work. Let's say, next Monday.
The first things which we should do will be:
- Opening accounts on Toolserver for those who don't have it.
- Organizing our wishes and our possibilities.
- Making agenda.
- Implementing it.
(BTW, I became a steward yesterday. So, you may ask me for cross-project
checkuser and for checkuser on the projects which don't have their own
checkusers.)
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for your mail.
Andrew wrote:
> Please consider adding a button to your news articles. By clicking the
> button, a reader may type in an e-mail address of a friend and send the
> news article to them. Thank you.
I've been pointed to a request for this feature that was made about a year
ago. I'm sorry to say the developers, rather conservatively, said no. Their
advice was that people should use their web browser's "email this page"
feature. Not knowing which browser you currently use I can't say how you'd go
about that, it differs from browser to browser.
I've copied this response to the Wikinews mailing list just in case there's
one of the more technical people can come up with some sort of work-around
that allows you to click a button and the "email this page" dialogue starts
up.
In any case, always glad to get feedback from people who read Wikinews.
Yours sincerely,
Brian McNeil
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I've received a suggestion to the Wikinews OTR queue.
Basically the idea is to have an "email this story" link somewhere that pops
up a box to enter recipient email address.
Is this feasible? I.e. can we have it launch their mail client with at least
a link to the story in it?
Brian McNeil
Hello,
My name is Damon and I am a high school student in Florida. I have gotten approval from my teacher and principal to create an online newspaper for our school covering mostly US and some International news. My question is, is it ok to reuse the wikinews data as my source of news for the school website ?
Thank you
Damon
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This was on wikiversity-l. I (think i) remember someone on wikinews
saying they wanted pdfs everywhere a while back, so I thought I'd
forward this in case it was of interest to whoever said that. (if no
one said that, sorry for the random forward).
-bawolff
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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Dec 22, 2007 1:31 PM
Subject: [Wikiversity-l] Beta-testing of PDF functionality
To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Mailing list for Wikiversity <wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi -
for the last few days, we've been testing the new wiki-to-print
functionality on WikiEducator.org. If you haven't already, give it a
spin: if all goes well, this functionality will soon find its way into
Wikimedia projects.
http://wikieducator.org/Help:Collectionshttp://www.wikieducator.org/Help:Collections/Bug_reportshttp://code.pediapress.com/
Best,
Erik
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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:47:30 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] board expansion
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Dear community
The board recently passed a resolution, which you will find below
In the aftermath of the resignation of Michael Davis (effective october
31th, 2007) and Erik Mo?ller (effective december 15th, 2007), the board
confirms its will to replace the two former board members, as well as
its committment to expand the number of members on the board of
directors at the earliest convenience, up to a number of 11 members
maximum. Due to its commitment to involve members from the community, at
least half of the new members will be appointed for a term ending at the
next board elections, in june 2008.
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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:08:32 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] Future board elections
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The board recently agreed to expand the board up to 11 people.
Some of the board seats will be up for elections, including mine. I am
not sure yet how many seats will be available, this will be clarified in
the following weeks. But it seems clear there will be at least 3 seats.
I wanted to give you a pre-position on this matter.
In june 2008, I will complete 4 years on the board, including 1 year and
a half as chair.
I stopped working just 2 years ago, immediately before the birth of my
third child. I now wish to officially be in activity again (meaning:
working for a salary :-)). A month and a half ago, I registered myself
as looking for a job (http://www.anpe.fr/) and am every week meeting
professionals to work on my professional project.
And to be fair, I am not really sure how compatible it is to manage
family/WMF/job.
I also think I may be able to help the projects by continuing my
activity within Wikimedia France and indicated some time ago, my
interest for being a candidate at the next board election (january or
february 08).
As such, I would be happy to start the discussion as to who would be
interested/willing joining the board of WMF (as appointed or as
elected), and who would be potentially interested in the role of chair
in the future.
Meanwhile, I go on holidays :-) (good food, good wine, cheers, presents,
compliments and generally good will and good feelings)
Cheers
Ant
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Subject: [Foundation-l] (Japanese) Wikipedia won "Web of the year" in Japan
Hi!
Japanese Wikipedia won the first prize of "Web of the year" in Japan!
Congratulation!
http://woy2007.sbcr.jp/ (Japanese page)
# Sadly, they don't make English page :(
We won the prize last year also, this is for 2nd straight year.
Thanks,
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