sir/madam,
I am a freelance photojournalist from Amritsar, Punjab,
India.
I have been in photography for more than two years, do have my own
equipment (NIKON D40X, NIKON D70, Lens AF 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 GII ED, AF 18-70mm). I would love to contribute to
such an esteemed group like yours. My place 'Amritsar' being a border
area (adjoining borders with Pakistan) and being 'The city of Golden
Temple' is one of the most happening
areas all over the world. I am sure that I may
contribute worth to your group. Apart from
that I would be ready to work 'on en off' for any location.In case of any suitability plz consider.
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http://www.demotix.com/dashboard
regards,
sanjeev syal
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Strategic Planning office hours tomorrow - Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00
UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT, 4-5pm EDT.
This is one of those rare and fun occasions when Eugene and Philippe
are co-located, so maybe we'll even turn on the skype camera or
something.... no promises, I'm not even sure if Skype works in the new
office yet. :-)
We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can
access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling
in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be
prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another
option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on
IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategic Planning
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
For background to those not in the know, Sandy used to be the Wikimedia
Foundation press handler. Jay Walsh has the job she used to do, and some
of the 'tectonic shifts' around the time the office was moved to
San-Francisco saw her part ways with them.
She's still active online in a journalism related role, and approached
me for an interview based on interest in Wikinews/Citizen journalism.
The attached is my response which she'll likely publish. I want an
unedited version available to people who might care, so here it is.
Jason and Mike H. should perhaps pay particular attention to how I've
framed my responses. You will recognise my oblique references to you and
the work you do on Wikinews.
--
Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
Wikinewsie.org
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Hi everyone,
This Thursday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can
read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.
Office hours this Thursday are from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00PM
PDT).
The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning.
It should be all right.
Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.
- --
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Just a reminder that it's time for strategic planning office hours
again....
Today's office hours are 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 1-2pm
PDT, Tuesday, 4-5pm EDT.
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
I need technical help for some of this - and am quite busy on other
things. ;-)
Based on previous ramblings - there's the following:
- The Editors' Blog is running an out-of-date version of WordPress, the
'click here to update' is broke, so it'd probably be better just
extracting the database, starting from a fresh WordPress install and
loading the data into that.
- We need a 'proper' WordPress skin, one that doesn't involve hacks into
the core WordPress install. My thoughts on that are to have something in
keeping with the MediaWiki Vector skin/scheme. [Also, should take into
account the look/feel of the enwp main page and articles (from articles:
the {{Social bookmarking}} template).
- I don't think Vector has been released as a ready-to-go MediaWiki
skin, files are available, but implementing the skin is a little bit of
hacking.
Can't think of anything else, perhaps someone can suggest ways/api
features that would allow pulling data out of the Public: namespace on
the Wikinewsie wiki to go into more static pages outwith the wiki. Like
pulling out only the html-formatted content as happens on-wiki with a
template inclusion.
Brian
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Wikinews-l] Wikinewsie
> From: Tristan Thomas <tris(a)waterhay.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, October 08, 2009 3:41 pm
> To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> So with the basic ideas discussed of a few separate blogs, how do we
> progress? Brian, do you want to do it or would you like a team effort?
>
> Regards<hr>_______________________________________________
> Wikinews-l mailing list
> Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
Reminder: Strategic Planning office hours will happen at:
04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday, October 7.
That is:
Tuesday (6 Oct), 9-10pm PDT
Wednesday, 12am-1am EDT
We'll meet in the channel #wikimedia-strategy on IRC. More details
are available at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours
We will provide some overview into the next phase of the strategic
planning process, as well as some ideas on how to have a local
discussion about strategic planning.
Join us!
To find the time in your local time zone, go to: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=07&year=2009&…
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategic Planning
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
I want to see the blog resurrected on Wikinewsie - and perhaps others
added there too. You can pretty much forget us getting a WMF-provided
blog of any particular sort until we prove such will clearly fit the
remit laid out to justify 501(c) status.
The Editors' Blog did not do too well for a variety of reasons. The
scope was intended to be on the details of the news reporting process,
yes with posts being single author and having a clear byline there is
nothing wrong with opinion that would not meet NPOV. There is a problem
with ranting anger that isn't cogently justified.
A more technical blog, or one with a focus on recent meta-news might
work. There certainly isn't much chance of us being able to make
submissions to the official WMF tech blog. In this case, WordPress is
more appropriate than wiki technology because there is little
collaboration on the published item, and a need for a widely-known
simple comment system.
I set up Wikinewsie.org because, despite asking again and again, nobody
would agree to give us @wikinews.org or even @en.wikinews.org email
addresses. The rest is just because it'd be stupid not to have a web
page matching the domain in the email addresses.
At Wikimania in Alexandria, there were nods of agreement from Sue, Jay,
and Michael when I said I would like the WMF to take over the domain and
provide the hosting. Since then nothing, but it is clear from current
discussions that Wikinews is not a remotely important project when
prioritising the issues the WMF has to deal with. There is an open
invitation for stuff on the strategy wiki, and I would quite like to put
that up there. However, we have to be able to say what the one-off and
continuing costs are.
Realistically, we have to get the Wikinewsie site to a state where we
could hand it over without requiring substantial up-front costs, or high
ongoing ones. Those costs will fall on the WMF techies. We need to use
open source applications that are believed to have been well tested, if
not actually had their code audited. Where there is custom code, it
should be as short as possible and simple enough to allow a speedy
review or audit.
So, the current real pain in the ass with Wikinewsie is maintaining the
list of accredited users. It looks like the closed wiki on there with
the Public: namespace is the best option for that. Then the number of
people who can maintain the data is much bigger, and the task is less
technical.
If we change the wiki to the Vector skin and tweak it to look
WMF-related, but noticeably enough different, that would be ideal. Then
you need a Wordpress theme that matches this. What other glue do we need
to hold the whole thing together? What open source tools would we
replace Godaddy's email and calendar tools with? A last point is, can we
integrate Wordpress, wiki, email, and calendar login a-la SUL? Can we do
so with fine-grained enough control to give accredited reporters and
admins access to the wiki, but not those who are only admins email? Do
we have some sort of Wikinewsie super-bureaucrats who can say, yes,
Bawolff gets permissions to go almost anywhere and change technical
details, or kick off bug-fix updates. But not post to blog X because he
isn't accredited.
Then, is there any specific feature we need from these tools that they
don't provide? Can we persuade someone to develop that? I can see a
calendar for working on news reporting being very useful if anyone can
propose an upcoming event be added, those proposals being vetted, then
appearing on a public calendar. That could be far more useful than the
current on-wiki mechanism to propose a story.
Are there enough people interested in seeing this happen to work on it
on-wiki and do some of the technical work? If so, I'll create a page,
lay out what I think we should have, and invite others to do the same
and comment on my ideas.
Brian.
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Around enWikinews - September '09
> From: Tristan Thomas <tris(a)waterhay.co.uk>
> Date: Sat, October 03, 2009 11:22 am
> To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> This is a good idea, but I was thinking it would be much better if we could
> have a blog that all accredited users could post to. I know we used to have
> one that I saw linked from Wikinewsie, but it would be much better if it was
> on Wikinews itself, similar to the Wikimedia and WIkimedia UK one. This
> could incorporate technical, visual or news updates from anyone who wanted
> to do one.
> Thoughts?
>
> 2009/10/3 <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
>
> > In IRC, shen Shaka mentioned doing a newsletter type update I thought it
> > would be a good idea to incorporate this into {{Howdy}} - give it an
> > extra tab for "News" and embed another page or template with stuff like
> > the below bulleted list.
> >
> > Adding the extra tab is not a problem, but {{Howdy}} is already
> > displaying badly in Firefox on Ubuntu. When I looked at it to see about
> > adding an extra tab it is displayed such that the tabs along the top are
> > wider than the box containing the currently displayed message. I can't
> > see an obvious way within the {{Howdy}} template to, say, increase the
> > template width to 90% of page width.
> >
> >
> > Brian.
> >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Around enWikinews - September '09
> > > From: bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com <bawolff%2Bwn(a)gmail.com>>
> > > Date: Fri, October 02, 2009 11:26 pm
> > > To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > >
> > >
> > > In the interest of fairness, only one of thoose gadgets are mine. The
> > > other one is the original version stolen from the french wikinewsies.
> > > Cheers.
> > > --
> > > - Brian
> > > Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
> > > million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Jon Davis <wiki(a)konsoletek.com> wrote:
> > > > I've been told at one point in time, we had a regularly scheduled
> > newsletter
> > > > of the important goings on at Wikinews. I can't find it in the list
> > > > archives, but no matter. I figured it was about time to
> > start/resurrect
> > > > it. After all, we do important things around here and if you aren't on
> > the
> > > > Wiki 24/7, you might miss something. So here are the important
> > highlights
> > > > from last month:
> > > >
> > > > September 12th we had a banner day with 20 published articles in one
> > day.
> > > > [[Category:September 12, 2009]] - http://enwn.net/A029
> > > > The RSS feed has been truncated to a more reasonable number -
> > > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews
> > > > We started a page to help Wikipedians better integrated with Wikinews -
> > > > [[Wikinews:For Wikipedians]] - http://enwn.net/197b
> > > > [[Wikinews:Make Lead]] has been integrated into Easy Peer Review by
> > Bawolff
> > > > - http://enwn.net/b05f
> > > > Bawolff also gave us not one but two different gadgets that integrate
> > to
> > > > Wiktionary [[WN:WiktLookup]] - http://enwn.net/F52b
> > > > As of September 16th, we're not being carried on Google News, due to a
> > > > change in MediaWiki. Bug #20818 - http://enwn.net/246c
> > > > Some article statistics were made [[User:ShakataGaNai/Statistics
> > Project]] -
> > > > http://enwn.net/5967
> > > > The [[Main Page]] is getting an overhaul, with the new design to show
> > up in
> > > > the next 24-48 hours - http://enwn.net/h
> > > > Policy proposed & passed to "Expire" Accredited Reports after 2 years.
> > -
> > > > http://enwn.net/6972
> > > > All the Water Coolers are now being archived (by month) automatically.
> > > > New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 5
> > > >
> > > > Something important get forgotten? Want to help participate in next
> > months
> > > > newsletter? Stop by and leave a note on the respective months entry:
> > > > [[User:ShakataGaNai/Around_enWikinews]] - http://enwn.net/D132
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jon
> > > > [[User:ShakataGaNai]]
> > > > http://snowulf.com/ - Blog
> > > > http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures
> > > > This has been a test of the emergency sig system.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Wikinews-l mailing list
> > > > Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wikinews-l mailing list
> > > Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikinews-l mailing list
> > Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
> ><hr>_______________________________________________
> Wikinews-l mailing list
> Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
I've been told at one point in time, we had a regularly scheduled newsletter
of the important goings on at Wikinews. I can't find it in the list
archives, but no matter. I figured it was about time to start/resurrect
it. After all, we do important things around here and if you aren't on the
Wiki 24/7, you might miss something. So here are the important highlights
from last month:
- September 12th we had a banner day with 20 published articles in one
day. [[Category:September 12, 2009]] - http://enwn.net/A029
- The RSS feed has been truncated to a more reasonable number -
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews
- We started a page to help Wikipedians better integrated with Wikinews -
[[Wikinews:For Wikipedians]] - http://enwn.net/197b
- [[Wikinews:Make Lead]] has been integrated into Easy Peer Review by
Bawolff - http://enwn.net/b05f
- Bawolff also gave us not one but two different gadgets that integrate
to Wiktionary [[WN:WiktLookup]] - http://enwn.net/F52b
- As of September 16th, we're not being carried on Google News, due to a
change in MediaWiki. Bug #20818 - http://enwn.net/246c
- Some article statistics were made [[User:ShakataGaNai/Statistics
Project]] - http://enwn.net/5967
- The [[Main Page]] is getting an overhaul, with the new design to show
up in the next 24-48 hours - http://enwn.net/h
- Policy proposed & passed to "Expire" Accredited Reports after 2 years.
- http://enwn.net/6972
- All the Water Coolers are now being archived (by month) automatically.
- New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 5
Something important get forgotten? Want to help participate in next months
newsletter? Stop by and leave a note on the respective months entry:
[[User:ShakataGaNai/Around_enWikinews]] - http://enwn.net/D132
--
Jon
[[User:ShakataGaNai]]
http://snowulf.com/ - Blog
http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures
This has been a test of the emergency sig system.