Sorry for crossposting but it's something that will (hopfeully, IMHO)
affect hundreds of wikis and it's interesting to know how to get to it.
Nemo
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Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis
Data: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:40:00 +0200
Mittente: とある白い猫
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Feel free to participate.
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This is interesting. Upon my daily sift through Google News for agencies
that might post Wikinews articles, I came across this (A video from
WikiNews...no not Wikinews):http://vimeo.com/35988111 It was posted on
another site a week ago:http://www.vhx.tv/644528 I don't know who made the video.
All I know is this poses a potential threat to our project. I don't know enough
about copyright laws in regards to the use of Wikipedia's project names
or the use of logos. Regardless, this is not good and quite frankly
kinda scared me a little. So I am sending this message through Foundation-1 in hopes that someone might be able to explain this. Wikinews Water Cooler discussion
on this:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#WikiNews_ma…...
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"Speech is free, if you pretend it's free."
http://www.wikinewsie.org
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the
software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest
version.
The upgrade will happen in several stages over the month, starting this week.
You can still help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid
disruption and breakage.
More information:
* Announcement on the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/11/mediawiki-1-19-deployment/
* The announcement in other languages:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement
Thank you for your understanding.
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Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
Forwarding to missing sister projects' lists.
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Oggetto: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations! Steward Elections 2012
Data: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:10:59 +0600
Mittente: Tanvir Rahman
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Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce the beginning of Steward Election 2012 [1]. We are
now taking nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can
check their eligibility and procedure to submit the nomination on the
guidelines page [2]. We are open to candidate submissions till January 28,
2012, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until
February 6, 2012, 23:59 (UTC). Guidelines about questioning can also be
found on our guidelines page [2].
This time we are also arranging the confirmation of existing stewards [3].
But the confirmation will begin on February 8, and will finish on February
27, 2012.
Please remember, the voting has not yet begun and will be not until
February 8, 2012, 00:00 (UTC). We will poke you once again when the voting
start.
As you all know steward election is a global event, so we need help from
volunteers to translate necessary pages into languages they speak. For
those who want to help us out with translation, please see our translation
portal [4]. And if you have any queries related to translation or anything
related to the election, you can ask us on the talk page [5]. Alternatively
you are free to poke us on IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards-elections.
For those who are a little bit surprised to see another election in few
months, I want to let you know that previous one (in September-October of
2011) was a special one which we arranged in need. This is the regular one
to elect new stewards and to confirm existing ones.
Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any list if you think it will be
useful. :-)
Regards,
Tanvir Rahman
Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
(On behalf of the Election Committee.)
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012/Guidelines
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2012/en
[4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012/Translation
[5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/Elections_2012
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Thanks to the work of a few GLAM people, Al Jazeera are now making their
flickr photostream available with a CC share-alike license.
Yes, that means Wikinews will be able to use them.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/
I don't know if this will later extend to video footage, but it'll be
worth keeping an eye on their CC page.
http://cc.aljazeera.net/
Brian McNeil.
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil - Accredited Reporter.
Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news.
Dooble.. with Wikinews. RSS and Search !
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Subject: Dooble 1.25 Web Browser (Windows etc.) has been released with
Anti-Facebook Button and over more 100 Security Features and Fixes
Dooble 1.25 Web Browser (Windows etc.) has been released with
Anti-Facebook Button and over more 100 Security Features and Fixes.
Browsing the Web Secure. That´s just Dooble.
Description:
Dooble is the new Open Source Web browser that can. One of the primary
purposes of Dooble is to safeguard the privacy of its users. At its
core lies the WebKit engine. A compact and simple code base ensures
that both developers and users have access to Dooble's internal
functions. Dooble is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/dooble/Version%201.25/Dooble-Instal…
Changelog 1.25:
* More than 100 new Features and Fixes.
* Added the Wikinews search engine.
* Block-"Like/Plus/Faven"-Buttons (Ability to block third-party HTML
frame content) to keep you private
from Social Networks tracking your Surf-Behaviour. Read the
technical background here:
http://www.heise.de/security/artikel/Das-verraet-Facebooks-Like-Button-1230…https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110907-facebook-muss-sich-gewalt…
* Ability to hide the HTTP referrer.
Test: http://www.gulli.com/internet/tools/net/anonymitaetscheck
* Added Open Wikinews and TheOpenGlobe RSS Ticker.
* Introduced the History sidebar and URL History Search Engine.
* Tonga, the user knows your Server-IP: Dooble will, if permitted,
display the current site's IP address in the window title.
* Favorites Toolbar: Automatically find your most visited Websites
with a 1-Click.
* Improved behavior of the FTP and File browser.
Homepage:
http://dooble.sf.net
Download:
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Mac OSX, Linux, RPM, Pisi files will be there too.
[Apologies to those who receive two copies of this due to blind
copying.]
I am attempting to resolve an issue with the paper I'm helping the UoW
prepare regarding their experimental use of Wikinews as a student
target-publication.
To whit, avoiding the term "citizen journalist" and distinguishing work
written on Wikinews from some random person's blog where they purloin
the lede from a mainstream story and append an editorial rant.
So far, the only distinct term I have come up with is "civic reporter".
I would certainly welcome something more effective, and more catchy. I'm
sure most people can relate to my concerns regarding "citizen
journalist" being a term readily applied in a derogatory manner.
Brian McNeil.
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Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news.