Wikipedia-l December 2005

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Day 6 Fund Drive Report
by Daniel Mayer 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Copied from: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_6 ------------------------------------------------------------- A total of 497 donors gave the equivalent of $12,466.34 USD through PayPal on '''Day 6''' ('''Wednesday 21 December''') of the fundraiser. While this is a very small decrease from Day 5 ($28.46) it does represent a modestly higher average donation ($25.08 vs $22.72). Moneybookers donations amounted to about $90, bringing that total to $474.77. No update today on mailed or money transfer donations. Grand total for the whole drive at the end of Day 6: $75,641.43 PayPal breakdown for Day 6: AUD 118.20 (88.71 USD) CAD 585.97 (482.20 USD) EUR 2,497.40 (3,033.57 USD) GBP 735.10 (1,318.25 USD) JPY 52,112.00 (470.83 USD) USD 7,072.78 Total 12,466.34 USD Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-21/report/ ==Special thanks to large donors== The largest donation this day was $500.00 USD and was made by Manoj Padki. There were also many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (alphabetical order); Raed Abdullah, David Bosman, Lindy Do, Rex Fujikawa, Tom Gally, Neil Greenleaves, Hartmut Geissbauer, Peter Goddard, Ryan Hoffman, Manoj Padki, Graham Laundon, Eugene Mihaliuk, Michael Nadler, William McQueen, Steve Reseigh, Anand Shukla and 15 anonymous donors. ==Selected donor comments== Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments. :Full listing at: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-21/detail/ *"軽くなったらいいなぁ" by anonymous *"I am happy to support this fantastic resource. I urge everyone to do the same." by Oliver Gouldthorpe *"A wonderful tool for learning. Please keep up the good work!" by anonymous *"WikiPedia ist wunderbar. Dieser Ansatz wird einiges umwälzen." by anonymous *"free is the mind - as should be knowledge" by Christian Schubert *"Wikipedia is pretty much the best general source on information in the world." by anonymous *"so much useful information & easily accessible keep up the good work" by anonymous *"Wikipedia is the best starting point for researching any topic." by anonymous *"Thank you. Freedom has no price." by anonymous *"You've set up a great infrastructure. The articles will keep getting better!" by anonymous *"Will donate everytime to a good cause - Knowledge should be free to everyone who seeks it" by Collin Wu *"Many thanks for the incredible service; keep up the good work!" by Peter Goddard *"for the continuance of free knowledge" by anonymous *"What is the internet without wikipedia ?" by David Bosman *"Das ist es wert!" by Alexander Buesing Some of my personal favorites: *""Knowledge is power" and thanks for making this so accessible." by anonymous *"This site is a major foundation block in the history of the Internet and our information-rich future. Please donate if you haven't already -- even $5 from enough people will add up! =)" by anonymous *"thanks for opening my eyes to this great planet and its inhabitants" by anonymous *"wikimedia is the seed of the New Enlightenment" by Jonathan Mayer *"Wikipedia gets a big hug from a grad-schooler. I want to have wiki-babies with this website. Kudos and mega-thanks." by anonymous *"Indispensable!" by Steve Reseigh -- Daniel Mayer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Blocking of Kurdish WP in Iran
by Erdal Ronahi 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, I had raised this issue before on this list. We can now confirm that several major ISPs in Iran have blocked the Kurdish Wikipedia (ku.wikipedia.org). We are once again asking for advice on this issue. Are there any experiences in how to deal with such an issue? Thanks in advance, Erdal

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Re: Stable versions policy
by Michael Snow 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) wrote: >On 12/21/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > >>Articles are continuously edited over time. As time goes on, ever-newer >>versions >>will be marked as the stable version which is first shown to the public. >> >> >Yes, but only after lengthened amounts of consensus... > > >>If that means "no-one could edit them", then we already have that model! You >>can't change a given revision on Wikipedia; you can only make a new >>revision >>based on it. >> >>But even worse, today when we freeze an article to show a stable revision, >>*nobody* can edit it except an elite cabal of sysops. Is that "open"? Is >>that >>"free"? >> >> >I haven't yet heard of anyone freezing an article to create a stable >version. The concept of a stable version doesn't yet exist. > If you read Brion's message carefully, you will realize that the concept of stable versions he refers to in the present system are commonly called "protected pages". I trust you have heard of those. --Michael Snow

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Day 5 Fund Drive Report
by Daniel Mayer 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Copied from: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_5 ------------------------------------------------------------- The equivalent of $12,494.80 USD was donated through PayPal on '''Day 5''' of the fund drive (Tuesday 20 December). While this is a small decrease from Day 4 ($240.70), it does represent a higher average per donation ($22.72 vs $20.28). A total of 550 donations were made on Day 5; the largest was a $2000 anonymous donation made early in the day. The first mail donations made during the fund drive have come in. A total of $75 has been received so far at the Wikimedia office. MoneyBookers donations for Day 5 were about $80, bringing that total to $383.38. We are still waiting for the first Dexia updates (those are mailed to the foundation office). Grand at the end of Day 5: '''$63,083.70''' PayPal breakdown for Day 5: AUD 420.72 (315.75 USD) CAD 362.49 (298.30 USD) EUR 2,429.82 (2,951.48 USD) GBP 328.86 (589.74 USD) JPY 39,684.00 (358.54 USD) USD 7,980.99 Total 12,494.80 USD Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-20/report/ ==Selected donor comments== Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments. :From: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-20/detail/ *"Information wants to be free" by anonymous *"Knowledge is the future - thank you for sharing it! A true daily user" by anonymous *"Wissen ist Macht. Und die Macht sollte beim Volk liegen und nicht bei Verwertungsgesellschaften." by anonymous *"Wikipedia embraces the spirit of the internet and every page is an investment for all human knowledge" by Orion Pronk *"Thank you from a poor student from Germany" by Dominik Pich *"Wikipedia rocks." by anonymous *"a wonderful resource - my kids find it indispensible for school" by erik hoel *"Wikipedia ist ein tolles Nachschlagewerk für welches sich lohnt zu unterstützen." by anonymous *"gift economies are beautiful things. and i know what a gift economy is thanks go wikipedia." by anonymous *"いつも豊富な知識を貰っています。どうもありがとう。" by genta uemura *"Used Wiki many times. A true encyclopedia. The truth shall set you free." by Higinio Sanchez *"Wikipedia is an invaluable source of accessible information in the overclogged information highway" by Anh-Thu Nguyen *"Your work is really important" by anonymous *"Wikipedia helps fulfill the internet's promise of democratization and equalization of information." by anonymous *"Knowledge is the key to freedom" by John Rosato *"It is my honor and duty" by anonymous *"Got Wiki?" by Jun Yan Some of my personal favorites: *"a small step for a better world" by Mathieu Francois *"If Plato would have the internet he would constantly read Wikipedia." by anonymous *"Best signal to noise ratio on the internet today" by Simon Pichette *"I have an atrocious memory - Wikipedia fills in the blanks!" by Ian Henderson *"For all the library late fees Wikipedia has saved me." by Jonathan Voris *"Thank you! Truly... thank you!!" by Dominick Daoust *"All of us are smarter than any off us!" by Michael Doherty *"Knowledge will never be burnt again" by anonymous -- Daniel Mayer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Script conversion for Vlax Romany Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, There is currently an approved request to set up a Wikipedia in Vlax Romany, the main language of the Roma people, which is mainly spoken by Romanian Roma but also throughout the world. Now, this isn't yet a request to set up the Vlax Romany Wikipedia, since the interface still needs to be translated and a few more administrative things to be done. However, the main Romany contributor, Desiphral, has already written more than 10 quite long articles on the Vlax Romany test wiki, at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/rmy/ Now, the main reason I have written here - I talked to him and he said that he would like to contribute in both scripts - Latin and Devangari. Romany is an Indo-Aryan language, and while it is mostly written in Latin script, some people, especially outside of Europe, write it in Devangari script, which they say represents the language better and links it culturally to its related languages, Hindi, Sanskrit, etc. Desiphral himself said that he communicated with Roma throughout the world in Devangari, and has already written some articles to Test-wiki, in both Latin script and Devangari. So, what I'm wondering here is: would it be possible to set up an automatic conversion system to serve up Devangari and Latin versions of the same article? For example, if a user writes in Latin script, can that be converted automatically to Devangari to be read by someone who's specified Devangari as their nominated script in Preferences, and vice versa? The conversion is very consistent in that each Devangari symbol represents the one and the same letter or diphthong in the Latin Romany alphabet. Thanks, Ronline

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Day 1 Fund Drive report
by Daniel Mayer 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

The equivalent of $9,551.60 was donated on the first day of the fund drive. Thanks to Brion Vibber, our Chief Technical Officer, we have a near real time donation tracking page at: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/ The Detail page for each day of the drive has individual entries for anybody who donates through PayPal. You can see the amount donated, their name (if they gave permission for that) and a comment. I encourage everybody to read those comments. Here are some examples that caught my eye: From: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-16/detail/ "Knowledge is Freedom" by anonymous "merci pour cette banque de ressources" by Axel de nazelle "This is what the internet was intended for." by Ned Miles "Much better for you than Gates!" by percy westwood "Thanks wikipedia you rock!" by Oliver Stirling "Thank you for a good project!" by Akifumi Kato "I need Wikipedia" by Yohei Takiguchi "Thank you for your dedication and scholarship." by John Clayton "Macht weiter so" by anonymous "Wikipedia has saved my academic career so many times! Thank You!" by anonymous "Wikipedia is an exceptional and very unique resource. Worth every dime ;-]" by Daniel Ushman "Continuem este belo projeto" by anonymous "Wikipedia is a revolution so large it is difficult to comprehend" by Louis Mackall "Wikipedia I love you!!!" by Jonathan Takahashi "Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya ( Lead me from Darkenss to light)" by anonymous "wikipedia makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside" by Edward Scott "Danke für die Hilfe bei etlichen Dokus und Referaten =)" by Jan Stuhlmann "The shape of things to come..." by James Wonder And my personal favorite: "I call you my husband's mistress because you get his attention much of the time..." by anonymous "^_^" by anonymous Daniel Mayer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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What's the IP address of Wikipedia's Amsterdam Server?
by Jiaming Xu 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I'm in China and my traffic seems to be routed to Wiki's Korea server which is blocked. So I'm wondering what's the ip address of the amsterdam server and whether i could use it to bypass the block.

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Day 4 Fund Drive Report
by Daniel Mayer 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Copied from: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_4 ------------------------------------------------------------- The equivalent of $12,735.50 USD was donated through PayPal on '''Day 4''' (Monday 19 December), making it the second most successful day so far in this drive! A total of 628 individual donations (the second highest) were made yielding an average donation of $20.28 (lowest average thus far). Here is the PayPal breakdown for Day 4: AUD 429.03 (321.99 USD) CAD 823.33 (677.53 USD) EUR 2,297.97 (2,791.32 USD) GBP 578.73 (1,037.84 USD) JPY 17,274.00 (156.07 USD) USD 7,750.76 Total 12,735.50 USD Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-19/report/ ==Selected donor comments== Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments. :From: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-19/detail/ Here are some examples that caught my eye: *"De plus en plus utile! Merci!" by Etienne Boucher *"Protect Our Free Speach" by anonymous *"Thank you for all the information (and fun) I've had from you" by Steve Czyrko *"Thank you so much for such a fantastic resource!" by Emily Gillis *"Wikipedia is the culmination of all that is good about the information age." by anonymous *"Wikipedia is one of the pillars of the egalitarian Internet" by Christian Cotichini *"Very happy to support this excellent project - User:Ianblair23" by IAN S BLAIR *"Wikipedia is the single greatest asset to knowledge on the Internet." by Adam Greenfield *"A small price compared to the priceless knowledge gained." by anonymous *"What a lovely place to get information." by anonymous *"Your site has become a treasure-trove of information for me. Please take this as a small token of my esteeem" by James Kamakahi *"I am proud to support the greatest learning resource on the web." by Simon Smith *"Human knowledge should not be subject to intimidation" by anonymous *"Was gut ist muß gut bleiben." by Ulf Kuessner *"Thank you for using the Internet for good." by anonymous *"Borg Lojasiewicz : Thank You to everyone who contributed to the expansion of my prosthetic mind." by wanda lojasiewicz *"Wikipedia has helped me many times in the past and I hope it will help me many times in the future." by Henrique Rodrigues *"This is truly a great resource that deserves community support. Let's keep it free for all who may seek knowledge and information." by John Woody *"The finest resource on the web." by Tvrtko Crnkovic-Dodig *"A buck a week! Well worth it." by John Hahn My personal favorites: *"For the future" by Samuel Borgman *"Drop by drop the sea rises..." by Rene Rex *"It is a far better thing we do..." by Ian Yorston *"the light of truth can be hidden but not stopped" by Timothy Bates *"You make me look smart." by anonymous *"Merry Festivus!" by Chai Trakulthai -- Daniel Mayer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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The noble Heliobacter Pylori
by SJ 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

On "Noble minds", a BBC/SVT program, they had a roundtable of 2005 nobel laureates last week; Medicine prize-winner Barry Marshall mentioned the Wikipedia article about his discovery (heliobacter pylori) and said even [he and fellow Nobelist Robin Warren] couldn't write a better article. And, well.... there's no good way to describe the Helicobacter Foundation site. It's the strangest I've seen in a while: http://www.helico.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Helicobacter_pylori#Barry_Marshall_on_thi… http://nobelprize.org/nobel/nobel-foundation/press/2005/2005_english.pdf ++SJ

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Re: [Wikitech-l] How's image undeletability going?
by Gregory Maxwell 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

On 12/19/05, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/035512.html > > In the rabid frenzy to cleanse the image database, mistakes are made. > How are we going on some way to recover from them? At this point, the best solution is for people to tag things or delete things to save the darn images. This requires no modification to the mediawiki software, nor does it carry with it the naming or storage implications of a full undeletion system... plus, it is available right *now*. Your language shows the sort of disrespect common from those who are unconcerned about the legal status of our project. There is no rabid frenzy to delete the image, rather, the deletions are going unacceptably slowly. There have been multiple responsible users, who ensured the images they deleted or tagged were unrecoverable, who have been chased away from the image cleanup process by user overwhelmed with anger, distrust, and disrespect. As such I have no hesitation in saying that the unrecoverability of the few incorrectly deleted images is entirely the fault of the people who attack people for cleaning up images. Good job.

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