Wikipedia-l March 2005

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Spelling - http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedziela_Palmowa
by Sabine Cretella 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Hi since today is Palm Sunday I am creating this on it.wiktionary.org [[Domenica delle Palme]] Now I had a look at the different wikipedias linked and I found a difference in Spelling on the Polish wikipedia. The name of the page is: Niedziela Palmowa The use in te text is: *Niedziela palmowa So which writing is right - or maybe all are correct? Or does it have to be writte like this: **niedziela palmowa I'll send you a second - and maybe third mail later on as there will be some more questions. Ciao, Sabine * -- Sabine Cretella Translations s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it Meetingplace for translators http://www.wesolveitnet.com ***** Vuoi la parola del giorno nella tua casella di posta? Invia un'e-mail vuota a: laparoladelgiorno-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re:WikiIndex (idea)
by Craig Franklin 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

You know, the more I hear about this idea, the more I enjoy it. Personally, I don't really see the point of the categories system - you get everything mixed together with no context that way, and I don't see any way it can be made to work so that you can do a search for multiple keywords, like "Jewish", "Authors", "Died 1945", "Females". Heck, I imagine that if you tried to put a category of any of those together, some well-meaning person would probably delete them anyway, claiming they weren't specific enough. The only thing is that it should be kept as simple as possible, some of the proposals I see are too complicated for "ordinary" users to understand. We shouldn't require that a user be familiar with complex metadata tagging schemes just to write articles - even if those schemes are the widely adopted standards on the Internet at large. Regards, - Craig Franklin ------------------- Craig Franklin PO Box 764 Ashgrove, Q, 4060 Australia http://www.halo-17.net - Australia's Favourite Source of Indie Music, Art, and Culture.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Article validation feature, or: The Feature, Resurrected
by Daniel Mayer 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

--- David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: > > > I have finished updating (well: rewriting) the article validation > > feature for the current development software version (1.5), to a point > > where all essential functions work. I'll do some prettyfication (is that > > a word?) later, or wait for someone else to do it ;-) > > Woohoo! *throws hat in air* Thank you! This really is great news. Wikipedia 1.0 is starting to look less and less like vaporware. :) -- mav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Article validation feature, or: The Feature, Resurrected
by Magnus Manske 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (Note: I'm posting this here instead of wikitech-l because I believe it is of broader interest) I have finished updating (well: rewriting) the article validation feature for the current development software version (1.5), to a point where all essential functions work. I'll do some prettyfication (is that a word?) later, or wait for someone else to do it ;-) Is there a 1.5 test site to demonstrate it? I know 1.5 is still considered insecure, but we'll need a test site at some point for actual living users to beat the bits out of it... Tech howto follows: Run "patch-validate.sql" to update the table schema. Set "$wgUseValidation=true" in LocalSettings. Enjoy. Caveats: * Currently PHPTal only * The old (1.4) code is still in SpecialValidate.php, but commented out * Currently every logged-in user can both validate and set topics for validation. At least the latter has to be severly restricted in a live version, as deletion of a topic will delete all data associated with the topic as well. Magnus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCO2LSCZKBJbEFcz0RAql/AJ9BQJGRSy+kUjLGV8fwXKFCqxdqeQCfbDvK r+La9gYcy8Mm/hWuADEMmyA= =4k1x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Congratulations are in order (an overlooked milestone)
by daniwo59＠aol.com 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

In a message dated 3/19/2005 7:46:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, node.ue(a)gmail.com writes: At about the same time, the Georgian Wikipedia grew from around 17 articles to well over 100, and the Armenian Wikipedia grew from about 3 articles to well over 100. The Breton Wikipedia grew from 57 or so articles to well over 100. Other Wikipedias had a similar sudden growth just a little bit prior, such as the Aragonese and Limburgish Wikipedias. All of this growth occurred in the space of 1-3 weeks, and sometimes even less. Mark THanks for pointing that out Node. That is great news! Danny

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speakers list
by Elisabeth Bauer 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hiho, Since we quite often receive more or less important requests for wikipedia presentations, I am compiling a speakers' list on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations I already added some people where I have reason to believe that they will do this Please a) add yourself if you are willing and feel qualified to hold talks about Wikipedia with * your area of expertise (general, technical, scientific studies etc.) * the languages in which you can speak * your area and b) provide me with a contact address so that I can mail such requests around It would be especially nice to have some of the developers there. greetings, elian

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Theora / ogg usage
by Sj 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hello, An old theme just came up on the Wikipedia mailing list again : Wikipedia strongly encourages[1] using theora encoding, strongly enough that I don't think we currently host any other video encodings...[2] however, most users know how to make and edit and play mpegs, and find theora hard to work with. http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-March/038244.html Perhaps the theora-dev list can help us overcome our technical problems so that we have a reasonable choice in setting policy... SJ [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Video_policy (could use better theora information) [1.1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia (ditto, also better ogg information) [2] Article containing one of the only known video files on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy

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[Wikipedia-l] varied voices, warm vibes, sxsw, and what follows what
by Sj 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Liz Lawley of Corante writes about how she chose not to go to e-Tech this week, but to go to sxsw instead; and the relationship b/t those decisions and how diverse the speakers and attendees at each conference are. The piece is worth reading; she says interesting things such as "If you build a place that women love, the men will follow. The reverse is not true," and "There were more conversations than there were pontifications." http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/03/16/why_sxsw.php Applying similar thoughts to the Wikipedia community, similar comfort zones for certain demographics of users have perhaps as much to do with diversity of philosophy as with diversity of gender and race. But the point about conversations v. pontifications hits home. I'd like to know what other people think about this; how we might conceive of gatherings and big events like meetups or wikimania in ways that draw out people who will make them warmer, and more varied and interesting. -- +sj+

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PR: Wikipedia publishes 500, 000 English-language articles
by Sj 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Please forward widely. TAMPA, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, March 18, 2005 The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 500,000th article in the English-language Wikipedia, its project to create a free, multilingual, online encyclopedia. The article was about "Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_settlements_in_the_Soviet_Union). Wikipedia is a comprehensive online reference that has won acclaim and awards for its detailed coverage of current events and popular culture, its usability, and its community of contributors. It receives millions of visits each day. Other recent additions to its English-language edition include hundreds of full-length songs, almost a gigabyte of new images, and subject-specific portals. Daniel Pink, author and WIRED Magazine columnist, recently described Wikipedia as "the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future." BBC News calls it "One of the most reliably useful sources of information around, on or off-line," and Tim Berners-Lee, father of the Web, has called it "The Font of All Knowledge." Wikipedia is the first and best-known project of the Wikimedia Foundation. It has spawned sister projects, including a dictionary, a library of textbooks, a compendium of quotations, and a news site. These projects are all run on the open source MediaWiki platform (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/). Wikipedia is available free of charge and free of advertising from its website, http://en.wikipedia.org. Interested contributors can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction to learn how to add to the encyclopedia. DVD versions of the encyclopedia are scheduled to be released in English, German, and French, later this year (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-Distribution). ==About Wikipedia== "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." --Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently the world's fastest-growing, most current, and largest encyclopedia, with 1.5 million articles under active development in over 120 languages. It is created entirely by volunteers who contribute, update, and revise articles in a collaborative process. The English-language edition contains 10 million internal links, and incorporates 25,000 edits and 1,000 new articles each day. Wikipedia's content is written for a general audience, and is continually being revised for clarity, readability, and accuracy. Original text, images and sounds contributed to Wikipedia are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), which lets users copy and modify each other's work based on a principle known as "copyleft." The entire database is freely downloadable from http://download.wikimedia.org. ==About Wikimedia== The Wikimedia Foundation (http://www.wikimediafoundation.org) is a non-profit corporation based in Florida, USA. It was founded in 2003 to maintain and develop free-content projects like Wikipedia, and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. The Foundation recently concluded a fund drive which raised over US$90,000 (£55,000 or €80,000), primarily through individual donations of US$50 or less (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising). It has national chapters in Germany and France. ==Further information== * About Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia * The Wikimedia Foundation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia * About MediaWiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki * Wikipedia statistics - http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm * Wikipedia's best articles - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AFeatured_articles * Wikipedia press coverage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3APress_coverage ==Contact== For questions and interviews, please contact (in English only): Jimmy Wales, Chair, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation Phone: +1-310-474-3223 Email: jwales(a)wikimedia.org Angela Beesley, Executive Secretary, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation Phone: (+44)-7796-305-786 Email: angela(a)wikimedia.org

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WikiIndex (idea)
by Kardos Andris 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

You are further and further away from my original idea. Putting things into categories does not solve the problem I wanted to solve. If you add a person to tha person category, that will not make it easier to find people born in a certain year. Beside adding a page to an index, you should specify other "fields". For person: born, died, nationality, For place: country, gps, ... For event: year, place, ... Tags like below embedded in pages. The parser would put apropriate data in the "person", "writer", etc. tables (!) On the page en.wikipedia.org/Anne_Frank for example: Person = {Name: Anne Frank, Born: 1929, Died: 1944, Sex: female, Nationality: German....} Writer = {Name: Anne Frank, Language: German, Duthch} WWII_Victims = {Died: 1944}

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