Dear all,
thanks to all of you who have already completed our survey! We are also
very grateful for your great support (e.g. linking to the questionnaire
or our project website).
The questionnaire will still be available *until August 3* (next
Wednesday) at:
http://www.unipark.de/uc/wikipedia/
Your responses are extremely important to us!
Our original announcement is available here:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-July/026281.html
Results will be published on our website as soon as the analysis is
complete:
http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/wikipedia.php?lang=en
Best wishes from Germany, and have a nice weekend,
Joachim Schroer
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University of Wuerzburg
Department of Psychology II, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Roentgenring 10
97070 Wuerzburg
Germany
Phone: +49 931 31 6062
Fax: +49 931 31 6063
http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/staff/schroer.php
First of all: sorry for crossposting to all lists, but I need to reach
as many people as possible.
There are two things I would like to talk about and maybe this mail is
going to be quite long.
At this stage I took over part of the translation's organisation (or all
of it? we'll see ...)
There are some problems involved when it comes to translations for
wikimania - on one hand we will have people that know how to edit and
that go simply there and edit an article on the other hand we will work
with translators who don't know how to do this and therefore they
receive the article and send it back to me - then their work needs to be
copied and pasted into the wiki.
Therefore I created a page where to collect the names of people who work
for wikimania and a yahoogroup to assure that every article is only
translated once.
The translator's list can be find here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translators_that_are_willing_to_co-operate
It is organised by language combinations. I also added myself, but
really I suppose I won't have much time to translate since I will need
the time for organisational tasks.
The translator's list is on yahoo: wikimaniatrans(a)yahoogroups.com
I am inserting all translators there since all articles that need
translation are posted there. The first translator who answers to the
list with "I am doing this translation EN-IT" (just to make an example)
will translate that language combination of that particular article - so
all other translators know that this work is being done.
So if you are interested in co-operating for translations, please add
yourself to the list and subscribe to the yahoo-group. If you won't do
this yourself: just send me a mail indicating
Language combinations
Name
e-mail
Website (if any)
As to the reporters: to be faster in our work it would be great if you
sent me a note with the link as soon as your article is online and ready
for translation. I know that this is not the normal "wiki-way" but we
have to deal with people that are not used to wikis and we don't have
the time to teach them how to work there.
Please drop me a note so that I know you before (it would be great).
As to admins: please post the message that we are on search for
translators in your Beer Parlours and ask people who are interested to
contact me by e-mail (either sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it or
s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it) - I understand German, Italian, English,
French, Spanish and write German, Italian, English - I approximatively
understand some more languages, but it is not the case to guess what is
written in this situation, so please bear with me and accept these
limits :-)
For now that's all - the more we are the better we will be and the less
work anyone will do - if there's someone who would like to help with the
copy/paste upload: please let me know.
Ciao!!!!
Sabine
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Translations
s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it
skype: sabinecretella
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Mark Williamson wrote:
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_policy_for_wiki_closure
: written by Toytoy from the Chinese Wikipedia.
I think the talk page has pretty much established that this proposal is not
only dead in the water, but severely strains assumptions of good faith.
The page in question should be kept as an example of trying to use spurious
policy as a bludgeon. And any future policy proposals from Toytoy should be
watched very closely indeed.
- d.
Hi! I've added to MediaWiki a feature which could be an alternative to page
protection: the verify feature. I've added to the sysops' bar a
'verify'/'unverify' button: 'verify' sets the current revision as
'verified'. When there is a 'verified' revision, users can still edit the
page, but new revisions are not shown until a sysops verifies it again (of
course, even new revisions can be accessed though the history, and the
verified one, if any, is in bold).
'Unverify', of course, removes the protection.
I think this would be a very good alternative to page protection against
vandals.
I would like to heard what do you think of it.
Regards,
Salvatore
Hi all,
I think it's best not to inject this mail with POV, this time we can
set an example by keeping arguments on Meta, rather than filling up
people's inboxes.
Also, it's probably pointless to give my POV here as I'm sure everyone
already knows what it will be, based on the content on the proposal.
However, I request that everyone, even if you're not interested in
languages, please have a look at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_policy_for_wiki_closure
written by Toytoy from the Chinese Wikipedia.
In it, he proposes a policy that would mean closure of the majority of
existing Wikipedias (of course, it would leave en, de, es, fr, ja,
etc., but would possibly close even such successful ones as the
scn.wiki, or as noted on the talkpage maybe even zh.wiki)
For details and justification, please see that page.
To discuss the policy, and voice opinions for or against, please go to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_policy_for_wiki_closure
I request that everyone give their opinion on the talkpage. If we only
have opinions from people deeply interested in languages, surely it
will be a more slanted discussion than if we have replies from many
Wikimedia project participants.
Cheers
Mark
Much appreciated. I think I know someone who took a photo of a celebrity that has a wikipedia entry. I'll suggest they put their photo up.
Interesting to note--I'd hate to see it pulled, but I'm curious if falls under fair use.
Under Chrissy Hynde's entry someone used a scan from the Pretender's Greatest Hits cover. Acceptable? I'd hate to see it be deleted...but I'm also trying to figure out if photos like that are acceptable.
& I know one of my favorite actors has a page with a non fair use photo. Because it came from newspapers and magazines. They didn't take it. I don't want to rat them out. :)
I just mentioned Hynde's entry because I want to know if a CD cover scan is acceptable? And I had to mention the picture so you guys could see it. :)
Hi,
There is enough support at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Ladino
to make the following request:
I'd like to request the set up
of the Ladino wikis for subdomains
http://lad.wikipedia.org
and
http://lad.wiktionary.org
For this we will need the
help of the developers.
Could someone help set this
up? Last time I requested this
on the tech list there was no
response. Is there another
forum where this should be
handled? Or could we get
an idea of a due date where
we could have it ready and
available for contributions.
With sincere regards,
Jay B.
en:User:ILVI
ia:Usator:ILVI
Dear Wikipedians,
Wikimania will begin in less than two weeks. (If you're helping
organize this, the calendar is already engraved inside your forehead
:-) There will be a crazy collection of speakers and wiki developers
(http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme), media and documentary
coverage, and lots of storytelling and good fun.
For those of you who can't be there in person, there will be audio
streams from the two main halls, and two cameras' worth of vlogging
thanks to Soufron et al. There are also some important things you can
do to make it an even better event :
== Wiki discussions, gathering sources ==
Wikimania will see some very focused discussions about how to improve
and coordinate the development of MediaWiki, Wikipedia, and the other
Wikimedia projects. Preparation and organization of ideas over the
next ten days will see great returns on investment.
(To add a discussion you want to see happen, or link to existing
discussions :
please update http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Discussions )
The most exciting part of Wikimania, to me, is getting many different
circles of savvy people talking about Wikimedia development at the
same time; and most of that will take place outside of Frankfurt.
== Announcements; Letting others know how to take part ==
I hope that when the audio podcasts and vlogs of the conference
sessions start to come out, that everyone who might care to will know
how to find them... and I want the many Wikimedians who can't be
there to know how to find the discussions on-wiki surrounding key
sessions and discussions.
== Requests for help ==
So please respond to the following requests, if you can, either on- or
off-list (if off-list, make sure you write to elian :
1) We need people to help spread the word about Wikimania; to
websites that want to follow or link to the conference, to people who
want to join in the disucssions online. Many conferences have IRC
channels that occasionally produce one or two questions. We should
strive to have as much feedback coming from IRC and wiki discussions
as from the audience.
2) We need people to help update the Wikimania website with
information as the conference approaches; and especially DURING the
conference, as new materials become available. Transcripts, podcasts,
etc will turn up on meta and on individual blogs; and we should have a
good portal to that content.
3) As I mentioned previously, we also need transcribers for the
broadcast sessions. We will only have audio and video for the larger
2 of 5 rooms; we could use 4-5 transcribers listening in and typing
out text transcripts for those rooms as well. (I'm sure someone will
be bored enough to tune in :
http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme )
3b) If you're COMING to Wikimania and want to transcribe sessions in
the other three rooms, you will have my undying affection. Contact me
directly about that...
Maniacally,
SJ
On 25/07/05, Servien Ilaino <servien(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Well Mark, if you ask people kindly to read through the spelling and
> other rules, which EVERY Wikipedia has and just ignores it, and you
I wish to remind you of a couple of things.
1) nds-nl is a test Wikipedia still.
2) spelling rules are usually decided by a community. In this case,
the rules have been decided by you with no vote or input from anyone
else.
> leave some messages and the other person doesn't reply then yes I
> think that person is not completely smart no, not that I expected
Perhaps they have another reason? And regardless of whether or not
they're smart, it's certainly not very becoming of you to say he's a
"stoopid loser".
> positive feedback from you anyway, but I'm not looking for your
> approval, since you don't speak LS and you are negative towards the
> creation of every new Wiki. The reason why every Wikipedia uses ONE
In fact, your Wikipedia is the first Wikipedia I have been negative
towards. I have supported the creation of basically all other
requested Wikipedias... ask anyone on the list. Regardless of whether
or not you're looking for my approval, in this case you have certainly
overstepped the bounds of what is OK by calling this person names in
such a way. Even Phroziac, who initially supported you, seems to have
withdrawn his support when he realised how you acted.
> writing system is to prevent errors with the same articles in 16
> different writing systems. Everyone is free to comment or suggest
> changes, but he doesn't reply to messages or anything! IMO that's
> strange yes!
Again, it's a test Wikipedia. Nobody is required to respond to
messages. You might also see what he did at [[Requests for new
languages]].
> Servien!
Mark
Hi,
Le Monday 25 July 2005 01:18, Yvonne Davis a écrit :
> I'm not sure who to contact, so I hope you may be able to pass on the
> information:
> July 28 - it states that Julian McMahon an Australian actor died in
> 1968, don't think so, he's alive and well and was recently on tv in
> Australie in "This is your life" - I'm not sure when his father died,
> but even that must be later. His father was a prime Minister of
> Australia, I think his name was Bob McMahon, but Julian is certainly not
> dead!
Please specify on which page did you see this information.
Beside all web sites from the Wikimedia Foundation are wikis, which means that
you can correct this information yourself, clicking on the edit tab.
> Yvon Davis
>
> Executive Producer
> SBS Radio Melbourne
>
> phone: 61 (03) 9949 2169
> fax: 61 (03) 9949 2385 (att: Dutch)
> www.sbs.com.au/dutch
>
> P.O. Box 294
> South Melbourne 3205
> Victoria - AUSTRALIA
Thanks for your input,
Yann
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