Ther Wikimania Writing and Media competition, in various categories.
Originally, this was limited to content created in the past year, but
that led to various problems with defining what that meant, and people
misunderstanding the stricture; so now the contest is open to all
wikimedia content.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Competitions
Prizes include O'Reilly books and Wikipedia swag in German and
English, rare pieces of currency, and probably some Xiph.org swag as
well. Suggestions for special contest categories are welcome.
Currently, we have only one video up for the video prize -- which I
guarantee will be something sweet. So if you have any good video to
upload, upload it now! (Or send it to me via mail; it can be in any
format; NullC and I will handle re-encoding it for you.)
Finally, Bdk and I are looking for judges to help judge the submissions.
I. Nominate people you think would make good contest judges here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania:Competitions
II. A few people suggested the idea of having known writers and
artists, not necessarily Wikimedians, be on a celebrity panel for the
final judging. Suggest people you'd like to see on such a panel as
well. (also on the above page)
Cheers,
SJ
Hi there,
There is a weird freak who most probably doesn't understand Low Saxon
or is just really stoopid (yes, stoopid with dubble-o) because, he has
created 2 articles on the Nds-nl Test Wiki (one of which already
existed, and with the wrong title aswell), I later told him to use the
spelling that was suggested to prevent problems with Wiki-titles in
the future if the test-wp would be created. He didn't respons on the
discussion I put on the pages, so I put a table with content asking
him to change his self-constructed, based on Scandinavian, German and
French orthography to the prefered one, instead he deleted the
comments and put it back to the old orthography and started to create
an article on Test-wp/nds, I told him it already existed, and that he
just had to change his freaky orthography (normal in that way exactly)
to the normal one. Instead he ignored it, shouldn't pages with no use
and absolutely no real content like that be deleted?
Servien
At the Dutch wikipedia somebody noted that the link on the bottom right hand
side of each page, eg. the "powered by Mediawiki" logo leads to a page
titled "Wiki does not exist", http://www.mediawiki.org/
Is this correct? If not, does anybody know what the correct link should be
and how it should be corrected?
Elly Waterman
I noticed. I'm not suprised. I have a book of solo Beatles that is supposed to be an encyclopedia but instead the author thought to bash Yoko (naturally) and Linda McCartney. It's an encyclopedia, you moron! You are supposed to just print the facts NOT your opinion.
Thanks! I don't even know how to add the pictures. Although on one of the pages I do frequent someone did put a picture up. I bet they did it without checking.
I'm a novice here so how can you tell if the photograph is public domain use?
Like say a newspaper and a few web e-zines have the same photograph? Is it now a public domain thing? Probably not.
Pluto--also a Disney character! Some Disneyphile might get cross that Pluto (the dog) isn't the dom. meaning. *LOL* ;) When I think of Pluto and Mars...I think of the planets first.
Like say if Elvis Costello (just an example) decided to drop the Costello and go by Elvis. (which isn't even his real name anyway)--now Elvis (Presley) is the dom. meaning, if you only go by a timeline of who came first.
This stuff is interesting. :)
I suppose it's all trial and error. And you certainly take your Helium seriously. ;) I just used that as an example. I would take the more dom. meaning would be the gas if I really was talking about helium. ;) I really want to undo that one contributors redirect. Hee! I love learning about the ins & outs of wikipedia. I'm going to take that one posters advice and check out the definition of "Mars". Sorry I forgot your name. :)
One of my other wikipedia rants--is a group of people who took a celebrities page and made it get the stop sign of not being a neutral article. I tried correcting it, but it's a big mess, they keep putting THEIR opinion and not basic facts down. Talk about another mess on wikipedia.
I did my helium. ;) "Helium" as it were.
How do you an add an image to a celebrity page. Are pages from web magazines fine? Are they public domain pictures?
I fully agree with Tim here. Wikipedia's aim is to become an encyclopedia like the "Britannica or better". Editions in Volapük or Pali are plainly counterproductive here. Like I mentioned earlier I attach the same value to each and every single language in the world. And I'm not opposed to any constructed languages as many are great creative works. Furthermore, I fully approve all efforts to preserve and foster minority languages for they are all part of the world's cultural heritage.
However, I think it's finally time to realize that not every language is suitable for a wikipedia. Matter of fact, from a realistic perspective we have more Wikipedias that aren't working than ones that are. The moment we focus on what an encyclopedia is really about (i. e. collecting and transfering information, not language which only serves as a vehicle) we'll see more clearly that e. g. languages with no native speakers will not serve our principal aim.
Boris
wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org schrieb am 08.07.05 01:18:16:
As far as I'm concerned, Lojban and Gothic are in the same category,
they both have a very small speaker population with 100% bilingualism,
and Esperanto and English are in the same category, they both have a
speaker population larger than the native language of many people. I'd
like to see a focus on effective information transfer rather than
language preservation, restoration and construction, but I think I'm
fighting a losing battle.
-- Tim Starling
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Some reports on Wikipedia...
* Susan Barnes on Wikipedia's credibility, and whether "hittable" is a word:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050717/BUS…
At least three Wikipedians quickly replied to her (see mav's recent
thread on wikien-l) correcting the article in various ways... for the
record, the American Heritage dictionary lists hittable as a word,
whether or not Wikipedia does.
And, last but not least, from today's news:
* Britannica has chosen a new 15-person advisory board, the first
since the last one was effectively disbanded 10 years ago. They hope
that, among other things, this will bolster their image as a vetted
and polished resource, to "respond to competitive challenges from
Google, Yahoo, and the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/21/venerable_encylopedia…
A nice article by Eric Ferkenhoff, who is clueful enough not to use
the definite article in front of the big WP. There seem to be two
Harvard economics professors on the board...
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I read that article before I joined and I'm still confused as to how you do it.
And does it ever bother anyone else when you spend time making a page nice and neat someone comes along and messes it all up?
I had a separate page for a TV show soundtrack. Someone came by and REDIRECTED it to the actual show page. I'm afraid if I take it down, they'll get angry and report me. But it really belongs on it's own page. What happens if more soundtracks/books come out based on the TV show is that person going to put them on the main page too? It looks too crowded!
Sorry for the vent. I just spent a half hour a few days ago making it look nice so when someone came and cluttered it up I got flustered.
and how do you redirect? Say someone's album is called "Helium", well we already know helium is a gas. How do you redirect to "Helium (album)" That's
what I'm trying to do and the articles in the help section don't explain it step by step, that's why I joined the list here. I usually just post by trial and error, but I don't want to make any mistakes.
Thanks. :)
Message: 2
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:44:00 +0200
From: Ashar Voultoiz
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Current state of the Wikipedia motivation
survey
To: wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org
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Joachim Schroer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> as many of you know, we have started a survey on the motivation of
> contributors to Wikipedia a week ago. So far, more than 150 participants
> from more than 10 countries completed our online survey -- thanks a lot
> to everyone!
>
> The questionnaire will be available until August 3 at:
>
> http://www.unipark.de/uc/wikipedia/
Done! I love surveys :p
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Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++
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IM: hashar(a)jabber.org ICQ: 15325080
I'm with you - I love surveys too - can we please have another - I suggest that we need a follow up survey - enquiring into the mental and emotional stability of wikipedians - my guess is that we are all in need of professional help - and fast! Salutamu - pippu d'angelo, canberra
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