Wikipedia-l August 2005

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[Wikipedia-l] Free ipods, Wikimania media contest, and textual bliss
by SJ 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hello all, The Wikimania Writing and Media contest will be handing out two ipods (multilingual), a dozen digital collections of world literature (in English), and over a dozen technical books (in German and English), to the best overall media and writing nominations. Today is the last day to nominate your favorite Wikimedia works! At least one prize will be awarded in every category... currently we have three or fewer submissions http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Competitions Please add nominations to the list here: Media - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Media_Competition Writing - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_writing_contest_nominations SJ -- ++SJ

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Frisian languages
by James R. Johnson 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi all, Could someone clarify for me the differences between all these Frisian languages that keep getting requested? Are they still mutually intelligible? Could someone provide me a few example sentences in the various Frisian types that could show the differences (not just spelling, I hope)? Thanks, James

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Bizarre vandalism at Cherokee Wikipedia by 217.44.22.219
by Ros’ Haruo 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

I went to check on the state of my contributions to chr.wikipedia.org<http://chr.wikipedia.org>this morning and found the Main Page and 19 others have had their content replaced with a Speedy Deletion notice accompanied, in many but not all cases, by something along the lines of "Wrong language". Now it's true that much of the content in the Cherokee (better, Tsalagi) Wikipedia has been in English, and many of these pages doubtless needed culling, but to eliminate the Main Page (part of which was in Tsalagi) or several others (e.g. Europe ᎡᎶᏆ <http://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8E%A1%E1%8E%B6%E1%8F%86> and United States Supreme Court<http://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court>) where the process of Tsalagisation was underway) strikes me as vandalistic. I have reverted the main page (several of whose sections should probably be eliminated and the rest fully tsalagised) and will look at restoring others that may have hope. I've been talking up Wikipedia in Tsalagi groups (e.g. Yahoo groups like Tsalagi and AniTsalagi_Language) trying to get folks to give up their Cherokee National fonts long enough to acquire Unicode so they can participate here, and I have been in negotiation with the Seattle Public Library to get them to add Cherokee Unicode fonts so I (and others) can participate here from the public access terminals, and I'm sorry but 217.44.22.219 <http://217.44.22.219>'s approach here is costly. In particular the speedy deletion of the Main Page of a Wikipedia that does have content strikes me as reprehensible, and to do so without replying to the disagreements voiced in the Talk Page is I don't know, what's a good NPOV term? Haruo = dzidzelalic @ chr: -- Meet the Whole World Halfway — Learn and Use Esperanto! http://www.scn.org/~lilandbr/lang_tax.html — http://lernu.net

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