Wikipedia-l February 2006

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Request for Marwari language
by Jonathan & Kendra Dailey 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:40:02 -0000 > From: "Phil Boswell" <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Request for Marwari language Wikipedia > To: wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org > Message-ID: <dt26fa$m08$1(a)sea.gmane.org> > > "GerardM" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote in > message news:41a006820602160459n6962298i94ce18a378b56fb3@mail.gmail.com... > > On 2/16/06, Phil Boswell > > <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> "Jonathan & Kendra Dailey" > >> <jonathan-kendra_dailey(a)sall.com> wrote in message > >> news:000401c632e1$583163a0$0201a8c0@WinniethePooh... > >> > Marwari is spoken by over 13 million people in India, Pakistan, and > >> > Nepal. > >> > It is related to Hindi but it is a distinct language with a long > (1500 > >> > year) > >> > written history and has a great amount of worldwide Diaspora. > >> > How do we get this started? > >> This would be the language you mean? > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwari_language > >> It would appear from this and the article on Hindi that it is > considered > >> by > >> many to be a dialect of the latter. If this is untrue, then those > >> articles > >> need to be updated :-) > > According to Ethnologue: > > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90928 Marwari is seen > > as a cluster of languages not as a single language. > > Sometimes these things are not simple.. :( > > Maybe the reference is to the language: > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rwr > rather than the family: they have the same name. > > feh! > -- > Phil > [[en:User:Phil Boswell]] [JD:] In the interest of full disclosure, I am an SIL linguist working in this language (rwr, Marwari). I am hoping to use Wikipedia (along with other online resources) as a medium for language development activities. For instance, it helps mother tongue speakers to learn to write, edit, and hone their written language skills. I do mean the language not the cluster. The cluster has more like 30+ million speakers. Marwari would be the largest with, depending on how you slice the pie, between 13 and 19 million speakers. It has a low lexical similarity with Hindi. My own research has shown urban speakers have "more Hindi" than rural speakers but the similarity is near 60%. Jonathan

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Request for new language on WP
by Thor 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Brion, Hyway reay ouyay efusingray otay ivegay emay hetay hancecay otay roducepay Ikipediaway niay igpay atinlay??? Eway lreadyay avehay Ikipediaway niay anguageslay hattay on'tday sistexay, (sco.wikipedia.org) Thor

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Semi-protection now enabled for all wikis
by Brion Vibber 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

I've gone ahead and enabled the semi-protection level for all of our wikis. A total of 16 had already explicitly requested it over the last couple months, and I haven't heard from any site asking to keep the option on. Unless it's actually used by the admins on a given site, there's no change in behavior; it's just a middle-level option now available between unprotected and sysops-only. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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[Fwd: Digital Communities / Prix Ars Electronica 2006]
by Jimmy Wales 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Digital Communities / Prix Ars Electronica 2006 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:04:26 +0100 From: AEC Communities <communities(a)prixars.aec.at> To: <jwales(a)wikia.com> Dear Jimmy, For the third time, Prix Ars Electronica, the foremost international prize for computer-based art, is starting its call for entries for "Digital Communities" projects. The category "Digital Communities" has been a great success in its 2004 and 2005 editions and is singling out for recognition projects of great sociopolitical relevance. The Digital Communities category is open to political, social and cultural projects, initiatives, groups and scenes from all over the world that display contentious commitment in coming up with smart, successful ways of deploying digital technologies to solve social problems. Particular emphasis is placed on a project’s degree of community innovation, its sustainability and its use of technology in a way that makes good sense and is attuned to the needs of the people meant to benefit from it. Digital Communities projects should make it easier for people to access technology, networks and the Digital Commons. We would like to ask you to help us "spread the word" in your community by circulating the information as widely as possible. We also would be very glad if you could help us identify some projects, which in your opinion should participate in the competition. For a detailed description of the category, please consult our website___ <http://www.aec.at/en/prix/communities/communities.asp>_. Find the winners of 2004 at ___<http://www.aec.at/en/prix/communities/winners2004.asp>_ and winners of 2005 at _http://www.aec.at/en/prix/communities/winners2005.asp <http://www.aec.at/en/prix/communities/winners2004.asp>_ If you need any further information or support, please do not hesitate to come back to me. Yours sincerely, Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber -- ####################################################################### # Office: 1-727-231-0101 | Free Culture and Free Knowledge # # http://www.wikipedia.org | Building a free world # #######################################################################

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Undelete view changed
by Brion Vibber 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

I've changed how the Special:Undelete view works a little bit. The last deleted page text is no longer displayed above the revisions list; it tended to be rather annoying for big pages and could make things hard to deal with if the page had hostile CSS (eg obscuring the buttons). The revisions also now display the wiki source code by default, making it easier to examine the code of a deleted page or copy-and-paste if necessary. Rendered preview from there is optional. Please copy this notification to whereever your wiki's curious sysops may be hanging out. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Request for Marwari language Wikipedia
by Jonathan & Kendra Dailey 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Marwari is spoken by over 13 million people in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. It is related to Hindi but it is a distinct language with a long (1500 year) written history and has a great amount of worldwide Diaspora. How do we get this started?

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Request for New Language on WP
by Thor 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hi. I am thinking of setting up a new Wikipedia, since we have language templates for Pig Latin speakers, I would like to create and run a Wikipedia in Pig Latin. I have been told that I need to request a new language to be added, if its not already available on the language list. I don't know how the process works, but I hope to hear from you soon if this is ok. Thor Malmjursson

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Re: Thomas
by Walter Vermeir 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Anthere schreef: > Hello everyone, > > > As Delphine told you a few days ago, my baby boy born > nearly 7 days ago. His name is Thomas Gabriel Luc. > [cut] Somehow this is still news to me. Congratulations Anthere. Nice to get some really good news. That happens not every week. Take care. All the best, Walter -- Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org Wikizine.org - news for and about the Wikimedia community

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Thomas
by Anthere 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hello everyone, As Delphine told you a few days ago, my baby boy born nearly 7 days ago. His name is Thomas Gabriel Luc. I was told he would be a big fat boy, but nope ! He born 3,4 kg (plain average weight) and just hit back the 3 kilos, so I am finally home ! He is quite naturally the prettiest one (though, let's face it, he's got some white pimples on the face...), and looks very much like myself (two eyes, one nose, one mouth and a double chin). Actually, he looks very much like his older brother, so I keep calling him William :-) We are both fine now. The most powerful lesson of my third child birth would be : "do not pick up the fruit when it is not ripe yet". After more than 2 weeks going three times per week to the hospital for full check up due to preeclampsia disorder, the docs decided to chemically induce the birth. 2 days in a row, they applied a cervical prostaglandin gel, which caused very very very frequent contractions. A more natural way of doing this is referred to as the "italian technique" (the male sperm does contain this prostaglandin, so having love moments with partner is often recommanded to gently induce child birth... Right, I mention this only because it is Valentine's day :-)) In my case, no such delicacy. I had the dubious pleasure to spend two full days in the childbirth area (not exactly 4 stars hotel), with basically no food, screaming women all day and night long, electronic gear on chest, arms, hands and tummy. I *hated* it. And hated even more when after two days, nothing was occuring but painful very frequent contractions. At that point, I was so tired they gave me something to actually *slow down* contractions so I could rest a bit! And decided to rupture the amniotic sac, telling me I had 12 hours in front of me before the c-section if nothing was happening. It may have scared my body badly... in hardly more than 60 mn, I went through the 10 cm dilation, the expulsion of the child and finally placenta. It was quite explosive :-) For the wikicommons addicts, no pictures of the delivery itself were taken :-) Even if we had wanted to, there would have been no time to do it. So, no bloody pictures of delivery will be uploaded ;-) sorry... I put a few pictures on yahoo to share with family and friends. http://fr.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fdevouard/album?.dir=550d&.src=ph&store=&p… So, everything is fine :-) I do have hundred of emails pending, not counting RC to check and mailing lists to go through. And odd sleeping patterns right now. So, I'll go slowly through all pending issues. If there is something urgent, please notify it to me specifically. Also, thank you for all the congrats left on my user talk pages, ml and private emails. Cheers Anthere PS : Did I mention I was happy ? I am :-)

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Weekly digest from Wikimedia SCG
by Jovana Milicevic 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

February 8th: Dragan Sataric and Filip Maljkovic speaked in the programe at radio Idea. Jovana Milicevic talked for radio Belgrade. February 11th: In Youth center Dom omladine Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro in cooperation with FSN(Free Software Network) and LUG Belgrade( Linux User Group ) organized speach about free software movement and prehistory of idea of free software. Jovana Milicevic

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