An open Wikimedia meeting is announced for this Sunday at 21:00 UTC.
Forwarded from foundation-l.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings
IRC: #wikimedia-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Web: http://irc.wikicities.com/meeting/
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From: Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2006 4:25 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Committees: open meeting, February [5]
To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org, internal-l(a)wikimedia.org
The time most favored by those voting was 21:00 UTC Sunday 5th.
Details of the meeting are at
Some suggested topics that need to be covered include:
* scope of work for each committee
* need for subcommittees and procedures to create them
* membership procedures
* roles within committees: chair, member, consultant
* decision-making processes
* ways to deal with confidential information
* interaction and communication between the committees and to the Board
* legal liability of committee and their members
I'm hoping the committee organizers will make the effort to attend,
but anyone else with an interest in Foundation matters is very
welcome.
Angela.
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Dear all,
I am happy to announce that submissions are currently being accepted
for the second annual Wikimedia Conference. The primary deadline for
submitting an abstract is April 15, 2006. The conference will be held
from August 4-6, 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on the Harvard
Law School campus.
http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers <-- full text of the CfP
http://cfp.wikimania.wikimedia.org/ <-- where to submit abstracts
If you have an idea for speakers, tutorials, or panels, please add
them to the list:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program_ideas
=== Please translate this notice and distribute it widely. ===
Looking forward to an amazing conference,
SJ
(I am going out of Belgrade for a couple of days and I would like to
start this RFC, too. When I back to Belgrade (during the next week)
I'll try to make proposals for mass content adding and this idea on
Meta.)
In this moment we (on sr:) are talking about mass content adding in
Serbian Wikipedia. The main issue are 40.000 of French municipalities
and around 60.000 of municipalities from former Yugoslavia. (As well
as municipalities from the rest of the world.)
Even this kind of articles will have a limited amount of information
at the beginning, the amount of information can grow. For example: In
this moment we have geographic and some demographic data. But, in the
near future I can add some linguistic data, too (what dialect is
spoken in what place; this can be very interesting because some
dialectology atlases have a lot of information); as well as we can add
a number of other information which are related to geography (time
lines, ethnography, etc.).
BUT, some people do not see Wikipedia as revolution encyclopedia. Some
people want to work on a classic encyclopedias which are divided into
general and special. In general, project Wikispecies is a try to make
one specialized encyclopedia.
My suggestion is to resolve this conflict on software level: Like
Wikispecies, we can have (subdomains) xx.geography.wikipedia.org,
xx.astronomy.wikipedia.org, and even xx.economy.wikipedia.org,
xx.history.wikipedia.org etc. Such subdomains, as well as Wikispecies
would become categories inside of Wikipedia as well as separate sites
which would have only articles from specific field.
Also, this would make more easy possibility to print Wikipedia
partially. It would be more easy to make editions like "Wikipedia:
Geography", "Wikipedia: Linguistics" etc.
What do you think?
Because of my work on The Wikipedia Signpost, somebody once playfully
suggested that I should be in charge of "Wikipedia: The Movie". I don't
anticipate this happening any time soon, as it would take a lot more
skills than mine to pull off. But since it's awards season for the film
industry, I thought I'd offer for your enjoyment part of the lineup I
would pick to star in this film.
Jimmy Wales - [[Paul Giamatti]]
Angela Beesley - [[Kristin Scott Thomas]]
Florence Devouard - [[Carole Bouquet]]
Larry Sanger - [[Colin Firth]]
John Seigenthaler - [[Jon Voight]]
Brion Vibber - [[Martin Freeman]]
Daniel Mayer - [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]]
Andrew Lih - [[Chow Yun-Fat]]
Danny Wool - [[Geoffrey Rush]]
Delphine Ménard - [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]]
Tim Starling - [[Heath Ledger]]
Elisabeth Bauer - [[Alexandra Maria Lara]]
Erik Möller - [[Sean Bean]]
Jean-Baptiste Soufron - [[Olivier Martinez]]
David Gerard - [[Pete Postlethwaite]]
Brackets indicate that you can look all of these actors up, at least on
en:, though pictures are not necessarily available there. Lest any of
the subjects be offended by my choices, I'm not necessarily saying you
look like these people. My focus was on picking capable actors who could
be made to look more or less like you. This is for entertainment value only.
However, I'm happy to entertain ideas for suggested replacements and
additional members of the cast. But keep in mind that the only way to
ensure you will be played by the actor of your choice is to foot the
bill for that actor's salary.
--Michael Snow
This is the podcast interview I did last Thursday. I haven't listened
yet myself ... hope I suitably calmed the slightly annoyed AFD subject
and his fans!
- d.
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From: Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
Date: 01-Feb-2006 20:40
Subject: Re: [Ticket#2006010210002589] interview about the evolution
of wikipedia
To: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Hey David.. the show has been up for a few days and its getting good
feedback and of course, lots of downloads. Thanks again for taking
the time... best of luck to you and Im sure we'll see each other
around the internet.
http://bicyclemark.org/blog/2006/01/bm99-behind-wikipedia/
On 1/24/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> ok!
>
> On 23/01/06, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro <bicyclemark(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > UK time is what I meant. Speak to you thursday!
> >
> >
> > On 1/23/06, David Gerard < dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 23/01/06, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro <bicyclemark(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > My best time to talk is five oclock on thursday afternoon.. or late
> > around
> > > > ten thirty in the evening. either day.
> > >
> > >
> > > 10:30pm Thursday evening (is that UK or NL time?) is fine by me! Call
> > > me on the home number, 020 8523 2302.
> > >
> > >
> > > - d.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Mark
>
--
-Mark