Please somenone change the interwiki links for http://roa-rup.wikipedia.org from "armâneashti" to "armãneashce". Will somebody please? I've been waiting for some time and no reply. Also it will be good to change the adress of this Wikipedia from roa-rup.wikipedia.org to the correct ISO 639-2 (and ISO 639-3 code) rup.wikipedia.org .
Thank you!
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Dear community,
after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Wikipedia was
overwhelmed by people expressing their sympathy for the victims,
adding material about affected organizations, and generally flooding
us with content that was inappropriate. Rather than turning these
people away, the decision was made to set up a separate wiki,
sep11.wikipedia.org, which still exists today.
A poll on Meta for closing the project showed 104 people in support
and 6 people in opposition. A volunteer, Jeff Merkey, has offered to
host the content under a dedicated domain name, sep11memories.org, in
a read-only state. It will from then onward be completely separate
from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Before we make this move, I would like to call all volunteers to help
review the state of the wiki. Remove comments or pages which are
inappropriate, remove inappropriate references to Wikipedia which
suggest an ongoing association (pointing out the historical
association is fine), and so on. An alternative logo would also be
helpful; otherwise the logo will have to be turned off.
To help, do the following:
1) Create an account on http://sep11.wikipedia.org/
2) Add yourself to the "Cleanup Group" on
http://sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal
3) Start working. :-) If you need admin rights, leave a note on my
talk page (User:Eloquence).
I hope people will help. I believe our own project history is
important and deserves respect and attention, even if we decide that a
project is not within the scope of the Wikimedia Foundation, and
especially when dealing with a subject such as this.
I would suggest a cleanup period of 4 weeks at most. Remember, this is
not a call for reviving the project and adding new information (though
new navigation structure is fine), but to get it into a state where it
can exist as a separate, valuable resource.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, all views or opinions expressed
in this message are solely my own and do not represent an official
position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
I am editing a biography on a living person: Eric Lerner, whose work
is controversial, but I feel that a number of editors are trying to
discredit him (they claim NPOV).
For example, editors have remove his writing awards, replaced
positive reviews with negative reviews, and labelled his work as
"pseudoscience" (with no verifiable source whatsoever).
I have based all my information on many sources, including the
subject, the subject's Web site, his company biography, article
biographies, press releases, etc.
A number of editors reject some of the information as unreliable, or
reword it in a way which, which I feel tends to discredit the
subject. I need help finding a balance.
EXAMPLE
I've labelled Eric Lerner a "plasma physicist", yet others write "he
has been described as a plasma physicist", or remove the label
altogether. I feel this implies he is not really a plasma physicist.
*I have presented three sources labelling him as a plasma physicist.
*He works in a company which describes itself as plasma physics company
*He is the author of several peer-reviewed articles on plasma physics.
Other editors argued that because he has only a B.A. in physics
(rather than a doctorate), in their minds, he does not count as a
physicist. Or they do no consider his work meaningful. No sources
have been presented.
Any advice?
Regards,
Ian Tresman
> It was almost certain that a decent bid from Asia would be successful.
No it wasn't and I wish people didn't have this misconception.
All of the bids were considered against a range of criteria, not only
location. Amongst many other factors, Taipei offered the venue and
accommodation on a single site, and their organizing team had prior
experience from running the Chinese Wikimania this year. It's unfair
to them to suggest they only won because they're in Asia.
If Asia was a sure winner from the start, we wouldn't have needed a
meeting lasting more than 4 hours on Saturday to determine which city
would be successful. A few people seem to think that the others were
rejected purely for being in Europe, but that was not the case, and we
would have said from the start if we were only accepting bids from
other continents so as not to waste people's time.
Angela.
Hi Ragib, Congrats on the Bengali achievement. How did you'll achieve
it? I'm just curious. What were the people processes involved? Did you
get a buy-in from any institutions or groups of linguists? The growth
seems really exponential!
Keep up the good work. We're about the smallest "national language"
group in India (and have five different scripts to contend with ...
three of which are actively used).
Our initiatives at the Konkani wikipedia are just getting started. We
hope to make some headway there. But we still far, far below critical
mass. See http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kok FN
PS: And btw, could someone please tell me what this comment means? I
didn't quite get it: Warning! This page does not have the correct
prefix in its title. Please move it to the correct place, or it may be
deleted. http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Goem
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Hi Everyone,
Bengali Wikipedia (http://bn.wikipedia.org ) has reached the milestone
of 10,000 articles today. This is the 50th language to reach the
milestone, and the 2nd language from South Asia to do so.
Bengali is spoken by almost 220-250 million people, making it the 7th
largest language in terms of total speakers. Bengali Wikipedia has
seen a growth from 500 articles in March 2006 to 10,000 as of now.
There are now 20-25 active editors who edit Bengali wikipedia on a
regular basis. These editors are mainly from Bangladesh, and also from
West Bengal (India). The main thrust has been the Bangladesh Open
Source Network (BDOsn), and the Bangla Wiki project, which has raised
awareness, involved the media, and recruited more editors to work on
Bengali Wikipedia.
We also have article improvement projects, aiming at having at least
1000 or so Good articles (similar to English wikipedia) by May 2007.
Thanks
Ragib
bn:User:Ragib
en:User:Ragib
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Ragib Hasan
PhD Student
Dept of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
201 N Goodwin Avenue
Urbana IL 61801
Website:
http://www.ragibhasan.comhttp://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/www
Hi, sorry again for one of those unpersonal mails. And sorry for some
typos - I am not re-reading the mail and my "r"-key still creates problems.
I will crosspost this mail to several mailing lists that could be
interested as well, so you won't see the single recipients.
From your answers I noted that being in different time zones and having
different requirements we probably will not make it to do a real
OmegaT-course online - some also don't have Skype. So I will be online
for sure tomorrow morning from 07:00-09:00 UTC and on Thursday from
07:00-09:00 UTC (corresponds to 09:00-11:00 Italian time). I very likely
will not be here on Friday morning.
Anyway I am online normally every morning in the mentioned hours as well
as in the evening. I'll try to create a schedule I update on a daily
basis so that you can see when you can find me.
Therefore we will do it in a Q&A style in IRC on
irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-translation
I chose the #wikimedia-translation channel, because it is about
translating Wikipedia articles. The how-to material will be online by
tomorrow morning - so I'll give you the link to the various pages during
the Q&A.
Don't panic if you cannot be online tomorow morning for this: since the
poject will last for some time you will find me online for questions
whenever I am at the computer - and that is quite many hours of the day.
Download OmegaT:
Version 1.6 RC10 - including Java for Windows:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_and_JRE_Win_1.6.0_RC10.zip…
(you don't need to care about the installation of Java on your
computer or about updating it)
Version 1.6 RC10 - including Java for Linux:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_and_JRE_Lin_1.6.0_RC10.tar…
(you don't need to care about the installation of Java on your
computer or about updating it)
Version 1.6 RC10 without Java:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/omegat/OmegaT_1.6.0_RC10.zip?download
(here you need to have an updated Java version on your computer -
this works both for Windows and for Linux and OSX)
Most of the people adhering to this project will use Windows - so I am
going to work with only Windows during the next days.
Access to the Chat-channel: you can do this in various ways. If you
already have a chat-software installed (for example Chatzilla for
firefox) you simply connect to the channel like you do with othe channels.
If you don't have such software and would like to avoid doing tests here
and there now: there is also a web interface where you can access to the
channel - I tested it with Firefox and Internet Explorer - both work fine.
Go to the URL:
http://www.bitshuffle.org/cgiirc/
As for "Nickname: " choose a name for youself and overwrite the contents
of the box
As for "Server:" please subsitute the contents with: irc.freenode.net
As for "Channel:" please substitute the contents with:
#wikimedia-translation
Then click on login. It can take a minute or so to really access the
channel.
Now to the sample text we will use:
Please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmegaT
Click on edit
Select the whole of the contents
copy it (ctrl+c)
and paste it in an empty .txt file - save the file with UTF-8 (the
windows editor is great for doing that)
From there: we will see from tomorrow on in the chat.
The how to's will be online here:
http://wordsandmore.org/index.php?title=Wordsandmore:Persian_wikipedia_cont…
Actually there is the WikiRead-WikiWrite feature for OmegaT being
programmed - so as soon as we have this it will be introduced. For now
most files will reach you as .txt files (even if this means more
organisational work). The way of doing things like above would be the
actual way to go, but I don't want people, who are new to wiki and
OmegaT to learn too many things at once - it could create more poblems
than doing good.
During the next days the texts to be tanslated will be prepared and I
will start to distribute them among the included translators. You will
see a schedule for each involved translator online so that you also will
be able to see from there who is going to do what and when. The links
will be added to the project page where you also find the how to's.
The Chat-logs will be made available as well through the main project page.
What else: I suppose not much more right now. Well if you feel this can
be interesting for other people: just tell them :-)
Meet you in the chat then :-)
Cheers,
Sabine
*****
Sabine Cretella
s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it
skype: sabinecretella
IRC channels where you can find me:
irc://irc.freenode.net/wiktionaryzirc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-translationirc://irc.freenode.net/omegat
Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!
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I've implemented an extension to the [[MediaWiki:Bad image list]] feature.
You can now specify a list of exceptions, i.e. articles where the image is
allowed to be displayed inline. The typical format is:
* [[:Image:Penis.jpg]] except on [[Penis]]
The text "except on" is ignored, it is not special. Only the links are relevant.
I've documented the format at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list
-- Tim Starling
Well, no, it's not a real one, but a very vitual one :-)
The Neapolitan wikipedia
(http://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paggena_prencepale ) today is one year
old. No, I am not going to tell you about statistics. Why? The sense of
this wikipedia is more than a "collecting numbers" - primarily it means
being part of a very particular community that deals with themes that
sometimes are not easy. Work on such a small wikipedia is very different
to working on the big ones.
So I would like to take the occasion to thank all contributors, readers
and friends for their help and support during the last year.
We are now at a stage that we have already an automatically changing
main page - one of my goals to be completed by the end of this year.
Thank you again and I hope you have as much fun as me in this project!
Sabine
*****
Be' non è un vero party, bensì uno virtuale :-)
La Wikipedia napoletana
(http://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paggena_prencepale ) oggi compie il primo
anno di vita. No, non vi parlerò di statistiche. Perché? Il senso di
questa wikipedia va oltre di "raccogliere numeri" - in primo luogo
significa essere parte di una comunità molto particolare che tratta
tematiche che talvolta non sono facili. Lavorare su di una Wikipedia
"piccola" è molto diverso dal lavorare su quelle "grandi".
Quindi vorrei cogliere l'occasioni per ringraziare tutti quelli che
contribuiscono, i lettori e amici per il loro aiuto e supporto nell'anno
passato.
Siamo ora ad un punto che abbiamo già una pagina pricipale che
automaticamente cambia - una delle mie meta è di aver completato questo
progetto per la fine dell'anno.
Grazie ancora e spero che vi divertiate tanto quanto me con questo progetto!
Sabine
Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!
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The Wikimania jury has met and are pleased to announce that Wikimania
2007 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei had the winning
combination of a dedicated and experienced bidding team, a great venue
with centralized accomodation and community areas, and strong
sponsorship opportunities. Taipei also provides the opportunity to
focus attention on the growing Asian language projects and the
international aspect of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as learning
about other free knowledge efforts and projects in the region.
This was a very difficult decision. Every one of the shortlisted bids
this year were outstanding. The Turin bid came in a close second; their
team made a great effort to procure two strong locations and extensive
government support, and gathered the Italian community together to
develop an outstanding bid. Alexandria deserves recognition for
bringing the Egyptian and Arabic-language community into the spotlight,
and for finding a remarkable venue partner in the Library of Alexandria.
London also produced a very strong bid, with a great venue, focus on
educational outreach, the diversity of London, and the strong Wikimedia
UK team.
Thank you to all of the bidders, including those who did not make
the shortlist, for your time and energy in developing these bids.
We hope this year's city teams will find ways to build on the contacts
and sponsors developed in the bid process for a 2008 bid or for hosting
a regional event.
We strongly encourage all who bid this year, and those of you wondering
whether your city could have done the same, to consider preparing city
bids for Wikimania in 2008 or 2009. Unofficial bids for 2008 should be
started now, as the decision on that city will be made this winter
(more details on 2008's bid process coming soon; watch
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids
for updates).
Now the work for the winners will begin, as they develop plans for the
conference next summer. We encourage the entire community to support
Taipei over the coming year in producing an outstanding conference.
With thanks,
The 2007 Wikimania bid jury