[cross-posted to Foundation-l, Wikipedia-l and WikiEN-l]
Well, after a couple of snags that pushed back the release dates, Wikipedia 0.5 is finally available for commercial distribution. Thanks to Linterweb, one of the long-term goals of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team in the English Wikipedia has been accomplished.
The release consists of an eclectic selection of 1964 articles, selected over a period of one year, which span from Art to Zeus. It draws heavily on the English Wikipedia’s featured article base, to have it also be a showcase of the best of our work. The CD is available at http://www.wikipediaondvd.com, and sells for approximately €12 ($15 USD, £8.50) with part of the sales going directly to the Wikimedia Foundation. The CD is also publicly viewable online, and the CD’s ISO file is available as well.
Either way, as the number "0.5" indicates, we are not done; static releases, just like Wikipedia itself, are not finished, as they are works in progress. We're starting work on Version 0.7 soon, and as everything else on Wikipedia, "more eyes are always more better" (the bad grammar is intentional ;) ). After v0.7, if things go as planned, we intend to finally publish Wikipedia Version 1.0 and accomplish our goal. But we need everyone’s help.
As part of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, I hope that you will enjoy and use our work, and we hope to provide you with more news of this kind soon.
Titoxd.
Perhaps of interest to Wikipedians, Wikisourcians, or those tracing the
tangled web of U.S. Copyright.
-- phoebe
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> Stanford Report, April 2, 2007
> Database of copyright renewal records launched
> http://collections.stanford.edu/determinator/
> An online database that enables people to search copyright-renewal records
> for books published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 has been
> launched by Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information
> Resources (SULAIR).
>
> SULAIR developed the Copyright Renewal Database, dubbed the "Copyright
> Determinator," with a grant from the Hewlett Foundation. The effort built
> on Project Gutenberg's transcriptions of the Catalog of Copyright Entries,
> which was published by the U.S. Copyright Office. (Project
> Gutenberg-http://www.gutenberg.org/-;produces free electronic books.)
>
> "This database is an important tool for anyone researching the copyright
> status of U.S. works," said Stanford attorney Lauren Schoenthaler. "Having
> a single, electronic source for all renewals for these works will greatly
> speed the research process."
>
> Determining the copyright status of books has become a pressing issue as
> libraries and businesses develop plans to digitize materials and make
> works in the public domain widely available. In order to appropriately
> select books for digitization, these organizations need to determine
> efficiently and with some certainty the copyright status of each work in a
> large collection. The Determinator supports this process, bringing all
> 1923-1963 book-renewal records together in a single database and, more
> significantly, making searchable renewal records that had previously been
> distributed only in print.
>
> U.S. works published from 1923 to 1963 are the only group of works for
> which renewal is now a concern. Renewals have expired for works published
> before 1923, and they are generally in the public domain. The 1976
> Copyright Act made renewal automatic for works published after Jan. 1,
> 1964. Determining the renewal status of works published between 1923 and
> 1963 has been a challenge; the Copyright Office received renewals as early
> as 1950, but only records received by that office after 1977 are available
> in electronic form. Renewals received between 1950 and 1977 were announced
> and distributed only in a semi-annual print publication. For the
> Determinator databases, Stanford has converted the print records to
> machine-readable form and combined them with the electronic renewal
> records from the Copyright Office.
>
> SULAIR continues to refine the database and welcomes feedback. Contact
> Mimi Calter at mcalter(a)stanford.edu with questions or comments.
Just to announce a scratch of the page. If I did something which
exists, please let me know to delete the page.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bot_aid
A lot of small projects (or even WikiProjects on larger Wikimedian
projects) don't have people who are able to make bots. This page
intends to become a place for people who don't know to work with bots
-- to ask for help.
Dear Wikimedians,
I am zh:User:Theodoranian <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Theodoranian>,
Wikimania 2007 organizer. The registration of Wikimania 2007 has been open
for near one month. Your enthusiastic participation will make this event
successful.
The 3rd edition of Wikimania is from Aug. 3 to Aug. 5 ,2007. We choose Chien
Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center (Taipei City, Taiwan) as the event venue.
Wikimedians from all over the world will get together to know each other, to
exchange opinions in this event. You can imagine that Wikimedia Projects
participators from more than 20 countries learning, conferencing, having
lunch, drinking, and chatting all together. You will meet those Wikimedians
you never met in real life, and you will find you are just like old friends.
This is really a good chance for global partners who share the same vision
and dreams to contact face-to-face. I think Wikimedians will know more about
the similarity and differences between each other via this event. I hope
Wikimania will help Wikimedians getting a closer connection, no matter among
Wikimedia Projects, or among nations/regions.
In this event, many scientists who research Wikimedia community will address
their fruitful results; many wiki technology developers will release their
new inventions; many important participators will share their experience
upon participating Wikimedia Projects. By attending this event, you may have
plentiful harvest on the internet hottest issues: Wiki-culture, wiki-tech,
and free access to knowledge.
Before the main conference, we will hold Hacking Days & Extra (Aug. 1 to
Aug. 2), and also Citizen Journalism Unconference (Aug.2). We will have a
big Wikimania Party in the evening of Aug. 4 at a historical heritage Red
Theater which is a tea-house now. In the party, we can drink beers,
cocktails, Taiwanese tea. Since Red Theater was a movie theater before, the
organizing team are trying to find some Wikimedia related films and will
play them in the Party. After the conference, we also arrange a friendly
tour agent which provides optional 1 to 3 days Taiwanese Cultural Tours
around the island.
Wikimania 2007 organizing team have devoted much time and efforts from last
September. We hope the first held-in-Asia Wikimania will be a good
experience for all attendees. Thanks for assistance from all over the world,
and thank for giving Taiwanese Wikimedians a chance to host. Please register
and come to Taipei to enjoy our hospitality. For more information please see
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration.
See You in Taipei.
Best Regards,
Theodoranian
I'm (re)sending this to lots of lists -- people, we need more
submissions! Please be bold in sending us your papers -- we'd love to
see you in Taiwan this year. :-)
Please forward to other relevant lists as well! See
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation/distribution
for the ones we've already covered.
Erik
- - - -
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also
open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will be
held from August 3-5, 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas
Youth Activity Center. For more information, please visit the
Wikimania site:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/
Send your submissions through:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission
We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops,
and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers
and speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Please note
the details below and be bold in your submissions!
== Important dates ==
* 1 March – 30 April: Submission
* 1 May – 31 May: Feedback and notification of acceptance
* 3 – 5 Aug 2007 : Wikimania
== Conference Themes ==
Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:
* Wikimedia Communities – Interesting projects and particularities
within the communities (we explicitly invite you to present your local
Wikimedia project's community!); policy creation within individual
projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and
identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies.
* Free Content – Open access to information; ways to gather and
distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in
education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and
usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with
Wikimedia projects.
* Technical infrastructure – Issues related to MediaWiki
development and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for
development (including usable case studies from other wikis or similar
projects).
Your topic must be related to Wikimedia projects and its communities
or to the creation of free content in general.
== Types of Submissions ==
We are seeking submissions for
* presentations (10–30 minute talks with optional short or full papers)
* posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own)
* workshops (30–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience)
* panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject)
* Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) (45-60 minute informal meetup of group
discussion on a particular topic)
* artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or
other representations of some aspect of the projects)
== Guidelines ==
Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us to minimize
wasted effort by following these guidelines carefully before
submitting and be sure not to forget anything that is mentioned here.
All submissions must explicitly include the following:
* an English title
* a short English abstract of 50 to 100 words. The abstracts should be
provided as plain text, and not as file attachments. This abstract
will be used as public description of your submission in the
conference program
* a detailed description (or full paper) of at least one page (300
words or more). This description will not be published unless you want
it, but used for reviewing your submission. Give an overview of the
areas to be covered or taught. State clearly the relevance to the
Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki
project. You may use any language, but we strongly suggest English or
Chinese. Full descriptions may include a link to a full paper or
slides in HTML or PDF, if available.
* full name, email address, and a short bio of 1–3 sentences for each
author. You may also add wiki usernames and nicknames.
* the type of submission (presentation, poster, workshop, panel, BoF, artistic)
* the language(s) you are going to talk in (or the language of your poster)
Please tell us with your submission whether you will attend to
Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is
accepted, or (d) only if we provide travel and/or accommodation.
Additionally, please specify:
* the target audience you are going to reach and what previous
knowledge is needed
* special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if needed
* images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available
* for panel submissions short biographies of each suggested panelist
* whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length.
* BoF proposals should describe the significance of and community
interest in the topic, and name the proposed discussion leader(s).
For poster sessions there are additional guidelines:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poster_session
Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later and the Creative
Commons Attribution License.
== Submissions ==
Once you are sure you have included all of the required information,
please send your submission by the respective deadline through our
submission system:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission
Please do not send submissions by email. If you need help for
translating your work please visit our translation help page.
Questions, but not submissions, may be directed to cfp(a)wikimedia.org.
== Hacking Days ==
Before the main conference there will also be informal Hacking days
for MediaWiki developers who are familiar with the software, If you
are interested in joining it, please visit:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning/Hacking_Days_Extra_2007
== See also ==
* About the venue: http://www.cyh.org.tw/
* Brainstorming page for program ideas:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Ideas
* Editable list of attendees: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees
* WikiSym 2007 (October 21-23, 2007, Montreal), an alternative wiki
conference: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
I have update list of pages with many interwiki links but NOT to a
certain language.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Common_Interwiki_links
These might constitute some kind of 'missing pages' for these
Wikipedias, or just pages that are not linked to.
The lists are based on English Wikipedia interwiki count (German
Wikipedia interwiki count for English).
In Russian Wikipedia we have special project about similar list
http://tinyurl.com/246gf9
--
Amike kaj kunlabore,
Alexander Sigachov
Hi there,
I created an entry about [[User:影武者]] on zh- and jawiki on
[[m:Vandalism reports]]. This user is known on East Asian language
projects as impostor, mainly of zh & jawiki admins.
Yesterday I noted he created an account on meta, trying to
personificate a jawiki sysop / checkuser. The same accounts were
created on English and Korean Wikipedia, and Bastique blocked English
one per request. That's why I think now he deserves having a entry on
that page.
If you know useful pages for tracking his or her activity patterns,
could you please add to that page? Thanks,
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *