Wikipedia-l June 2007

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National Digital Newspaper Program beta
by Jonathan Leybovich 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

All, The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities have announced the beta web interface for the National Digital Newspaper Program, intended to digitize and make freely available the contents of most historic major U.S. newspapers: http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html Currently only the contents of newspapers from a select few states during the period 1900-1910 are available, but eventually the project will encompass all U.S. regions and the entire period 1836 to 1922. The Library of Congress does not seem to place any legal restrictions on the use of these archives for educational purposes (though it does not guarantee that other copyright holders might not have claims) and I think even the current, limited contents of the archive will be immediately valuable for reference and illustrative purposes within Wikipedia. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC

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[Board election] Endorsement acceptance is open
by Aphaia 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Hello, The Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee invites all community members to endorse candidates they support. Endorsements may be submitted on meta now till next Saturday, 23:59 June 23, 2007. Each qualified community member can submit up to three endorsements. Please note several things: - Only confirmed candidates are listed by Election Committee or its delegate, so the list can be updated during the endorsements phase. - You need an account on meta, not just the project that you are qualified to vote under, unless you meet the criteria on meta too. - Please link your meta user page and your home wiki page. Detailed procedure can be found on the meta endorsement page. All information is available on meta at: On endorsements: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements/en On candidates each: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates/en Election general: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en FAQ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/FAQ/en Questions about election are welcome at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2007/FAQ Thanks to devoted volunteering translators, those pages are also available in some languages other than English. We thank those translators as well editors who have helped to disseminate the news about this Election, including the latest sitenotice updates on several wikis. Please consider forwarding to the project(s) you take part in as well the mailing list(s) you belong to. Sitenotice update and localization would also be appreciated. Thank you for your attention, we look forward to your participation. -- KIZU Naoko Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee, Chair

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#wikipedia changes
by Sean Whitton 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

Hello all, I am writing to introduce a number of changes to #wikipedia. The aim of this is to improve the channel's image and to make it more useful for everyone. The changes are being initiated this afternoon (GMT) and I hope to have them done pretty quickly. 1: New contacts The channel will now be managed by Mark_Ryan and Dmcdevit (their IRC nicks, as most of us probably know them). At the moment it's pretty ad hoc and so we (the [[m:IRC Group Contacts]]) that it might be a good idea to put someone and a deputy very clearly with the responsibility so that we don't get "who do I go to for this...?" with the response "not me" from everyone, a common online scenario, or so I've observed. 2: New guidelines/rules Together with some community input (although of course more is welcomed - it's a wiki, so let's take advantage of that) we have written some new guidelines for user and operator conduct at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_guidelines/wikipedia>. These are a lot more enforcable than the old ones. The key thing is that operators will try and resolve issues with words rather than powers whenever possible. 3: New operators We realised that the op list was becoming a bit messy. Additionally, we're not sure that all operators are in agreement on the above guidelines. We decided that it would be a bit pointless to ask them to enforce guidelines they didn't support and do so using methods they preferred not to use and so we have opted to clear out the access list and start afresh. We welcome new applications from our experienced operators to rejoin the team. On this note we are going to be a little more formal on application for this, as only the contacts named above will have the authority to manage the ops team. The key thing with all these changes is to make #wikimedia-ops more useful, and to ensure that operators use words rather than technological 'force' wherever possible (as a rule of thumb, in the majority of cases where their intervention is required). We aim to keep a list on meta of these ops too to make it easier for people to get in touch with them. You may be wondering if this applies to places other than #wikipedia: not now, but we are considering rolling it out elsewhere if it proves a success. Stay tuned! Thank you for your support. Yours, Sean Whitton Wikimedia IRC Group Contact http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sean_Whitton -- —Sean Whitton (seanw) <sean(a)silentflame.com> http://seanwhitton.com/

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Wikipedia Logo - errors
by quiddity 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

*There are at least 2 major character errors in the current Wikipedia puzzle-globe logo, and other minor problems. *[[User talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo]] is the most centralized discussion/link compilation that I know of. (There's even a petition at that link's projectpage) *Nohat has explained the problems with correcting the errors. But noone seems to have a solution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo#Changing… *'''Somebody with patience and brains (there are many ramifications/implications, from the practical to the legal, to be considered), and either delegating or computer-graphics skills, needs to adopt this problem as a personal mission, lest it remain unsolved for another year'''. (copied from [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Wikipedia Logo - errors]].) It's been mentioned at various VPump pages, relevant userpages, and metapages, over the past few months, to no avail. I'm not sure how/where else to get this issue the attention it seems to need (and I don't have the background to spearhead the effort). Any assistance would be appreciated. Quiddity

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Wikimania 07 local information pages are completed
by THD 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Dear Wikimedians, The local information pages (including "about Taipei", and "local transportation") have been completed on the official website of Wikimania 2007. Please take a look and I think many questions will be solved after you read them. http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_information Translation to other languages is welcome too. Cheers, Theodoranian

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[Election 2007] Announcement
by Aphaia 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Posting on behalf of Election Commttee, -- KIZU Naoko aphaia(a)gmail.com * Vox populi, vox dei * ----------------------- Dear all, We, the election committee, hereby announce the opening of a new election for members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. At least three positions will be filled from this election, with the elected members serving a two year term. It is important to note that election processes are slightly different this year than in previous years: all candidates should be certain to thoroughly read the FAQ at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en >From today, June 10th, we're accepting candidates for the Board of Trustees. If you're interested, you must make a candidate statement and list yourself on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates/en We also need the help or translators for the elections, so if you're fluent in any language other than English, and willing to help, please list yourself here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Translations If you have any questions, please first read the FAQ, then list your questions to the talk page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/FAQ/en The official announcement is available on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en We are confident that this election will draw very qualified candidates, and we wish them the best of luck. Regards, Kizu Naoko (Aphaia) Newyorkbrad Philippe Beaudette Jon Harald Søby Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee, 2007

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Localization of interwiki bot
by Andre Engels 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Recently I got a request to not use Russian but Ukrainian text for the summaries of the interwiki bot at the Ukrainian Wikipedia. This has now been done, but I can imagine there are more languages that would like to have their own language, or perhaps another choice of alternative language than the one I have made. If you want summaries in your own language on your Wikipedia for the bot, please send me a message with these summaries. The following languages already have translations: af,ar,br,ca,cs,da,de,el,en,eo,es,eu,fa,fi,fr,he,hr,ia,is,it,ka,ksh,lt,mzn,nds,nds-nl,nl, nn,no,os,pl,pt,ro,ru,sk,sl,sr,sv,uk Of the other languages, the language used for the summaries is: Arabic is used by ku,so German is used by als,bar,hsb,lb Esperanto is used by io,nov Spanish is used by an,ast,ay,ceb,gl,gn,lad,nah,pag,qu,tl,war Farsi is used by glk French is used by co,frp,ht,ie,kab,ln,lo,nrm,oc,vi,wa Hebrew is used by yi Croatian is used by bs,mk,sh Italian is used by eml,lij,lmo,nap,pms,rm,roa-tara,sc,scn,vec Lithuanian is used by bat-smg Dutch is used by fy,li,pap,vls,zea Norse (bokmal) is used by se Portuguese is used by tet Romanian is used by mo,roa-rup Russian is used by av,be,be-x-old,bxr,cv,got,hy,kk,ky,lbe,ru-sib,tk,tt,udm,xal All languages not mentioned in the above use English. If you want a localization in your language, please send me the replacements for the texts "robot", "Adding", "Removing" and "Modifying". If there is no local replacement needed, but you do think that you would do better with some other language, just state which (if any) language(s) should be preferred to English. -- Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels

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SITENAME variable and Non-English Wikipedias
by Veeven (వీవెన్) 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

In some of the non-English Wikipedias, the variable {{SITENAME}} produces "Wikipedia" in English rather than in local language. To avoid English name in local Wikipedias, some of the localizers used the local name replacing the variable {{SITENAME}} in the system messages in the MediaWiki namespace. The result of this is that third-party MediaWiki installs that use non-English locale get these hardcoded local names in various places of the site (even in e-mails from those MediaWiki installs, in some cases). The solution would be: 1. To change the value of the {{SITENAME}} variable in various non-English language Wikipedias to the respective local name. 2. To change back the system messages in non-English to use {{SITENAME}}. As for changing the system messages back to {{SITENAME}}, this needs to be brought to the attention of local Wikipedias sysops. I can manage this in Telugu Wikipedia. How to change the value {{SITENAME}} for a particular Wikipedia? Should I file a bug in MediaZilla? Or there any way? Thanks, Veeven. -- http://veeven.com/

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Internet Marketing 3 Simple Business Success - defendmyname is not ripoff report
by paul.kholer paul.kholer 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Internet Marketing 3 Simple Business Success Internet marketing experts first start using Onsite Optimization and using the right keywords using keywords in your titles, descriptions and heading tags. Simply placing more keywords selectively in certain areas on the page is key. Keyword density should be 5 to 6 %, do not over load key phrases. But good Internet marketing experts will place keywords and use anchor text to help you rank and convert sales. Use anchor text towards the top of pages. This anchor text or link should be a keyword. Then place that anchor text to go to a page that is optimized for that key phrase. Second is off site optimization, which is Internet marketing most important technique. Internet marketers use link building. There are a couple simple ways to link build. Content and Article Promotion, Directory submissions, paid links, and rss feeds. This is all you really need to focus on for links. And lastly SEO Experts create business blogs that will also promote a site. Third technique is building more pages and use good content. Have a web designer create a web page or content management system for you or purchase one online. The more good pages you create the better opportunity you can have for bring traffic. But important step for Internet marketing is good content. Them related contented that focuses on a problem and offers a solution with you link in the middle. Once you understand your low hanging fruit you can really blast past your competition. So blast your unique content and market and solve solutions for peoples problems. Then simply have a link and call to action. Syndicate your great content to niche directories and article directories. Good Internet marketing experts promote website but more they promote great content. How does one get content out quickly? Again stream the process using tools. Automate as much as you can? not the content but the process of syndicating. For good article promotion you should submit to major article directories. SEO or Search Engine Marketing can be successful by just taking care of these steps. When you promote articles you get to send them to millions of sites. These sites are articles sites. The content or article you send should have one link. That link is a link back and now you are link building. So go out there start article promotion. One important Step to understand, remember Google is getting smarter. Google is now researching phrases and keyword density more closely. The databases store the relevancy and details about phrase matching. This will get you penalized so beware of the phrase matching which will be coming and knocking out a lot of spammers. Call us at : 1-866-268-5588

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Selection for Schools DVD released
by David Gerard 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

On 02/06/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/06/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco(a)mac.com> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2007, at 4:58 AM, David Gerard wrote: > > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/SOSChildrenUK2007 > > Do you know the address of the BitTorrent for the full version? > No, and I can't find the link either! Asking BozMo ... http://shshelp.googlepages.com/schools-wikipedia-full.zip.torrent - d.

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