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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Rethinking brands
by Aphaia 10 May '07

10 May '07

Forwarded as thought-food ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> Date: May 10, 2007 3:09 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Rethinking brands To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Just a thought... There is this press release currently pending: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Press_releases/May_2007 I just realised there were no links to the other projects (it should). But aside from this... when a famous politician (for example) make a big speech, and get quoted everywhere for a really buzz sentence, could we somehow generate some attention for wikiquote and wikinews ? I do not think we could make a press release for this but... Another example. Let us say there is a presidential election... thanks to the election, Wikimedia France collected a huge amount of pictures from all the candidates. Now, let us say that immediately after the elections, Wikimedia France publishes a press release to announce that 1) we collected huge amounts of images during and immediately after the elections 2) and that we have a fabulous set of information about the new president - a biography: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy - pictures: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy?uselang=fr - quotes: http://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy - last news about the elections: http://fr.wikinews.org/wiki/Résultats_provisoires_du_second_tour_de_l%27éle… - even neologisme from Sarkozy name: http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/sarkozyste ant _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *

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FW: [Foundation-l] Wikiquote, the free compendium of quotations, reaches 10, 000 articles in the English edition
by Casey Brown 07 May '07

07 May '07

-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Aphaia Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 11:44 AM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikiquote, the free compendium of quotations,reaches 10, 000 articles in the English edition Hello there, English Wikiquote reaches today 10,000 articles. Here is a part of our press release ... ---- 7 May, 2007 (St. Petersburg, Fl) - The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 10,000th article in the English language edition of Wikiquote (http://www.wikiquote.org), a community-built multilingual compendium of quotations. The article is for quotes by or about Langdon Smith (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langdon_Smith), and it was started by the Wikiquote contributor whose username is Kalki. The Wikiquote project itself is going to celebrate its four-year anniversary on June 27. The Wikiquote in the English language edition is the biggest and oldest among all Wikiquote language editions. But the growth is not limited to the English version, as more than 50,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikiquote in over 35 languages. As of yet, thirteen projects including English Wikiquote have more than 1,000 articles: top 5 are English, German, Polish, Italian and Slovak. The scope of Wikiquote collection is from notable people like Tony Blair to creative works like Lord of the Rings or Latter Days in every language, including sources (where known) and translations of non-English quotes as Rainer Maria Rilke. Besides articles by source, Wikiquote also provides its readers articles by theme. [...] Since 2004, the English Wikiquote provides a good quotation for readers every day selected from its collection. It is available on its Main Page and also archives. ----- The whole press release is available on http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Press_releases/May_2007 -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo * _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Passwords
by Aphaia 07 May '07

07 May '07

>From foundation-l about vulnerable password and its danger; I expect most of us have much stronger password, but it is worthy to note ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> Date: May 8, 2007 4:34 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Passwords To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> [also sent to wikipedia-l] For those who haven't yet heard, someone has been hitting en.wikipedia with what appears to be an attack looking for admins with weak passwords - "password", "password1", "[username]", etc. Then they go on a predictable spree; deleting the main page, mostly. I think we're down four so far... It's possible someone might try this in the near future on other wikis - a lot of vandals tend to only go for en, but you never know, this one might be feeling multicultural! This might be a good time to spread the word and ask your admins to consider checking their passwords are good and secure - after all, it's good practice anyway. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *

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[EnWQ] new policies approved
by Aphaia 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hello, English Wikiquote has been recently revising / officializing its policies. In this week some old conventions are confirmed as official policy, or a new requirement was added. Major changes are as following: * Administrators are now required to be reachable by email. Further information is found on WQ:RFA. * Votes for deletion/Log, Image use policy and Blocking policy are now official. * Wikiquote:Username policy is also now official. As for mail requirement, if you are an EnWQ admin and not to confirm your wikimail, please do it right now :) As for new policies, the biggest impact may be given by "Image use policy". English Wikiquote disabled its uploader years before, so it is not practically change. However we confirm happily now the English Wikiquote says "no fair use media, go Commons" officially. English Wikiquote community is now orphaning remaining fair use images and listing them on Votes for deletion. Policy revisions are still being discussed on Village pump and [[en:Wikiquote talk:WikiProject Policy Revision]] Relevant links http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Community_Portal#Goings-on http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote_talk:WikiProject_Policy_Revision Cheers, -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *

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by murat gediz 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

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Re: [Wikiquote-l] OTRS?
by Aphaia 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Thank you for your negotiation, Casey, and thank you for caring our concerns, WMF staffs :) On 4/17/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Update (conversation with Bastique on OTRS): > > <cary> We could start with an info(a)wikiquote.org > <cary> to see if we need to split it up in languages later on > <Cbrown1023> yes, that would be a good idea > <cary> mark: we don't currently accept email on the wikiquote > domain, so that'll have to wait for the new mail setup > <Cbrown1023> how unfortunate > <cary> 2-3 weeks :) > > So... 2-3 weeks everyone. :) Okay, it would be good for us to set up the page for the coming mail contact. By the way, who will be in charge of wikiquote queue? Currently who among us are on OTRS, except Drini and me? -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *

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Re: [Wikiquote-l] OTRS?
by jeffq＠computer.org 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

I know of one incident in the past two years that involved OTRS, and at least two others that probably should have been done through OTRS instead of direct emails to a particular sysop. I suspect there have been several more that I don't know about or am not currently recalling. I think it might be a good idea to get this going now so we can try it out while the traffic will probably be low. I'm sure it will be essential eventually. On 4/15/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone think that we need an OTRS > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS> info queue for our > Wikiquote projects? > [SNIP] > I do not believe that we have a current need for it (we > are only the third largest project), but others may think > differently. The fact that we did not have a "Contact > us" link in our sidebar on the English Wikiquote has come > up and we did not really have a good answer for it.

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OTRS?
by Casey Brown 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Does anyone think that we need an OTRS <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS> info queue for our Wikiquote projects? In case anyone is not familiar with OTRS (*Open-source ticket request system *), it is basically the e-mail system for Wikimedia projects. For example, when you e-mail Wikipedia from its "Contact us" page < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us>, it goes to OTRS and is received by specially selected volunteers who either answer the e-mail or forward it to the correct people. The types of items found in the e-mails can be anything from article problem rectification to unblock to a threat of legal action (and many other items). I do not believe that we have a current need for it (we are only the third largest project), but others may think differently. The fact that we did not have a "Contact us" link in our sidebar on the English Wikiquote has come up and we did not really have a good answer for it. We may also wish to have one set up just in case or become familiar with it until a time when we grow large enough to actually *need* it. I am waiting for your opinions on this matter, Casey Brown Cbrown1023

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Logo font
by Aphaia 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello there, someone complain about logo font on meta and English Wikiquote. * [[m:Talk:Wikiquote]] * [[en:Talk:Main Page]] Perhaps you guys met them on your wiki ... I recommend them to have one discussion place, perhaps on meta [[m:Talk:Wikiquote]], [[m:Metapub]], or this list. If you would like to be involved, please give a look to meta page. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikiquote -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *

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board resolution
by Pedro Sanchez 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

About the board resolution and wikiquote. It says that now projects can't hold nonfree content unless they develop an exemption policy. Wikiquotes host mostly content under some sort of exemption (for instance, when quoting from TV series). Is the resolution meaning that all wikiquotes have to develop a specific EDP for TEXT ?

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