Wikisource-l December 2006

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Wikimedia Foundation's help to the projects
by Yann Forget 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi, I think that there are several areas where the projects would benefit from a more proactive help from the Foundation. I will speak about two here: 1. Legal counselling. Some projects (mainly Commons and Wikisource) need more input about copyright issues from knowledgeable persons. I have asked twice to juriwiki-l specific issues for Wikisource without receiving an answer, even an acknowledgement that my request was received. Another concrete example: Commons and Wikisource would benefit most from a cross table about copyright rules, which countries use "most favourable rule apply", etc. 2. Helping small projects. It seems that some projects have a difficult start. Indian languages projects are my first examples. I will go to India in January, and I would like to use this opportunity to recruit new contributors. The Foundation could help coordinate this kind of recruitement. Best regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres

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Wikimedia Open Access Chat
by Erik Moeller 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

I would like to invite you to join a chat about the relationship between the Wikimedia community and the Open Access movement in scientific publishing. This will explore issues of licensing, content sharing, technology, and hopefully result in mutual commitments to collaborate. In a nutshell: December 17, 2006; irc.freenode.net; 21:00 UTC; #openaccess Please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Open_Access_chat for more (including a link to a web interface for accessing the IRC channel). I would appreciate it if you would add yourself to the "I want to attend!" list on the page, so we have an idea how many people are coming. -- Peace & Love, Erik DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.

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DJVU internal metadata
by Gregory Maxwell 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

I'm currently preparing a large collection of scanned documents for Wikisource. Do we have any guidance on internal metadata inside djvu files? It appears that I can just cram in arbitrary XML into the DJVU files, but I can't find any good schema for this on the Internet. If no one has suggestions, I'll just make it up as I go. Of course, the same metadata will also be provided on the media pages, but I believe that the internal metadata will be useful to others who obtain our files.

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Closure of Old English Wikisource
by Luiz Augusto 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Just created: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Ol…

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