Wikisource-l March 2008

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Help us Test Stable Versions!
by Erik Moeller 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

[Sending this here also as I think Wikisource has a particular need for stabilizing its source texts.] Please translate this announcement into other languages and forward it to other mailing lists and village pumps. (The translators list has already been notified and will help with this process.) The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Germany have collaborated, with financial support from Wikimedia France, to support development of a new extension to our software which makes it possible to flag versions of wiki articles as having reached a certain quality. This new toolset could mark the beginning of a new era for Wikipedia and its sister projects, giving readers more transparency than ever about the quality of a given article. A special note of thanks to Aaron Schulz, who has developed much of the functionality as a volunteer -- we would not be where we are today without him. The ongoing support and patience of Philipp Birken from the German chapter was also critical. Before this functionality will be enabled on any Wikimedia project, it needs to be tested thoroughly for usability, bugs, security and performance. Test wikis have been set up in English and German (because the German Wikimedia community has been driving the development of this functionality from the beginning). http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/ http://de.labs.wikimedia.org/ These wikis contain a copy of the Wikibooks database. This copy is completely separate from the "real" Wikibooks, so do not worry about destroying anything of value. Please follow the instructions on the Main Pages to participate. If you do not speak English or German, we encourage you right now to - set up test wikis independently using the open source extension available from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs , or - change the user interface preference, and create pages in the English test wiki in your language. This is due to our limited capacity to set up additional wikis. If you feel you really, absolutely, strongly need a test wiki in your language, please file a request through: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia communities will also have to decide what kind of configuration to use for their project. Key questions to answer include: - What quality attributes should there be? - Who should be permitted to flag changes as having been reviewed for vandalism, or for other quality attributes? - Should the default view for unregistered users change to the "stable version" on all pages, some pages, or no pages? The German Wikimedia community has implemented a particular long-standing community proposal and will probably go live the soonest with this configuration; other communities will still have to develop consensus. == What's next? == The test will run at least until April 10, 2008 before the extension is implemented live on any wiki. This is to allow any serious problems to be surfaced by the community. If there are no critical open issues as of April 10, any language/project community will be permitted to file a request through https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ to activate the extension. This request will have to point to pages in the project indicating a consensus to move forward. Detailed instructions to do so will be posted on the test wikis. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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[Fwd: [Foundation-l] Technology we could do with]
by Yann Forget 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

FYI. Yann http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/12/google-goes-library-… Now, what couldn't we do with one of those ... - d. -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres

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CfP: COMMUNIA conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age
by Brianna Laugher 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hello, This seems like an interesting event that it may be useful to have Wikimedians attending. cheers, Brianna http://www.communia-project.eu/conf2008 The First COMMUNIA Conference 2008 is scheduled for Monday 30 June and Tuesday 1st July 2008 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (30 km south of Brussels). It is co-organized by the Communia Thematic Network and the GICSI-EU initiative. The main theme is the Assessment of economic and social impact of digital public domain throughout Europe. The Conference aims at initiating a "stock taking exercise" of the impact of public domain initiatives in the fields of public sector information, libraries, archives, scientific research and creative works in Europe. The event is mainly aimed at promoting the public domain by building capacity for scientific assessment of social and economic impacts, and promoting analysis of legal impediments. The conference will draw upon the extensive information on open access practices that is available, although often in an informal manner, within major networks and stakeholders in Europe. The following issues will be specifically addressed during the conference: - What are the objectives of the open access commons? - What are the existing legal, institutional and normative mechanisms that are adopted in different open access initiatives in the fields of public sector information, libraries, archives and creative works in Europe ? - How to assess the economic and social impact of selected cases ? We welcome papers submission particularly related to the following topics: 1. Libraries and archives 2. Public sector Information 3. Creative works 4. Scientific research 5. Publishing intermediaries 6. Emerging Issues 1. The aim of the call for papers is threefold: to build a repertory about the usage of open access licenses (under different forms) in EU, 2. to evaluate social and economic benefits of open access initiatives, and 3. to discuss proposals for mitigating economic and legal obstacles. http://communia-project.eu/conf2008/cfp Submission by 30th March 2008 The acceptance of abstracts for the conference will be notified the 20th of April. Instructions will be given concerning the format of the final papers. Authors accepted must submit their papers before the 15th of June. Papers accepted will be compiled and published in the Conference Proceedings. -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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CD de livres numériques
by Yann Forget 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Pour info. Yann -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikimediafr-l] CD de livres numériques Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:36:50 +0100 From: Pierre Beaudouin <pierre.beaudouin @ wikimedia . fr> http://www.labibliothequedigitale.com/ Oeuvres du domaine public, mis en ligne vraisemblablement par Gutenberg et Ebooks gratuit. Il en aurait vendu 52 en un mois. Je pense que Wikisource devrait faire cela pour 1) (le plus important) se faire connaître, 2) récupérer un peu d'argent. Pierre -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres

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Projet interwikis
by Pierre Beaudouin 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Je viens de voir sur le site du Ministère des affaires étrangères les trois anniversaires suivants : * Henri Becquerel, physicien, 100e anniversaire de sa mort * Olivier Messiaen, compositeur, 100e anniversaire de sa naissance * Émile Durkheim, sociologue, 150e anniversaire de sa naissance Ces personnes peuvent intéresser Wikipédia, Wikisource (pas pour Olivier Messiaen), Wikimedia Commons et Wikiquote. Il y a matière à faire un projet inter-wikis. Y-a-t-il des gens intéressés ? -- Pierre

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