Below are two links to a cross-posted blog entry about the Wikisource
Free Bible project. Each forum has separate discussion going on.
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Pitfalls of the Wiki Bible Project
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The folks at Wikisource have a new project bound to stir up
controversy. It's called the Wiki Bible Project, and it aims to
"create an original, ...
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Wikimedia Foundation
By Wikimedia Foundation
... an encyclopedia of quotations named Wikiquote, a repository of
source texts in any language named Wikisource, and a collection of
e-book texts for students (such as textbooks and annotated public
domain books) named Wikibooks. ...
Newest Learning Object at NEEDS - http://www.needs.org
What's wrong with a Wiki Bible?
By Brad Greenberg
The folks at Wikisource have a new project bound to stir up
controversy. It's called the Wiki Bible Project, and it aims to
"create an original, open content translation" of the Bible, by the
people for the people. ...
Christianity Today Liveblog - http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/
Obama has told his Auschwitz story before
By Moneyrunner(Moneyrunner)
Here is a link to the speech as quoted in Wikisource. In the speech
reveals his priorities: not he worldwide battle against Islamofascism.
A battle that is not contained in a single man, Osama, but is
contained in a creed that is ...
The Virginian - http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/
MAY 2008 # 44
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page. http://www.4literature.net/.
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See http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4946163/ If MSN has digitized
Public Domain content in cooperation with the Open Content Alliance
download links to the Internet Archive (IA) were given in MSN Live
Search Books. After the end of Live Search the books are still
downloadable at the IA but there will be no full text search.
There were no download links for the proprietary MSN Public Domain
content especially the Cornell library cooperation. If Cornell (MSN
has digitized 75,000 books from Cornell) doesn't make this books
available (or donate it to the Internet Archive) this content will
disappear next week. It is possible to circumvent the MSN digital
rights management with simple means. I would like to recommend to do
so and to save as many books as possible for the Public Domain.
Klaus Graf
Thanks a lot!
Yann
PS: Forwarded to the Wikisource list for information.
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] MediaWiki2PDF
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 12:56:02 +0500
Yann,
Since Wikisource uses mediawiki markup we can add the feature You
request. We will do it as soon as possible.
Robert
>
> Great!
> It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
> Can it work for Wikisource?
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FYI. Yann
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Subject: [Foundation-l] MediaWiki2PDF
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:50 +0500
Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce a new web service.
MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate
nice looking PDF documents from books found on wikibooks.org. It looks
through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a single,
well-formatted PDF document. All you have to do, is just enter url of
the book and press "Enter".
From recent time service can also generates PDF-s from wikipedia
articles. It is possible to get PDF in A4/Letter and e-book (suitable
for e-readers) sized formats.
Visit us at http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf
We hope it will be useful to you.
Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget <yann(a)forget-me.net> wrote:
>> Great!
>> It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
>> Can it work for Wikisource?
>
> in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at
> wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a
> wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
Best Regards.
Blogpaper Development Team.
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With less than three months to go until the fourth annual Wikimania
conference, registration has finally opened and will remain so until
the 15th of June. This year Wikimania starts with the a promise to
"Change the Shape of Wisdom" as it is hosted by Bibliotheca
Alexandrina, the reincarnation of the ancient Library of Alexandria,
one of pillars of this Earth when Philosophy and Wisdom are bought
into question. In Alexandria, from the 17th to the 19th of July, ideas
will be shared and discussed between people from all over the globe,
once again igniting the golden cosmopolitan age of the city.
As always, the conference will take place over 4 different tracks,
with a variety of speakers: Keynote, invited, and other. The
conference tracks this year are:
* Wikimedia Communities - Interesting projects and particularities
within the communities; policy creation within individual projects;
conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity;
multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies.
* Free Knowledge - 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. Free Content in Middle-East/Africa countries.
* 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).
* Scientific track - Papers submitted to the scientific track were
peer reviewed by scientific standards and accepted or rejected based
on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings
afterwards. Based on the number and the quality of the submission, a
journal special issue may be pursued
This year the conference is taking an interesting direction that hopes
to enlighten third world and Middle Eastern countries about the new
digital realm that is continuously expanding and evolving; as such,
along with many well reputed figures, an emphasis has been put on
bringing in Arab speakers. Speakers include Ahmed N. Tantawy, the
Technical Director of IBM in the Middle East; Eliane Metni, the
founding director of the International Education Association; Tim
Spalding, the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing; Eric M.
Johnson, the team leader for the Knowledge Management Action Team at
the U.S. Department of State; and Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s executive
vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions.
Take part on one of the most important IT events of the year. Check
the registration prices online.
<http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration>
While these prices do not include accommodation, the local team has
taken the effort to make all sorts of housing opportunities available,
starting from dorms up to luxury hotel rooms. Check these when your
registering. You will also be pleased to know that transportation is
available to and from Cairo International Airport in the 2 days before
and after the conference.
And what is a gathering without fun? Tours and parties are being
planned out for the participants of the event. After all Alexandria is
cultural city that brims with hospitality and the main idea of the
event is to provide a gathering place.
Hope to see you there!
The Wikimania Local Team
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