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Microsoft will shut down Live Search Books next week
by Klaus Graf 24 May '08

24 May '08

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

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MediaWiki2PDF
by Yann Forget 08 May '08

08 May '08

Thanks a lot! Yann PS: Forwarded to the Wikisource list for information. -------- Original Message -------- 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? -- 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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MediaWiki2PDF
by Yann Forget 08 May '08

08 May '08

FYI. Yann -------- Original Message -------- 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. -- 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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Wikimania 2008: Registration opened
by Casey Brown 04 May '08

04 May '08

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 ---- Please forward this message along to whomever you think will be interested! (Sorry if you've already this e-mail more than once!) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Blog is live
by Casey Brown 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:56 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Blog is live To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, We are pleased to notify you that today we flipped the switch on the Wikimedia Foundation's official blog! Wikimedia Blog can be found at http://blog.wikimedia.org Some background info: this will be a space for WMF staff to post news and information about the work we're engaged in. We'll also bring in guest contributors, board members etc to post. Comments are pre-moderated for the time being, and we're hoping for lots of civility. Comments will be moderated by several volunteer moderators and staff as necessary. We have some basic posting guidelines (generally short, fairly simple english, conversational etc) so we can keep it reader friendly and useful. We expect a wide audience - media, public, users, you name it! And we'll work hard to keep it interesting - and regular (hopefully posts every other business day). Always welcome your views, and your understanding about our work-in-progress :) Hope you enjoy! Looking forward to hearing your views. Thanks, -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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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 12 Mar '08

12 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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