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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 22 Mar '08

22 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 06 Mar '08

06 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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Wiki to LaTeX (and PDF) converter
by Yann Forget 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Hello, Also interesting for WS. Yann -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Textbook-l] Wiki to LaTeX (and PDF) converter Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:19:26 +0100 From: Derbeth <derbeth @ wp.pl> Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org I have created an improved version of Hagindaz's Wiki2LaTeX (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Hagindaz/Wiki2LaTeX) tool, which helps creating PDF versions of books. It can download the whole book with images and automatically generate LaTeX source code, which can be directly translated into a PDF file. Still, some knowledge of LaTeX is required, but the tool can greatly reduce time of preparing PDF version of a textbook. Currently it supports output in two languages (Polish and English), but adding support for new ones is quite easy. The description of the program can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Derbeth/javaLatex. Example output is here: http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grafika:C.pdf. -- Derbeth Jabber id: derbeth(a)jabber.wp.pl Wikisłownik to więcej niż słownik! Sprawdź: http://pl.wiktionary.org/ -- 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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Index pages and colours
by ThomasV 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

The new parser is now active on wikisource. As a result, the status of all the pages of a book can be visualized on the index page, with coloured links (colours have to be set in css). It is still necessary to purge index pages in order to update the links Thomas

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Fwd: Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation
by Casey Brown 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Please spread the word to all those who are interested and on to your local Village pumps. :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> Date: Feb 2, 2008 9:15 AM Subject: Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Program committee list <wikimania-program(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Please circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers and other people that may be interested! This call is also online at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation == Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation == [[w:Wikimania|Wikimania]] is an annual global event devoted to [[foundation:Main Page|Wikimedia]] projects around the globe (including [[w:Main page|Wikipedia]], [[:w:b:en:Main page|Wikibooks]], [[:w:s:en:Main page|Wikisource]], [[:en:n:Main page|Wikinews]], [[:w:wikt:en:Main page|Wiktionary]], [[:w:v:en:Main page|Wikiversity]], [[:m:q:en:Main page|Wikiquote]], [[:species:Main page|Wikispecies]], and [[:commons:Main page|Wikimedia Commons]]) and for its editors and users to gather, meet each other, exchange ideas, and report on research and projects. It is a community event, which is also open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will be held from '''July 17-19, 2008''' in [[w:Alexandria|Alexandria]], [[w:Egypt|Egypt]] at the new Library of Alexandria ([[w:Bibliotheca Alexandrina|Bibliotheca Alexandrina]]). For more information, please visit the Wikimania 2008 Home page at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org We are accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open spaces, and artistic artifacts. Please carefully follow the submission guidelines below. Submissions can be sent via the following link: :https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission/wikimania2008 === Important dates === * 1 February – 16 March : Submission * 17 March – 30 April : Review, feedback and notification of acceptance * 17 – 19 July 2007 : '''Wikimania''' === Conference Tracks === Submissions should address one or more of the following themes: ; Wikimedia Communities : Interesting projects and particularities within the communities; policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multi-lingualism, languages and cultures; social studies. We explicitly invite you to discuss your local Wikimedia project's community. ; 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 the Middle-East/Africa. ; Technical infrastructure : Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; Wikimedia's technical infrastructure; new ideas for development (including case studies from other wikis or similar projects). ; Scientific track : Papers about massively collaborative work, open and free content creation, community dynamics, the social or economic aspects of the Wikimedia projects, and other topics related to Wikimedia projects. Papers submitted to the scientific track will be peer reviewed by a reviewing committee regarding their novelty, rigour, and estimated impact, and accepted or rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings afterwards, and depending on the number and the quality of the submissions, a journal special issue may be pursued. Scientific track papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words (or 15 pages LNCS). Your topic must be related either to the Wikimedia projects and their communities, or to the creation of free content in general. === Types of Submissions === We are seeking submissions for * presentations (10–30 minute talks with discussion afterwards) * workshops (60–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience) * panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject) * posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own) * artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or other representations of some aspect of the projects) In addition there will the possibility to give [[lightning talks]] (5 minute short presentations). These will be organized on the Wikimania 2008 wiki without need to submit via the submission system. === Submission Guidelines === Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us minimize wasted effort by submitting via the [[submission]] system and following these guidelines. All submissions MUST explicitly include the following: # an English "Event title" # a short English "Abstract" of your event in 50 to 100 words. The abstract will be used for the public schedule. # the "Track" your submission fits in best (Wikimedia Communities, Free Knowledge, Technical infrastructure, or Scientific) # the "Event type" (presentation, workshop, panel, poster, artistic...) # information about the speaker (full name, email, a short description of at least 2 sentences...) # for submissions to the scientific track: set "Submission of paper for proceedings" to "yes" and upload a paper instead of the "Description" below as "Attachment". Papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words. In addition you can add some more information like a a subtitle of the event, an image (will be resized to 128x128px) and private "Submission notes" for reviewers and conference organisation. In particular you should give: * a more detailed "Description" of your event in English or Arabic. The description is essential for review: please give an overview of the areas to be covered or taught. The better you describe your submission, the more likely it will get accepted. State clearly the relevance to the Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki project. You can also include links. The description will later be used for the public schedule but you can edit it before. * special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if needed * the language used for presentation * whether you want to submit a paper for proceedings * whether you want to submit presentation slides * whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length * the target audience you are going to reach and what previous knowledge is needed * images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available * for panel submissions a suggested moderator and short biographies of each suggested panelist In the "Submission notes" you should tell us whether you will attend to Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is accepted, or (d) only if we provide travel and/or accommodation. You can also add yourself to the public list of attendees at the Wikimania 2008 wiki: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later ''and'' the Creative Commons Attribution License! By submitting for Wikimania 2008 you agree to this condition. For more information see the submission guidelines at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission ===Submissions=== Once you are sure you have included all of the required information, please send your submission before the respective deadline through our '''submission system''': :https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission == See also == * About the venue: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue * Brainstorming page for program ideas: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas * Editable list of attendees: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees -- 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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On linking Wikisource with page images
by Gregory Maxwell 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Greetings. Off and on for many months been working on a project to import a large collection of public domain historic scientific documents into Wikimedia's collection. My standing plan has been to pre-organize and catalog the collection, then upload the document images as DJVU files (which are utterly tiny compared to tiffs or pdfs) to commons including a OCRed Text layer (for search and copy and paste). I would then begin importing documents into Wikisource, starting with the OCR but eventually having a full marked up output. From there the documents could be extensively linked and referenced from the other Wikimedia projects. Most of the delays in my work have been waiting for free software OCR technology to be able to handle documents from the 18th century. With the recent beta releases of Ocropus and Tesseract from Google I feel the results are finally good enough to move forward. I do have some open questions though. I'd really like it if the corrected text in wikisource could be imported back into the djvu document images. What I'd like to do is leave invisible markup generated by the ocr software in the page text, like this: The first experiments were made on the absorption of carbonic acid gas by water: and here a singular disagreement was observed in the first trials made under exactly the same circumstances. It >From this the ocred text could be corrected, and markup could be added, but I could still take the output and apply it back to the original document. If people feel this would frustrate editing too much we could make some Javascript hacks to the edit box to reduce the span tags to nothing more than an immutable <S marker. Would this be acceptable?

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