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Sujet: [Foundation-l] 2007 Fundraising planning begins: request for
your help
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:02:39 -0400
De: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
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Hi folks,
As announced at Wikimania, the Foundation plans to launch our 2007
fundraiser this fall. Currently we’re targeting September 23 to
November 22, although those dates may change.
Our goal is to paint a compelling and accessible picture of the work
we do, and why it’s important. In doing that, we hope to persuade new
people to support us – those who don’t know much about us, but would
be sympathetic if they did.
Here are some areas where we anticipate needing your help:
- We need people to help collect compelling human stories that show
why the projects matter. We know we’re making a major impact on real
people’s lives, and we want to collect together some of those stories,
and make sure they get told. If you can help with this, please contact
Cary Bass at cbass(a)wikimedia.org, or put your stories here
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Success_stories….
Please note though we’re not necessarily looking for stories about how
the projects have changed *your* life; we want stories that
demonstrate all kinds of impact –e.g., on schools, language groups,
countries, communities of interest, etc.–, not just impact on
individual people.
- We will need translation help. That will happen through the
translation committee – http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translations.
- We will need lots of help designing and implementing the message.
That will happen through the WMF Communications Committee (AKA
ComCom).
- And we will need lots of people to help us plan and carry out the
plans as they're developed. If you can help us with that, please let
Cary know.
Please feel free to distribute this note to anyone who should see it.
Thanks,
Sue
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Hello everybody.
I've found that in WS:ca it's possible to create pages within the "Page" namespace(?) as in WS:en or in WS:fr. One example is :ca:Page:ConstitucionsCatalanesVolumIr.jpg, which takes a digitalization from Commons. There is a header, a body and a footer, and the image zooms as the mouse passes over. But it doesn't exist a Page namespace on WS:ca.
Is this a bug? Why this behavior is not present on WS:es or WS:it (no page namespace, nor "Page" functionality? Why/Who/when/how it was activated on WS:ca? Should there exist an "official announcement"? And if so, should be meta or oldwikisource or local WS the best place to announce it (this present list is not as accessible as Scriptoriums are)? Where can I find more info on the behavior of "Page" pages? Am I doing too much questions;)?
Thanks you all,
A.Álvarez
"Aleator" from catalan WS
(PS: I write in english with the hope that all of you will understand it)
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When I posted earlier, I had not noticed the previous note by Brion.
So thanks also to Tim Starling for doing the testing!
Dovi
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This function has been activated across Wikisource languages!
Many thanks to Brion for testing it, making final changes, and installing it.
Many thanks to Steve Sanbeg for taking so much time and trouble to write it and refine over a period of several months.
Some initial tests in English & Hebrew seem to show it working very well. In Hebrew it has already taken off with tests and texts by several users tonight. We are curious whether the code for the function can be "translated" (like the word "section" or "section begin") to local languages -- Steve, do you know how that might be done?
Thanks once again to all.
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Ok, me and Tim finally got a chance to look over the LST extension...
Tim has some concerns about performance (there appear to be areas for
improvement) but thinks it shouldn't be a problem on Wikisource.
I've gone ahead and enabled it on *.wikisource.org and test.wikipedia.org.
For usage instructions, see:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion
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Hi everyone,
This may be of interest to the Wikisource project.
On a search for "metcalfe", six results came back, including
references to the American "metcalf". Here is one as an image:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ndnp:757000/display.html?n=2&scope=fu…
They also provide the OCR'd text:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ocrData.html?pagePid=ndnp:757000&omni…
There are also about six that mention Mark Twain; I have uploaded one:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_San_Francisco_Call/Mark_Twain_Called_by_D…
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John
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From: Skander - <shinywater(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 22, 2007 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] National Digital Newspaper
Program beta
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Awesome. Perhaps we even could adopt a WikiProject for this.
-Salaskan
2007/6/20, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Leybovich <jleybov(a)yahoo.com>
> Date: 19-Jun-2007 19:48
> Subject: [Foundation-l] National Digital Newspaper Program beta
> To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> All,
>
> The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for
> the Humanities have announced the beta web interface
> for the National Digital Newspaper Program, intended
> to digitize and make freely available the contents of
> most historic major U.S. newspapers:
>
> http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
> http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html
>
> Currently only the contents of newspapers from a
> select few states during the period 1900-1910 are
> available, but eventually the project will encompass
> all U.S. regions and the entire period 1836 to 1922.
>
> The Library of Congress does not seem to place any
> legal restrictions on the use of these archives for
> educational purposes (though it does not guarantee
> that other copyright holders might not have claims)
> and I think even the current, limited contents of the
> archive will be immediately valuable for reference and
> illustrative purposes within Wikipedia.
>
Hi. Back in April, Birgitte discussed some of her frustrations about the lack of implementation of software features at Wikisource. Since then, it looks like things have improved a great deal. Back then, Birgitte listed 5 important requests:
A. Labled Section Transclution (at least en and he)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5881http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion (stable)
B. DjVu support for ProofreadPage (general)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7957
C. DynamicPageList (at least en and de)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8563http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList (stable)
D. WikiTeX (general for sheet music)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792
E. Also Stable Versions, but that should be a priority
outside of Wikisource. If Stable Version never happens,
we might want revive Protect Section as substitute.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
Of these five features, (B) has been debugged and fully
implemented on all Wikisource wikis thanks to the fantastic
efforts of ThomasV. (E) has indeed become a priority outside
Wikisource, and is slated to become the next major software
change for Mediawiki on **all** projects (see the Extension
Page, its talk, and the Mediawiki Roadmap:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap
In my opinion, once (E) is implemented, and especially in
conjunction with Proofread Page (already active), the
valid concerns about the reliability of texts in our wiki
environment may be put to rest, and Protect Section will
no longer be necessary.
That leaves us with just three left. Two of them, namely
(A) Labeled Section Transclusion and (D) WikiTeX for sheet
music, both of which seem to be very basic, flexible tools
that should be enabled for all Wikisource languages.
ThomasV, might you be able to use your SVN access to help
with some of these?
As for (C), DynamicPageList, can someone remind me when
this was requested for Wikisource and why? (I'm not saying
it's not useful, I just don't remember.)
Dovi
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I'm posting it on behalf of Election Committee. -- Schiste
Hi Wikimedians,
As you may know, we are currently holding the Board of Trustees
elections. We are very grateful to your collaborations for sharing the
info, through translations, forwarding and other several ways.
Last Sunday, June 17, the Board Election has entered its second phase:
call for endorsements from the community to the candidates. Only
candidates who get 12 or more endorsements in the following week will
be able to run in the election.
For further information, please see m:Board
elections/2007/Endorsements. (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements )
We would appreciate your translation of this message as well as other
Election related information. If you'd like to offer further help,
just contact your language coordinator and regularly check the list of
candidate statements.
If there's no coordinator for your language, please consider joining
our translations team. Please contact User:Schiste or User:Aphaia on
meta if you have any question.
Cheers, Wikimedia Election Steering Committee
Usefull links:
* http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees The page about
the Board of Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation website.
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007 Board of
Trustees elections 2007
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Translations#Coordinato…
Translations Coordinators
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates
Candidates Statements
--
schiste
I'm posting it on behalf of Election Committee. -- Schiste
Hi Wikimedians,
As you may know, we are currently holding the Board of Trustees
elections. We are very grateful to your collaborations for sharing the
info, through translations, forwarding and other several ways.
Last Sunday, June 17, the Board Election has entered its second phase:
call for endorsements from the community to the candidates. Only
candidates who get 12 or more endorsements in the following week will
be able to run in the election.
For further information, please see m:Board
elections/2007/Endorsements. (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements )
We would appreciate your translation of this message as well as other
Election related information. If you'd like to offer further help,
just contact your language coordinator and regularly check the list of
candidate statements.
If there's no coordinator for your language, please consider joining
our translations team. Please contact User:Schiste or User:Aphaia on
meta if you have any question.
Cheers, Wikimedia Election Steering Committee
Usefull links:
* http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees The page about
the Board of Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation website.
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007 Board of
Trustees elections 2007
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Translations#Coordinato…
Translations Coordinators
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates
Candidates Statements
--
schiste