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Wikimedia Open Access Chat
by Erik Moeller 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

I would like to invite you to join a chat about the relationship between the Wikimedia community and the Open Access movement in scientific publishing. This will explore issues of licensing, content sharing, technology, and hopefully result in mutual commitments to collaborate. In a nutshell: December 17, 2006; irc.freenode.net; 21:00 UTC; #openaccess Please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Open_Access_chat for more (including a link to a web interface for accessing the IRC channel). I would appreciate it if you would add yourself to the "I want to attend!" list on the page, so we have an idea how many people are coming. -- Peace & Love, Erik DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.

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DJVU internal metadata
by Gregory Maxwell 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

I'm currently preparing a large collection of scanned documents for Wikisource. Do we have any guidance on internal metadata inside djvu files? It appears that I can just cram in arbitrary XML into the DJVU files, but I can't find any good schema for this on the Internet. If no one has suggestions, I'll just make it up as I go. Of course, the same metadata will also be provided on the media pages, but I believe that the internal metadata will be useful to others who obtain our files.

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Closure of Old English Wikisource
by Luiz Augusto 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Just created: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Ol…

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Cleaning vandalism on little-watched small wikis
by Guillaume Paumier 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hello, To help cleaning the small wikis, people from the Small wikis monitoring team have thought about asking people from all projects to create a redirect from [[Template:Delete]] to the local speedy deletion template. The major wikis have already set this redirect, but it would be very useful on small projects where sysops don't come very often. Thus they could check the linked pages/the related category and deal with the pages containing nonsense or pages remaining after move vandalism. Please help spreading this request on your projects and forward this message to people I've forgotten (I haven't found any mailing list for wikiquote, for example). Thanks a lot. On 11/14/06, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks to Tangotango's great work, there is now a working channel > monitoring 20 small wikis. People willing to help can join us in > #wikimedia-swmt on freenode > -- Guillaume Paumier Disciplus Simplex http://fr.wikipedia.org : Resistance is futile — You will be assimilated.

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Ticket#2006110110006595] Wikipedia - Donation of information
by Wikipedia information team 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

Dear John Robert Mills, Thank you for your mail. "John Robert Mills" <john.mills(a)SEMCORGIS.COM> wrote: > My name is John Robert Mills, live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and am the biographer > of Charles Miller, considered the "father of Brazilian football". I wrote two > books, one in 1996 consisting of his biography, plus the memory of SPAC (Sao > Paulo Athletic Club), the British club in Sao Paulo. This was in both > languages: English and Portuguese. It was named "Charles William Miller * 1894 > * 1994 * Memoriam SPAC" > > I would like to offer this publication to WIKIPEDIA, which I could send in > electronic form, for your Research Dept. > > If you are interested in receiving these, please inform me to which e-mail I > could remit them. > > Always at your disposal, > Best regards, > John Robert Mills > São Paulo, Brazil If you get your books licensed as free under GFDL Wikisource might be interested of them. I suggest you to contacting wikisource-l(a)mail.wikimedia.org Yours sincerely, Henry Ilmanen -- Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org --- Disclaimer: all mail to this address is answered by volunteers, and responses are not to be considered an official statement of the Wikimedia Foundation. For official correspondence, you may contact the site operators at <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>.

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Wikisource & DJVu at Commons
by Brianna Laugher 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hello, We are trying to write a press release for the impending one millionth file to be uploaded at Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/1M I thought it would be cool if we include a parapgraph or two about how Commons helps Wikisource in particular. I know DJVu files have that cool 'next/previous page' thing if nothing else. Something making mention of open standards/open file format and how this is useful for projects in multiple languages would be cool (the first djvu I came across, I noticed had Russian and English, for example...). I recall Danny doing a bit of a writeup on Wikisource recently; if no one else is inspired, I'm sure we could crib something from there, but if anyone feels like it, it would be great. :) thanks, Brianna user:pfctdayelise

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Labeled Section Transclusion
by Dovi Jacobs 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Over the past weeks and months, User:Sanbeg has quietly and modestly put a lot of work into "Labeled Section Transclusion" as an extension feature to the Wikimedia Software. This includes code for the extension, test cases, and a new page at the Mediawiki software website describing his extension, which may be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Labeled_Section_Transclusion While I knew that something was going on (I "subscribe" to the updates on the bug), I still wasn't fully aware of the extent of his work and of the amazing flexibility and numerous features that User:Sanbeg put into this new tool. It incorporates every single feature that I personally requested, all those that others requested, and even some new ones that none of us at Wikisource previously thought of, but look very useful. It looks so useful, in fact, that I have no doubt it will be put to a great many unforseen uses that even go beyond Wikisource. To my mind, this is no longer just a Wikisource extension (though Wikisource certainly could use it), but is already something global: a tool expands the basic flexibility of transclusion within the Mediawiki environment. The last time this was brought up by Birgitte, Brion responded (as I best remember) that it was best to hold back for the meantime because there was still not full Wikisource agreement (on the talk page) about how such a tool should function. That is certainly no longer the case, because this tool, once again, addresses every possible need that has been expressed by anyone (at least as far as I can tell). So what we really need now is some developer feedback! (I will post this at Wiktech as well.) Dovi --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.

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05 Nov '06

Hi, On behalf of the Wikisource contributors, I request an official advice from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding copyright issues on Wikisource. The issue is whether works which are public domain in USA, but not in their country of origin can be published on Wikisource. Public domain in USA is the rule which is applied since the beginning of the project in November 2004. I ask in December 2004 [1] that a clear policy should be defined, but it was never done. Subdomains have followed different rules on this matter: for example, the English Wikisource publishes works from George Bernard Shaw [2], an Irish author, works which are public domain in USA but not in Ireland. A similar issue now arises on the French Wikisource [3] about works from Gaston Leroux. So can we follow a uniform policy accross languages and subdomains and publish any work which is public domain in USA, or should another policy be defined? Thanks for your help, Best regards, Yann Forget [1] http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_talk:Copyright_policy [2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Bernard_Shaw [3]http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Pages_soupçonnées_de_copyright#G… -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Ticket#2006110310010139] Copyright issues on Wikisource
by Wikipedia information team 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Dear Yann Forget, Thank you for your mail. Yann Forget <yann(a)forget-me.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On behalf of the Wikisource contributors, I request an official advice > from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding copyright issues on Wikisource. > > The issue is whether works which are public domain in USA, but not in > their country of origin can be published on Wikisource. Public domain in > USA is the rule which is applied since the beginning of the project in > November 2004. I ask in December 2004 [1] that a clear policy should be > defined, but it was never done. Subdomains have followed different rules > on this matter: for example, the English Wikisource publishes works from > George Bernard Shaw [2], an Irish author, works which are public domain > in USA but not in Ireland. A similar issue now arises on the French > Wikisource [3] about works from Gaston Leroux. > > So can we follow a uniform policy accross languages and subdomains and > publish any work which is public domain in USA, or should another policy > be defined? This is not an official reply from the Foundation, but I've followed copyright discussions for a while. Since the Wikipedia webservers are located in the United States, US law is the minimum standard that all projects need to follow: if something is legally unusable under US law, it should not be used on any project or language. Individual projects and languages are free to apply additional restrictions if they wish. Yours sincerely, William Fairfax -- Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org --- Disclaimer: all mail to this address is answered by volunteers, and responses are not to be considered an official statement of the Wikimedia Foundation. For official correspondence, you may contact the site operators at <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>.

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Wikisource logo: good time to organize a poll
by Luiz Augusto 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Please, see http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Global_logo. The current logo have (IMHO) absolutely nothing related to source texts.

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