Hi,
About some 8 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like "Foundation", "Community", "Media" , "Technical news" and so.
So I try to bring the news for the Wikimedia family to the projects. And that includes Wikisource. Of there allready people from Wikisource reading Wikizine I do not know. I hope so. If not I hope to welcome now some soon.
But I am writing this fist of all to ask for your cooperation with this newsletter. To be able to report news first the news must be known. The "Wikisource:News" is one of the pages I look for to find news about Wikisource.
I can not say I have discoverd there anything worth reporting yet. It seems dead. Maby there is nothing to say about Wikisource?
But if there would be anything to say, especially for the non-English editions, then I would it if you would report the news to me, to Wikizine. Let the readers of Wikizine know there is more then Wikipedia.
A way to make it more likely that someone will think about Wikizine is to put a banner on your userpage or even better on a public page, also for the non-English Wikisource versions.; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners
On the other side I try to get the news downhill to as most of the projects and especially languages as possible. Because of piratical reasons Wikizine can only be in English. But it would be fantastic if people would be willing to translate the news and share it with there community.
A total translation of Wikizine is great but also a lot of work. Maybe only translating the most relevant news can be enough for starting. You could work together across the different projects in the same languages. By cross-project cooperation the work of translation can be shared.
Just only subscribing to Wikizine only is also useful of course. Then you at least are informed.
Reading Wikizine can by email. Just click here below and follow the instructions; mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=subscribe
Or you can also read Wikizine from the website; http://www.wikizine.org
Thank you for reading this and I hope to receive some news from Wikisource!
Greetings, Walter
The guy from Wikizine http://www.wikizine.org
To subscribe; mailto:request at wikizine.org?subject=subscribe
Dear Walter Vermeir,
New developments have been rather frequent on the English Wikisource lately. Wikisource News hasn't been updated in a while due to the very small number of users involved and their preoccupation with other tasks, such as the drive to conform works to the style guide. I've been planning to write a few omnibus articles covering all the developments since the last edit; I suppose I'll get around to it in a day or two. ;)
Sincerely, Jesse Martin English admin [[User:Pathoschild]]
On 7/12/06, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
Hi,
About some 8 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like "Foundation", "Community", "Media" , "Technical news" and so.
So I try to bring the news for the Wikimedia family to the projects. And that includes Wikisource. Of there allready people from Wikisource reading Wikizine I do not know. I hope so. If not I hope to welcome now some soon.
But I am writing this fist of all to ask for your cooperation with this newsletter. To be able to report news first the news must be known. The "Wikisource:News" is one of the pages I look for to find news about Wikisource.
I can not say I have discoverd there anything worth reporting yet. It seems dead. Maby there is nothing to say about Wikisource?
But if there would be anything to say, especially for the non-English editions, then I would it if you would report the news to me, to Wikizine. Let the readers of Wikizine know there is more then Wikipedia.
A way to make it more likely that someone will think about Wikizine is to put a banner on your userpage or even better on a public page, also for the non-English Wikisource versions.; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners
On the other side I try to get the news downhill to as most of the projects and especially languages as possible. Because of piratical reasons Wikizine can only be in English. But it would be fantastic if people would be willing to translate the news and share it with there community.
A total translation of Wikizine is great but also a lot of work. Maybe only translating the most relevant news can be enough for starting. You could work together across the different projects in the same languages. By cross-project cooperation the work of translation can be shared.
Just only subscribing to Wikizine only is also useful of course. Then you at least are informed.
Reading Wikizine can by email. Just click here below and follow the instructions; mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=subscribe
Or you can also read Wikizine from the website; http://www.wikizine.org
Thank you for reading this and I hope to receive some news from Wikisource!
Greetings, Walter
The guy from Wikizine http://www.wikizine.org
To subscribe; mailto:request at wikizine.org?subject=subscribe
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On 7/13/06, Jesse Martin pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Walter Vermeir,
New developments have been rather frequent on the English Wikisource lately. Wikisource News hasn't been updated in a while due to the very small number of users involved and their preoccupation with other tasks, such as the drive to conform works to the style guide. I've been planning to write a few omnibus articles covering all the developments since the last edit; I suppose I'll get around to it in a day or two. ;)
Sincerely, Jesse Martin English admin [[User:Pathoschild]]
I've been planning on doing a similar thing, as well. We've missed writing some articles about some things that have been happening, but I was planning on writing one or two that covered a lot of developments since the last news report was written back in May. If you don't get to them I can write them, although I wasn't planning on doing anything until the pages have been standardized.
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2006/7/13, Jesse Martin pathoschild@gmail.com:
Dear Walter Vermeir,
New developments have been rather frequent on the English Wikisource lately. Wikisource News hasn't been updated in a while due to the very small number of users involved and their preoccupation with other tasks, such as the drive to conform works to the style guide. I've been planning to write a few omnibus articles covering all the developments since the last edit; I suppose I'll get around to it in a day or two. ;)
Sincerely, Jesse Martin English admin [[User:Pathoschild]]
Thanks for your responds. I will be happy to publish the news from Wikisource when you have written it.
I understand very well that it not easy to keep [[Wikisource:News]] updated, especially when you know you are working for a very small audience.
I suggest to not try to be like the Signpost. But something between the Signpost and Wikizine. Sometimes an article Signpost style and for the most part some short remarks in one or to sentences like Wikizine. A "Wikisource telegram" section?
Greetings, Walter
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