Wikimania, Wikimedia's annual global conference for the community, has
today released its call for participation.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Particpation
We will shortly be accepting submissions for presentations, panels,
discussions, posters, and more. I would like to encourage all
community members to make a submission. Wikimania is the wiki
conference aimed at the Wikimedia community, so it's essential that
you are represented here. If there is something interesting about your
wiki that you want to share with 400 Wikimedians in Taipei this
summer, please respond to this call for participation.
We are also looking for volunteers to review the submissions made and
help us to choose what will be presented at Wikimania. Depending on
what you would like to review, please contact one of the following
people to let them know you would like to help.
Wikimedia Communities presentations: Angela Beesley:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Angela
Free Content presentations: Phoebe Ayers:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brassratgirl
Technical infrastructure presentations: James Forrester:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester
Posters and Panels (all themes): Jakob Voss:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JakobVoss
Artistic artifacts, Workshops, and Birds-of-a-Feather (all themes):
TzuChiang Liou:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TzuChiang_Liou
Angela Beesley
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Just a quick note that we are in the process of
changing taxon formats at wikispecies, so things might
look a little odd as everything gets straightened out.
Open2universe
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Help! I've looked high and low, and cannot seem to find anything that
tells me how to include an image from commons into a Wikispecies
article. I keep getting told it is possible, but cannot find a thing to
tell me HOW. Please enlighten me.
Thank you all.
-- R. L. Hardesty
Hi Wim,
Interesting idea, although I'm unsure how to incorporate your idea into
the boundaries of a wiki. However, if you want to ellaborate on this new
idea you should first start off at http://meta.wikimedia.org/
(Meta-wiki), which serves as a coordination for all the Wikimedia
projects, and a place to discuss new ideas. If you want to propose a new
project, then you might want to post here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed .
Kind regards,
Kempm
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All,
Bringing up a database of species is one thing:-|.
But what about setting op two pools of data: Objects on the one hand,
and keys on the other.
For *objects* I’d say the Wikispecies-I may serve as (one of) the
startingpoint, if objects get extended with properties describing them
(e.g. Not just /Paris quadrifolia/, but also data on flower, leaves,
biometrics…). I explicitly don't refer to them as species (because then
the matching with a key -see below- apparently was already done, and my
suggestion is to draw a line between these two)
For *keys* I think a whole new Wiki-project needs to be created, e.g.
Wikikeys, consisting of key-engines that can be elaborated by Wiki-users.
So on the one hand we have the *collectors* (filling Wikispecies, but as
far as I’m concerned it may also apply to stamp-collecters…), on the
other hand the *classifiers*, developing keys (in Wikikeys) to classify
those objects.
And now comes the hard part: For Wikikeys to work it should be construct
where the key-developers enter (sets of) rules (may even be programs)
that can evaluate into a likelyhood of Yes or No. E.g. if item’s
property flower-colour = Red, offering this specimen to the
Flora-dichotomous-Linnaeus-key will encouter it with a rule on
flower-colour which rules out /Paris quadrifolia /for 99%
I can elaborate on this but it may be usefull to first stick to this,
check how much sense I made and if there’s anybody interested to pick
this thread up.
I'm new to wiki, and please let me know if I have to address other people.
Cheers
Wim
All,
Bringing up a database of species is one thing:-|.
But what about setting op two pools of data: Objects on the one hand, and keys on the other.
For objects I'd say the Wikispecies-I may serve as (one of) the startingpoint, if objects get extended with properties describing them (e.g. Not just Paris quadrifolia, but also data on flower, leaves, biometrics.). I explicitly don't refer to them as species (because then the matching with a key -see below- apparently was already done, and my suggestion is to draw a line between these two)
For keys I think a whole new Wiki-project needs to be created, e.g. Wikikeys, consisting of key-engines that can be elaborated by Wiki-users.
So on the one hand we have the collectors (filling Wikispecies, but as far as I'm concerned it may also apply to stamp-collecters.), on the other hand the classifiers, developing keys (in Wikikeys) to classify those objects.
And now comes the hard part: For Wikikeys to work it should be construct where the key-developers enter (sets of) rules (may even be programs) that can evaluate into a likelyhood of Yes or No. E.g. if item's property flower-colour = Red, offering this specimen to the Flora-dichotomous-Linnaeus-key will encouter it with a rule on flower-colour which rules out Paris quadrifolia for 99%
I can elaborate on this but it may be usefull to first stick to this, check how much sense I made and if there's anybody interested to pick this thread up.
I'm new to wiki, and please let me know if I have to address other people.
Cheers
Wim
I have not been getting all of the posts so I thought I would test it.
Open2universe
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Hi,
About some 6 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.
The idea is to try to inform the reader about what is going on in the
Wikimedia family. Wikispecies is I believe the least known project of
all Wikimedia projects. I would like to change that a bit.
First step is to introduce Wikispecies to the other projects.
You can help be writing a small introducing about Wikispecies;
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Village_Pump#publicity_offer.…
Further would some frequent reports be useful to inform the others
about this project. When making Wikizine I sometimes also to take a
look in the Village Pump of Wikispecies to see I can find news. But
that is no guaranty I will see it or that there is something written
in the Village pump about it.
So if you have news about your project please report it. Let the
readers of Wikizine know there is more then Wikipedia.
To make it more easy to report news to Wikizine and also for not
forgetting it consider putting a Wikizine-banner on some suitable
project page (maybe on to of the Village pump?)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners
There are large and small banners. Then people can easy read the most
current Wikimedia-news and if there is something to say about
Wikispicies drop a line to Wikizine.
I hope to receive some news from Wikispecies!
Greetings,
Walter
The guy from Wikizine
http://www.wikizine.org
To subscribe;
mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=subscribe
Hello,
CommonsTicker is a special tool created by
(commons:,meta:,:de:w:)User:Duesentrieb to allow for greater
communication and transparency between the Commons and local projects
(all projects, all languages) that use the Commons. When it is set up,
a log page is created and a bot posts updates about any critical
events that occur to any Commons images that are being used by that
project. Critical events are: image replacement (a new version of an
image being uploaded over the top of an existing one), an image being
marked or unmarked with a deletion tag (including no source, etc), and
an image being deleted.
This allows local project users to immediately identify any images
that have been nominated for deletion, giving them plenty of notice to
take part in the deletion discussion, as well as checking that image
replacements are not vandalism and removing any red links from deleted
images.
CommonsTicker is completely translatable (if you provide a
translation). All it needs to be set up is a project admin to
"sponsor" it through the early days. Now taking requests! :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker :
instructions on set-up, contact, translation, request queue
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:CommonsTicker : Example
Ticker in English
(There are also Tickers already set up in German, Indonesian, Italian,
Dutch, Chinese and Slovak.)
cheers,
Brianna (commons:user:pfctdayelise)