1. Could anybody create pl.wikimedia.org? 2. Could anybody rename tsca and tsca.bot to Tsca and Tsca.bot on nl.wiktionary.org? 3. Could anybody explain what's the current way of locking inactive/vandalised wikis? Stewards can't set the developer access, and only developers can lock and unlock databases. 4. What's the current situation with the "rollback" flag? Will it be activated anytime soon, or will it still be inactive?
I understand that the developers are pretty busy with the Wikimania hacking days and the current server problems, but at least a short reply "We'll do it later" will be okay.
Dariusz Siedlecki wrote:
- Could anybody create pl.wikimedia.org?
Any special requirements for it?
- Could anybody rename tsca and tsca.bot to Tsca and Tsca.bot on
nl.wiktionary.org?
Done. (Just the user record, haven't touched other stuff.)
- Could anybody explain what's the current way of locking
inactive/vandalised wikis? Stewards can't set the developer access, and only developers can lock and unlock databases.
This isn't something we do, afaik.
- What's the current situation with the "rollback" flag? Will it be
activated anytime soon, or will it still be inactive?
There's no such flag currently. Adding it would require a community decision and may not be a good idea.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 8/2/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Dariusz Siedlecki wrote:
- Could anybody create pl.wikimedia.org?
Any special requirements for it?
It'll be a Wiki to discuss the Polish Wikimedia local chapter, Angela said it'd be okay to create it - the Wiki should probably be the same as nl.wikimedia. Nothing else to mention besides that, I think.
Any special requirements for it?
It'll be a Wiki to discuss the Polish Wikimedia local chapter, Angela said it'd be okay to create it - the Wiki should probably be the same as nl.wikimedia. Nothing else to mention besides that, I think.
Are you sure you need it to be the same as nl.wikimedia? Are you aware they don't allow anonymous edits?
Angela
Angela wrote:
Any special requirements for it?
It'll be a Wiki to discuss the Polish Wikimedia local chapter, Angela said it'd be okay to create it - the Wiki should probably be the same as nl.wikimedia. Nothing else to mention besides that, I think.
Are you sure you need it to be the same as nl.wikimedia? Are you aware they don't allow anonymous edits?
Angela
Hoi, Another thing that is different is that we have a do not crawl sign on this wiki so the discussions are not available on google. So the public rows on nl.wikimedia are less public :) We do indeed not allow anonymous writes, however we allow anonymous reads. Thanks, GerardM
Hi
there is a big problem, the government cannot finance the schoolbooks anymore and there is in germany as well a tendency to have central tests for certificates, this means a central contrywide curriculum of excercises to do and test.
We thought about business firms spending money for the books but this would be lobby, to have a biology book by a genetic firm advertising the gen tomatoes ?
School is not for work only, but for building human beeings.
Then We thought about wiki schoolbooks,
So we need a technical platform which is differentiated for the individuel types to learn: math, language, biology, social sport etc.
Then we have the central curriculum in which class or age which topic has to be done,
Each hour for a learning unit / lesson could be described by wiki texts.
So e.g. class 8.th first term = in biology 15 Lessons about topic xy.
So we get a plan in wiki which is a category page and then 15 subpages.
Many students, teachers and pupils could help to built the wiki-
And then: we need a pdf generator, so that each teacher can choose a lesson unit for the next half year and print a pdf out of it.
This book he can mail, but as well print on demand (or books on demand) can be printed.
So the school is printing the books itself from wikipeda.
I want to see a wikipedia book in the schools.
maybe there could be as well a certain platform for it ?
Would be nice to have this discussed - especially from the german tech admins ?
Thanks
Guckst Du da:
:-)
Magnus
closedshop wrote:
Hi
there is a big problem, the government cannot finance the schoolbooks anymore and there is in germany as well a tendency to have central tests for certificates, this means a central contrywide curriculum of excercises to do and test.
We thought about business firms spending money for the books but this would be lobby, to have a biology book by a genetic firm advertising the gen tomatoes ?
School is not for work only, but for building human beeings.
Then We thought about wiki schoolbooks,
So we need a technical platform which is differentiated for the individuel types to learn: math, language, biology, social sport etc.
Then we have the central curriculum in which class or age which topic has to be done,
Each hour for a learning unit / lesson could be described by wiki texts.
So e.g. class 8.th first term = in biology 15 Lessons about topic xy.
So we get a plan in wiki which is a category page and then 15 subpages.
Many students, teachers and pupils could help to built the wiki-
And then: we need a pdf generator, so that each teacher can choose a lesson unit for the next half year and print a pdf out of it.
This book he can mail, but as well print on demand (or books on demand) can be printed.
So the school is printing the books itself from wikipeda.
I want to see a wikipedia book in the schools.
maybe there could be as well a certain platform for it ?
Would be nice to have this discussed - especially from the german tech admins ?
Thanks
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closedshop closedshop@gmx.de writes:
there is a big problem, the government cannot finance the schoolbooks anymore and there is in germany as well a tendency to have central tests for certificates, this means a central contrywide curriculum of excercises to do and test.
Germany, one of the richest countries on earth does not have money and one with the highest taxes world-wide? Do not believe what they tell you. They just do not want to pay for books they rather want to spend the money to support building autobahns and the health system.
Of course, there is also something good about the refusual to "waste" money for the books: school book publishers will eventually have to adjust the prizes and the Kulturministrien next time must think twice about an orthography "reform"...
Having free school books as an alternative would be a good thing, sure - but do not tell us Germany is a poor country ;)
Brion Vibber wrote :
Dariusz Siedlecki wrote:
- Could anybody create pl.wikimedia.org?
Any special requirements for it?
Yup, this one :
Dariusz Siedlecki wrote this on July 28th :
I wanted to ask for creation of pl.wikimedia.org, a Wiki which would help the Poles to organize the work of the Polish local chapter. Basicly, it would serve the same purpose as nl.wikimedia.org.
Sorw
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