Wikiversity-l April 2010

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Sandbox Server
by Jan Luca 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Hi, Topic: Sandbox Server (http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Sandbox_Server) I have "speak" with Daniel of the German Wikimedia and he has said that the WMDE would sponsor us a server. The details and condition: • We (respectively one of us) rent the server and we (the person) send the bill to the WMDE and then they repays the costs • The WMDE gives for first time max. 50 €/month • The server hosts only projects, software, etc. which are for the Wikimedia community • We must send every three month a report which include: o Current projects o How the community accepts the projects o Our ideas for the next three months (which extensions, software, etc. should be develop, which software should test, etc.) If all is OK, we need one who rents the server and we must create a first report of our ideas for the next three months. Daniel of the WMDE is in the mailing list, too. We can ask him if there are some questions. Viele Grüße Jan Luca

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Strategic Planning Office Hours
by Philippe Beaudette 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Wednesday, 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: -Tuesday (8-9pm PST) -Tuesday (11pm-12am EST) There has been a lot of tremendous work on the strategy wiki the past few months, and Task Forces are finishing up their work. Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation philippe(a)wikimedia.org mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Quiz-Script in wiki.zum.de with memory, crosswords and other games
by pikola Thierry 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi everyone, I just wanted to inform you (probably you know it already) about a similar quiz extension I found in wiki.zum.de. You find it at http://wiki.zum.de/Hilfe:Quiz-Script_Framework . It includes many options that, as much as I know, don't exist yet in the wiki quiz from wikiversity. What do you think about adding these options to the existing quiz tool in wikiversity? --Javier Carro 16:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

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Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!
by Marcin Cieslak 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and MediaWiki). The conference is a community gathering, giving the editors, users and developers of Wikimedia projects an opportunity to meet each other, exchange ideas, report on research and projects, and collaborate on the future of the projects. The conference is open to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers, programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the Wikimedia projects. This year's conference will be held JULY 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk, Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic. For more information, please visit the official Wikimania 2010 site: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania 2010 will be a mix of submitted talks, open space meetings, birds of a feather groups, and lightning talks. Submissions will be discussed and selected in an informal process on the wiki. If your submission is not added to the schedule, you will still have many opportunities to bring topics forward on-site. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submitting workshop, tutorial, panel and presentation proposals: May 20 * Notification of acceptance: May 25 (workshops), May 31 (panels, tutorials, presentations) * All proposals and presentations will be welcome in the Open Space track of the conference, whether or not they are accepted in this initial process. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Submissions will be reviewed informally by a team of volunteers. TRACKS This year Wikimania will offer three tracks for submissions for members of wiki communities and interested observers to share their own experiences and thoughts and to present new ideas: People and Community The People and Community track provides a unique forum for discussing topics related to people using/building wikis. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Wiki Community: Conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; * Wiki Outreach: Promotion of wikis and Wikimedia projects among the general public; * North meets south, east meets west: How can people of a different cultural background create an encyclopedia according to common rules? Same subject in the eye of different cultures. * Special: Wikipedia in Central/Eastern Europe: this theme will provide a forum to present and discuss the latest progress of Wikis in the central/eastern European community. Knowledge and Collaboration The Knowledge and Collaboration track aims to promote research and find exciting ideas related to knowledge... * Wiki Content: New ways to improve content quality, credibility; legal issues and copyrights (is free knowledge free?); use of the content in education, journalism, research; * Semantic Wikis: The use of semantic web technologies, linked data; semantic annotation and metadata (in particular manual vs. automated approaches). Infrastructure Track The Infrastructure track at Wikimania will provide a forum where both researchers and practitioners can share new approaches, applications, and explore how to make Wiki access ever more ubiquitous: * MediaWiki development: issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; * Moving beyond MediaWiki: what other Wiki-like platforms exist; what tools and features do we need for collaboration on different types of knowledge? * Mobile Wikis: The Web is moving off the desktop and into mobile phones, how we use wikis on mobile devices?; wiki-based Augmented Reality (AR) applications, location based services * User Interface Design: Usability and user experience; accessibility, adaptive interfaces and personalization; novel UI designs. WIKISYM 2010 Please note that Wikimania 2010 is co-located with WikiSym, The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. More information about WikiSym can be found on the conference website: http://www.wikisym.org/ SUBMIT A PROPOSAL To submit a proposal for a presentation, workshop, panel or tutorial, please visit: http://bit.ly/Submit2010 Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! -- Marcin Cieslak Wikimania 2010 Gdansk

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Strategic Planning Office Hours
by Philippe Beaudette 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Tuesday, 6 April, from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: -Tuesday (1-2pm PDT) -Tuesday (4-5pm EDT) Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation philippe(a)wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Wikiversity-l] Wikiversity-l Digest, Vol 36, Issue 5
by H 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

There was once a group of blind people, who wanted to know what an elephant is like. They approached the noble animal from different angles. They formed completely different ideas, and couldn't be convinced that there is more than their naive understanding and couldn't stop arguing...

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Petition to Shut Down Wikiversity
by Erkan Yilmaz 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Petition_to_Shut_Down_Wikiversity

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Wikiversity open letter to the WMF Board of Trustees: read + think about it
by Erkan Yilmaz 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hello, an open letter will be sent to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please read and think about the topics mentioned. If you agree, please sign with your user name. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity_open_letter_project/WMF_Board_Ma… ********************************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Diese eMail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese eMail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. **********************************************************************************************

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please unsubscribe me
by Rudolf Weiler 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello there i think it is great what you do for humanity at wikipedia, but i cannot contribute anything at the moment, being heavily into teaching. so please unsubscribe me from teh mailing list. thanks for everything. Rudolf Weiler Switzerland www.rweiler.ch rweiler(a)rweiler.ch DISCLAIMER: This e-mail (including attachments) is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. We do not accept liability for any statements made which are not clearly the sender's own copyright material.

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MobilEd needs you
by Leigh Blackall 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Are you someone who could bring MobilEd to Wikiversity? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FlossePosse/~3/om1jqBYjFmE/ -- -- Leigh Blackall +61(0)404561009 skype - leigh_blackall leighblackall(a)gmail.com http://leighblackall.blogspot.com

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