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Extension:Education to Wikiversity
by Leinonen Teemu 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Dear all, What people in the e.wikiversity-community think about the Extension:Education? I noticed that it is in use in the de.wikiversity.org. You can create and run course with it (relatively) easy. It looks like this in the de.wikiversity.org: https://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Spezial:Einrichtungen The extension is in here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Education_Program I would love to see this in the en.wikiversity.org as you could easily build course like the one with did on the en.wikiversity long time ago. Still in here (a kind of archive): https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Composing_free_and_open_online_educational_… - Teemu -------------------------------------------------- Teemu Leinonen http://teemuleinonen.fi +358 50 351 6796 Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture --------------------------------------------------

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Voting open for Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015
by Gregory Varnum 17 May '15

17 May '15

Greetings, Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons. If you would like a translated ballot, you can change your language for Meta-Wiki on the Universal Language Selector or in your Preferences before clicking the 'jump to next wiki' button on SecurePoll. You may also click the vote banner from your home wiki or select your preferred language from the language box above the ballot. The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. To vote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/339 More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_electi… On behalf of the Elections Committee, -Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent) Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee Translations of this message: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/MassMes…

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Voting has begun in 2015 FDC elections
by Gregory Varnum 03 May '15

03 May '15

Greetings, Voting has begun <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/336> for eligible voters <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015#Require…> in the 2015 elections for the *Funds Dissemination Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>* (FDC) and *FDC Ombudsperson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>*. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the *Funds Dissemination Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>* (FDC) and *FDC Ombudsperson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>* will continue during the voting. Nominations for the *Board of Trustees <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>* will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5. The *Funds Dissemination Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemi…>* (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled. The *FDC Ombudsperson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemi…>* receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…>, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. *Click here to vote <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/336>.* Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. *Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>.* More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>, and the 2015 Board election page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> on Meta-Wiki. On behalf of the Elections Committee, -Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Varnent> ) Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> *Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> of this email are available.*

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Nominations being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections
by Gregory Varnum 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Greetings, I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_fo…> describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015#Informa…> for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process. This year, elections are being held for the following roles: *Board of Trustees* The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Board_e…. *Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)* The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_ele… . *Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud* The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_Omb… . The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015. Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections(a)wikimedia.org On behalf of the Elections Committee, -Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent) Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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Fwd: Proposal: restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Please participate in the global discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_ed… ---- [...] What few know is that the mobile sites don't follow the standard permission system: instead, they override permissions and prevent unregistered users from editing at all. I propose to remove this exception to the rule, which was meant to be temporary and looks now technically unnecessary. Unregistered users will be allowed to edit on the mobile subdomain for a wiki, if they are allowed on the main domain. [...] ---- The discussion will be open until 2015-03-15. I'll send wider notifications in few days. In the meanwhile, sorry for the crossposting. Nemo

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Add to the Mailing list
by abhijeet singh 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hello, Plz add me to the Mailing list of the wikiversity !! *Kind Regards..... ABHIJEET SINGH Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel MSc Agrigenomics +49 176 867 55085

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Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2] We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool) in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals: 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress tracker;[4] 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix. Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give something back. We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4]. This information and more can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 For more information on triaging in general, check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email, talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!) Sorry for the crossposting, Nemo [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1 [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection

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Fwd: ZIM/EPUB export will be disabled soon
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

:[ Please help recheck the old bugs listed at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-mwlib, mostly filed by Wikisource/Wikibooks users. Nemo -------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Changes to PDF export; ZIM/EPUB will be disabled soon Data: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:01:38 -0700 Mittente: Erik Moeller Rispondi-a: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects Hi folks, A change from our legacy PDF export infrastructure to a more maintainable system has been a long time coming. Thanks to the work of C. Scott Ananian, Matt Walker, Max Semenik, Brad Jorsch, and the Parsoid/Services teams, we're close to disabling the old PDF rendering and enabling the new as default. The old "mwlib" (Reportlab-based) PDF service will be disabled on September 29 [1], and the new "ocg" (Parsoid/XeLaTex-based) PDF service will be enabled on the same date. The output looks very different (two column LaTeX-generated output) and there are a few more customization options, as well (visible when you use the "Create a book" feature). This renderer has much improved rendering of non-latin scripts and fixes many issues of the old PDF service. There are still a number of bugs to work through, as well, which we will do as a low priority. Most noticeably, tables are a mess - and since we have such a large variety of them, that's a pretty long tail. This is not a high priority project for us. We're looking for co-maintainers, and we have some ideas how to improve the architecture to make it easy for the community to optimize for different outputs -- if you're interested in joining the development effort, let us know via the new services list ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/services ), wikitech-l or on #mediawiki-services on irc.freenode.net. Please report any bugs against the "OCG" product in Bugzilla. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=OCG If you want to more quickly test prior to deployment, you can add this one-liner to your common.js/global.js, which will point the "Download as PDF" link in the sidebar to the new renderer: $('#coll-download-as-rl a').each(function() { this.href = this.href.replace(/([&?]writer=)rl(&|$)/g, "$1rdf2latex$2") }); As part of this change, we will disable ZIM and EPUB export for the time being. If you're interested in working on ZIM or EPUB support for the new offline content generator, or other export formats, please let us know via the above channels. Thanks, Erik [1] See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments for the planned deployment window -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors

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University engagement with Wikimedia projects
by Leigh Blackall 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Hi folks. Who can point me to or suggest a process for a university wishing to engage Wikimedia projects? By that I mean initial consultation to get advice on how to consider and formulate an appropriate plan encompasing the alignment of policy and practices through to the use, development and production of content. We have ideas on what steps might be good, but I'm wanting suggestions and pointers from others. Regards Leigh

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End of the experimental phase
by Juan de Vojníkov 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

Hello folks, as far as I know Wikiversity had to be for about 1,5 year in experimental phase as set by the WMF. But seemingly it took longer than they expected. English Wikiversity allready did some evaluational and structurilizng attempts.https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Project_boxes This summer, we have started to work on it on the Czech Wikiversity. We are describing its content types and ways to study/research. Then we would like to make it cleaner, more understandable and usefull. I can report the results later. I just would like to know, wether also other Wikiversites needs such evaluation or if they were already done? Regards, Juandev

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