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From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2012/1/17
Subject: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go
dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Please also see the related blog post,
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-so…
The release is posted here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_…
*English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
*
San Francisco -- January 16, 2012 -- On January 18, 2012, in an
unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the
English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed
legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the
U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If
passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring
about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United
States.
Wikipedia administrators confirmed this decision Monday afternoon (PST) in
a public statement (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action#Summary_and_c…
):
Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined
together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take
against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in
a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level
of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The
overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage
greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals
considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a "blackout" of the
English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites
opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.
“Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition
to this destructive legislation," said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
"This is an extraordinary action for our community to take - and while we
regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even
a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free
speech both in the United States and abroad, and set a frightening
precedent of Internet censorship for the world."
We urge Wikipedia readers to make your voices heard. If you live in the
United States, find your elected representative in Washington (
https://www.eff.org/sopacall). If you live outside the United States,
contact your State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or similar
branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and want the
internet to remain open and free.
*About the Wikimedia Foundation
*http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://blog.wikimedia.org
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive more than 474 million unique visitors per month, making them the
fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2011).
Available in 282 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 20 million
articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000
people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an
audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and
grants.
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jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org
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I will be out of the office starting 2012/06/22 and will not return until
2012/07/02.
Pls contact Supervisor(TEL:23209561), or you can call me if any urgent
issue.
btw, I'll be in the office on June.28th(Thursday)
所見即所得編輯器的第二版已經進入測試，可以保存頁面了 :)
HW
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寄件人︰ James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
收件人︰ wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
傳送日期︰ 2012年06月22日 (週五) 5:22 AM
主題︰ [Wikimedia Announcements] Early test of new Visual Editor test now live on mediawiki.org
Hello everyone,
Today, I'm delighted to say that we at the Wikimedia Foundation have
launched a new prototype “visual editor” for MediaWiki. The visual
editor will be a new editing environment that won’t require everyone
to learn our special markup language in order to contribute to our
projects.
Though it’s possible to learn what wikitext means and use it
powerfully, many of our editors, and especially new editors, want to
contribute content, not learn technical formatting. We identified the
difficulty in learning wikitext as a key inhibitor to growing our
editor community in the Wikimedia movement’s strategic plan[0].
We want the process of learning how to edit to be trivial, so our
volunteers, both new and experienced, can devote themselves to what
they edit. That’s why we’re building the visual editor, so that
contributing to a wiki is as easy and natural as other modern editing
systems, and new editors are not dissuaded from making their changes.
You may remember a similar announcement in December 2011, when we
revealed a developer prototype of our “visual editor"[1], but after a
great deal of feedback, we've reworked it so that it's more useful to
our our community of users.
We learned a lot from building our first prototype. It was great how
many of you helped with feedback, bug reports and comments about how
we were doing. In the months since then, based on your feedback and
technical issues we encountered, we’ve overhauled the entire editor.
We changed the technical design and how it works, rewriting its
components so that we can support more editors more easily. We’ve also
integrated it into the MediaWiki platform, so now it can load and edit
wiki articles, and not just sit separately.
To build this iteration of our open source visual editor, we have been
working with some of the team from Wikia, a collaborative publisher
that operates the largest network of video game, entertainment and
lifestyle wikis in the world. We both believe that this kind of tool
should be built not just for the Wikimedia wiki projects, but for
everyone using MediaWiki software, and when it’s done we look forward
to including the visual editor “out of the box” for anyone setting up
a wiki with our software.
Thanks to all this, our new prototype is now live on mediawiki.org[2].
This is just a demonstration, and very far from a finished product —
for example, we haven’t yet added image or table handling. It’s
currently locked down to only work on a self-contained area of the
wiki, so that it doesn’t encounter any unsupported content or break
anything else. We intend to work on small pieces of the overall story,
releasing a new version every two weeks or so, and adding features
one-by-one until the editor is good enough to deploy for everyone (and
release in MediaWiki’s core).
Over the next few weeks and months, we will be working with you in the
community to find bugs, to focus on what our priorities should be, and
most importantly, to make sure that what we’re building is right for
you and that it supports your “workflow”.
So please, try out the prototype, see our frequently-asked
questions[3], and tell us what you think[4].
[0] - https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summ…
[1] - https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/help-test-the-first-visual-editor-dev…
[2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Welcome
[3] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/June_2012_release_FAQs
[4] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/Feedback
On behalf of the Visual Editor Team:
Trevor Parscal, Inez Korczyński, Roan Kattouw, Rob Moen, Subramanya
Sastry, Brion Vibber, Gabriel Wicke, Christian Williams.
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager for Visual Editor and Flagged Revisions
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester | +1 415-839-6885 x6844
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Hi,
Simplified Chinese translation is done for global ban RfC. Hope someone
will soon convert that into Traditional Chinese as well.
*Wikizh-l readers:*
不知各位港台用户是否可以抽空协助翻译，谢谢。
Best regards,
[[User:Bencmq]] / Benjamin Chen
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Jon Harald Søby <jsoby(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Hiya all,
>
> There is one new request for translation:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway/Mobile_homep…
> It is a guide on how to set up a mobile front page for a project. If you
> can help translate it so others can make use of it that's great, but feel
> free to also follow the steps outlined to set up a mobile front page for
> your project if it doesn't have one already (check on *languagecode*.
> m.wikipedia.org), e.g. http://no.m.wikipedia.org/ .
>
> The other request is
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_comment/Global_bans , which
> was announced before, but still needs translations into *Portuguese*, *Italian
> *and *Chinese*, so if you know any of those languages, please help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Jon Harald Søby
> Community Fellow
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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