This is a call for volunteers to join the Program Team for Wikimania
2006 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006>, the second
international Wikimedia conference, to be held in Boston this August.
The Program Team are responsible for creating the program, inviting
keynote speakers, reviewing proposals for presentations, workshops,
and papers, organizing the speakers when they arrive at the
conference, and related tasks.
A call for papers
<http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers> was recently
distributed, so we are looking for people willing to help review these
papers as they arrive in Indico <http://cfp.wikimania.wikimedia.org/>.
Please add yourself to
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program_Team> if you
can help.
I am sending this to all project lists since I'm especially trying to
find 3 more people for the theme of "Wikimedia projects and content".
Angela.
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Angela Beesley
Hi all,
I'm glad to anounce that we eventually uploaded all the 8th
edition of the French Academy Dictionary (dated 1932-1935)
in the French Wiktionary
(yeah, we've been speaking about it for almost a year).
It contained about 33000 articles, some of which were already in there,
so now we have a painful job of merging / checking to do.
It's cool to see more blue links suddently :-)
Christophe / Kipmaster.
Hoi,
Today, the bot that I run has passed the 100.000 edit marks on the
English Wiktionary. This is a result that is nice but still, I have very
much mixed feelings about it. It is a good thing because having the
interwiki links on Wiktionary promotes cooperation. The bad sentiment is
because it is such a waste of resources. For Wiktionary it is not that
bad; I just run the bot and it is process that is largely automatic. I
do check every now and again, sometimes the software is updated and that
does merit some checking.
For Wikipedia the situation is in my opinion more bleak. Many people
spend a lot of effort in getting the interwiki links right. Where the
Wiktionary process is a simple automatic process, the Wikipedia
interwiki is a laborious affair. It is also a process where we know that
a change because of some disambiguation is only done after some time.
Many of the smaller wikipedia projects do not have people working on the
interwiki links and it is here where the interwiki links would be most
valuable.
It has been argued in the past that some innovation for the interwiki
process is needed. There are some suggestions on Meta...
Oh yes, the Wiktionary process allows me to update concurrently on MANY
wiktionaries. When you add up all the updates that RobotGMwikt has done,
it could be something like 250.000+. Then again, I do not care that much
about such statistics. It is just an indicator for the need for innovation.
Thanks,
GerardM