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WZ Timeline.
by Michael Monaghan 05 Aug '06

05 Aug '06

Hi, Could someone estimate when a stable alpha/beta WZ might be available? [give or take a few months]. Is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Timetable is the best page to keep an eye on for this info? Thanks, ~mm

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thanks
by Amii Asthana 29 Jul '06

29 Jul '06

thanks

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[Fwd: [WiktionaryZ] Definition in UI language, if present in that language]
by Gerard Meijssen 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Hoi, Sabine posted this on the WiktionaryZ blog.. This new feature shows that from an architecture point of view we care about all languages equally .. Thanks, GerardM -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WiktionaryZ] Definition in UI language, if present in that language Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:35:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it> To: gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com >From today on WiktionaryZ has another nice feature. When your user interface is for example set to Italian and you click on any term (English, German etc.) and there is an Italian definition present you will get that one show up. Only if there is no definition in the language of the user interface you chose an English definition will show up. -- Posted by Sabine Cretella to WiktionaryZ <http://wiktionaryz.blogspot.com/2006/07/definition-in-ui-language-if-presen…> at 7/28/2006 09:31:00 AM

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Term statistics on wiktionaryz
by Michael Monaghan 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hi, Suppose I have a category called say, 'Technology' , that has 100 terms/articles in it. Can WiktionaryZ tell me how many of those terms in that category have translations in say, Japanese? If not possible via the UI, presumably it would be possible through sql? Thanks, ~mm

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New functionality
by GerardM 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hoi, People who edit on WiktionaryZ now have the possibility to add new Expressions and new DefinedMeanings. This is one piece of functionality that has been most eagerly awaited. What amazes me most, is that there is already so much content, check for instance this list: http://www.wiktionaryz.org/Portal:eng/List_of_1000_basic_English_words To remind you, WiktionaryZ is still very much in a pre-alpha stage, this means that editing is not there for anonymous users, users that want to edit, have to add their Babel template information and have read the [[DefinedMeaning]] article. Thanks, GerardM

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Wiktionary; let your voice be heard
by Walter Vermeir 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, About some 8 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like "Foundation", "Community", "Media" , "Technical news" and so. So I try to bring the news for the Wikimedia family. And that includes Wiktionary. I am writing this fist of all to ask for your cooperation with this newsletter. To be able to report news first the news must be known. Wiktionary is a project where I am not at home. If no one reports what is going on there it is not likely I will find out about it. And especially if it is going on other Wiktionary language editions. So I request that if there is news about your project, especially for the non-English editions, that you would report the news to me, to Wikizine. Let the readers of Wikizine know there is more then Wikipedia. A way to make it more likely that someone will think about Wikizine is to put a banner on your userpage or even better on a public page and also for the non-English Wiktionary versions.; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners On the other side I try to get the news downhill to as most of the projects and especially languages as possible. Because of piratical reasons Wikizine can only be in English. But it would be fantastic if people would be willing to translate the news and share it with there community. A total translation of Wikizine is great but also a lot of work. Maybe only translating the most relevant news can be einghoud for starting. You could work together across the different projects in the same languages. By cross-project cooperation the work of translation can be shared. Just only subscribing to Wikizine only is also useful of course. Then you at least are informed. Reading Wikizine can by email. Just click here below and follow the instructions; mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=subscribe Or you can also read Wikizine from the website; http://www.wikizine.org Thank you for reading this and I hope to receive some news from Wiktionary! Greetings, Walter The guy from Wikizine http://www.wikizine.org To subscribe; mailto:request at wikizine.org?subject=subscribe

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Re: [Wiktionary-l] [Foundation-l] the easy way or the less easy way
by SJ 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

FYI; part of a long thread on foundation governance and structure. Those interested in discussions about foundation membership, the meta-organization of the projects, and the future of the foundation : you may want to join or browse foundation-l. I don't know where these conversations will take place in the future, but at present they seem to be gathering in frequency and length on that list, and long-ranging decisions are being made over the next few months. SJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:00:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] the easy way or the less easy way Hiya, Thanks for the long and insightful posts to this list recently. Some quick thoughts. > ARTICLE III - MEMBERSHIP > The Foundation shall have no members. Opt-in membership is useful; I always liked the idea, regardless of whether or how dues were set up. > ARTICLE II > Section 4. Community. > The Foundation acknowledges the valuable contributions of volunteers > throughout the world for their dedication and tremendous work. The > Foundation defines as one of its purposes the enhancement of the various > Wikimedia communities throughout the world in their respective languages. This would be an unfortunate first sentence. Foundations do not usually acknowledge the contributions of projects they support. The contributions of donors, perhaps... More generally : I am surprised to see the term "volunteer" has come to be used in these discussions as a way of distinguishing some contributors form the Foundation; at times in a lightly patronizing context ('volunteer' as opposed to 'professional' / 'expert' / 'dedicated')... similar to the way "amateur" has come to mean "dilletante" or "unpaid" rather than "connoisseur". I expect that Wikipedians of all people have a sense of generativity, active creation, and public responsibility which transcends the notion of 'volunteering' for a cause. When one returns home to fix the plumbing in a parents' house, does one call it "volunteering"? No. Participating in a barn-raising for a neighbor, or rebuilding one's own community after a storm? Likewise no. Neither is it "volunteering" to create part of a public art project, tend a community garden, write the biography of a hero, or spending an evening in language-exchange. Wikipedians "contributing" to the public store of knowledge are simply doing for their own global community what most people on the planet should come to do -- sharing what they know, and helping others do the same. On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Anthere wrote: > Hence my trying to turn toward you. > How many editors work on the projects ? thousands [over 100,000] > How many people are registered to this list ? a few hundred [only? when was the last time a call for sign-ups went out?] > How many people are active on this list ? A couple dozens > How many people from wikitech commented on the Apache model ? 0 > How many people from this list commented on the Apache model ? less than 5 [more coming...] This model was fascinating, though a lot to digest. (It would be even more fascinating to see one or two other models, and hear details of how and why they were set up.) > ---------- > Roughly, this model would be what I would qualify as a Private > Foundation. Or Business Foundation. It is a Foundation which focus a lot > on the efficiency of business (except that there is no business A pity, for a foundation with as much promise as this one has to change the world. > The Apache model is entirely different. I would call it a public > Foundation or a Community Foundation. Majority of members would be > garanteed from the community. There would be term limits. It would be a Right. > ---------- > Which model would be better in our case ? > > One model insists more on business. It would certainly be more business > efficient in the long run. It will certainly be more stable and more > reliable (only limited turnover in the board). Likely more professional. > I can envision a group of famous people seating on its board, with 3-4 > meetings per year. Some staying there forever because that looks good on > their business card, even though they do nothing at all (this is already > the case of one of our member). A big and well-paid staff to run the > business. And little by little, disinterest by the community. > > But this might be the best choice to create bonds with the big firms, > the big NGOs, as that Foundation will appear more solid and trustworthy. > More money... could mean better support of the projects and of our goals. I don't know. The best support of the projects and goals that I can imagine doesn't stem directly from money, but from an ever-increasing community participation; something which Wikipedia and other projects have enjoyed to date. > The second model will be more lively. A bazaar of some sorts. We could > expect the board to get more involved in every-day running. More > volunteer work probably. It will be much more difficult to organise, > because of the noises of campaigning from new candidates, of the public > discussions. It will be more of a social construction. Less stable due > to turn-over of board members. We would not have such a good image in US > business, but we might be loved by free-movement organizations and > citizens all over the world. > I suppose we'll have less money... but we may have more ideas because of > the boiling culture. I wouldn't say "by free-movement organizations and citizens" -- but simply "by individuals" all over the world. Many people who don't get 'free culture' or 'FOSS' at all, and don't care, get Wikipedia (great project) -- and get *really* interested when they find out the extent to which it is guided by a broad and milling community. Tangentially, it's not at all clear to me that this would mean less money in the long run; more to the point, goals of generating and distributing content may be better served without that intermediary. > If we pick up the second model, it will be much more painful. The Also a chance for community members to reflect on the best that they have gotten from the projects, and the best that they have seen in the world; regardless of which model is picked, it would be better if a few hundred community members took this analysis and brainstorming seriously so that it was a considered choice and not a default one based on what is easiest. > I thought it over and over. I am not sure which one of the two models > would be best for the goals of the Foundation. According to our habits, > we would say "first option". But are we not precisely amongst those who > proved that a decentralized, transparent model, largely based on > volunteer work and using the goodwill of non-expert people may be > successful ? Not only successful. Exuberantly, outrageously successful, orders of magnitude beyond the dreams of the initial participants. There are subtleties in what has worked here that have never before been effectively explored. Some are still mysterious, which is why small groups of editors / meta-editors / policy writers often have trouble tapping them as needed to work on specific projects. > I have little interest in the first model as an *individual*. Do you think it has value for the general good? > -------- > between community and Foundation are disorganised. We'll soon have new > appointed board members. I do not expect new appointments to help > reducing the lack of communication. > > But this is a broken system. Balancing between the Business Foundation > and the Community Foundation, so that no one knows where to put his ass. > > At this point, in large part, this now depends on you. If you want to do > a more Community Foundation, we need bylaws which reflect this. We need It is hard to get feedback on newly drafted bylaws when they are not public. How could the community help draft new bylaws that were different from what has been written? > Sorry for the long rant. > I hope it clarifies the current situation. > > Anthere Thanks again. Catching up on email, SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Lombard wiktionary
by Claudi Meneghin 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Hello, I am sysop at Lombard wikipedia. We would like a Lombard wiktionary to be created, so I would like to ask you if this item should be discussed at metawiki or if it's enough that a Lombard wikipedia exists. Maybe I had already made such a request: if so, and if a Lombard wiktionary is being created, please ignore this and let me apologize for duplicating request. Sincerely yours, Claudi Meneghin --------------------------------- Faites de Yahoo! votre page d'accueil sur le web pour retrouver directement vos services préférés : vérifiez vos nouveaux mails, lancez vos recherches et suivez l'actualité en temps réel. Cliquez ici.

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Announcing... CommonsTicker
by Brianna Laugher 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hello, CommonsTicker is a special tool created by (commons:,meta:,:de:w:)User:Duesentrieb to allow for greater communication and transparency between the Commons and local projects (all projects, all languages) that use the Commons. When it is set up, a log page is created and a bot posts updates about any critical events that occur to any Commons images that are being used by that project. Critical events are: image replacement (a new version of an image being uploaded over the top of an existing one), an image being marked or unmarked with a deletion tag (including no source, etc), and an image being deleted. This allows local project users to immediately identify any images that have been nominated for deletion, giving them plenty of notice to take part in the deletion discussion, as well as checking that image replacements are not vandalism and removing any red links from deleted images. CommonsTicker is completely translatable (if you provide a translation). All it needs to be set up is a project admin to "sponsor" it through the early days. Now taking requests! :) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker : instructions on set-up, contact, translation, request queue http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:CommonsTicker : Example Ticker in English (There are also Tickers already set up in German, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Chinese and Slovak.) Well, I guess this message is mostly for the non-English wiktionaries, then. If you want to translate the gist of this message for any project that would be great. cheers, Brianna (commons:user:pfctdayelise)

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Re: [Wiktionary-l] [Wikitech-l] Categories on nap.wikipedia.org don't work
by GerardM 28 May '06

28 May '06

Hoi, I do not understand the need for markup in titles. I certainly believe that when markup prevents correct orthography in titles in any language, it means that markup cannot be handled in titles and consequently the markup in titles should not be allowed. As MediaWiki is about supporting all languages, markup in titles is clearly at best a nice to have and certainly not a must have. Representing orthographies is indeed a MUST have feature. PS I cross-post to the Wiktionary list. As they have as their aim to include all words in all languages, it affects ALL wiktionary projects. Thanks, GerardM On 5/28/06, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it> wrote: > Brion Vibber schrieb: > > Sabine Cretella wrote: > > > >> We really do need '' as normal chars and not to initiate text written in > >> italics ... we must be able to include this in a wiki link in some way > >> and also in a category link ... is there a way to get a different tag > >> for that - something like <apostrophs> </apostrophs> or whatever? > >> > > > > Since '' can't be round-tripped reliably in wikitext, it's most likely that > > we'll have to make '' explicitly forbidden in wiki page titles in the course of > > fixing parser bugs. > > > > I strongly recommend you find another way of representing page titles that > > doesn't require the use of markup. > > > You mean a language should change its ortography to comply with > Mediawiki software? That sounds really strange ... and if instead of > Neapolitan we talked about English, German or any other of the "big" > languages? Must these then also comply to the software or do we then > have the momentum when a way is being searched to have these languages > write their titles correctly? Hmmm ... > > So what would you do if the English language had this requirement? Would > you also say the whole world then must misspell because the software > does not support it? > > Ciao, Sabine > Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! > http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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