forwarding because this hits more people than just wikitech-l
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From: Robert Stojnic <rainmansr(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2010/8/12
Subject: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
We are currently relocating some servers internally in the datacenter.
As a consequence, search snippets, "did you mean..." and interwiki
search are going to be turned off during this time, and only bare
results shown. This will affect all WMF wikis. I expect, if everything
goes well, that in around 4-5h things are going to go back to normal.
Cheers, Robert
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Due to numerous requests we have extended the submission deadline for
Wikimania 2010 as follows:
* Abstract Registration: May 24, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for workshops: May 29, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for panels, tutorials, presentations: June 3, 11.59
p.m. (Pacific Time)
See the Call for Participation for more details:
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP
Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-)
See you in Gdansk, July 9-11!
With best regards,
Wikimania Team
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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!
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Marcin Cieslak
Wikimania 2010 Gdansk
A thread on foundation-l right now relates to Incubator.
Other than on foundation-l and its mailman archives, you can check out
the thread here:
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/177813>
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From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Brian<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> I propose expanding the notion of the Wikimedia Incubator to include
> entirely new projects that are very, very easy to create. They don't need to
> be approved by the WMF - they just need to demonstrate their value by
> attracting a community and creating great content. This would be more like
> the Apache Incubator, but even more open. This gives people an easy way to
> prototype their ideas for new projects, to advertise them, and over time
> will give an overview of what kinds of projects and approaches to projects
> are likely to succeed and likely to fail.
Brilliant idea.
Currently new projects proposed on meta have buckley's chance of ever
starting. Wikiversity wasn't a new project - it was split from
wikibooks.
We would need a bit of infrastructure around new concepts before they
land on the incubator, such as a detailed description of the purpose,
and an experienced admin willing to monitor that area of the
incubator.
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This seems like an amazing chance for WikiProjects in almost any area.
(especially incubator projects ;)
You need to describe how your work supports open education, set a
project with milestones and metrics for success, and submit a grant
request:
http://blogs.talis.com/education/incubator/guidelines/
We do many of the things they ask for - licensing, educational focus,
making things visible and findable online - reflexively. It would be
great to see them get a whole specturm of wikimedia proposals. [if
you /do/ submit one, consider posting a version of it on strategy.wikimedia.org
as well. ]
SJ
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From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Talis Incubator for Open Education funding available
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, chapters(a)wikimedia.ch
Via the Creative Commons blog - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17005
Talis Incubator for Open Education
For the latest news follow us on twitter: @talisincubator
Talis understands the growing importance of the Open Education
movement and its potential impact on how education is accessed,
assessed and certified.
Aimed at individuals or small groups, the Talis Incubator for Open
Education provides angel funding and other forms of assistance for
ideas and projects that have the potential to further the cause of
Open Education through the use of technology. All we ask in return is
that you donate or ‘open source’ the intellectual property generated
back to the communities that could benefit most from your work.
The brief
1. Write a proposal outlining your Open Education related project
or idea, making a bid for funding of between £1,000 and £15,000.
2. After reviewing and making sure your proposal meets the
guidelines, submit it to incubator(a)talis.com.
3. A proposal review board made up of independent thought leaders
and Talis representatives decide which projects get funding.
4. For successful bids, Talis awards you the funds and organises
any other help you have asked for.
5. Complete the project according to the schedule outlined in your proposal.
6. Talis helps you to make sure your work is disseminated amongst
the community.
from http://blogs.talis.com/education/incubator/
they also note "We also welcome applications from outside the UK,
however we regret that we can only consider and award amounts in GBP
(£), so if you are from outside the UK please account for exchange
rate fluctuation, and make sure you can receive funds paid in GBP."
Looks a bit interesting!
cheers
Brianna
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The Meadow Mari Wikipedia has been created yesterday, and the content has
been transferred by MF-Warburg.
It was an urgent request, because today (10 July) there is a big conference
for the Mari people, so the Mari Wikipedia can be introduced to them.
--> http://mhr.wikipedia.org/ (if it shows "wiki does not exist", refresh
the page; there seems to be some problems with the cache)
Greetings,
SPQRobin
Dear Wiki incubator,
My name is Duc. First of all, God bless Wiki.
I do not know whether this mail address is right or wrong.
I have a company in Korea for online game service and I hope its name can use "wiki". It will be wikigame and wikiple.
Wikigame means only for game service and Wikiple means the people who use wiki whatever.
For now wikigame.com is owned by someone else who I do not know while wikiple.com is owned by me.
The name Wikiple is created by me and this means to connect all people in the world who use wiki service to make our
world better and in effective way.
My philosophy is to go with end users and the poors. We plan to donate to them abt 5-10% of Net profit from our service and this will be also helpful to other wiki services under the name of "wiki".
Here I would like to ask 2 things;
1st, could we use wikiple.com without your permission?
2nd, we want to join one of your wiki service group. Is this possible?
We are very small company of 10 persons. I do not know whether you can accept my idea but I hope you can.
If you do not control my issue, please FWD my mail to whom control, Or let me know the right person.
Thank you very much in advance.
Lee.
"생각하면서 살지 않으면, 사는대로 생각하게 된다"
TO: Incubator(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
I'm Lalchhuansanga Pachuau, from Mizoram State of India. I want to start
Mizo Wikipedia (http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/lus). Now, I and my
friends start working on Khampat .COM (http://www.khampat.com), the Mizo
web-portal and we are planning to host an wiki encyclopedia (we called it
Wikipatdia) and hosting on http://wiki.khampat.com.
But, now we found out that there is a chance that you can host(?) Mizo
Wikipedia. So, we are contacting you for how to start it.
And, we want to ask these:
1. How many articles you need for us to start Mizo Wikipedia?
2. Who will manage the front page (Main_Page)?
3. Can we/I have more/advanced access regarding the administration by
myself or my team?
We are waiting for your response.
N.B: We already have some knowledge on Mediawiki software, you can check
out at http://wiki.khampat.com
Thanking you,
Lalchhuansanga Pachuau
Administrator
Khampat .COM
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Khampat .COM, the Mizo web-portal
-> http://www.khampat.com
Wikimedia IRC community,
I invite you to read the following announcement and then, if you wish
to discuss it, join us on meta at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IRC/Group_Contacts/Noticeboard>.
I am pleased to announce that the IRC Group Contacts team has been
changed over to a new group with a strong manifesto. James Forrester,
previously chair of the group, has stepped down due to real life
commitments inhibiting him from being as active as he once was. On
behalf of everyone who uses IRC I'd like to thank him for all the work
he has put into the role, and personally I thank him for his guidance
while I was deputy IRC Group Contact in fulfilling the role as best as
possible; it was invaluable advice.
With James leaving the post of chair, I have taken on this role and I
now have three new deputies: Casey Brown [[m:User:Cbrown1023]] kibble
on IRC, Filip Maljkovic [[m:User:Dungodung]] dungodung on IRC, and
Ryan [[m:User:Rjd0060]] Rjd0060 on IRC. James and I, with the
involvement of these three and a small team of other IRC
representatives and functionaries, chose these three as people we know
and trust enough to be able to work with, and as users who we feel
suit the Group Contact role well, and of course who have the time and
motivation to carry out the job.
What is the role of the Group Contact, then, that I have just
mentioned? We have set this down for ourselves far more rigorously
than before. Over late 2008 to early 2009 the levels of service from
James and I have been very poor compared to what is rightly expected
by the community - we appreciate that things have been poor. So the
new group has come up with ways of trying to engage with everyone
involved in IRC more. We intend to try to touch base with our Channel
Contacts significantly more often, first by encouraging them to join
us in #wikimedia-ops (#wikimedia-irc has been closed and redirected to
-ops to try and centralise discussion). They already do a great job
but we feel they could benefit from greater support from the Group
Contacts. We intend to be around more to be involved in discussions,
but we are going to try and remain laid back in terms of using
authority directly: the fact that power is delegated to channel
contacts and their operator teams, we feel, is an important part of
IRC running smoothly.
On a technical note, I am in fact the only Group Contact recognised by
freenode at the moment to perform technical actions like the setting
of cloaks and taking over of inactive channels. We hope that freenode
will get the other contacts approved soon but we have no ETA on this
and the queue is roughly four years long. We have in the past received
special treatment for being a large project on the network, but we
haven't been told there's any reason why we'd get this this time. So
for the moment please be patient while technical GC work is funnelled
by the whole team to me. Our requests for the other GCs to be
recognised have, however, been submitted into the queue.
On another technical note, you may see the nick wmfgc around freenode
- this is an account used to hold GC priviledges, since there are now
many of us who may need access to it.
We intend to hold a Group Contact Surgery, per [[m:IRC Group
Contacts/Surgeries]], soon in order that issues from the community can
be discussed with other IRC users and contacts around.
All of the major IRC channel contacts and the IRC Group Contacts can
now be reached on <irc-contacts(a)lists.wikimedia.org>.
If you just need to contact a GC there is also
<irc-contacts-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org>.
Sean Whitton [[m:User:Sean Whitton]] seanw on IRC
for the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts
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Hi,
I think Wiki Incubator makes it really too hard to find a new incubator list. Last night I was on the page for the project for a Jamaican language Wikipedia, and I signed up and contributed articles. Now I can't find that page for the life of me. I think you should do something to make it easier to find links to these things. All I can find links to is individual articles, but not to the list that shows all the articles for that language.
username: Eric Kojo