Hi, just a heads up about http://fosdem.org - Brussels 1 & 2 Feb 2014.
One of the biggest and coolest grassroots open source events in the
World - and the main one in Europe.
European orgs and individuals loving software freedom: Wikimedia wants
to have a stand. Let's do something cool! Get involved.
Discussion better at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM or
wikitech-l.
Thank you!
PS: read below
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Subject: FOSDEM update
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:39:58 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, about FOSDEM - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM
Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2014
On 1 Oct we will know whether our proposal for a Wiki DevRoom has been
accepted or not. This is a DevRoom we have proposed together with XWiki
and TikiWiki and is open to all wiki topics. If we we get it accepted we
will organize a call for participation for this DevRoom.
The call for main track session proposals is open until 1 Oct.
https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-08-06-call-for-participation/
... and the call for lightning talks and stands is open until 20 Nov.
https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-09-17-call-for-participation-part-two/
You are encouraged to submit lightning talk proposals! Don worry if you
are unsure between submitting a session for a lightning talk or a
devroom: you can contact both and then they suggest you what to do.
Wikimedia wants to have a stand, and we have received an offer to help
from the nascent Wikimedia Belgium chapter. Probably more help can be
aggregated from CH, DE, FR, NL, UK + other tech contributors in the
region? Let's do something really cool! To be discussed.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
(Please excuse cross-posting)
Over the next few months, I will be overhauling the Welcome to Wikipedia
brochure[1] to better reflect what new editors need to know when learning
how to contribute to Wikipedia. I'm hoping to get a wide variety of
feedback on what people like and do not like about the current brochure so
I can create a new version that reflects the best knowledge we collectively
have about outreach to newbies.
Please see more details and add your feedback here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_(Bookshelf)/2013_e…
LiAnna
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hi All,
As you may be aware, Wikimedia Australia (WMAU) has been working for a
period of time now to improve the quality of coverage on Wikimedia projects
of Paralympic and disabled sports. A joint project between WMAU, the
Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) and the University of Queensland (UQ)
has recently been successful in attracting funding from the Australian
Research Council.
Our friends at UQ have issued a media release on behalf of those involved
in the project that gives a bit of background as to what it's all about and
what we hope to achieve:
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=26747
At WMAU, we feel that apart from making more information available on
Wikimedia on this often neglected area, projects like this one have a role
in increasing diversity on our projects, in this case, encouraging more
disabled people to participate by providing outreach and editing workshops
focusing on a topic that is of interest to many of them.
Regards,
Craig Franklin
President - Wikimedia Australia
Hi all,
Some of you would have already heard about the recent partnership
between Malayalam Wikimedians & German University of Tubingen to digitize
the works of Herman Gundert.
Dr. Hermann Gundert was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well
as the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse.
Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam
(1859), the Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on
Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at Tellicherry on
the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India. Gundert also contributed to the fields
of history, geography and astronomy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert
The corpus of nearly 80 manuscripts, 150 printed works and some palm leaf
manuscripts of the German scholar available with the university runs into
some 42,000 pages.
A detailed history of this effort can be read here
http://shijualex.in/tubingen-university-gundert-collection/ ( Blog by Shiju
Alex in Malayalam)
Project Page in Malayalam WikiSource :
https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9…
The project named “Gundert legacy – a digitization project of the
University of Tuebingen” will be started soon.
Some News Coverage :
The Hindu :
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/german-university-gifts-malayalam…
Times of India :
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA5Lz…
New Indian Express :
http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/German-University-to-digitise-Mala…
Kudos to Shiju Alex and the Malayalam Wikipedian/WikiSource Community who
are part of this effort.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and
I suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an
extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language
version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook
does. It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is
not 100% as the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other
sources than Wikipedia/commons.
Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have
they developed this all by themselves?
Anders
[1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
Hi everyone,
WMF researchers have agreed to participate in an office hour about WMF research projects and methodologies.
The currently scheduled participants are:
* Aaron Halfaker, Research Analyst (contractor)
* Jonathan Morgan, Research Strategist (contractor)
* Evan Rosen, Data Analytics Manager, Global Development
* Haitham Shammaa, Contribution Research Manager
* Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst, Strategy
We'll meet on IRC in #wikimedia-office on April 22 at 1800 UTC. Please join us.
Pine
Hi everyone,
I just got this email from Wikimedia UK. Are more chapters considering
this? I see some pro's and con's on
https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/IT_Development/This_wiki , but it
doesn't list the most important con: Waste of movement effort and money
on for example debugging a mangled database (see
https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=GLAM-WIKI_2013%2FAttendees&…
and than click contribs).
Maarten
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Datum: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:30:02 +0000
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Aan: Multichill <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/
“This thinly disguised corporate propaganda is inaccurate and
inappropriate,” says Mitch Stoltz, an intellectual property attorney
with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who reviewed the material at
WIRED’s request.
“It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on
others’ ideas always requires permission,” Stoltz says. “The
overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be
consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on
corporate profits.”
I suggest we see if WMF commenting, possibly in a blog post or
similar, would help avert such anti-sharing foolishness.
- d.