Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-23 Thread Eugene Eric Kim
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've started page: 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_encourage_participation

 Feel free to add your ideas.

 If the page with the same idea exists elsewhere -- let's say at
 Strategy Wiki -- please merge pages and let the list know.

There's lots of great research and proposals on encouraging participation at:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Participation

=Eugene

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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-23 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Eugene Eric Kim ee...@blueoxen.com wrote:
 There's lots of great research and proposals on encouraging participation at:

 http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Participation

Thanks! This page [1] has the similar scope, actually.

[1] - http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attracting_and_retaining_participants

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Mark Williamson wrote:
 In addition, I have a feeling that article overstates the English
 abilities of the average non-native internet user. Yes, lots of people
 have a very (very!) basic command of English, but that is not the same
 as functional bilingualism. A user may happen to know the name for a
 horse, but what are the chances a casual user from Peru knows the name
 for an anteater, a giraffe or a jellyfish?


   

Amusingly enough, a former student of Martin Luther, by
the name of Michael Agricola, faced this problem when
translating the bible into Finnish in the 17th century.

Yes, Virginia, the Finnish language really didn't exist as
a written word but late in the 17th century.

Michaels solution to the knotty problem of how to describe
animals the common folk had not really had any experience
of, was to rely on the most conspicuous visual, which often
ended up mildly humorous to later readers. An ostritch he
dubbed what would be literally Stork-camel, (kamelikurki
Lion in a more amusing coinage was to Michael a noble deer
(jalopeura), going with the color of the pelt despite the fact
that lions are hardly ruminants.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen






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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Lion in a more amusing coinage was to Michael a noble deer
 (jalopeura), going with the color of the pelt despite the fact
 that lions are hardly ruminants.


 Yours,

 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen


Not to mention the cats not cattle thing.  A pride versus a herd is a world
of difference in the realm of collective connotation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Magnus Manske
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
 On 06/22/2010 08:07 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
 I would consider this state as a poor reflection on Commons' accessibility.
 Especially as Google image search (imho, the likeliest avenue of searching
 for images) gives 130 000 pictures of horses on Commons if searched in
 English, zero if searched in Estonian (hobu), and while it gives 160 000
 results for a Hungarian search (ló) on the first page only one of it is an
 image that resembles a horse.

 Here's a thought: Enter hobu into translate.google.com, leave
 source language on automatic and target on English, and it will
 happily translate it into horse. Could we offer a translation link
 in search? As in, translate my query into English and try again? I'm
 sure we can come to an arrangement with Google (or someone else).

 I already made something similar: http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php

Nice! Now it needs language auto-detect, and Estonian for the example
(unless I didn't see it), and, of course, integration into Commons...

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Keegan Peterzell
Oh, I misread that.  Disregard.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 
 cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:

 Lion in a more amusing coinage was to Michael a noble deer
 (jalopeura), going with the color of the pelt despite the fact
 that lions are hardly ruminants.


 Yours,

 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen


 Not to mention the cats not cattle thing.  A pride versus a herd is a world
 of difference in the realm of collective connotation.
 --
 ~Keegan

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan




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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Tisza Gergo
Samuel Klein meta...@... writes:

 I'd like to see such translation tools used to enhance the tags used
 to identify an image, so that all internet searches can find images by
 those tags.

I think this stuff should be left for Google. A clever search engine should be
able to figure out that if you are looking for Pferd images, horse images
will also be of interest; and Google is getting clever quickly in this regard.
(For example, recently Google web search has been offering to translate the
search phrase to English, and translate the results back to you.)

OTOH, it would be a nice feature to show translated page and category names when
someone looks at the page with the interface language set to non-English.


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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-23 Thread Aphaia
One thing we can do would be to make contributors' names more visible.
Translators for WMF stuff too (Ting Chen made a good point about the
latter in Alexandria). Many websites gives clear credits to
contributors - not only for-profit media, but websites whose content
is mainly written by volunteers, like Global Online. In TED related
translations, their translators' names are on the same webpage of
video or transcript,   and much visible than in MediaWiki history
pages.

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote:
 Oh, I agree that thanking someone for their service to WMF projects is
 important, too. We need to do more to recognize the invaluable contributions
 that we people make to keep the various projects going.

 But, in addition to giving encouragement though thanks and recognition, I
 support introducing social features into our projects. The main benefit and
 focus for the on site features would be the ability for people with similar
 interests to connect with each other as they work together on site.

 See the list of ideas from the strategic planning process.

 http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations/Community_health_1Volunteer
 recognition

 http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations/Community_health_4Social
 features

 Sydney

 On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Marc Riddell 
 michaeldavi...@comcast.netwrote:

 Sydney,

 I agree with your thoughts here. But you are talking about activities
 community members can participate in. I am talking about how those
 community
 members interact with each other.

 Marc


 on 6/19/10 5:58 PM, Sydney Poore at sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote:

  English Wikipedia has numerous contests during the year. Some people
  regularly participate in them and enjoy them.
 
  Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest is an example of one that
 is
  ongoing.
 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MILCON
 
  Picture of the year is popular with some people on Commons.
 
  While everyone does not want to be involved in contests, they appeal to
 some
  people and I see no problem with us introducing more of them in WMF
 projects
  to see if they will draw people into the movement.
 
  I feel the same way about encouraging new ways to get different groups of
  people involved with WMF projects.
 
  If gaming can be used to promote an interest in WMF then that is
 goodness.
  Puzzles, board games, and even more complex fantasy games using content
  might be a draw for some people. If someone wants to develop them I would
  not stand in there way.
 
  Combining community service and socializing is very common in community
  organizations, and is appealing to many people. By adding more social
  components to WMF projects, we will most likely draw in people that
  otherwise would not volunteer. I see this as an important tool and one
 that
  should not be dismissed if we are going to broaden the base of our
  volunteers.
 
  Sydney Poore
  (FloNight)
 
  On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Marc Riddell
  michaeldavi...@comcast.netwrote:
 
  on 6/19/10 4:58 PM, Keegan Peterzell at keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  snip.
 
  There was a great TED speech that I need to look up but don't have the
  time
  for at the moment.  The premise of the presentation is that studies
 have
  shown time and time again that things like games, prizes, awards and
  other
  measures of gratitude are only temporary measures to increase
 motivation.
  The folks that work for you that are the truly motivated ones and
  believers
  in the process do not ask for these rewards.  A pat on the back and a
  good
  job, thanks for your work because I value it very much occasionally is
  the
  only true recognition that is needed.  The other fluff only inspires
  distraction from the goal because it's creating other little goals
 which,
  in
  turn, become more important than the end result.
 
  Yes! Prizes denote direct competition as in sports or, more subtly, with
  the
  science  arts awards.
 
  Person-to-person affirmation goes a very long way; and is what
  collaboration
   community should be based upon. Give them the climate, and they will
 give
  you the culture.
 
  Marc Riddell
 
 
 
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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Magnus Manske
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Tisza Gergo gti...@gmail.com wrote:
 Samuel Klein meta...@... writes:

 I'd like to see such translation tools used to enhance the tags used
 to identify an image, so that all internet searches can find images by
 those tags.

 I think this stuff should be left for Google. A clever search engine should be
 able to figure out that if you are looking for Pferd images, horse images
 will also be of interest; and Google is getting clever quickly in this regard.
 (For example, recently Google web search has been offering to translate the
 search phrase to English, and translate the results back to you.)

 OTOH, it would be a nice feature to show translated page and category names 
 when
 someone looks at the page with the interface language set to non-English.

OK, technical solution (hackish as usual, but with potential IMHO):

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Searchsearch=Pferd+SchachwithJS=MediaWiki:SearchTranslation.js

Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query
run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language
editions of Wikipedia for articles from the individual words (in this
case, Pferd and Schach), count how many exist, pick the language
with the most hits (in this case, German), and put a link to link to
Nikola's tool under the search box. The link pre-fills the source
language and query in the tool, which automatically opens the
appropriate search page.

In essence, clicking on the link gets you to the toolserver and back
to the search, this time in English, without you noticing.

I am checking all the languages the Nikola's tool offers (so no
Estonian), except English (no point, really).

Experimenting, I noticed that even if your original query got you some
results (e.g. Schaufel=47), the translation in English will give you
more (Shovel=484).

I tried to restrict the language search for the languages accepted by
the browser (so, using 1 or 2 queries instead of 32), but there
appears to be no way in JavaScript to get that information. MediaWiki
could pass it on, though...

Feel free to improve!

Cheers,
Magnus

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Tisza Gergo
Magnus Manske magnusman...@... writes:

 Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query
 run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language
 editions of Wikipedia for articles from the individual words (in this
 case, Pferd and Schach), count how many exist, pick the language
 with the most hits (in this case, German), and put a link to link to
 Nikola's tool under the search box. The link pre-fills the source
 language and query in the tool, which automatically opens the
 appropriate search page.

Again, I would suggest using Google (or an alternative with open data, if one
exists) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel:

http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|Pferd%20Schach
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Detect

It might support less languages then we have wikipedias for, but I'm pretty sure
it would give better results for the major ones.


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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Magnus Manske
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tisza Gergo gti...@gmail.com wrote:
 Magnus Manske magnusman...@... writes:

 Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query
 run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language
 editions of Wikipedia for articles from the individual words (in this
 case, Pferd and Schach), count how many exist, pick the language
 with the most hits (in this case, German), and put a link to link to
 Nikola's tool under the search box. The link pre-fills the source
 language and query in the tool, which automatically opens the
 appropriate search page.

 Again, I would suggest using Google (or an alternative with open data, if one
 exists) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel:

 http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|Pferd%20Schach
 http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Detect

 It might support less languages then we have wikipedias for, but I'm pretty 
 sure
 it would give better results for the major ones.

Well, that's what I suggested a few mails ago in this very thread.
However, people didn't seem to want it.

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread John Doe
Like I said before, If I can get some template support on commons, Ive got a
translation tool that uses one of googles APIs for translating. I just need
some assistance with figuring out how to best integrate it into commons. But
I do have a on demand mass translation tool.

John

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Tisza Gergo gti...@gmail.com wrote:

 Magnus Manske magnusman...@... writes:

  Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query
  run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language
  editions of Wikipedia for articles from the individual words (in this
  case, Pferd and Schach), count how many exist, pick the language
  with the most hits (in this case, German), and put a link to link to
  Nikola's tool under the search box. The link pre-fills the source
  language and query in the tool, which automatically opens the
  appropriate search page.

 Again, I would suggest using Google (or an alternative with open data, if
 one
 exists) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel:

 http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|Pferd%20Schachhttp://translate.google.com/#auto%7Cen%7CPferd%20Schach
 http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Detect

 It might support less languages then we have wikipedias for, but I'm pretty
 sure
 it would give better results for the major ones.


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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-23 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Aphaia aph...@gmail.com wrote:
 One thing we can do would be to make contributors' names more visible.
 Translators for WMF stuff too (Ting Chen made a good point about the
 latter in Alexandria). Many websites gives clear credits to
 contributors - not only for-profit media, but websites whose content
 is mainly written by volunteers, like Global Online. In TED related
 translations, their translators' names are on the same webpage of
 video or transcript,   and much visible than in MediaWiki history
 pages.

I think that would be a great idea, although it does have some nuts
and bolts - some way or another, one will have to filter out those who
did just minor edits, for example, or people who do not want their
edits to be named. Then again, the strength of our system is that our
system doesn't need to be perfect, if it's community-editable things
will probably work out quite reasonable. I myself would be much in
favor of it, and if I did not fear the that's not how we do things
and that's unwiki crowd, I might even have considered doing a test
with it.

-- 
André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 June 2010 15:34, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tisza Gergo gti...@gmail.com wrote:
 Magnus Manske magnusman...@... writes:

 Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query
 run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language

 Again, I would suggest using Google (or an alternative with open data, if one
 exists) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel:

 Well, that's what I suggested a few mails ago in this very thread.
 However, people didn't seem to want it.


Reliance on Google for what is really an essential function for those
who aren't native English speakers is problematic because it's (a)
third-party (b) closed. Same reason we don't use reCaptcha.


- d.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

2010-06-23 Thread David Gerard
On 19 June 2010 19:00, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
 Ryan Lomonaco wrote:

 A housekeeping note: Gmail has been marking some list messages as spam for
 the past five days or so.

 Google is evil.


Your message ended up in my Gmail spam ;-p


- d.

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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-23 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Saturday 19 June 2010 08:37:37 Milos Rancic написа:
 On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
  Дана Saturday 19 June 2010 07:37:18 Milos Rancic написа:
  On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs 
wrote:
   Or perhaps we don't even have to build one, but just use the existing
   ones. [People are always against making Wikipedia a social network.]
   Have RSS feeds of articles you created/pictures you uploaded. These
   could then be connected to Facebook or wherever for your friends to
   see what are you working on.
 
  Then you are using Facebook, not Wikimedia. And Flickr is much better
  for private photos than Wikimedia.
 
  Then your Facebook friends will see that you are doing interesting things
  on Wikipedia projects and will want to do them too.

 I don't think that it is particularly interesting to see someone's
 edits. If you are not a passionate Wikimedian, of course.

If your friends are so disinterested in Wikipedia that they aren't even 
interested in your contributions to it, why would they be interested in using 
Wikipedia as their social network?

Anyway, I made this so anyone who would like to experiment, can. 
http://toolserver.org/~nikola/snrss.php

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:13:39 Magnus Manske написа:
 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
  On 06/22/2010 08:07 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
  Here's a thought: Enter hobu into translate.google.com, leave
  source language on automatic and target on English, and it will
  happily translate it into horse. Could we offer a translation link
  in search? As in, translate my query into English and try again? I'm
  sure we can come to an arrangement with Google (or someone else).
 
  I already made something similar: http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php

 Nice! Now it needs language auto-detect, and Estonian for the example
 (unless I didn't see it), and, of course, integration into Commons...

All done, and I leave the integration to someone who knows how to navigate the 
community's labyrinths.

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Wednesday 23 June 2010 16:34:26 Magnus Manske написа:
 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tisza Gergo gti...@gmail.com wrote:
  Again, I would suggest using Google (or an alternative with open data, if
  one exists) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel:
 
  http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|Pferd%20Schach
  http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Detect
 
  It might support less languages then we have wikipedias for, but I'm
  pretty sure it would give better results for the major ones.

 Well, that's what I suggested a few mails ago in this very thread.
 However, people didn't seem to want it.

This tool of mine does use Google Translate, so probably it could be done in 
Javascript fully, if someone knows how.

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Peel

On 23 Jun 2010, at 16:23, David Gerard wrote:

 Reliance on Google for what is really an essential function for those
 who aren't native English speakers is problematic because it's (a)
 third-party (b) closed. Same reason we don't use reCaptcha.

I always think than not using reCaptcha is a shame, as it's a nice way to get 
people to proofread text in a reasonably efficient way. It would be really nice 
if someone could create something similar that proofreads OCR'd text from 
Wikisource... hint, hint.

Mike
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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Nikola Smolenski
 On 23 Jun 2010, at 16:23, David Gerard wrote:
  Reliance on Google for what is really an essential function for those
  who aren't native English speakers is problematic because it's (a)
  third-party (b) closed. Same reason we don't use reCaptcha.

On the other hand, do we have to really _rely_ on reCaptcha? If their servers 
aren't working, use the ordinary captcha. Proofread books and still not rely 
on any external servers.

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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-23 Thread Mariano Cecowski


--- El mié 23-jun-10, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net escribió:

 I always think than not using reCaptcha is a shame, as it's
 a nice way to get people to proofread text in a reasonably
 efficient way. It would be really nice if someone could
 create something similar that proofreads OCR'd text from
 Wikisource... hint, hint.

And how do you decide that what was entered is wrong or right?

Better take a look at Project Gutemberg's Distributed Proofreaders[1].

Cheers,
MarianoC.-

[1] http://pgdp.net




  

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[Foundation-l] Wikisource and reCAPTCHA

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Peel
(Renaming the subject as we've changed topic)

On 23 Jun 2010, at 21:31, Mariano Cecowski wrote:

 --- El mié 23-jun-10, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net escribió:
 
 I always think than not using reCaptcha is a shame, as it's
 a nice way to get people to proofread text in a reasonably
 efficient way. It would be really nice if someone could
 create something similar that proofreads OCR'd text from
 Wikisource... hint, hint.
 
 And how do you decide that what was entered is wrong or right?
 
 Better take a look at Project Gutemberg's Distributed Proofreaders[1].
 
 Cheers,
 MarianoC.-
 
 [1] http://pgdp.net

My understanding is that original text within the reCAPTCHA is shown to several 
different people; if they agree then the word is counted as correct. Looking at 
the Wikipedia article, it's a little more complex than that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
There's a reason why there are two words to solve during a reCAPTCHA.

What Distributed Proofreaders can do, Wikisource can do - but in a Wiki 
environment. If you haven't checked out the proofreading features that 
Wikisource now has, I would encourage you to give them a go, e.g. at:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Frederic_Shoberl_-_Persia.djvu/92

Mike
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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-23 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
 Дана Saturday 19 June 2010 08:37:37 Milos Rancic написа:
 I don't think that it is particularly interesting to see someone's
 edits. If you are not a passionate Wikimedian, of course.

 If your friends are so disinterested in Wikipedia that they aren't even
 interested in your contributions to it, why would they be interested in using
 Wikipedia as their social network?

I am not interested in my own edits. They are very boring. I don't
have any especial interest in, let's say, Mardetanha's edits at fa.wp
as I don't know Persian. However, he is my friend and I am interested
in what is going with him. I can inform myself about him at Facebook
or at Twitter, but I could do that at Wikimedia, too. Which means that
I could spend much more time on Wikimedia and probably to make some
fix or a little bigger edit anywhere. Instead, I am just doing my
bureaucratic tasks, while I am socializing at some other place. Which
gives my content there, not to Wikimedia.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

2010-06-23 Thread K. Peachey
Listing some? they did not get delivered at all.
-Peachey

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