Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process
Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu: Ziko: what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest money in promoting it? Good questions, subtle answers. Those are not the only options; we might help them merge with a similar project. For instance, wikieducator and wikiversity have almost identical missions, and might benefit from being merged; the question of 'who hosts the site' is relatively minor compared to the loss of splitting energy and focus across two wikis. I would like to add another option: Who not merge all projects into Wikipedia proper? The lack in participation in the sister projects is largely due to the fact that hardly anyone knows about them. Wikipedia is the only Wikimedia brand people know of. There is nothing you can do about it. If the sister projects were living in their own namespaces within Wikipedia this would be different. We would have, say, a Wikipedia dictionary. They would become part of Wikipedia and, hence, partaking in Wikipedia's popularity. Putting money in sister projects just means wasting funds. The future lies in integrating them into Wikipedia. Five years of experience is enough to tell. Regards, Jürgen. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile
Am 20. März 2012 18:18 schrieb David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: This is a drastic policy change that affects all projects, and so needs wider discussion than just wikitech-l. Thanks for forwarding the discussion. I wonder whether we should rather use our strength in users' demand in order to make pressure on manufacturers to support free-software codecs than adopting the costly and patented codecs. I mean, it's not only about content. MediaWiki and Wikimedia should remain free from a technical point of view, too. Regards, Jürgen. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] iBooks vs. wBooks?
Am 26. Januar 2012 08:47 schrieb Orionist orion@gmail.com: In fact Apple took the standard epub format and added their own proprietary elements, thus creating a new proprietary ibooks format. The new format will only be readable with the iBooks 2 software which is confined to iOS. The format specs are not published either, so I won't hold my breath for compatible readers from other companies. What's more, the iBook Authoring software is only available for Max OS X Lion. It does not run on any other platform. I second your suggestion to make our content available in free ebook formats. Regards, Jürgen. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Software idea: a Wikipedia Explorer that lets you browse Wikipedia and more
Am 27. Dezember 2011 22:39 schrieb Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com: Besides social features such as chat, discussions and resource announcement/retrieval, it could also have personal features such as bookmarks, ebook creation, etc., so that before the program's user base becomes large enough for its social features to be really useful, a user can already find the program's personal features useful. I suggest the Wikimedia Foundation set up a Diaspora pod and a StatusNet server for Wikimedia users to communicate. As a Wikipedian I would like to have my social network accounts on a Wikimedia server. We could also run an IRC or a Jabber server of our own for chatting. Regards, Jürgen. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Software idea: a Wikipedia Explorer that lets you browse Wikipedia and more
Am 27. Dezember 2011 23:24 schrieb Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com: In my original message I mentioned a chat room and a forum for every Wikipedia article. For chat rooms, yes, an IRC server has to be created (or use an existing IRC network such as FreeNode). For forums, however, we don't need a centralized forum server. Wikipedia Explorer will help the user create a blog with Blogger.com, and put all his forum posts on this blog, and call Google Blog Search to retrieve blog posts associated with a particular Wikipedia article and then merge them into a forum view. Again: No desktop software, but a cloud solution. Even though I am now posting from a Google account, we do not need Google or indeed any other company for that, we can do it ourserves, there are free alternatives we can set up for the community. Regards, Jürgen. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
