Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?
David Gerard wrote: 2009/6/28 Walter Vermeir wal...@wikipedia.be: Probaly useful for those who do not know it; an expamle It comes out infrequently enough that I suggest that posting it here regularly would be an excellent idea. Could generate discussion, too. And reader submissions! I am in favor of this. It's certainly relevant to this list. Cary ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?
I also think it's a good idea. It contains a lot of useful information and would be valuable for subscribers to this list. --- Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: David Gerard wrote: 2009/6/28 Walter Vermeir wal...@wikipedia.be: Probaly useful for those who do not know it; an expamle It comes out infrequently enough that I suggest that posting it here regularly would be an excellent idea. Could generate discussion, too. And reader submissions! I am in favor of this. It's certainly relevant to this list. Cary ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?
It's a magnificent idea in my opinion, as well. Just make sure, please, that you include a prominent unsubscribe link in the first couple of issues, so those who are subscribers of this list as well as Wikizine can unsubscribe the duplicate copy. Best, Bence 2009/6/29 Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com I also think it's a good idea. It contains a lot of useful information and would be valuable for subscribers to this list. --- Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: David Gerard wrote: 2009/6/28 Walter Vermeir wal...@wikipedia.be: Probaly useful for those who do not know it; an expamle It comes out infrequently enough that I suggest that posting it here regularly would be an excellent idea. Could generate discussion, too. And reader submissions! I am in favor of this. It's certainly relevant to this list. Cary ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?
Bence Damokos schreef: It's a magnificent idea in my opinion, as well. Just make sure, please, that you include a prominent unsubscribe link in the first couple of issues, so those who are subscribers of this list as well as Wikizine can unsubscribe the duplicate copy. Best, Bence All postings to Foundation-l include by default unsubscribe information in the footer to unsubscribe from Foundation-l. So does the Wikizine mailing lists postings to unsubscribe from those. General RE; Anyone who has problems to unsubscribe can also ask by means of the admin email address / feedback channels that are provided. Please do not to that on the list itself. To what you subscribe is your own choice of course. But it can be useful to stay subscribed to EN Wikizine directly. It depends what your reader profile is. In any case if EN Wikizine can be posted on Foundation-l it increases the exposure to it. What will result, I strongly hope, in deeper penetration in the non-English language projects and feedback increase in general. Greetings, Walter -- Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org Wikizine.org - news for and about the Wikimedia community ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Walter Vermeirwal...@wikipedia.be wrote: Bence Damokos schreef: It's a magnificent idea in my opinion, as well. Just make sure, please, that you include a prominent unsubscribe link in the first couple of issues, so those who are subscribers of this list as well as Wikizine can unsubscribe the duplicate copy. Best, Bence All postings to Foundation-l include by default unsubscribe information in the footer to unsubscribe from Foundation-l. So does the Wikizine mailing lists postings to unsubscribe from those. General RE; Anyone who has problems to unsubscribe can also ask by means of the admin email address / feedback channels that are provided. Please do not to that on the list itself. To what you subscribe is your own choice of course. But it can be useful to stay subscribed to EN Wikizine directly. It depends what your reader profile is. In any case if EN Wikizine can be posted on Foundation-l it increases the exposure to it. What will result, I strongly hope, in deeper penetration in the non-English language projects and feedback increase in general. Greetings, Walter -- Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org Wikizine.org - news for and about the Wikimedia community ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Magnificent idea! I would encourage other cross-project user-driven initiatives such as this to consider similar postings (Podcasts too! A copy of the summary with a link to the episode would do nicely :). As long as they're cross-project they would fit the scope of foundation-l well. IMO, everyone benefits! -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?
Probaly useful for those who do not know it; an expamle ** ____ _ __ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | | |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2009 Week: 26 Number: 109 ** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community // === Technical news === [New Green Data Centers] - The Foundation announced a new in-kind sponsorship (valued at over ?300,000) by green (environmentally friendly) Data Center EvoSwitch. EvoSwitch will be Wikimedia's new Internet HUB for Europe. Not only does this provide us with a long-term solution for delivering faster and better traffic in Europe and beyond, it also means that Wikimedia servers are taking advantage of cutting edge green power technology provided by Evoswitch. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Selects_EvoSwitch_June_2009 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/06/22/evoswitch-helps-us-improve-project-access-in-europe-and-beyond/ [Public repositories for dumps] - A new public repository has been created to host WikiXRay database dumps, containing info extracted from public Wikipedia dbdumps. The image is hosted by RedIRIS (in short, the Spanish equivalent of Kennisnet in Netherlands). These new dumps are aimed to save time and effort to other researchers, since they won't need to parse the complete XML dumps to extract all relevant activity metadata. As of press time, only some of the biggest Wikipedias are available. However, in the following days the full set of available languages will be ready for downloading. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2009-June/000825.html -- mailing list post http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/WKP_research/ -- respository [Chinese search improved] - the search function for the Chinese and Japanese wiki's are improved due to to a better support of the language structure. http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/06/chinese-language-search-fixes-for-mediawiki/ === Request for help === [Spread the word!] - We are very happy with your readership, but the subscriber numbers are not really growing anymore. Wikizine could use some more readers. Maybe are there users on your wiki who do not know about Wikizine? Talk about Wikizine, put a Wikizine banner on your user page or on a community page if approved. Thanks. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/banners === Foundation === [Wikimania] - last year the were missing but now the are back; the hacking days. Those who love to work on MediaWiki extensions, bot scripts, toolserver stuff, etc.can amuse themselves at Wikimania. http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days === Legal === [Plagiarism?] - There's a report that some parts of Chris Anderson's book Free were copied from various Wikipedia articles without attribution. This news has been picked up by a few gossip blogs, but has not been confirmed as accurate. http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/ === Agenda === [SF: Mozilla] - Mozilla Labs is holding their monthly meetup at Mozilla's new HQ in Mountain View Thursday (6/25) night. The topic should be of interest to local SF Wikimedians (some members from the WMF office are going too). Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, will talk about the ?Open Social Web? initiative to put users back in control of who they know when using socially-enabled sites by using open data-sharing standards. He will be discussing the social web, the underlying protocols that make it possible, and the potential role for the browser to play in this world. https://labs.mozilla.com/2009/06/mozilla-labs-meetup-thursday-625/ [WMAT] - Wikimedia Österreich (the Austrian chapter of the Foundation) will be holding its second Annual General Assembly on 26 June 2009 at 19:00 at the AKH-Hörsaal Medical Center in Vienna. If you live in Austria, please attend! http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/vereinat-l/2009-June/49.html (German) === Community === [Wikimedium #2] - Wikimedia Deutschland released its second newspaper aimed at (potential) sponsors, partners, friends and fans of Wikimedia, The new edition includes issues 'around the world' (from other Chapters), information about the recent conferences in Berlin (developers, board, and chapter meets), explanation of the Wikipedia structure, and a lot more. The next edition is planned for September. It's definitely worth reading if you know German! http://wikimedia.de/fileadmin/wiki/images/Downloads/Wikimedium_2009-02.pdf [New DVD (for Linux)] - Wikimedia CH (in collaboration with openZIM) has released a new edition of the German Wikipedia DVD on LinuxTag 2009. The DVD contains more than 900,000 German Wikipedia articles and a full text search index for phrasal search. The
