Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists
The best thing it would do is ensure the lists are the same across all languages, I believe! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 16 May 2015 at 16:29, Carcharoth wrote: > It looks interesting. What does this do that lists on individual > Wikipedias can't do? > > I work a fair amount on award lists, and some are in other countries > or have recipients with articles in other Wikipedias, but mostly they > are relatively obscure and will not have an article on any Wikipedia. > > Examples: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frink_Medal > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidy_Award > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer_Memorial_Prize > > There are huge numbers of awards articles out there, some waiting to > be created. Many of them are good resources for red-links of articles > that could be created. > > A better example (for more interwikis) is this article (in en, de, it and > pt): > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens_Ring > > How would wikidata handle that sort of data? > > Carcharoth > > On 5/14/15, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Hoi, > > Magnus has produced new functionality that allows for lists that are > based > > on information in Wikidata. > > > > The great thing is that it is essentially possible to maintain the data > in > > Wikidata only and show the information on any and all Wikipedias. > > > > Examples are lists for award winners or lists that include data that > > changes often. > > > > I blogged about it and, I want to move the list for the N peace award and > > make it a proper article on the English Wikipedia. > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/05/wikipedia-farkhunda-iii.html > > ___ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Help finding photos on Flickr
Of course Carcharoth. Cany promise anything but happy to try! On 11 Aug 2014 13:02, "Carcharoth" wrote: > Would anyone subscribed to this mailing list have time to help finding > suitably licensed photos on Flickr (or elsewhere) for an article I > worked on recently? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenary_of_the_outbreak_of_World_War_I > > Currently there are four commemoration events listed on that page at > which photos were taken, but I'm struggling to find photos from those > events on Commons or Flickr under a free license. > > On Commons I found this image: > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liege-Cointe-Tour_Memorial_Interallie-20060605.jpg > > Which is the venue for one of the events, but ideally any images used > would be taken at the events themselves. > > Carcharoth > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Title font display
Sure - see here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/27/typography-refresh/ Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 4 April 2014 16:06, Carcharoth wrote: > Has the font used to display the title of Wikipedia pages changed? I > noticed things looked different today and have just worked out what > the change is. Is there a discussion about this anywhere, or more > information? > > Carcharoth > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] "Contributing to Wikipedia" brochure draft
Sage, is there any chance of producing this in a format which can be printed out in A4, rather than the US system? It'd really cut down on costs in the rest of the world and would mean that we wouldn't have to redesign the booklet to A4 (and we could use cheap A4 paper rather than the more expensive letter-sized type) :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 10 December 2013 19:46, Sage Ross wrote: > We're nearing the completion of a project to create a new introductory > brochure for helping newcomers to get started on Wikipedia. It's the > new version of the old "Welcome to Wikipedia" brochure. > > There are still some refinements being made, and there's still time to > make changes based on feedback, but it's starting to come into its > final form. Check it out and leave suggestions, please! > > I'll keep this page updated with the latest PDF as we get new > revisions from the designer we're working with: > > > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_%28Bookshelf%29/2013_edition/draft > > Cheers, > > Sage Ross > Communications Contractor, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Is this a trademark violation?
I used to work for cha cha... Or at least, I trained their staff at my old job. They're a text message question answering service based in the us but using Philippine staff. On Feb 8, 2013 1:48 PM, "Daniel R. Tobias" wrote: > I just ran into this Twitter account: > > https://twitter.com/Wikipedia411 > > It has "Wikipedia" as part of its username/URL, and uses > "Wikipedia.org" as its account name (displayed at the top of its > tweets). However, the description on its account page says "Facts > brought to you daily. Not affiliated with Wikipedia, aggregate > content generator." > > Where copyright is concerned, it would probably be in violation of > the license of Wikipedia if it used more than fair-use amounts of > Wikipedia text, since there's reference to credits or license, but if > they just paraphrase facts derived from Wikipedia (as they seem to be > doing, and just about the only way to get anything from Wikipedia > into 140 characters anyway) they're probably in the clear there since > facts are not copyrightable (only the expression of them). > > However, it is trademark law they are most clearly afoul of; despite > their disclaimer, they're using an account name that seems to imply > that they represent Wikipedia (you have to pull up their profile page > to find out they're not official, so lots of people who see retweeted > tweets from them will think they're coming from Wikipedia), and they > also use Wikipedia's logo as their icon. > > While most of their tweets have facts that presumably came from > Wikipedia, the stream is peppered with tweets with "teaser" text and > a link, which when followed doesn't go to Wikipedia but to some site > called ChaCha (the link destination, as usual on Twitter, is > obfuscated by the use of link-shorteners). That site has the typical > annoying style of many modern websites of presenting its content in > "slideshow" style with bite-size chunks of content that are "1 of 10" > and you have to keep following "Next" links to get to the rest of the > feature, and if you don't use AdBlock Plus they're all surrounded by > annoying ads, some of which blast sound at you, and try to spawn > popups and the like. > > -- > == Dan == > Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ > Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ > Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ > > > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
