Re: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor office hours in February
Just a reminder that these are coming up directly. :) 1700 UTC todayhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17min=00sec=0day=15month=02year=2014and 00:00 UTC tomorrowhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=00min=00sec=0day=16month=02year=2014. For those unfamiliar, these IRC live chats are explained in more detail at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. Logs of VisualEditor office hours, when completed, can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs Hope to see you there! Maggie On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Maggie Dennis mden...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi, guys. I just wanted to let you know, so you could mark your calendars if interested, that there are two IRC office hours scheduled to discuss VisualEditor in February. The first will be held on Saturday February 15 at 1700 UTC and the second will be held on Sunday February 16 at 00:00 UTC. (See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for time conversion links.) Logs will be posted on meta after each office hour completes. You'll find them, along with logs for older office hours on the topic, at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for more information on how to join in. Thanks! Maggie -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner
A message I just sent in a wikimediauk-l thread about photographic negative scanners, which I thought might be of general interest to Wikimedia organisations. tl;dr: an archival-quality negative scanner has potential to be a white elephant* (a donation that is actually a liability), but could be a useful thing that an organisation could use to make very good friends with GLAMs and individuals. - d. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant -- Forwarded message -- From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Date: 15 February 2014 20:00 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org On 15 February 2014 19:52, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 February 2014 15:23, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 February 2014 15:09, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Change of plan: Thank you, but I've been offered the use of one of these: http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/scanner/scoolscan_4000/ by a friend who lives locally. Oh you lucky bugger. That's the level of archival-quality piece of kit we could do with for WMUK. Though it would have to live in the office. A nikon product at the WMUK office? Is that wise: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canon_EOS_DSLR_family_(selection).jpg :-) Seriously, though: if you want archival quality, the way to go is a CoolScan. Not only would we be able to scan negatives ourselves (though it'd be tied to the office, rather than being a loanable item), we'd be able to make very good friends indeed with GLAMs that have random piles of unscanned negatives. It'd be nice if someone with a few hundred quid bought a CoolScan, scanned their collection, then donated the kit to WMUK when done with it. The way it usually goes is: someone buys a CoolScan on eBay, scans their negative collection, sells it to the next person. WMUK would be a suitable end point for such a chain. The main catch is for it to be *someone else's* problem to make sure a decade-old piece of kit is in usable condition not to be a white elephant - donating something that turns into a liability is helpy rather than helpful. CoolScan IV/4000 use FireWire, V/5000 on use USB ... software and supported OS is an interesting question as well ... III/3000 and earlier do archival-quality scanning, but often have weird hardware requirements. I think the I and II needed their own ISA card. This is the sort of white elephant *not* to inflict on a small charity. If I had ~£500 to spare I would happily be that person. I'm not though :-) I'll borrow the Ion (a rather less fragile piece of kit, so borrowable), but if I had access to a CoolScan I'd happily do 'em again. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Conflict resolution wikis
Please see WikiWinWin: A Wiki Based System Together with Win Win Method for Collaborative Requirements Negotiation by Ledan Huang, Xiaobo Wu and Yangu Zhang (2013) http://www.atlantis-press.com/php/download_paper.php?id=10885 Does someone want to do a Mediawiki extension for Google Summer of Code or the like to implement a riff on that? It's applicable to more than just software development, and the software development it talks about includes collaborative documentation. I suspect that it is very similar to general accuracy maintenance automation, and it still works better with a human participant driving the process schedule (to the extent that human is skilled at it) but there are some very attractive opportunities for e.g. Wikidata and maintenance bot integration down the road if it works out. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
