Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announce] WMMX's assembly and new Board

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury]

Congratulations new board..

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[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on April 09, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

Hello,

A reminder that the Language Engineering IRC office hour will be
happening later today at 1700UTC/1000PDT on #wikimedia-office. Please
see below for the original announcement, local time and other details.

Thanks
Runa

Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==
# Date: April 9, 2014

# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140409T1700)

# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office

# Agenda:
1. Translation file format changes
2. Other project updates
3. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)



-- Forwarded message --
From: Runa Bhattacharjee 
Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:09 PM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on April 09, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation
, Wikimedia developers
, Wikimedia Mailing List
,
wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org


[x-posted]

Hello,

The Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC
office hour on Wednesday, April 9 2014 at 1700 UTC at
#wikimedia-office.

We will be discussing about our recent work and provide updates
related to changes in the translation file format (PHP to JSON) for
MediaWiki core and extensions. As always, we will be taking questions
during the session.

Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour.

Thanks
Runa

Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==
# Date: April 9, 2014

# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140409T1700)

# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office

# Agenda:
1. Translation file format changes
2. Other project updates
3. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)


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[Wikimedia-l] Communications Patterns Around the World

[Sue Gardner]

I stumbled across this last night and laughed out loud for a very long
time. May be useful for the folks headed to Berlin, in particular :)

(Obligatory: go Canada!)

Thanks,
Sue

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/communication-charts-around-the-world-2014-3

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communications Patterns Around the World

[Chris Keating]

On 9 Apr 2014 18:00, "Sue Gardner"  wrote:
>
> I stumbled across this last night and laughed out loud for a very long
> time.

You mean to say, you thought it was quite interesting?

;)
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[Wikimedia-l] New Commons RFC on changing the Precautionary principle to tackle the URAA problem

[Michael Maggs]

I have made a proposal to relax the scope of the Commons so-called 
Precautionary principle to allow the site to host more of the locally public 
domain files that are being deleted because of the US URAA law, and also to 
keep more photos that have freedom of panorama in their home country but which 
might (or might not) be copyright-protected in the US.

This proposal comes out of an extremely long and complicated argument about 
copyright, which you don't necessarily need to get into, but it is an attempt 
to allow Commons to host more media files while at the same time ensuring that 
the site remains fully legal under US law.  We can legally take a much more 
nuanced position than 'Definitely Free' or 'Definitely Unfree', which is pretty 
much what we do at present.

Some editors have suggested ignoring US law, which the WMF simply cannot allow 
to happen, and this is an attempt to allow us to keep more non-US Public Domain 
material while still remaining on the right side of US law.

Put simply, do you agree that Commons should aim to host more files that are 
public domain in their home country even if they *might* still be 
copyright-protected in the US?

Please contribute here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Review_of_Precautionary_principle

Michael
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[Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Something positive... I just wanted to express my sincere thanks to the
people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata.

Many of them happen to be my colleagues, but I thank them here as a
Wikimedian who frequently does editing workshops.

I did a workshop today, and I was really happy to have these three pieces
of software.

Echo, because a participant specifically asked whether he would get a
notification if someone reverted his edit. I was happy to say that a few
months ago a feature was deployed that does just that. A year ago I
wouldn't be able to say that.

VisualEditor, because it saved so much time, both for the newbies and for
the workshop organizers. In the past I would spend many minutes explaining
about [[]], , '', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ";> and other monstrosities. Today
I just told them to use VisualEditor. In particular, I want to thank the VE
developers for the recently released feature for editing the image
properties. A year ago I wouldn't be able to say that.

Wikidata, because many people there wrote translations of articles, and
adding interlanguage links was easy and natural. Click "Add links", pick a
language, write the title, that's it. Two years ago I would have to explain
about square brackets and colons. Some of them just did it by themselves
without even asking me.

So thank you so much.

PS: They also liked UniversalLanguageSelector for easy switching of the
interface language and for being able to effortlessly type in Amharic. I'm
really biased about this, but I do thank everybody in my team for this.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

[Tomasz W. Kozlowski]

Amir E. Aharoni wrote:


In the past I would spend many minutes explaining
about [[]], , '', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ";> and other monstrosities.


You should never, ever use URL as a name for a reference. :-)

But I want to join you in thanking the people behind Echo; it's a 
feature I use virtually everyday, and one without which I cannot imagine 
discussing any issue on-wiki; I only wish more people used it so I 
wouldn't miss all those interesting debates!


Tomasz

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[Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

[Asaf Bartov]

Dear colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia,
upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias.

Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and
appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add a
message in your language, here:
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1

Cheers,

   Asaf
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Callooh! Callay! Congratulations to the language that gave so many other
languages[1] the word "Encyclopedia".

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292#sitelinks-wikipedia


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2014-04-10 0:13 GMT+03:00 Asaf Bartov :

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia,
> upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias.
>
> Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and
> appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add a
> message in your language, here:
>
> https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1
>
> Cheers,
>
>Asaf
> --
> Asaf Bartov
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>
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> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury]

Wow..congratulations..

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On Apr 10, 2014 3:19 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" 
wrote:

> Callooh! Callay! Congratulations to the language that gave so many other
> languages[1] the word "Encyclopedia".
>
> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292#sitelinks-wikipedia
>
>
> --
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> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> ‪“We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>
>
> 2014-04-10 0:13 GMT+03:00 Asaf Bartov :
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia,
> > upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias.
> >
> > Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and
> > appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add a
> > message in your language, here:
> >
> >
> https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >Asaf
> > --
> > Asaf Bartov
> > Wikimedia Foundation 
> >
> > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> > https://donate.wikimedia.org
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