Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Education] How to force to enable Visual Editor
Srikanth, why don't you let them use their sandbox then to learn VE? 2013/10/15 Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in Honestly speaking I'd disable Visual Editor for new users. They have a tendency of making errors. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote: From Charles original questions I guess that he would be satisified with something like: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLoginenablevisualeditor=1 which should enable the Visual Editor for users signing up through that link. If it is possible or not to do that I have no idea. *Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48 2013/10/15 Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net Hear hear. I know this is a battle that the Foundation's engineers can't possibly win, given the circumstances which VE was moved from opt-out to opt-in on enwiki (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)diff=prevoldid=574251354 , for those who aren't aware). Turn it on, turn it off; either way someone gets upset. From a pure technical standpoint, is it possible to put a checkbox on the new user page or something so that new users can turn it on without having to delve deep into the untamed wilderness that is the user preferences page? Cheers, Craig On 15 October 2013 21:54, Richard Nevell richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: I firmly agree with that, taking a detour to preferences when training new editors isn't my preferred method. Richard On 15 October 2013 12:47, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Hello, I think that for beginners things must be as simple and clear as possible. Make them manipulate the preferences at the beginning of the session is already complicated and a waste of time. Don't forget that beginners already have to learn so many things quickly, so the more you can reduce, the better. Actually I'd prefer to have a model wiki that looks like Wikipedia but is best suited to use in trainings. Kind regards Ziko Dr. Ziko van Dijk voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht http://wikimedia.nl 2013/10/15 Charles Andrès charles.andres.w...@gmail.com: Thanks, but in FR.Wikipedia.org you only have the opt-out option (disable visual editor) :-( Charles ___ I use this email for mailing list only. Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer Wikimedia CH – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch Le 15 oct. 2013 à 10:10, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello Charles, I don't think there is a way to for this in the registration process. To enable or disable Visual Editor. Login 1. Go to --- Preferences -- Click Editing tab. 2. At the bottom of Editing page, Check or uncheck the box beside Enable VisualEditor (only in the main and user namespaces) OR Follow this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing Then repeat step 2 above. Hope it helps. Thanks. Regards, Enock S. Nyamador. --- Writer | Wikimedian Planning Wikimedia Ghana | About.me | Blog C: +233 (0)27 565 7589 On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Charles Andres charles.andres.w...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we have the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing. Is there a trick to force the activation of Visual Editor for a specific user? Thanks Charles ___ Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer Wikimedia CH – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch ___
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Welcome to Nathalie, our new ED
Welcome Nathalie! / sophie 2013/10/1 Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk Bienvenue-il ne sera jamais un moment ennuyant. On 1 October 2013 16:07, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: congrats and welcome :) pundit On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hi everyone, We have the great pleasure to announce Nathalie Martin is starting today as the new Executive Director of Wikimédia France! Her hiring is the tipping point of a process we started last January when we hired a HR firm to audit our organization and support us in finding the right person for this key role. With a background in political science and organizations strategy, Nathalie has a deep experience managing several associations of similar or bigger size as Wikimedia France. Even though she is not from the movement, we believe she'll adapt quickly to who we are. She came to Wikimania in Hong-Kong, and some of you may have had the pleasure to meet her. By coming to Wikimania she had the luck to experience in 3 day what Wikimedia is at large, to meet wikimedians from all around the world. I'm happy to say that she too suffered from PWD (Post-Wikimania Depression). If you need to contact her, her email address is nathalie.mar...@wikimedia.fr. Please keep in mind that it's her first day within our movement and she still will need few days to adapt to our awesomeness Please join us in welcoming Nathalie! Best, PS: please keep her in copy of your answers :) Christophe HENNER | Vice-chair --- › Mail : christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr › Mobile : +33(0)6 29 35 65 94 › Tel : +33(0)5 62 89 12 01 › Twitter : @Wikimedia_Fr - Wikimédia France | Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance | Visitez notre blog http://blog.wikimedia.fr ___ 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 -- __ dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak profesor zarządzania kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl ___ 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 -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ 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 -- *Be Bold! Sophie Österberg sosterb...@wikimedia.org* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. * ___ 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
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals
Wow Liam, I'm impressed! I'd love to have that accessibility with a library card in Sweden. As education is free here and universities offer various random courses one may sign up and take a course distantly for a term or so and then through student login get access to journals. I've never heard of a public library making this available through a library card here in Sweden. *Be Bold! Sophie Österberg sosterb...@wikimedia.org* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. * 2013/9/24 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com With regards to getting access to closed journals... I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any Australian, if they get a free library card. [You can see the full list at the NLA eResources page: http://www.nla.gov.au /app/eresources/ ] Is this unique to Australia? I must admit that I didn't realise until recently the extent of the restricted databases that were available for free to library card holders in their own home. With all the discussion over the years on the global Wikimedia mailing lists about trying to special access for Wikimedians, I had just assumed it was a global issue. But, at least for Australians, it's largely solved... Are other country's major libraries offering journal access to the public for free? If not, perhaps rather than trying to get special access for Wikimedians directly from the Database companies, we should be working to get access via Library subscriptions? Liam / Wittylama. [p.s. yes - I realise I'm promoting a service offered by my employer, sorry. But I reckon it's relevant and important that people know though. p.p.s. If you are Australian and want a free library card sent to you - go here: http://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard/ ] wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 24 September 2013 12:48, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: It's probably worth mentioning (again) that we started a brand new wikimedia mailing list about Open Access: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess If you are interested in the topic of access to scientific/academic literature, you should be there. Getting access to closed journals is definetely something that we like and must pursue, but changing the very system of is more important. We shouldn't have this issue at all :-) Aubrey On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: If you've gone to university, it's well worth looking to see if your university provide alumni access. My university, the University of London, provide alumni access to the library for £220 a year, which includes an eight book borrowing limit, full JSTOR access (which doesn't have the limitation that JPASS has), Oxford DNB access and some other online resources. Some universities also charge the even better price of nothing. I've put up a page in project space on English Wikipedia so we can document which institutions provide access: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR/Alumni_access -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ On 24 September 2013 at 12:56:18, David Gerard (dger...@gmail.com) wrote: fyi -- Forwarded message -- From: Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com Date: 24 September 2013 12:25 Subject: [WikiEN-l] access to journals To: English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org In an effort to enhance access options for people who aren’t affiliated with universities, colleges, or high schools, not-for-profit digital library JSTOR has launched JPASS, a new program offering individual users access to 1,500 journals from JSTOR’s archive collection. The move follows the March 2012 launch of JSTOR’s Register Readprogram, which allowed independent researchers to register for a free MyJSTOR account, and receive free, online-only access to three full-text articles every 14 days. That service has since attracted almost one million users including independent scholars, writers, business people, adjunct faculty, and others, and JSTOR plans to continue offering the service in its current form. However, in a recent survey, many of Register Read users expressed interest in an individual subscription model that would offer enhanced access, encouraging JSTOR to move ahead with JPASS. http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/09/digital-libraries/jstor-launches-jpass-access-accounts-for-individual-researchers/ JSTOR Launches JPASS Access Accounts for Individual Researchers [Library Journal] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis
Thanks for sharing! This is a very interesting read. / sophie 2013/7/19 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se A most interesting study looking at findings from 10 different language versions. Jesus and Middle east are the most controversial articles seen over the world, but George Bush on en:wp and Chile on es:wp http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/**papers/1305/1305.5566.pdfhttp://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1305/1305.5566.pdf Anders __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@**lists.wikimedia.orgwikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org ?subject=**unsubscribe -- *Be Bold! Sophie Österberg sosterb...@wikimedia.org* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. * ___ 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
