Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

2010-07-21 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote: This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros. There was

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-21 Thread Daniel Mietchen
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: I like your suggestion that the abc disambiguator be chosen based on the first date of publication, and I also like the prospect of using slashes since they can't be contained in names. Using the full year is a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

2010-07-21 Thread Christophe Henner
On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote: This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-21 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Amir, hello Casey, Actually I am currently interested in policies of different language versions (article deletion, sources etc.), and thought about reviving the Tell us project for that. Most Wikipedians are busy only in one or two Wikipedias thoroughly, and hardly anyone knows how much

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

2010-07-21 Thread Oliver Keyes
The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled through to Gdansk with five or six (the Why France/Britain sucks conversations were amusing). I think it's an excellent idea for individual chapters to distribute scholarships, but yes, there is a time element involved. I guess

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

2010-07-21 Thread Florence Devouard
On 7/21/10 1:37 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled through to Gdansk with five or six (the Why France/Britain sucks conversations were amusing). I think it's an excellent idea for individual chapters to distribute scholarships, but yes,

Re: [Foundation-l] Private Wiki

2010-07-21 Thread Florence Devouard
On 7/21/10 4:39 AM, Cary Bass wrote: On 7/20/2010 7:27 PM, James Heilman wrote: Not sure were to ask this... A group of 20 of us from Wikiproject Medicine are working on a paper to explain the usage of Wikipedia to the medical community. We were working on it in Google documents but they

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

2010-07-21 Thread Oliver Keyes
If wishes were fishes and all that. Still, it's July now; could budgets not get approved before January? On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: On 7/21/10 1:37 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

2010-07-21 Thread Florence Devouard
yes, as long as it is next year budget ;) ant On 7/21/10 4:28 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: If wishes were fishes and all that. Still, it's July now; could budgets not get approved before January? On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Florence Devouardanthe...@yahoo.comwrote: On 7/21/10 1:37 PM,

Re: [Foundation-l] Statistics on edit summary usage on Wikipediaandstandard summaries buttons

2010-07-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Przykuta, 19/07/2010 17:57: One year before flagged rev in pl wiki, maybe even in 2006. Nux said April and October 2006 (http://pl.wikipedia.org/?oldid=22477021 ). If that's correct, the updated statistics http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usage_of_edit_summary_on_Wikipedia show that the

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-21 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа: Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especially interested in the potential benefits to the WMF projects that you see, and to hear your thoughts on the

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-21 Thread David Goodman
This example illustrates some of the problems. If the work is available in other languages, the non-Serbian WPs would want to cite the translation in their language. If the book is being cited from an online excerpt, at least the enWP would require that this be specified. And if different people

Re: [Foundation-l] Private Wiki

2010-07-21 Thread Denny Vrandecic
There are a number of services offering you MediaWiki installations in the cloud, where you can just get a MediaWiki, like Wikia or Referata. Both have a free plan that may suite your needs. Cheers, Denny On Jul 20, 2010, at 19:27, James Heilman wrote: Not sure were to ask this... A group