[WikiEN-l] Lists

2015-05-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
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 th

[WikiEN-l] People who died in 2014

2014-04-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am working towards the point where all the people who died in 2014 are known as such in Wikidata. At this time all the people of the en,wp who are in the category "2014 deaths" are included. At this time there are over 2900 people known in Wikidata as to have died in 2014 [1]. It uses the A

[WikiEN-l] Dyslexia

2013-12-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Between 7 and 10% of a population is dyslexic. For them reading takes much more effort than it does for the rest of us. As it is, the English Wikipedia has a font available for people who are dyslexic. It is the OpenDyslexic font. It is possible to configure en.wp and many other Wikipedias b

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Public Policy Initiative

2010-05-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Given that this was published two hours ago and, not published on Foundation-l, I forward it. It is rather intriguing. I am interested to learn what the community thinks of this and, if this is another en.wp only project. Thanks, GerardM -- Forwarded message -- From: Fra

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] IPA issues

2010-04-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
pletely > transformed the native version (e.g. Londres from London, Maroc / Morocco > from المغرب‎). > > Alexandr Dmitri > > > > > > 2010/4/22 Keegan Peterzell > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen > > wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] IPA issues

2010-04-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for Americans and expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole of IPA hard to use. Consequently I argue that in order to save the usefulness of IPA a

[WikiEN-l] UNICEF: State of World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2009

2009-08-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I think this is relevant and of interest to us all... Thanks, GerardM Report and related press release of interest... The Minority Rights Group International (MRG) in collaboration with UNICEF has recently released their "State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2