Hoi,
Regularly there are awards conferred by stellar organisations like Amnesty
International or Creative Commons. In the last week I was able to add their
2018 winners.. The good news is that increasingly the awards are complete
except for the latest. My hope / expectation for the future is that I will
find nothing to do. :) It already happens occasionally.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 April 2018 at 04:02, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *"To be, or not to be"*
>
> A phrase from Shakespeare's *Hamlet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet>
> *is
> "To be, or not to be, that is the question"*.*
>
> Chris Koerner from WMF Discovery published some interesting information
> about the verb "to be", and how on-wiki search deals with it, in this issue
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2018-April/001652.html>
> of
> the *Discovery Weekly Update*:
>
> "The English verb "to be" is kind of weird—the infinitive "be" and
> participles "being, been" start with "b-", while the preterite forms
> "was, were" start with "w-", and the present forms "am, is, are" start
> with vowels. The conjugations originally come from three or four
> different verbs! Why "three or four"? Wiktionary disagrees with itself
> a bit, listing four on the etymology of "is" [5] and three on the
> etymology of "be". [6] The conflation goes back at least to
> Proto-Germanic, [7] so German is similarly weird. [8] Dutch has a
> greatly simplified paradigm, but still shows some trace of the
> multiple sources. [9] Other languages, including ASL, Arabic, Bengali,
> Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and
> Ukrainian at least partly avoid this mess by having a zero copula.
> [10] For search on-wiki, we deal with this problem in part with
> stemming [11] and stop words. [12]
>
> "[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Etymology_1
> [6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be#Etymology
> [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language
> [8] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein#Conjugation
> [9] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zijn#Inflection
> [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula
> [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming
> [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words";
>
>
>
>
>
> *Legal case ends well for Greek Wikipedia administrator*From the Wikimedia
> Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/greece-legal-case-ended/
>
>
>
>
> *Photos from the 2018 Wikimedia Conference in Germany*
> Some photos of the 2018 Wikimedia Conference are available on Commons
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Conference_2018>.
> Here are a few:
>
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Conference_2018,_Group_photo.jpg
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Conference_2018_by_ZUFAr_01.jpg
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_Sweets_Table_1.jpg
> *
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_by_Rehman_-_
> Posters_(2).jpg
> *
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Conference_2018_%E2%80%93_091.jpg
>
>
> What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
> language.
>
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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