Great story from Yann, thanks for sharing. Nattes à chat
> Le 14 oct. 2018 à 23:23, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Recently I spent some time on Commons, and I came across two things that I > especially appreciated. > > The first is a story on Yann's user page > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yann>. While I think that > experience with participating on public Wikimedia projects is an important > qualification for many roles in the Wikimedia universe, this story reminds > the reader to place edit count into a wider perspective. > > --- > > > *A novice was once curious about the nature of the Edit Count. He > approached the Zen master and asked, "Zen master, what is the nature of the > Edit Count?""The Edit Count is as a road," replied the Zen master. "You > must travel the road to reach your destination, and some may travel longer > roads than others. But do not judge the person at your door by the length > of the road he has travelled to reach you."* > > > *And the novice was Enlightened.* > > *---* > > The second thing that I especially liked on Commons is this photo > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flooded_Albizia_Saman_(rain_tree)_in_the_Mekong.jpg> > that was taken in Laos by Basile Morin. As you can guess, I generally like > trees. > > On a different subject, Markus Kroetzsch wrote > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-October/012536.html> > to the Wikidata list that he is "happy to report that we" (Stanislav > Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry González, Julius Gonsior, and Adrian > Bielefeldt) "have just won the Best Paper Award of the In-Use track of this > year's International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), for our description of > the SPARQL/RDF technology use on Wikidata. I keep telling people here that > the general awesomeness of Wikidata is the work of many, and in particular > of this great community of editors." > > In older news, some time ago I was told about this video on Commons > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BareBonesSearch.webm> by Trey > Jones that provides an introduction to full-text search. I thought that > presentation was very interesting. > > What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any > language. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
