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

2010-07-21 Thread Noein
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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 no requirement of nationality or location, though we would 
 probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving 
 the scholarship requests and approving them.
 Scholars had two main obligations :
 - actually being at the conference :)
 - report after the conference
 
 
 In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed, 
 which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants 
 had never been as high in a Wikimania.

Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users
of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?
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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 good idea
 too. We can combine these to come up with a key that, in principle, is
 guaranteed to be unique. This key would contain:

 1) The first three author names separated by slashes
why not separate by pluses? they don't form part of names either, and
don't cause problems with wiki page titles.

 2) If there are more than three authors, an EtAl
don't think that's necessary if we get the abc part right.

 3) Some or all of the date. For instance, if there is only one source by
 this set of authors that year, we can just use . However, once another
 source by those set of authors is added, the key should change to MMDD
 or similar.
I don't think it is a good idea to change one key as a function of
updates on another, except for a generic disambiguation tag.

 If there are multiple publications on the same day, we can
 resort to abc. Redirects and disambiguation pages can be set up when a key
 changes.
As Jodi pointed out already, the exact date is often not clearly
identifiable, so I would go simply for the year.
Instead of an alphabetic abc, one could use some function of the
article title (e.g. the first three words thereof, or the initials of
the first three words), always in lower case.

An even less ambiguous abc would be starting page (for printed stuff)
or article number (for online only) but this brings us back to the
7523225 problem you mentioned above.

 Since the slashes are somewhat cumbersome, perhaps we can not make them
 mandatory, but similarly use them only when they are necessary in order to
 escape a name. In the case that one of the authors does not have a slash
 in their name - the dominant case - we can stick to the easily legible and
 niecly compact CamelCase format.

 Example keys generated by this algorithm:

 KangHsuKrajbichEtAl2009
Kang+Hsu+Krajbich+2009+the+wick+in
or
Kang+Hsu+Krajbich+2009+twi

also note that the CamelCase key does not yield results in a google
search, whereas the first plused variant brings up the right work
correctly, while the plused one with initialed title tends to bring at
least something written by or cited from these authors.

 Author1Author2/Author-Three/2009
Author1+Author2+Author-Three+2009+just+another+article
or
Author1+Author2+Author-Three+2009+jat

Of course, it does not have to be _exactly_ three authors, nor three
words from the title, and it does not solve the John Smith (or Zheng
Wang) problem.

Daniel

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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:
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 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 no requirement of nationality or location, though we would
 probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving
 the scholarship requests and approving them.
 Scholars had two main obligations :
 - actually being at the conference :)
 - report after the conference


 In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed,
 which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants
 had never been as high in a Wikimania.

 Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users
 of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?

We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every
french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through
social media.

Christophe

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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 the
language versions have drifted apart (or not).

Kind regards
Ziko


2010/7/19 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:
 2010/7/18 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org:
 On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
 amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm writing this as the follow-up to Jimmy Wales' Wikimania keynote
 about small Wikipedias, or, as some people correctly say, Wikipedias
 in underprivileged languages. (It's strange to use the word small
 anywhere near Bengali, for example.)

 Is there some recorded body of knowledge about the existing attempts
 to engage small language communities? The only thing that i know is
 the parts with Ndesanjo Macha in The Truth According To Wikipedia.
 They are very inspiring, but very small.

 Something that's standing out in my mind, but might not be exactly
 what you're looking for, is Ziko's Tell us about your Wikipedia
 project, where Ziko and others tried to get different Wikipedias to
 share details about themselves and some tough things that they
 experienced. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_your_Wikipedia

 That was a first step to a lot of the stuff you're talking about.

 Actually i started reviving this project a few weeks ago: I translated
 its main page into Russian so that people from Wikipedias in the
 minority languages of Russia who don't know English will be able to
 contribute to it. Thanks for reminding me to advertise it in those
 Wikipedias' Village Pumps.

 Versions in French and Spanish may be useful for Africa and Latin America.

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 Amir Elisha Aharoni

 http://aharoni.wordpress.com

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  I want to live in peace. - T. Moore

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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
it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be issued
afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way
you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner 
christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
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  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 no requirement of nationality or location, though we would
  probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving
  the scholarship requests and approving them.
  Scholars had two main obligations :
  - actually being at the conference :)
  - report after the conference
 
 
  In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed,
  which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants
  had never been as high in a Wikimania.
 
  Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users
  of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?

 We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every
 french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through
 social media.

 Christophe

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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, there is a time element involved. I guess
 it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be issued
 afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way
 you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.

It would also help if budget was approved at the beginning of the year 
so that it would be visible as early as January that money is left 
aside for such a use later in the year (it could also be mentionned 
during general assembly for example).

Alas...

Well, every year brings new improvements ;)

Ant



 On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner
 christophe.hen...@gmail.com  wrote:

 On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noeinprono...@gmail.com  wrote:
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 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 no requirement of nationality or location, though we would
 probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving
 the scholarship requests and approving them.
 Scholars had two main obligations :
 - actually being at the conference :)
 - report after the conference


 In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed,
 which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants
 had never been as high in a Wikimania.

 Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users
 of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?

 We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every
 french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through
 social media.

 Christophe

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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 have made some changes to their software
 that makes it nearly unusable.

 We wish to return to working in the wiki environment but need to do so in a
 closed environment until after publication.  Anyone here able to set
 something like this up for us?  Or have suggestions were we may do so?  We
 were using a private wiki for a bit but its reliability was limited.

 Thanks

 Hi James,

 Have you checked out http://www.wikimatrix.org/ ?

 Cary


Hello

I use pbworks, basic plan (free)
https://plans.pbworks.com/

Indeed, that is not mediawiki, but I find that specific wiki quite 
confortable to work with and the hosting service is good (not lagging 
horribly as other wiki farms are something doing).

I have been testing it for roughly two months and feel happy about it. 
Currently considering going for the for-pay plan to use it for my 
business to communicate with my clients.

The basic plan allow only one space, but this space can be closed. So it 
should fit your needs.

Alternatively, you may set up your own mediawiki (I also have one), but 
this require
* hosting service
* domain name
* install and updates

To be fair, unless you are a total geek and mediawiki fan, I would 
recommand the no-hassle pbworks solution.

Ant





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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
 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
  it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be
 issued
  afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way
  you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.

 It would also help if budget was approved at the beginning of the year
 so that it would be visible as early as January that money is left
 aside for such a use later in the year (it could also be mentionned
 during general assembly for example).

 Alas...

 Well, every year brings new improvements ;)

 Ant


 
  On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner
  christophe.hen...@gmail.com  wrote:
 
  On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noeinprono...@gmail.com  wrote:
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  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 no requirement of nationality or location, though we would
  probably have focused on French participants. A commission was
 receiving
  the scholarship requests and approving them.
  Scholars had two main obligations :
  - actually being at the conference :)
  - report after the conference
 
 
  In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed,
  which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants
  had never been as high in a Wikimania.
 
  Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users
  of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?
 
  We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every
  french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through
  social media.
 
  Christophe
 
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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, 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, there is a time element involved. I
 guess
 it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be
 issued
 afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way
 you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.

 It would also help if budget was approved at the beginning of the year
 so that it would be visible as early as January that money is left
 aside for such a use later in the year (it could also be mentionned
 during general assembly for example).

 Alas...

 Well, every year brings new improvements ;)

 Ant



 On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner
 christophe.hen...@gmail.com   wrote:

 On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noeinprono...@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
 different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros.
 There was no requirement of nationality or location, though we would
 probably have focused on French participants. A commission was
 receiving
 the scholarship requests and approving them.
 Scholars had two main obligations :
 - actually being at the conference :)
 - report after the conference


 In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed,
 which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants
 had never been as high in a Wikimania.

 Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users
 of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?

 We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every
 french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through
 social media.

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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 buttons on pl.wiki had no additional effect after the red 
rectangle, and something else on March-April 2007 made the edit summary 
usage to increase by 9 percentage points globally and almost 30 points 
for anonymous edits. Does someone have a clue?

About he.wiki, statistics show an increase by about 9-10 points  thanks 
to buttons, as in other wikis.

Nemo

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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 potential of this project on its own, as that will feature
 prominently in the proposal. Additionally, what do you think WikiCite would
 eventually be like, once it is fully matured?

I was thinking about this too. Main advantages that I see are that citations 
will become easier to use for editors while more informative for readers. Too 
often I just link to something instead of properly filling a cite template 
because it's just too bothersome. For example, instead of this crud:

{{cite book|author=Š. Kulišić |coauthors=P. Ž. Petrović, N. Pantelić |
title=Српски митолошки речник |origyear=1970 |publisher=[[Nolit]] |
location=Belgrade |language=Serbian |pages=161 |chapter=Јерисавља}}

we would have just:

{{cite|work=Српски митолошки речник |pages=161 |chapter=Јерисавља}}

Another advantage that I see: people will spend less time filling in the 
citation templates and will thus have more time to make more precise 
citations. This means more citations with exact page numbers or quotes.

Perhaps this could be tested on-wiki prior to creating a separate project, 
perhaps through revival of Reference namespace. This could be done through 
templates only, would require no changes to MediaWiki and few changes to 
existing practices.

BTW1: it is my understanding that you imagined this for literature only, but 
it could be expanded to all citable media (videos etc).

BTW3: for citing online stuff, this could eventually be combined with archive 
of cited pages. If the original goes away we would still have the source for 
the readers to verify. This would also help with some copyright concerns (for 
example, using free images the source of which is later removed thus leaving 
the images with no evidence of being free).

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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 cited different versions in this
manner, we would want to link them together. There seems to be the
delusion that accurate work of this sort can be done by automatic
programs. It can be done assisted by automated programs, but requires
manual checking of every item by someone qualified to make the
connections.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
 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 potential of this project on its own, as that will feature
 prominently in the proposal. Additionally, what do you think WikiCite would
 eventually be like, once it is fully matured?

 I was thinking about this too. Main advantages that I see are that citations
 will become easier to use for editors while more informative for readers. Too
 often I just link to something instead of properly filling a cite template
 because it's just too bothersome. For example, instead of this crud:

 {{cite book|author=Š. Kulišić |coauthors=P. Ž. Petrović, N. Pantelić |
 title=Српски митолошки речник |origyear=1970 |publisher=[[Nolit]] |
 location=Belgrade |language=Serbian |pages=161 |chapter=Јерисавља}}

 we would have just:

 {{cite|work=Српски митолошки речник |pages=161 |chapter=Јерисавља}}

 Another advantage that I see: people will spend less time filling in the
 citation templates and will thus have more time to make more precise
 citations. This means more citations with exact page numbers or quotes.

 Perhaps this could be tested on-wiki prior to creating a separate project,
 perhaps through revival of Reference namespace. This could be done through
 templates only, would require no changes to MediaWiki and few changes to
 existing practices.

 BTW1: it is my understanding that you imagined this for literature only, but
 it could be expanded to all citable media (videos etc).

 BTW3: for citing online stuff, this could eventually be combined with archive
 of cited pages. If the original goes away we would still have the source for
 the readers to verify. This would also help with some copyright concerns (for
 example, using free images the source of which is later removed thus leaving
 the images with no evidence of being free).

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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 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 have made some changes to their software
 that makes it nearly unusable.
 
 We wish to return to working in the wiki environment but need to do so in a
 closed environment until after publication.  Anyone here able to set
 something like this up for us?  Or have suggestions were we may do so?  We
 were using a private wiki for a bit but its reliability was limited.
 
 Thanks
 -- 
 James Heilman
 MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc.
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