Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education program - quality assessment
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Anthony Cole ahcole...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're saying 7,000 printed pages (equivalent) in total was added to the encyclopedia during the 2013 fall term by the education program. If I've got that right, is it accurate to say it was all high quality? There were total about 7,740 printed pages added to the article namespace by students in the program that term. From our past research about the percentage of student contributions that noticeably improve Wikipedia articles (my definition in this case of high quality), I estimate 7,000 printed pages to be an accurate number. LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Head of Communications and External Relations Wiki Education Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] [Wikimedia Announcements] Italian Wiktionary reached 250, 000 entries
Today, the Italian Wiktionary reached 250,000 entries with the entry trasvolasse (translatable if it quickly flew over) thanks to Barbabot. Till February, the project had only 127,000 entries of which only 5 % created automatically. Credits to Barbaking, SemperBlotto and Wim_b. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News#April_2014 https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Utente:Barbabot Nemo ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom 2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com: Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3]
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive
A few years back i came with an idea, I know wikimedia is not fond of advertisements but what if we advertise wikipedia? There is a nice big EMPTY space on the bottom left side of wikipedia. Make a script/feature/extension which detects the person browsing the wiki's IP and shows them a link to their country's wiki (disabled for logged in users)so for example if it detects the ip is from Fiji, there will be a small advert on the left of whatever page in their vernacular language welcoming them and asking them if they want to be part of Wikipedia Fiji with a direct link to that language wikipedia's main page...Google and other sites use similar methods to filter their adverts so why not use this in a better way? Most people are not aware of the existence of certain language wikis and most users for whom English isn't a first language may prefer to read article in a language they understand... -- Cometstyles ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Yei! That's something that must be replied in many countries. Congratulations Brazil. 2014-04-23 17:20 GMT-05:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org: Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom 2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com: Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Italian Wiktionary reached 250, 000 entries
Congrats Nemo!!! It is a great milestone for sister projects! Our Catalan version is still at 51K but some day we will catch you :P Best, @kippelboy 2014-04-23 14:17 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Today, the Italian Wiktionary reached 250,000 entries with the entry trasvolasse (translatable if it quickly flew over) thanks to Barbabot. Till February, the project had only 127,000 entries of which only 5 % created automatically. Credits to Barbaking, SemperBlotto and Wim_b. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News#April_2014 https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Utente:Barbabot Nemo ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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 Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
