Re: [Wikimedia-l] Good news for Wikimedians in San Francisco!

[Jane Darnell]

Never heard of Stroopies, but for those with access to a CostCo store, I
have persoally taste-tested their stroopwafels against the true Goudse
Stroopwafels and can vouch for them. The ones for sale at Barnes and Noble
cafés that are individually wrapped are *not* the real thing, however,
though tasty in their way.
Jane
(Cookie expert)

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Leila Zia  wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:09 PM, James Alexander  >
> wrote:
>
> > This is spectacular news Romaine! Thank you for finding it!
> >
>
> +1. Roan Kattouw, our official supplier, can finally have a relief. ;-)
> Before that, we need a true Dutch person to approve Stroopie's originality
> though.
>
> Leila
>
>
> >
> > BCCing the Wikimedia-sf list so that they see it ;) [though I imagine
> I'll
> > have to clear it through given BCC]
> >
> > James Alexander
> > Manager
> > Trust & Safety
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Romaine Wiki 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > As you of course know, stroopwafels are official wikifood. See:
> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Stroopwafel_Addicts
> > >
> > > As Dutch we are aware of the shortage of this original typical wikifood
> > in
> > > other parts of the world, so we travel around the world with many
> > packages
> > > each year at Wikimania and elsewhere. However, it is always more tasty
> to
> > > eat fresh stroopwafels, so the Dutch inspire a lot of people around the
> > > world to sell them.
> > >
> > > Of course everyone has a high need as Wikipedian/Wikimedian, but as the
> > > headquarters of the Wikimedia movement is in San Francisco, the supply
> is
> > > there the most urgent.
> > >
> > > Today I learned that Wikimedia people in San Francisco do not have to
> bit
> > > on their teeth or tongue, but can now buy fresh stroopwafels!
> > > See: http://www.stroopiegourmet.com/
> > >
> > > Finally San Francisco is saved from an anarchy because of a huge
> shortage
> > > of stroopwafels.
> > >
> > > I hope that the San Francisco people enjoy the official
> > > Wikipedia/Wikimedia wikifood as part of their daily (!) local cuisine!
> > >
> > > Romaine
> > >
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[Wikimedia-l] Dictator

[Milos Rancic]

No, it's not about Jimmy :P It's about the software for parsing
dictionaries. And we are presently inside of not so stable phase of
switching from the name "dictator" to "dicteator" (etymology is
"dictionary creator").

One of my strategic goals in relation to the movement itself is to
create methodology for parsing dictionaries and adding them into the
Wikimedia projects (first Wiktionary, but Wikidata and likely some
other projects in the future) and a pool of programmers to keep that
knowledge inside of the movement.

So, besides the software itself [1], one of the tasks of Milos
Trifunovic, programmer who is inserting data for the project
Wiktionary Meets Matica Srpska [2] was to create a white paper about
the process itself, which he did [3].

I know there were numerous previous additions of the dictionaries into
the Wiktionaries, but, as far as I know, no systematic effort was put
into dissemination of that knowledge.

We are at the beginning of the process. Up to the present, there are
~26k new entries on Serbian Wiktionary. The code is in the initial
useful phase. Up to the end of this part of the process I expect from
a few hundred thousand to a few million of new entries all over
Wiktionary editions (the most optimistic estimation is a few dozen
million entries; estimation varies that much because of many factors,
including future community involvement; one million is a reachable
target).

Keep in mind that there are three different stages of the software,
with various levels of usefulness and complexity:

1) Adding the content into Wiktionary. This depends on particular
Wiktionary customs, could be easily changed and didn't require too
much of sophistication, as it's dominantly about Pywikipediabot and
wiki syntax.

2) JSON intermediate storage. That's important as it's the most formal
way for representing dictionary data for future use, not depending of
destination platform. There is a space for further development of the
particular format and your participation will be appreciated.

3) Parsing particular dictionary. That's dictionary-specific, but a
number of methods could be shared for parsing other dictionaries. As
many dictionaries we have, as much we will have developed common
methods.

So, if you are interested into the matter, please go to the talk page
[4] and give your suggestions. Also, don't hesitate to reach me
directly.

[1] https://github.com/Interglider/dictator
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Interglider.ORG/Wiktionary_Meets_Matica_Srpska
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dicteator
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dicteator

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiktionary-l] Dictator

[Milos Rancic]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Sam Klein  wrote:
> ...and the helper tool for naming new concepts is Benevocent?

Good addition! We are creating a Django-based web interface for
dictionaries, which we named "d'spot", which is shortened "despot" :)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dictator

[Sam Klein]

...and the helper tool for naming new concepts is Benevocent?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Milos Rancic  wrote:

> No, it's not about Jimmy :P It's about the software for parsing
> dictionaries.
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