Re: [Wikisource-l] Again on funding for sister projects
I thought WMF board is chosen by Wikimedians and Wikimedia Foundation has the help to all WMF projects in its basical documents. So next time, we should chose just those candidates to he board, who will be willing to to give some portion of help. I heard from WMF related people, that other projects are not so efficient, so they dont have more help. But they will never be more efficent without a help as they grow in the shade of Wikipedia. If you provide them more light (in this case support from mother organisation) - they will have more equal conditions to Wikipedia and they can show up to be the same or more efficient as wp. I am really sad to here voices in our chapter, we will not help other projects, because WMF doesnt support them. Its really sad. When I enter to the chapter I had to agree with the bylaws, that sais the Chapter is the local support for WMF project in the area. There is no word about inequality between project. Regards, Juandev 2014-11-26 16:04 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com: I could maybe find money as Wikimedia Italy, but: * who would take care of the project? do we have a name for a developer? * how much would it cost? * do we have a plan or some specifics? If we have these things, money is the least of the problems. We can ask for a GAC grant as Wikisource Community User Group too, directly to the WMF. Aubrey On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Carles Paredes Lanau carlespare...@gmail.com wrote: In my opinion, VE is a priority thing to develop in Wikisource. Catalan community is a VE-friendly. If three chapters funded a developer during few month, we would get it. I could try to ask money to Amical. Carles 2014-11-26 15:10 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, 26/11/2014 12:53: Again, money is not the problem. Well, APG is about money so they talk about money there. But I do remember WMF coming at us and asking what's the legitimacy of spending resources (not necessarily financial) on sister projects. That drives me crazy. Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource features New Holland flora
Great job! Juan de V. 2009/6/14 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com A few days ago, the first Australian content was promoted to the front page of Wikisource, where it will stay for a month. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page The project was started two years ago by Hesperian, who has done the majority of the work, with Moondyne validating the transcription, and Cygnis insignis has done some as well. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_New_Holland It is available as a PDF using the new Book tool: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Books/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_New_Holland Also worth a browse is the species index pages that this team have been creating as a bibliography of works related to the flora of Australia. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Wikisource_species_index_pages The page scans for this work came from the National Library of France ([[w:Gallica]]). http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Specimen_of_the_Botany_of_New_Holland.djvu A list of all featured texts can be seen here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Featured_texts -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [gutvol-d] need a book scanned?
To John, really nice:-) Juan de V. 2009/3/6 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com Bowerbird ... feel free to flood us with interesting notices like this ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: bowerb...@aol.com Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] need a book scanned? To: gutvo...@lists.pglaf.org, bowerb...@aol.com this has been available for a few months now, but hasn't gotten the attention that it deserves... in conjunction with the boston public library, the open library -- or is it the internet archive?, or is it the open content alliance?, i can never tell -- is now offering a scan on demand service... if a public-domain book in the boston pubic library hasn't yet been scanned, you can bump its priority up to the top of the list by requesting it be scanned. within 3-5 days, it'll be scanned and placed online, with all the various formats, which includes the o.c.r. what a wonderful present, eh? check it out (so to speak): http://openlibrary.org/bpl -bowerbird ___ gutvol-d mailing list gutvo...@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
