On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
I deal with this regularly in a professional capacity, this is what
stock photography firms are built on, and I can assure you that there is
no adequate freely licensed stock photography resource in the world.
Commons
Hoi,
How wonderful, the WIkimedia Foundation adopts the Swedish idea to dedicate
2009 as the year of the picture. There is a lot that we can achieve when we
put our mind to it. So let me tell you about some of our needs and of our
low hanging fruits.
==Diversity==
Some people say that we only
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
The Swedish chapter had the idea to declare 2009 The Year of the
Picture, to put a concerted effort into adding images to the Wikimedia
Commons, along with using more illustrations in Wikipedia and elsewhere.
I
Hello Brian,
thanks for all your insights, bashing and vocal support of your pet
ideas.
I understand, that SMW is academically interesting concept (though
there're contradicting ideas in academia too, suggesting natural
language processing as an alternative, and this seems where currently
And the renaming of
zh-yue: to yue: (or at least the promised redirect)
is long overdue (see [[bugzilla:8217]]).
H.
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And it would greatly facilitate interwiki traffics to have a code for
a multilingual site (e.g. for the betawikiversity: and the
multilingual wikisource,
and the proposed multilingual wikibooks). See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13334
H.
This community, which takes quite a bit of effort to communicate with,
effort which I have not seen from the development team:
Any changes to the software must be gradual and reversible. We need to make
sure that any changes contribute positively to the community, as ultimately
determined by
Gerard, I'm not sure I understood the full context of your e-mail. There is
only one thing stopping it from going live in my opinion - developer
enthusiasm. I don't think thats how things are supposed to work.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
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Brian hett schreven:
There is only one thing stopping it from going live in my opinion - developer
enthusiasm.
What about community consensus?
Marcus Buck
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There cannot be community consensus if the developers are unwilling to
seriously consider alternate technological solutions to the ones they come
up with. That is a key piece of the broken process -- developers of SMW have
presented their ideas to the community, but whether or not there was ever
Beta wikiversity is a hub for multiligual cooperation and the
incubator is just part of it.
The proposed multilingual wikibooks is for hosting books which cannot
find home comfortably in any language edition.
It is fitting to have, for example, the link from a page in
cs:Wikiversity to
H wrote:
Beta wikiversity is a hub for multiligual cooperation and the
incubator is just part of it.
The proposed multilingual wikibooks is for hosting books which cannot
find home comfortably in any language edition.
It is fitting to have, for example, the link from a page in
Michael Snow wrote:
I've been assembling my notes from last week's board meeting to pass
along. The first set of items I have to report is business from the
chapters committee. All of these resolutions have been posted on the
foundation website.
We approved two new chapters, and there's
Another item from the board meeting was reviewing the structure of
Wikimedia committees. We've passed a resolution that defines these a
little more, as well as dissolving a number that were created in the
past but no longer function. The full text is at
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
For the sake of clarity, I'd like to ask that a mean is given to
recognize that a sub-chapter is a sub-chapter rather than a chapter.
If not in the name that we use within ourselves, at least on meta and
internal
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