Hi.
Can someone explain the Wikimedia / PediaPress relationship to me? They just
got spammed on the Wikimedia blog[1] yesterday, which reminded me that I've
never really understood the nature of this relationship.
I don't understand why this specific company/organization has been given
special
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:55, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I also don't understand who would want a printed copy of a Wikipedia
article.
Me neither, but if some people want it, why not.
Like:
- to show non-internet people that that wikipedia thing is not
another
On 11/11/2010 08:50 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 11/11/2010 07:31 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:
* Ideally, they would be stories of people who
pre-exposure-to-Wikipedia would have had circumscribed access to
information.
Hello,
Megan might want to contact Valérie75
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Val%C3%A9rie75, who ended up
writing books about the topics she contributed to on Wikipédia. The
books are not under a free license (I don't think), but have received
good press in their domain (ornitohology,
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 11/11/2010 08:50 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 11/11/2010 07:31 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:
* Ideally, they would be stories of people who
On 11/11/2010 11:16 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Back when we were under sanctions, it was impossible to buy antifreeze
(or it was prohibitively expensive). So, my father remembered that in
one of the books in our home
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 11/11/2010 11:16 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Back when we were under sanctions, it was impossible to buy antifreeze
(or it was prohibitively
I will try to address several points brought up by Nikola Smolenski.
Regarding the lack of interlinking between books at Wikibooks, you have to
understand that each book is usually designed to stand alone, without having
to link to other books or even Wikipedia. While some might wonder why
Hi there, I have seen a big problem in getting people to contribute in
kosovo to wikipedia
except the Kosovo article, there they dont call in *Kosovo and Metohija*i,
so I think there is a president for the english and albanian names in
wikipedia.
most of the names are in serbian, with strange
On 11/11/2010 03:26 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
so I think there is a president for the english and albanian names in
wikipedia.
most of the names are in serbian, with strange characters that I cannot even
type.
this offends most contributors and prevents locals from contributing.
also the serbs
I think that at least a consistent listing of both names is needed,
expecially on the links. I have had to fight with simple unwillingness to
list both names in serbian and albanian on all things.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Hi there, I have seen
In a message dated 11/10/2010 10:32:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
sgard...@wikimedia.org writes:
(Donors often send us stories like that, and I am often
looking for stories to tell people about the projects. So I've asked
her to send good ones to me.)
I would be interested in seeing
Well, I know I'm boring, but Eco said something related to this topic.
He started the interview stating:
I am a compulsive user of Wikipedia, also for *arthritic* reasons: the more
my back hurts, the more it costs me to get up and go to check the Treccani,
so if I may find someone's birthday on
On 11 November 2010 18:25, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
However, this is not the full list of possibilities. Canada should be
the option, too. Other countries? If WMF is not able to hold such
servers, we have chapters.
Chapters would be ideal bodies to build up servers for such
Milos Rancic, 11/11/2010 19:25:
I know that Yann Forget moved (or started?) his project
wikilivres.info to Canada exactly because of that reason. However,
this is not a systemic effort, but personal one.
There's also http://biblioteca.wikimedia.it which was opened by WMI for
some PD-Italy
And what can we do with stuff like this?[1]
[1]
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Emijrpoldid=81381631
2010/11/11 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
Milos Rancic, 11/11/2010 19:25:
I know that Yann Forget moved (or started?) his project
wikilivres.info to
Dear Sue,
Better yet, check this out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Vapmachado#Block
Warmest regards,
Virgilio
At 06:31 11-11-2010, you wrote:
Hi folks, Megan Hernandez on the staff is
looking out for me, for stories of readers whose
lives have been impacted by Wikipedia or the
On 11/11/10 19:47, MZMcBride wrote:
I don't understand why this specific company/organization has been given
special status (when there are surely thousands of companies looking to
partner with Wikimedia). They had a custom MediaWiki extension installed[2]
that has a very prominent place in
Tim Starling wrote:
On 11/11/10 19:47, MZMcBride wrote:
I don't understand why this specific company/organization has been given
special status (when there are surely thousands of companies looking to
partner with Wikimedia). They had a custom MediaWiki extension installed[2]
that has a very
On 11 November 2010 14:26, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Ideally we would use the albanian
names and encourage the locals to edit.
No ideally we would use the English names. As we have established with
say Germany and Norway what the locals happen to call something is
of
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I've read Wikimedia's PediaPress press release[1] a few times now and I
still can't figure out if PediaPress is a non-profit organization or a
for-profit company. I think there's a large distinction between the
Wikimedia Foundation taking a
In a message dated 11/11/2010 6:23:45 PM Pacific Standard Time,
z...@mzmcbride.com writes:
I think focusing energy and efforts on creating print versions of
Wikipedia
articles is antithetical to the idea of creating an online encyclopedia.
The
benefits of the Internet (and more
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
..
This distribution concept predates the Foundation, and has been
consistently supported by Jimmy and others. It's not antithetical to
anything.
I think focusing energy and efforts on creating print
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 20:23, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I've read Wikimedia's PediaPress press release[1] a few times now and I
still can't figure out if PediaPress is a non-profit organization or a
for-profit company.
PediaPress is a limited company (GmbH) and seems to be part of
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:12 PM, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 20:23, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I've read Wikimedia's PediaPress press release[1] a few times now and I
still can't figure out if PediaPress is a non-profit organization or a
for-profit
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 21:20, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:12 PM, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 20:23, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I've read Wikimedia's PediaPress press release[1] a few times now and I
still can't
wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/11/2010 6:23:45 PM Pacific Standard Time,
z...@mzmcbride.com writes:
I think focusing energy and efforts on creating print versions of
Wikipedia articles is antithetical to the idea of creating an online
encyclopedia. The benefits of the
A bit of general background:
The Collection/Book creator feature allows managing, organizing and
exporting content in PDF and in OpenDocument (the latter is still very
buggy). We're planning to work with PediaPress to add OpenZIM support
(useful for offline readers like Kiwix); EPUB is a
If we're concerned about the WMF referring in its blog to a for-profit
organisation that happens to be working with us in a way that is
open-source, offline and furthering our mission to distribute our content
widely, why did no one complain about the OpenMoko Wikireader being in the
WMF blog:
On 12/11/10 13:23, MZMcBride wrote:
They negotiated with Wikimedia? Where and when? How many thousands of
companies would like their links in the sidebar of the fifth most-visited
website in the world? Are they really that good at negotiating? On the
English Wikipedia, there's a Book namespace
Liam Wyatt wrote:
I suspect that the issue lies not with the fact that you are only a couple
of clicks away from the PediaPress bookprinting service from every Wikipedia
article, but more the fact that the PediaPress system is the *only *service
listed on the page
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 00:07, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
There are several examples of commercial services being used in Wikimedia
projects that are integrated in a way that is acceptable because they
further our mission of sharing free-cultural resources effectively:
Liam, none of
Hello Sarah,
I would put it somehow differently. If Virgin Ventures has a tool with
which a newbie (or also an oldbie) can in a very intuitive way construct
a well formatted article from the scrap, so something like that magic
editor we had talked about for long time and never realized until
Tim Starling wrote:
On 12/11/10 13:23, MZMcBride wrote:
They negotiated with Wikimedia? Where and when? How many thousands of
companies would like their links in the sidebar of the fifth most-visited
website in the world? Are they really that good at negotiating? On the
English Wikipedia,
In a message dated 11/11/2010 10:08:33 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
liamwy...@gmail.com writes:
If there is another organisation out there that offers a
printing-and-binding service that is comparable to what PediaPress offers
then we could/should add it to the list but I don't believe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:06, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
So the real issue here shouldn't be whether any other book binder is
comparable, but rather whether any other book binder *wants* to be listed.
Right on spot. Does any? Are there any others?
I'm for listing them all.
g
Ting Chen wrote:
I would put it somehow differently. If Virgin Ventures has a tool with
which a newbie (or also an oldbie) can in a very intuitive way construct
a well formatted article from the scrap, so something like that magic
editor we had talked about for long time and never realized
On 12/11/10 17:55, MZMcBride wrote:
There are thousands of potential projects that
Wikimedia could engage in that would fit perfectly within the current
mission statement[1] and thousands more that would loosely fit in.
I use the word mission in the broad sense, i.e. what we are trying to
do
Should we offer to host citizendium?
Okey get over the instinctive reaction.
==The background==
Those who have read this week's signpost will be aware that
citizendium is in significant financial difficulties. If not see the
end of the briefly section:
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