I think I would consider it educational. Travel itself is an
educational experience, and a fuller travel experience enabled by the
sharing of Wikimedia-style free knowledge all the more so :)
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On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Patricio Molina
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On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote:
Some modifications and requested info has been added to:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
-greg aka varnent
There have also been a couple of other proposals on meta along these
same
Indeed, I would expect for the 'Sister Projects Committee' to have
both the options of project fission and project fusion within its
toolbag.
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On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tarc Meridian t...@hotmail.com wrote:
In some respects, that change would be quite good.
create
new projects any more. It would be great to see one new project every year
:)
I had suggested earlier that we might even run this as an annual
thing, with a Wikimania-style bidding process for the new sister
projects.
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No dia 4 de Abril de 2012 05:53, Pharos
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are
as a society towards reaching that goal
We had started a stub table about this:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
We had started a stub table about this:
Hi folks,
I've started this page to help list the various themed multi-event
campaigns that have been popping up around the Wikimedia universe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWorldDays
Not sure if it's the best name, I was also thinking WikiSpring, or
WikiSeason, or WikiWhatnot.
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
That sounds reasonable. Most things discussed on this list are not
specially relevant to the Foundation.
OK. Any strong objections to changing the
Side question:
Does Chinese Wikipedia indeed have an elected or consensus leader or
some sort?
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I think you guys can all see how useful it would be if the Chinese
Wikipedia also has
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl wrote:
I agree cities are probably better, but I don't think that's really the
best place to start editing Wikipedia either, because it's an area where
it's really easy for new users to mistakenly think that they should
write content
I would pitch it as a simple appeal to edit the Wikipedia article on
your hometown (or home neighborhood if you're from a big city).
In my experience, something like this has been attractive to a very
broad spectrum of people, and gives them a nice in as a place to get
started.
Thanks,
Richard
Earlier this year, I helped organize and archive some of the past proposals
for new Wikimedia projects on meta, and those with an education focus
(including several for children's education) are collected here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_projects_-_education
Perhaps these
I thought folks might be interested in this, which was created by
Moving Brands as a hypothetical project for rebnranding Wikimedia, and
published in Viewpoint Magazine in the UK:
http://www.movingbrands.com/?category_name=wikipedia-work
Note the very elaborate work on this, and the particular
I'd like to approach the Unnamed Movement idea from a slightly
different perspective.
What we really have emergent is a series of related movements, many of
which are nested inside of each other.
At the highest and most general level is the Free Culture Movement,
which is a real and active
Informally, and in my own mind, I tend to think of like-minded free
culture wiki sites as part of a broader Wiki Knowledge movement.
Of course, this is not meant to be an exclusivist or trademarked term :P
Thanks,
Richard
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/01/2011 11:52 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
One thing I find irritating and complex about our structure is the
proliferation of small wikis. Now I've no objection to the idea that
we have a wiki for every language on
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:02 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
..
I agree, a focus on new namespaces (perhaps with differentiated
editing permissions, per Liam) certainly looks like the best path
forward
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Дана Sunday 10 April 2011 06:36:22 MZMcBride написа:
featured article requirements or anything like that. They might be
inundated with too many links in welcome messages (which I view as a
largely separate issue from
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote:
For that matter, the contents of
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Translation is an important problem, and it is also key to making
material available in less developed languages. Linked with moral rights
it gives too much leeway to those who would claim that a given
translation is
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola
aaron.adrign...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very
unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one
day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a single information,
collaboration and
There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that
probably has more to do with it.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Broadband use remains another predictor, as 59% of those with home
broadband use the service, compared
I actually tried to set up a geonotice to catch Wikipedian
Antarcticans a while back, but unfortunately the convergence of the
longitude lines kind of threw it off :P
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Pharos
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
On 01/05/11 4:52 PM, David Gerard wrote
It would also be great if we could have banners inviting people to
participate in major local community events, like the many Wikipedia
10 celebrations planned for January.
http://ten.wikipedia.org
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Daniel ~ Leinad danny.lei...@gmail.com wrote
Ourproject.org does something like this, but I think that something
evolved with the help of the big free culture organizations and
building on this model, could turn into even a much greater resource.
http://ourproject.org/
Thanks,
Pharos
LocalWiki looks like a great project.
In a similar vein, Wikimedia NYC has been engaged with local free
culture and community groups on our joint 'NYCwiki' initiative:
http://nycwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://nycwiki.org/wiki/NYCwiki:Community_portal
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
This is a pretty great embodiment of our copyleftism, that's for sure.
BTW, here's the guy's website:
http://humaneinfo.com/
Thanks,
Pharos
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:07 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/humane-reader-wikipedia-console,news-7706.html
Just
Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC will be held over the weekend of
August 28-29 2010, hosted by ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts,
and also supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.
Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner will be giving a
keynote, and we will
would Mediawiki scale to 130 million articles? Gotta cover
everything...
The number of notable subjects covered in all those books is much much
greater than 130 million.
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Pharos
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This is just wonderful.
Bravo, Italian Wikinews!
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Pharos
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Ilario Valdelli, 04/08/2010 10:37:
A translation can be found here:
http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione
Yes, could
I presume the interview with Jimbo was in English? This would
probably be a good opportunity for collaboration with English
Wikinews...
Thanks,
Pharos
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cristian Consonni
kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm the coordinator of w...@home in Wikimedia Italia
What about wikipediajr.org ?
And so we would have en.wikipediajr.org, fr.wikipediajr.org etc.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote:
Thanks for your very useful thoughts, Samuel. They lead us to these
two key questions:
- Create new
, for children
That's an interesting conception, right there.
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Pharos
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This is the best source of the zeroth law of Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/Raul%27s_laws#Laws_by_others
I believe people have tried to track down the original coiner, but
noone really knows.
Thanks,
Pharos
2010/6/17 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com:
Yes, it's communism
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Philippe Beaudette
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote:
tbh, I'm very fond of Double check. It seems to imply exactly what
we want: the edit isn't being accepted automatically, nor rejected,
but simply getting a second look. It's fairly neutral in tone, and
bids that do not win Wikimania could still be funded and
supported by the Wikimedia Foundation as regional conferences.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimania 2011 has come, yet again another location in the middle-east.
It seems to me
knowledge movement :)
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Pharos
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I believe this is the page that Phoebe is looking for:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Also see the 'content partnerships' page on the Wikimedia UK wiki
that I've put together
the orthography we were educated in. But with simplified
we have a big problem.
Couldn't the links from Japanese Wikipedia pages be configured to go
directly to the traditional Chinese orthography versions?
Thanks,
Pharos
Please note I don't talk about default I/F. I talk about the documents
of days ago and i also
think that it's unfortunate.
Be bold: raise this issue at
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium and open the bug at
bugzilla without waiting for too long.
I agree, Multilingual Wikisource would be quite an improvement.
Thanks,
Pharos
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the BBC about 'The volunteer
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That
would be neat, a wiki
Our friends at the allied project OpenStreetMap
OmegaWiki was originally intended to be a multilingual Wiktionary project...
http://www.omegawiki.org
Has there been any thought on bringing it back somehow into the Wikimedia fold?
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I am cleaning Requests
in its own right, and even if someone were to donate
a textbook in a rather obscure language I don't think that we should
turn such a gift away.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some
The proposal in this instance seems to be for merging all of the
Wikinews language editions into one mega-project, which seems to me an
exceedingly radical and perhaps counterproductive step.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I am cleaning
that money
directly on special efforts to increase high-quality free content
about environmental topics on Wikipedia and the other projects.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Tim Starling tstarl
of GLAMs, run
through a chapters vouching system, and move on from there.
If Wikimedia Australia were able to take the initiative on this and
start a pilot project, I personally think that would be fantastic.
Thanks,
Pharos
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love metadata
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I believe that a verified account system for GLAMs specifically
doing encyclopedic work (not for businesses, etc) would not be too
difficult to work out, and would be well worth any such effort.
Such systems, though nothing is 100%, have worked quite well for many
other websites.
Thanks,
Pharos
of Wikibooks or perhaps of
another project.
Thanks,
Pharos
And yes, Laura, to your specific question: if you want to see anything
happen with your project anytime soon, I wouldn't pick the WMF.
Whether this is a failing of a disorganized, bureaucratic system, or a
benefit of a deliberative
,
Pharos
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote:
Erik suggested I post this to the list for further discussion.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
*Introduction*
Fan History Wiki is a project dedicated to documenting the history of fan
communities, and to a lesser extent
subset of pre-approved articles.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.com
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Subject: [openmoko-announce] WikiReader
To: annou
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
John Vandenberg wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Brianbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
I propose expanding the notion of the Wikimedia Incubator to include
entirely new projects that are very, very easy to
editing software. It's something that could be done
by the community a) if they want, and b) if they have the software.
Mike
In an ideal world, it might be nice to have a video of the speaker and
a slideshow of the presentation available side-by-side in the same
window.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/10 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org:
Hi Thomas!
Sorry to top-post, and to be late replying. I believe that all 26
proposals are up now on the meta page. Let me know if you can't find
it, and I can post the
,
Pharos
Cary
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Sue Gardnersusanpgard...@gmail.com wrote:
Sure. Actually the New York chapter probably sends some press releases to US
media too; I'm not sure.
FYI We have had a number of contacts with journalists, but so far we
have not been in the habit of putting out formal
are thumbnailed?
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personally like to deprecate the GFDL,
but if it's a Commons-accepted free content licence then there's no
reason not to accept it.
Of course, there are and always have been a wide range of free content
licenses used for images on Commons, not just GFDL and CC.
Thanks,
Pharos
- d
Hi folks,
The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will be held over the weekend of July
25-26 2009 (confirmed!) at New York University, and hosted by Free
Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.
Jimmy Wales will be giving a keynote, and we'll also have several
dedicated panel discussions to be
sense to me.
Thanks,
Pharos
Ziko van Dijk
read more in German on
http://groups.google.de/group/infobrief-wiki-welt/msg/21c9f6c00634d13c?
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-- Hay
Hooray for Patricio and Wikimedia AR!
Looks like everything went brilliantly, and that you had a very
productive 'invasion'. Like Hay, I am very happy to see this
cross-fertilization of ideas, and I very much look forward to future
updates from everyone.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Wed, May 13
be added -in addition- to the
encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata. Possibly in the
future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection,
you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like
Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata.
Thanks,
Pharos
like Aude can be be a real
asset in jumpstarting chapters activities as well, as she has shown
with her great organizing work in Washington DC.
Thanks,
Pharos
It was all really great :-)
Sue
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:12
, I believe the other language most suited to
such a project would be French, because of its lingua franca status in
large parts of the developing world.
Thanks,
Pharos
2009/2/25 Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
However my central point
/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/wikis-take-manhattan/
If anyone anywhere is interested in helping their local museum to
participate in this project, please contact me and I'll help.
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it much less anonymous.
When this letter has reached its audience and we need a new donation
banner, I would strongly suggest another personal appeal of this type,
from a new person (maybe an educator).
Thanks,
Pharos
Regardless of how the numbers will hold up, it's clear
Maybe we the technical side of WMF could get a communications
advisor, some trusted volunteer from among the regular Wikimedians,
like they've done at the Chapters Committee recently.
Thanks,
Pharoos
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Eugene Zelenko
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Hi!
There are many
theories as to why?
Nathan
Summer break for students would be the obvious reason.
Or just good weather, generally.
You might find the inverse if you look only at Southern Hemisphere IPs.
Thanks,
Pharos
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Because myself
I think it's good that this started after the election.
We would lose if we competed with Obama donations...
As it is, I think some of the donors may be looking for new places to give.
Thanks,
Pharos
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also be a
great aid in improving literacy in English and other spoken languages.
Several SignWriting studies have focused on its use as an educational
tool that increases student's real literacy in spoken languages.
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Pharos
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