Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiVoyage Association as a thematic organization

2013-03-11 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 10.03.2013 20:45, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): Chapters have fees because associations have fees; they should follow the laws and customs of their geography and a one-size-fits-all global regulation would be a big mistake. (It might even be illegal in some jurisdictions for some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiVoyage Association as a thematic organization

2013-03-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Manuel Schneider, 11/03/2013 08:49: Am 10.03.2013 20:45, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): Chapters have fees because associations have fees; they should follow the laws and customs of their geography and a one-size-fits-all global regulation would be a big mistake. (It might even be illegal in

[Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Itzik Edri
כתב מעיתון מוביל מבקש לדבר עם מישהו על בן הטבע. מישהו מעוניין? -- Forwarded message -- To: it...@wikimedia.org.il הי איציק, בהמשך לשיחתנו, אני מעוניין לדבר עם עורך שהיה שם מימיה הראשונים של ויקיפדיה העברית, ומכיר מקרוב את יהודה בלו, שערך בעבר תחת השם בן הטבע לפני שהושעה

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Manuel Schneider
מצטער, אני לא מדבר עברית. מנואל Am 11.03.2013 14:36, schrieb Itzik Edri: כתב מעיתון מוביל מבקש לדבר עם מישהו על בן הטבע. מישהו מעוניין? -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
There is currently a number of things going on re the future of Wiktionary. There is, for example, the suggestion to adopt OmegaWiki, which could potentially complicate a Wikibase-Solution in the future (but then again, structured data is often rather easy to transform):

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Denny Vrandečić, 11/03/2013 14:52: There is currently a number of things going on re the future of Wiktionary. There is, for example, the suggestion to adopt OmegaWiki, which could potentially complicate a Wikibase-Solution in the future (but then again, structured data is often rather easy to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Andrea Zanni
Hi Denny, as Nemo pointed out, that grant is for Wikisource :-) http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_** Wikisource_strategic_visionhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision We spoke about that briefly in the Office hours: one of the main

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Sorry about the wrong link, I meant this IEG proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiktionary_-_the_way_it_should_be but as far as I can tell, this one didn't make it into round 1 (pity, something like that would have made sense, but I understand that the proposal was obviously

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, If there is one thing that would be extremely powerful, it would be combining lexical information with Commons. I presented about this in Alexandria at Wikimania and, it is still true. It makes sense to allow people to search for a paard or a cheval or a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is no point at all in maintaining the software currently used by OmegaWiki. That would be foolish. Nobody who knows OmegaWiki will ask for that. What we are asking for is that we ensure that the structures that exist in OmegaWiki are replicated in Wikidata for reasons that are clear

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thank you for the clarification, Gerard. I was indeed misunderstanding the proposal. We need to find a central place to discuss a proposal. 2013/3/11 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com Hoi, There is no point at all in maintaining the software currently used by OmegaWiki. That would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 11/03/13 16:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote: What we are asking for is that we ensure that the structures that exist in OmegaWiki are replicated in Wikidata for reasons that are clear and obvious. Technically there are a few things that make sense to have.. For instance.. In the Dutch language we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Asaf Bartov
אני לא בטוח שכתבה כזו תועיל למטרותינו בשום צורה. אם מישהו בכל זאת רוצה לספר את הסיפור, אני ממליץ להיזהר מלשון הרע. - אסף 2013/3/11 Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il כתב מעיתון מוביל מבקש לדבר עם מישהו על בן הטבע. מישהו מעוניין? -- Forwarded message -- To:

[Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements

2013-03-11 Thread Garfield Byrd
Hello: The mid-year financial statements of the Wikimedia Foundation are available at the Wikimedia Foundation - Financial Reports page.http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports This report is for the period from July 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012. Please contact me with any

[Wikimedia-l] MediaWiki data browser

2013-03-11 Thread ENWP Pine
There seems to be considerable interest on this email list about WikiData and similar projects, so I think some people may be interested in this proposal at Individual Engagement Grants. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser. Note that the community comment period

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Itzik Edri
Oops. Just noticed that I sent this email to Wikimedia-L instead of WMIL mailing list. Sorry! :) 2013/3/11 Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch מצטער, אני לא מדבר עברית. מנואל Am 11.03.2013 14:36, schrieb Itzik Edri: כתב מעיתון מוביל מבקש לדבר עם מישהו על בן הטבע. מישהו

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Snow
On 3/11/2013 12:47 PM, Itzik Edri wrote: Oops. Just noticed that I sent this email to Wikimedia-L instead of WMIL mailing list. Sorry! :) Too bad - I was hoping it was a sign that people were taking seriously the notion that this could be a multilingual mailing list, not just English-only.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements

2013-03-11 Thread ENWP Pine
Garfield, Thanks for the report. Congrats again to the fundraising team for what they accomplished this for this round of fundraising. The QA for the mid-year report talks about a hiring pace that is slower than planned, and says We attribute this to the fact that the market for engineers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Fae
On 11 March 2013 19:56, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: Too bad - I was hoping it was a sign that people were taking seriously the notion that this could be a multilingual mailing list, not just English-only. Me too, I thought it was rather refreshing for folks to be corresponding

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements

2013-03-11 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:06 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: I'd like to ask you or Gayle about how aggressive WMF is about recruiting outside of SF. I'm not Gayle or Garfield, but here's some simple data on the most recent hires: Sr. Software Engineer, Mobile - to be announced

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, grin there is always Google translate ... works quite nicely from within gmail for many languages. Thanks, Gerard On 11 March 2013 21:11, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2013 19:56, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: Too bad - I was hoping it was a sign that people

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements

2013-03-11 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Brad Jorsch, Software Engineer, remote, probably relocating Eventually. No idea when. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Nathan
I too thought the gmail translate worked really well, until I saw Asaf suggest they stop using bad words - which I guess gmail stripped out, because I didn't see any! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Asaf Bartov
No bad words. My phrase was לשון הרע, which is a legal term in Israel, originating in Jewish religious law[1], roughly equivalent to defamation or the Roman law 'calumnia', and I was advocating _avoiding_ that if anyone chooses to discuss this person (from the Hebrew Wikipedia's past) with the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Liam Wyatt
On Tuesday, 12 March 2013, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Gerard Meijssen, 11/03/2013 17:51: PS as to restricting the world... we do not allow people to state that Julius Caesar is a contemporary of Napoleon Bonaparte in Wikipedia either do we ? I'm quite sure we do. Nemo To clarify for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Erwin Mulialim
Good morning all, I also strongly agree and support when we can use multi language in this mailing list, such as by including the Indonesian language into the “Wikimedia Mailing List” (wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org). May GOD Bless All of You! Best Regards, Claudius Erwin Mulialim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Erwin Mulialim
Good morning all, I also strongly agree and support when we can use multi language in this mailing list, such as by including the Indonesian language into the “Wikimedia Mailing List” (wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org). May GOD Bless All of You! Best Regards, Claudius Erwin Mulialim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

2013-03-11 Thread Mark
Και εγώ συμφωνώ, ας γράψουμε σε όλες τις κλασικές γλώσσες. :) - Μάρκος On 3/12/13 3:44 AM, Erwin Mulialim wrote: Good morning all, I also strongly agree and support when we can use multi language in this mailing list, such as by including the Indonesian language into the “Wikimedia Mailing