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From: Bess Richfield b...@telkomsa.net
Date: 25 Apr 2013 09:56
Subject: Re: Wikipedia FYI
To: David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com
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David,
I am
Thanks, Manuel, for picking up this topic! Very helpful indeed. I have
added a few things and can help updating it regularly.
Best,
Nicole
On 25 April 2013 10:22, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Dear all,
it has been mentioned several times that Meta is sometimes a messy
On 24/04/13 12:35, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Current machine translation research aims at using massive machine learning
supported systems. They usually require big parallel corpora. We do not
have big parallel corpora (Wikipedia articles are not translations of each
other, in general), especially
On 24/04/13 12:35, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
In summary, I see four calls for action right now (and for all of them this
means to first actually think more and write down a project plan and gather
input on that), that could and should be tackled in parallel if possible:
I ) develop a structured
Thanks, Manuel. That is useful.
Also I am on of the people who think it is useless to have a chapters
association at this moment (maybe ever?), it is important for us to
organize such kind of information in a more centralized way. :)
We also would need to have a way to share our best practices
An answer might be to have common criteria included in the FDC bids?
On 25 April 2013 00:29, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com wrote:
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Alex
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From: Ad Huikeshoven a...@wikimedia.nl
Date:
Thank you for that centralitzed page, it is true that many times it is
really difficult to find info on Meta.
However I disagree on the name - if it's going to cointain information
about Chapters, Thematic organizations and User groups, it shouldn't be
named Chapters Portal but something like
From: Ad Huikeshoven a...@wikimedia.nl
...
The accounting standards give guidelines about what can be allocated to
program costs, what should be included in fundraising cost and what are
administrative cost. FDC entities are required to produce audited financial
statements. The external
Denny,
very good and compelling reasoning as always. I think the argument
that we can potentially do a lot for the MT space (including open
source efforts) in part by getting our own house in order on the
dictionary side of things makes a lot of sense. I don't think it
necessarily excludes
It is disappointing that no organization has readily come forward in
reply to my original question with their pre-calculated
program:fundraising:administrative cost ratios (I love this way of
conceiving of the ratio) it would be really handy to be discussing a
real case at this moment. I will
On 25 April 2013 14:07, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
Rather than focusing on understanding our costs in detail, I would like to
understand our benefits in detail.
Sure, it would be great to have a top level performance indicator for
this. Measuring programmes in terms of hard
Le 2013-04-25 04:49, George Herbert a écrit :
We can't usefully help with internet access (and that's proceeding at
good
pace even in the third world), but language will remain a barrier
when
people get access. In a few situations politics / firewalling is as
well
(China, primarily), which is
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Not just bootstrapping the content. By having the primary content be saved
in a language independent form, and always translating it on the fly, it
would not merely bootstrap content in different languages,
2013/4/25 Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
You are blowing my mind, dude. :)
Glad to do hear :)
I suspect this approach won't serve for everything, but it sounds
*awesome*. If we can tie natural-language statements directly to data nodes
(rather than merely annotating vague references
News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/News_and_notes
In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for
breaking news
On 25 April 2013 11:07, Arnau Duran arnaudu...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for that centralitzed page, it is true that many times it is
really difficult to find info on Meta.
This has been brought up on Meta by Theo at
Millions of Wikidata stubs invade small Wikipedias .. Volapük
Wikipedia now best curated source on asteroids .. new editors flood
small wikis .. Google spokesperson: This is out of control. We will
shut it down.
Denny suggested:
II ) develop a feature that blends into Wikipedia's search if an
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, May
2, 2013 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Not just bootstrapping the content. By having the primary content be saved
in a language independent form, and always translating it on the fly, it
would not merely bootstrap content in different languages,
Hi David,
thanks for sharing.
I tend to agree to some of the statements made in the thread:
as a Wikisource user, I perfectly understand the lack of negativity
proofreading carries,
instead of, for example, writing on Gaza strip related topics...
(and I would dare to say (without data,
That's a good point: the activity of proofreading is inherently less likely
to cause controversy than the activity of building a neutral, comprehensive
encyclopedia, so it's probably naturally likely to attract people who are
less inclined to argue, and the topics are also likely to be easier to
David Richfield, 25/04/2013 21:57:
That's a good point: the activity of proofreading is inherently less likely
to cause controversy than the activity of building a neutral, comprehensive
encyclopedia, so it's probably naturally likely to attract people who are
less inclined to argue, and the
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's
Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose
work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites. Jan, who
made his first contributions to the German language Wikipedia in early
Welcome Jan!
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's
Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose
work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites. Jan, who
made his first contributions to the German language
Congratulations to both Jan and the Community Advocacy team. :-)
Risker
On 25 April 2013 16:40, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.eswrote:
Welcome Jan!
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's
Community Advocacy team to include our
Great news! Congratulations and welcome, Jan!
Patricio
2013/4/25 Risker risker...@gmail.com:
Congratulations to both Jan and the Community Advocacy team. :-)
Risker
On 25 April 2013 16:40, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.eswrote:
Hi all,
Today the Editor Engagement Experiments team has ported our new designs for
account creation and login to the current version of MediaWiki core,
meaning it is now available for testing on all Wikipedias and Wikimedia
projects.
The main purpose of starting with an opt-in testing period is
and here's Steven's blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi all,
Today the Editor Engagement Experiments team has ported our new designs for
account creation and login to
This subthread seems headed out into practical / applied epistemology, if
there is such a thing.
I am not sure if we can get from here to there; that said, a new structure
with language independent facts / information points that then got
machine-explained or described in a local language would
That is looking really beautiful. SJ
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
and here's Steven's blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
That is looking really beautiful. SJ
Thanks SJ!
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
and here's Steven's blog post:
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