Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting a bug triage
session on Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT) for
some of the bugs that exist in languages written from Right-to-Left
(RTL). During this 1 hour session we will be using the etherpad
linked below to
phoebe ayers, 17/08/2013 17:49:
P.s.: Generic questions to the board on this list are usually
ignored/missed, unless [sometimes] when they are in reply to
something posted on behalf of the board; in theory I guess the place
for such public questions would be
Hi,
Have you noticed the new internet.org initiative by Facebook, Samsung, Nokia,
Qualcomm, Ericsson and MediaTek?
Internet.org is a global partnership between technology leaders, nonprofits,
local communities and experts who are working together to bring the internet to
the two thirds of
Using a rather simple pair like Afrikaans - Dutch or a heavily researched
one like English - Spanish would be giving us a wrong impression of how
this will scale. We should at least add a few random pairs like Yoruba -
Gujarati or Kazakh - Lombard. Most of our 67,000 language pairs that we
will
I'm maybe too pessimistic, but I would be really surprised if this
project, at any time, really helps to provide an access (neutral) to the
Internet.
More probable: They will try to give a free/cheap access to a set of
their online services and so one do the same like AOL or MSN have tried
to do
Emmanuel,
I have my concerns as well so we're watching how things unfold for now.
Perhaps to add to Teemu's question (If I could be so bold) how would
internet.org need to evolve to make it worth our time and effort to be
involved?
--Kul
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart
Hoi,
All we need to do is what we already do: make our content available for
free. When we are really in their face that we bring neutral information to
everyone, everywhere how and why will they deny us?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 23 August 2013 10:59, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I would suggest to keep distance to this wannabe-NGO which more or less
only exists to serve the interests of commercial players which mostly do *
not* stand for a free and open web.
internet.org is nothing what will serve the ideas and ideals of an internet
as it is represented also by
On 23 August 2013 10:28, Jens Best jens.b...@wikimedia.de wrote:
I would suggest to keep distance to this wannabe-NGO which more or less
only exists to serve the interests of commercial players which mostly do *
not* stand for a free and open web.
internet.org is nothing what will serve the
Le 23/08/2013 10:59, Kul Wadhwa a écrit :
I have my concerns as well so we're watching how things unfold for now.
Perhaps to add to Teemu's question (If I could be so bold) how would
internet.org need to evolve to make it worth our time and effort to be
involved?
If what I fear becomes real,
Nothing good comes with people like Mark Zuckerberg or Peter Thiel, they
don't share our vision of a *really* free and open internet. So, actually,
Emmanuel, I couldn't care less which direction they gonna make their next
moves. It will all be a disguise of what they really attempt and with whom
Hoi,
But when they provide the infrastructure that allows our content to be seen
by many more people, they do us a service.
In the end it is what we are about. Last thing I heard we were first of all
about getting the knowledge out there.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 23 August 2013 12:14, Jens Best
Looks like NSA has bought some new hard drives and needs moar data.
2013/8/23 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Hoi,
But when they provide the infrastructure that allows our content to be seen
by many more people, they do us a service.
In the end it is what we are about. Last thing
Something to take into account should be the efficiency a language pair can
have. For instance, how many articles there are available, how easy is to
translate articles, how many bilingual speakers there are for a given pair,
and perhaps also, how much it can help to harmonize relationships
Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for
the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve
your text.
I recommend that you:
* go into your browser history
* search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org
* go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the
And just as a reminder: etherpad.wikimedia.org is not a production-level
service, and therefore any data within an etherpad
should be considered both public and able to disappear at any time.
This is one reason I recommend that people use Etherpads for short-term
defined collaboration sessions,
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