Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

2013-11-06 Thread Florence Devouard
Whilst we are at Sealand Principality... a head up... We now have received five (5) candidacies. Good ones. Which is great. I'd love to see some more. Also please... we would need more geographical diversity (err, less primarily English speaking people). Help relay the call for volunteers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

2013-11-06 Thread Itzik Edri
There is no one from the Maldives who want to bid maybe? :) I'm ok also with Hawaii On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: Whilst we are at Sealand Principality... a head up... We now have received five (5) candidacies. Good ones. Which is great.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

2013-11-06 Thread Steven Zhang
Australia? :) (It'll never happen of course since we're in the middle of nowhere) Steven Zhang Committee Member, Wikimedia Australia steven.zh...@wikimedia.org.au On 7 Nov 2013, at 12:24 am, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: There is no one from the Maldives who want to bid maybe? :) I'm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

2013-11-06 Thread Jon Davies
I'd be willing to put up with the heat, beaches and luxury hotels. On 6 November 2013 13:24, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: There is no one from the Maldives who want to bid maybe? :) I'm ok also with Hawaii On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com

[Wikimedia-l] December 2 3 office hours for VisualEditor

2013-11-06 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hi, guys. I will push out a reminder closer to date, but I wanted to let people know early of the next set of office hours for VisualEditor. - Monday, December 2, 1900 UTC - Tuesday, December 3, 0100 UTC. You can see local time conversions by scrolling to the listings on Meta:

[Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-06 Thread David Cuenca
On the Wikisource mailing list we are discussing about a contest to celebrate Wikisource's 10th aniversary. The contest would be from Nov 24th till Dec 1st. During that time the participants would proofread a selection of books and they would get points per page. The one with the most points

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-06 Thread Samuel Klein
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing, Micru. I definitely want to... could we get some crossover promotion from Distributed Proofreaders? On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:58 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: On the Wikisource mailing list we are discussing about a contest to celebrate

[Wikimedia-l] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 13, 2013 at 1500 UTC

2013-11-06 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 between 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on #wikimedia-office. (See below for timezone conversion and other details.) We will be talking about some of our recent and upcoming projects