Re: [Wikimedia-l] MoodBar usage

2014-12-10 Thread WereSpielChequers
-- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:21:21 +0100 From: Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] MoodBar usage Message-ID: 54873da1.7090...@gmail.com Content-Type:

[Wikimedia-l] Out now: Open Content – A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences

2014-12-10 Thread Katja Ullrich
[sorry for cross-posting] Hi there, maybe some of you have seen it already: Wikimedia Deutschland, the German Commission for UNESCO and North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre just published a guide on how to correctly use Creative Commons licenses. You can read all about it here:

[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on December 10, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC

2014-12-10 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, A quick reminder about Language Engineering team's monthly IRC office hour later today at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the original announcement, local time, and agenda. We will post logs on metawiki[1] after the event. Thanks Runa [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community Ireland as a Wikimedia User Group

2014-12-10 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Congratulations to Wikimedia Community Ireland! Regards, Tanweer Wikimedia Bangladesh On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Congratulations from your friends at WMUK! Michael ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

[Wikimedia-l] Students Editing

2014-12-10 Thread James Heilman
Hey All We must scale back the education program working on English medical articles immediately. It is simple not working. Students are filling our medical articles with plagiarism, poorly sourced content, and duplicate content. This is not good for Wikipedia, it is not good for the students,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Placebook Wiki Project Proposal

2014-12-10 Thread Wil Sinclair
I'd like to know more about the proposal; is there a page on Meta that describes it in more detail? Specifically, I'd like to know: * You mention platform. Are you proposing a new top-level wiki project that would require critical mass to succeed? * Wouldn't this be a good fit for additions to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Placebook Wiki Project Proposal

2014-12-10 Thread Joe Aeberhard
Thanks for your feedback Wil and glad that you like the idea. This is the link to a page giving some more detail on this proposal - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PlaceBook_Wiki Initially I was thinking that a new platform would be the way to go with this, as I had thought that the type of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Students Editing

2014-12-10 Thread James Heilman
It has been brought to my attention that maybe my initial comments were not sufficiently clear. The issues we are facing are primarily from classes not supported by the WMF Education Program or the Education Foundation. The question is what do we as a community do to verify that students have the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France board handbook

2014-12-10 Thread Emeric Vallespi
Hi, and thanks for your support :) Sure Winifred, I will add a learning pattern, actually it's on my to-do list! In order to improve our sharing with the movement, we are thinking about translate some of documents we produced. Let us know if you think useful to translate the WMFr Board Handbook,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Placebook Wiki Project Proposal

2014-12-10 Thread Jan Ainali
If anyone is curious on how such a platform could look like, the Swedish National Heritage Board is running one. Even if it is in Swedish I guess you can get a feel for it here: http://www.platsr.se/ *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se 0729