Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

Good to see such an abstract proposal to reach this point on the way towards becoming a very real Wikimedia project! d. On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:05 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Excited to see even how this mind-blowing idea comes to live! > > Congratulations >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [wikicite-discuss] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation, staying on the wikis

Hi Dario and Leila, it's been a pleasure collaborating with you in the past, and I hope this will continue despite the changes in your roles. Best, Daniel On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:13 PM Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > > Dario, thanks for your effort. It was a pleasure working with you, and I am >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia content for in-flight entertainment?

Hi, during long flights, I have often been wondering why there is no Wikimedia option in in-flight entertainment systems. As I am normally offline during flights and I normally don't think about in-flight stuff while on the ground, I never actually asked around, so after a long flight yesterday,

[Wikimedia-l] Candidature for the European Commission Open Science Policy Platform

Dear all, the European Commission is setting up an advisory group for its Open Science Agenda: https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-platform This group - called 'Open Science Policy Platform' (OSPP) - has an open call for candidates, and I am amongst those

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Yes, a CentralNotice would seem appropriate here. Please help flesh it out at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel . Daniel On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I have started a text.. > Thanks, > GerardM > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

Thanks a lot, Jan. I am sure our roads will keep crossing for a while - just penciled your Open Access Week editathon into my calendar last night. d. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:24 PM, aude wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Jan Ainali wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedian-In-Residence at NIOSH

Great news, Emily - congratulations! Looking forward to see NIOSH materials flow into Wikimedia projects, and to interactions between both communities. d. -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Input needed: Cooperation with zoos?

Hi Milos, I agree with Nemo that finding an additional non-zoo partner would be a good thing and that it's worth having a close look at the project with Sofia Zoo, which he linked in his post. Perhaps you could ask the applicants to review that project and to outline similarities and differences

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Input needed: Cooperation with zoos?

That looks impressive, Balazs - thanks to the Hungarian community! Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:42 AM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

What about having the Reasonator sit in the Draft namespace, with a link from the search results or the text preloaded for non-existing pages in the main namespace? Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (it was: Communication plans for community engagement

I could imagine that certain types of bots, tools and gadgets would benefit if handled and developed with support from a chapter. For instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot is used widely but cannot be maintained by its original author. It is currently being ported to Labs (

[Wikimedia-l] Wikifying a traveling science exhibition about the digital society

Dear all, a ship is cruising rivers in and around Germany with a science exhibition every year. The topic for next year is the digital society, and you are invited to edit the exhibition, e.g. by proposing individual exhibits or by making suggestions about the overall concept. The project page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish!

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.org wrote: Milos, lets call it an extended sabbatical instead! You never know when you might come back, and you are always welcome :) I'd echo that and am looking forward to crossing paths again. Daniel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki goes to radio: Möebius at Ibero 90.9

Hi Iván, that's an interesting concept - looking forward to listening to the recordings. Do you envision that collaboration to broaden a bit over time? For instance, there does not seem to be any mention of Creative Commons on their site, or their trained voices might help in getting some more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Simple English hits 100k this week

Hi Sarah, that sounds like an important milestone! Do we have any feedback as to how Simple is actually used by children and adults learning how to speak English? Daniel On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: And...urm...I wrote the article that hit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] White House orders open access to federally sponsored research

The US and UK plans may be similar in how they affect Wikimedia projects in that both make more research publications free to read, but they differ in numerous details (e.g. on whether the publications - and what versions thereof - should be freely available from the publisher or from a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

In order to get rid of the -ND clause, it may help to gather examples of derivative works. I just noticed that we do not keep track of these and thus started http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Derivative_versions . Daniel On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il