Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Community Fellow Peter Coombe

2012-04-14 Thread Kul Wadhwa
This is a HUGE need. Awesome! Great to have you tackling this. Good luck, Peter! --Kul On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Siko Bouterse wrote: > It is my pleasure to introduce our newest Wikimedia Community Fellow of > 2012, Peter Coombe. As a fellow, Pete will be working with the community to >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works

2012-04-14 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Please take care that the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana is different from Archivum Secretum Vaticam and this is different from the Archive of the "Congregazione per la Propagazione della Fede" which is formally the old Roman Inquisition. The first two are open to the public and they grant access

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works

2012-04-14 Thread Mike Dupont
> > Not really dead > > http://web.archive.org/web/20080309165756/http://bav.vatican.va/en/v_home_bav/home_bav.shtml > > thanks, here is an interesting video (in german) how the archive works and how the documents get verboten. http://www.berlinpicturecompany.com/ctv/history/wolf.html mike

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Translations of WMF documents [was: Re: Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2012 [was: Re: Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 97, Issue 43]]

2012-04-14 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
As a matter of principle, I wholeheartedly agree. But principles only take you so far, and cost a great deal. I don't see much wrong with the communities translating reports, rather than have the WMF spend my donated money on translators. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Виктория wrote: > I secon

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works

2012-04-14 Thread emijrp
2012/4/14 Mike Dupont > Trying to Search the index > http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_library/index.htm > give a dead link > http://bav.vatican.va/en/v_home_bav/home_bav.shtml > > Not really dead http://web.archive.org/web/20080309165756/http://bav.vatican.va/en/v_home_bav/home_bav.shtm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works

2012-04-14 Thread Mike Dupont
Trying to Search the index http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_library/index.htm give a dead link http://bav.vatican.va/en/v_home_bav/home_bav.shtml the index of the "secret" (not really secret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Secret_Archives) http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_

[Wikimedia-l] Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works

2012-04-14 Thread David Gerard
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/net-us-vatican-oxford-digital-idUSBRE83A1HF20120411 Can we arrange to get copies of this stuff without fuss? - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimed