Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copy and paste

How hard would it be to set up a tool like the software that as far as I know the MIT uses to automatically check plagiarism among thesis etc. submitted to their digital library, checking the text of all Wikimedia projects against e.g. newspaper websites and Google Books, and then publishing th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Meeting on Monday with Group Contacts for WM IRC channels

Hi John, I don't speak for the GCs, but there's a redlink for the log on the meeting page on Meta, and someone has posted some notes on Etherpad. You can see the links at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts/Meetings/October_2012. If the log doesn't appear in a couple of days,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Meeting on Monday with Group Contacts for WM IRC channels

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM, ENWP Pine wrote: > Hi John, > > I don't speak for the GCs, but there's a redlink for the log on the > meeting page on Meta, and someone has posted some notes on Etherpad. You > can see the links at https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts/ > **Meetings

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Language Engineering team 2012-09-17 16:30 UTC

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF) < slakshma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > The log[1] is available. The next Language Engineering office hour will be > on 14th November. Thank you > Apologies for the spam, the next office hours will be on 21st November, 3rd Wednesday as u

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chapter Association, Think Tank about the roles of the association

Dear wikimedians, In order to prepare the next development step of the Chapter Association (ie the concrete actions), a think tank has been created to receive all ideas of Tasks that should be handled or supported by the WCA. This process is open to everyone interested in the future of the C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chapter Association, Think Tank about the roles of the association

Hi Charles, that sounds interesting. I would like to suggest that some of this discussion already happened very fruitfully in Washington before Wikimania. Several chapter members were already present, and used the room that was originally reserved by WCA people to have a rather informal chapters m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copy and paste

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:26 AM, James Heilman wrote: > We really need a plagiarism detection tool so that we can make sure our > sources are not simply "copy and pastes" of older versions of Wikipedia. > Today I was happily improving our article on pneumonia as I have a day off. > I came across a

[Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

Hi Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus The document outlines some rather big changes in the priority for WMF and future responsibilities it will agree to keep. I am surprised by how little

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

Other than the fellowships, which I'll come back to in a moment, I think Sue's new course for the WMF makes a lot of sense. The WMF has been the subject of a lot of valid criticism in the last few years around its goals, spending and achievements. Despite soaring budgets and an FTE trend to delight

[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage/Wikitravel accounts merge

Hello, What is the planning for merging accounts from Wikivoyage, Wikitravel and Wikimedia? Should something be done before the migration? Regards, Yann ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage/Wikitravel accounts merge

I believe it's just a case of adding Wikivoyage as projects under the SUL umbrella and do it like any other new Wikimedia project. I believe, though, that joining SUL is only possible after the projects have migrated onto WMF servers. On 18 October 2012 17:28, Yann Forget wrote: > Hello, > > Wha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Nathan wrote: > Other than the fellowships, which I'll come back to in a moment, I > think Sue's new course for the WMF makes a lot of sense. The WMF has > been the subject of a lot of valid criticism in the last few years > around its goals, spending and achievem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

Theo10011 wrote: > Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago > - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus Well, there's your problem. You're reading the talk page! You want the subject-space page, of course:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

MZMcBride wrote: > Theo10011 wrote: >> Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago >> - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus > > Well, there's your problem. You're reading the talk page! You want the > subject-space page, of course: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

Narrowing the focus... target locked on Wikipedia... hunf sad... very sad. Thanks board... On 18 October 2012 19:07, MZMcBride wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: > > Theo10011 wrote: > >> Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks > ago > >> - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

>... We are not a general educational non-profit The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. How is it possible

[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities meeting - November 1

Hi folks, I'm pleased to announced that the next WMF metrics and activities meeting is going to be the first one that'll be live-streamed on YouTube with an open IRC backchannel. The meeting will take place November 1, 2012 at 5:30 PM UTC. The IRC channel is #wikimedia-metrics-meetings [1] on irc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities meeting - November 1

Fantastic! Live youtube streams are an incredible idea. Great to see the movement taking advantage of the rest of the tools the internet has to offer. Thanks to all involved! Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Oct 19, 2012 12:29 AM, "Erik Moeller" wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm pleased to announced th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012/10/18 Nathan : > Why can Reddit and other > massive userbase sites keep their community and continue to grow, > while Wikimedia can't? Is it that we're too hard to use? Too much has > already been done? Are the communities not open enough? Too bound by > rules and standards and a conservative

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities meeting - November 1

+100 On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Richard Symonds wrote: > Fantastic! Live youtube streams are an incredible idea. Great to see the > movement taking advantage of the rest of the tools the internet has to > offer. Thanks to all involved! > > Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK > On Oct 19, 2012 12:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities meeting - November 1

Erik, This is wonderful news! Will you be rotating the time of the meetings to accommodate different timezones? Thanks, Abbas. > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:16:24 -0400 > From: meta...@gmail.com > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities meeting - November 1

> * Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also > specialized reports and analytics Erik, are any new metrics being added to support the Halfaker recommendations to "build tools that aid in identifying and supporting desirable newcomers" from http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~half