[Wikimedia-l] Is anyone motivated to lead a study/projet to integrate a "Tatoeba"-like project within Mediawiki

Hello, While contributing to wiktionary, I discovered Tatoeba, a website where you can find translated sentences, and share your knoledge with new translation. The project database is free (CC-by if I well remember), and the team behind it seems very responsive: think that they made this post[1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

Agreed. dj ("pundit") On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Craig Franklin wrote: > Thanks Susana for so quickly documenting this matter, and thanks Jan-Bart > and Patricio for referring this quickly to the Ombudsperson so that it > could be investigated and dealt with quickly rather than being allo

[Wikimedia-l] Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)

* Hey all, For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with factoring community concerns into our software development process, ke

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Craig Franklin wrote: > I think that the recommendations that Susana have made are sensible and not > onerous to implement, and I urge the FDC to accept and implement these > recommendations as quickly as possible. I want to echo Craig's thanks. This was a most

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

Thanks Susana for so quickly documenting this matter, and thanks Jan-Bart and Patricio for referring this quickly to the Ombudsperson so that it could be investigated and dealt with quickly rather than being allowed to fester. I think that the recommendations that Susana have made are sensible and

[Wikimedia-l] UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_to_make_its_publications_available_free_of_charge_as_part_of_a_new_open_access_policy/ Great step done by UNESCO! If I understood well, only credit will be necessary. I am glad to see that, since in some conversations I've partic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience

> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 12:47:08 -0700 > From: Michael Snow > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience > Message-ID: <519537bc.6000...@frontier.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On 5/16/2013 11:52 AM, ENWP Pine wrote: > > I agree t

[Wikimedia-l] Draft ED Job Description Online

Hi Everyone I have posted the draft ED job description online at the ED transition site. If you want to comment on: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Director_Transition_Team/Position_description Please do so before the end of Sunday (PST). Sorry for the rush, but its not a long documen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Felicitaciones a la española Wikipedia! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fogos_artificiais.jpg Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

El 17/05/2013, a las 14:50, Osmar Valdebenito escribió: > Congratulations to all of us who have worked all these years to make this > possible :D +1! ¡Felicidades! :D > The change in the count is very innapropiate (someone said on our Village > Pump it was like preparing for New Year's Eve and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Thank you Matt! Also, we are doing a little campaign of promotion in Twitter with the hashtag #Wikipedia1millón If anyone want help. El may 17, 2013 12:57 p.m., "Matthew Roth" escribió: > thanks, Lucien. > I created a draft and translated it here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Revised and OK. Thank you very much, 2013/5/17 Matthew Roth > thanks, Lucien. > I created a draft and translated it here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Spanish_Wikipedia_1_million_articles > > Anyone reading this should please feel free to edit the English translati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

thanks, Lucien. I created a draft and translated it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Spanish_Wikipedia_1_million_articles Anyone reading this should please feel free to edit the English translation to make it better. I'll publish in 1-2 hours, depending on whether anyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Hi, Matthew. It is already published in spanish: http://blog.wikimedia.org.es/2013/05/wikipedia-en-espanol-supera-el-millon.html and http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Anuncio_del_art%C3%ADculo_1_000_000 Thanks and best regards, 2013/5/17 Matthew Roth > If you do a blog post to announce i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Congratulations to all who contributed to reach such a landmark.. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Matthew Roth wrote: > If you do a blog post to announce it, please let me know and I'll translate > to English. Or if you can give a rough English translation, I can clean it > up. Would be happy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

I'm gonna cry. I'm glad to see that the board finds this report useful... as for me, I finally read the grant's pages and found them a perfect recipe for disaster: especially the talk page . A poem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden

Sorry not, and what we have learned is how hard is to to define what a lake is In Swden some mention there are 200 000 lakes, and that the Hydrology authority has data of over 150 000 but where less then 75 000 has a name and many with just rudimentary data. The lakes with environment impact

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

If you do a blog post to announce it, please let me know and I'll translate to English. Or if you can give a rough English translation, I can clean it up. Would be happy to publish on the Wikimedia Blog. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Osmar Valdebenito wrote: > Congratulations to all of us who

Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden

Very cool project. Do you know how many lakes are there in other European countries (or website/datasets)? It is for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Lakes 2013/5/16 Anders Wennersten > A new major botgenerating effort is now under way on sv:wp. All lakes > (300

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffComs $40,000 Hong Kong junket

Thank you Bence, for your thoughtful replies to this thread, here and on Meta. Lodewijk writes: > I think there are two relevant discussions to be had: First of all, > whether there should be an AffCom meeting at all. I've seen excellent work come out of long-form committee meetings. Though these

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience

Le 2013-05-15 22:07, Sue Gardner a écrit : It's the [[Michael Shermer]] thing: if we ignore the rustling in the grass and it's the wind, no harm done. But if we ignore it and it's a tiger, we're dead. So rationally, we behave as though everything is a tiger, without necessarily realizing that ref

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

On May 17, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > If Sue were to do an IAmA (and that's kind of up to her), there'd probably be > some sexist assholery and some people who want to rant about the perceived > injustice of wanting to encourage women to edit Wikipedia (I know, pass the > smelling

Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden

On 16/05/13 23:18, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 16 May 2013 18:36, Anders Wennersten wrote: All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake environment data from a newly set up authority demanded by EU, i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Congratulations to all of us who have worked all these years to make this possible :D The change in the count is very innapropiate (someone said on our Village Pump it was like preparing for New Year's Eve and falling sleep in the counting and waking up the other day), but it doesn't take the credi

[Wikimedia-l] Ask your WMF Board member

Hi, On Sunday next week there will be an "open Sunday" with talks and sessions, organized by Wikimedia Deutschland. [1] As a Board member I take the chance to offer a session to "Ask your WMF Board member". I collect questions in advance of this meeting, add them to the questions in the meeting a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Hi all, On Thu, 16 May 2013 19:19:45 -0500 Salvador A wrote: > Hi folks! > > Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers > wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of > Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. > > https://es.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

On Friday, 17 May 2013 at 06:54, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Dan Rosenthal, 17/05/2013 07:32: > > Is there any thought or discussion as to whether Sue could (or would want > > to) additionally do an actual Reddit IAmA, as Jorm did? Don't get me wrong, > > I understand why it is on Meta and I thin