[Wikimedia-l] Wikisource UG report on the WMCON15
Dear all, I have written a short piece on the WMCON and some interesting aspects about the organizational future of User Groups. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ew8cVJhqqenGUAVVaTQqkisyPyd1tSX-zbVfi-Uuo8U/edit?usp=sharing Cheers, Micru ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group
Congratulations! -Hasive WMBD On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome news!! Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve wrote: Dear all, On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am honored to announce the recognition [1] of a new User Group in the United States - the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians. As their name implies, they are mostly active in the region known as the Research Triangle, or simply The Triangle. They have already organized activities in the region, especially at Duke and UNC related to MediaWiki, edit-a-thons and the Education Program. We'll see more of that in the near future :-) So please, let's welcome the newest member of the family of affiliates! Congrats! Regards, Carlos 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/North_Carolina_Triangle_Wikipedians_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_May_2015 -- *Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain. Carlos M. Colina Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve http://wikimedia.org.ve Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee Phone: +972-52-4869915 Twitter: @maor_x ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Hasive **Chowdhury** :: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী **হাছিব* Global User: Hasive http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee http://www.wikimedia.org.bd fb.com/Hasive http://fb.com/itsNCH | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Survey: What do you think of our social media feeds?
Just complete the survey. Nice initiative. -Hasive WMBD On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 28 May 2015 at 20:57, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote: If so, we’d love to hear what you think of our social media feeds. I've completed the survey, but there was nowhere to give general feedback. I wanted to point out that the idea of social media cards presents accessibility barriers to people with visual impairment (and to people with images disabled, for example to conserve bandwidth). Please post text, not pictures of text. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Hasive **Chowdhury** :: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী **হাছিব* Global User: Hasive http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee http://www.wikimedia.org.bd fb.com/Hasive http://fb.com/itsNCH | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button
Yes I agree that well educated, young and technical blind people from the developed world have found better solutions for using the internet that we could produce with a listen button. I see this more for 1) people who do not read because they do not know how 2) people who are blind but not technical (maybe they are elderly) Patient.co.uk say that their listen button is used about 1% of the time. You can see it here http://www.patient.co.uk/health/gout-leaflet -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button
On 24 January 2015 at 22:21, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't we have a Listen button beside our read button that when clicked will read the article for the person in question? Such functionality belongs in the browser, not the web page. So long as we use valid and accessible markup, the user can use a tool of their preference to have the page read to them, in a voice that suits them. There are 37 open source text-to-speech listed here http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/text-to-speech Having in the past examined several such tools in my capacity as a professional web manager, I found none which was more suited to the purpose then the scenario I describe above. Indeed, several seems to be money-making scams. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Survey: What do you think of our social media feeds?
Thanks for the initiative! Micru El vie., 29 de may. de 2015 8:53, Hasive Chowdhury nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd escribió: Just complete the survey. Nice initiative. -Hasive WMBD On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 28 May 2015 at 20:57, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote: If so, we’d love to hear what you think of our social media feeds. I've completed the survey, but there was nowhere to give general feedback. I wanted to point out that the idea of social media cards presents accessibility barriers to people with visual impairment (and to people with images disabled, for example to conserve bandwidth). Please post text, not pictures of text. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Hasive **Chowdhury** :: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী **হাছিব* Global User: Hasive http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee http://www.wikimedia.org.bd fb.com/Hasive http://fb.com/itsNCH | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16
perhaps you're right. But keep in mind that the FDC has been set up specifically as a committee advising the Board in this specific area, and is composed of people with particular competence in finance, grants, etc. Whichever body is chosen though, a longer feedback/comment period is necessary. best, dj On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: It does make sense to me that there would be at least a month between publication of the full draft plan, including the documentation that requested, and the closure of the comment period. In its current form the plan is too vague for me to support it as written. I think that the WMF audit committee or the WMF Board might be in a better position than the FDC to do a thorough review of the plan, including holding public Hangout meetings in which the plan is discussed, much like how government legislative bodies review proposed budgets in public. This would increase public confidence in the quality of the plan. Regards, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- __ prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego autorstwa http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010 Recenzje Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml Pacific Standard: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/ Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia The Wikipedian: http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button
You mean these persons suggested to remove the catches? Rupert On May 28, 2015 11:58 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if I continue this discussion of January but it may be interesting to share my experience had yesterday because I attended to a presentation of a young programmer suffering from low vision and color-blind and usual participant in http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/gaad.html. It has been interesting because we experienced how is the life of a person studying and working in computer science but almost blind and we had the opportunity to be in his shoes. The first lesson learned is that blind (or almost blind) people use always a software of speech synthesis with a speed that makes the audio almost unintelligible for not experienced people. The operating system provides several tools for that including mobile OS. The second lesson is that this software of speech synthesis is crucial for them and they would set and control it. So forget the normal speed of audio that everyone of us is experienced to use. The third lesson is that a lot of them in general hears music with headset and have the speech synthesis always on, if there is a third vocal synthesis for them is more a problem than an advantage. The fourth lesson learned is that Wikipedia is for them a well done web site because the content is structured. It means that the Table of Content at the start (so neglected by some graphical reasons) is fundamental for them because they can easily jump in the section they need. No one knew that I am from a Wikimedia chapter except the organizers and I did several questions about Wikipedia because (I did not know it) it was presented as good example of website for speech synthesis. What can be improved, in my opinion it's only the semantic aspect of the Wikipedia, so pushing more the attention on the structure of the page, and the awareness that images are not useful for them. We must be aware that some tools used in Wikipedia, like Captcha, are a real obstacle for blind people, like stairs for people with wheelchairs. Regards On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:55 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I see this as making it easier for people to generate files to put on their ipod or for those with a limited ability to read who might not have figured out more complicated solutions. Those who are blind have likely already figured out good solutions. It is those of us who are sighted that need the help. I know that I personally would find such a button helpful. But through a great many steps I could likely figure out a work around. People prefer stuff that is simple. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario Skype: valdelli Facebook: Ilario Valdelli https://www.facebook.com/ivaldelli Twitter: Ilario Valdelli https://twitter.com/ilariovaldelli Linkedin: Ilario Valdelli http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6724469 Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button
My blind mom drives me and my brothers crazy by asking us to read her Wikipedia articles after she has listened to some book-on-tape or radio show. It would be great if she could speak the title of the article and have the article read back to her. If we ignore her, she takes revenge by turning on the TV full blast and flipping channels until she hears something that she can follow (very often it's Fox news). She has been legally blind for about 10 years now and what I have noticed is that she is very unwilling to listen to machine-read text (though it is better than nothing). I have often thought it would be good to have a radio channel that just hooked people like her up with people who are willing to read articles available online. Probably not something for a Wiki project though it could be if you used each reading as an opportunity to create or update an audio recording of the article. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:02 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I agree that well educated, young and technical blind people from the developed world have found better solutions for using the internet that we could produce with a listen button. I see this more for 1) people who do not read because they do not know how 2) people who are blind but not technical (maybe they are elderly) Patient.co.uk say that their listen button is used about 1% of the time. You can see it here http://www.patient.co.uk/health/gout-leaflet -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] the digital language divide
This feature on multilingualism online and the digital language divide from the Guardian is thought-provoking: http://labs.theguardian.com/digital-language-divide/ It summarizes a bunch of recent research on language online, including the work from the Oxford Internet Institute on Wikipedia. -- Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Keep me logged in (for up to 30 days)
Thanks Jane, I've filed a bug at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100818 and I will ask a few people to take a look. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I have to login to Wikimedia projects every single time I begin a session on my iPad1 now because I cannot select the button on the user login page next to the text Keep me logged in (for up to 30 days) I think it's a java mismatch with my old built-in iPad1 safari browser (which cannot be updated, as far as I know). Is there anyplace to check this box in some other way? Also, is there a reason this box looks like this? Thanks in advance, Jane ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote: [...] The first lesson learned is that blind (or almost blind) people use always a software of speech synthesis with a speed that makes the audio almost unintelligible for not experienced people. The operating system provides several tools for that including mobile OS. The second lesson is that this software of speech synthesis is crucial for them and they would set and control it. So forget the normal speed of audio that everyone of us is experienced to use. I asked if anyone could point me to examples of how fast do screenreaders actually read, a few months ago.[1] The best examples I could find at the time, are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrC4R7SsH4#t=1561s and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pM6hJG6Wo Searching a few days ago, I learned that the average speed that experienced users generally use is 250-400 wpm, and that the default settings are around 180wpm. (Note: Users seem to typically talk about the speed they use in terms of x% of maximum, rather than wpm, e.g. I've got 63% with rate boost, and rising. I used to think 75% with JAWS was fast, but not anymore. I'm just turning it 1% faster every couple days, and I'm doing it because I can. [2]) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_listening says English language audio books are generally at 140-160 wpm. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility/Archive_13#Good_videos_demonstrating_screenreaders_in_use [2] http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=10649 No one knew that I am from a Wikimedia chapter except the organizers and I did several questions about Wikipedia because (I did not know it) it was presented as good example of website for speech synthesis. I believe this is partially through the long-term efforts of: our developers who have an understanding of accessibility issues, and our few blind editors and many sight-impaired editors who give regular feedback and bugreports.[3] Immense kudos to all of them. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/accessibility/ (Sidenote: I compiled a list of all the related pages I could find, at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility_and_usability_cleanup Anyone's additions to that listing, or notes/improvements/merge-efforts at the linked pages over the longterm, would be greatly appreciated. :) Quiddity ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] the digital language divide
Thanks for sending this, Phoebe. Very relevant and interesting. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:59 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: This feature on multilingualism online and the digital language divide from the Guardian is thought-provoking: http://labs.theguardian.com/digital-language-divide/ It summarizes a bunch of recent research on language online, including the work from the Oxford Internet Institute on Wikipedia. -- Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: * What we learned from the Inspire campaign to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/ * A translation rally invites volunteers to localize technical messages for MediaWiki software https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/29/translation-rally/ * A dark side of comedy: the impact of John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes on Wikipedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/27/dark-side-of-comedy/ • Scuba diving on Wikipedia: Doug Taylor http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/26/scuba-diving-on-wikipedia/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 21 -- 27 May 2015
News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/News_and_notes In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/In_the_media Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women slightly overrepresented; talking like an admin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/Recent_research Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/Traffic_report Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/Discussion_report Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/Featured_content Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2015-05-27 PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikisource-l] Wikisource UG report on the WMCON15
Thank you for sharing this. I could not attend that session, and this was an interesting read. I would be happy to advise on some of the proposed ideas if there are people interested in leading them. A. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:04 AM, David Cuenca Tudela dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I have written a short piece on the WMCON and some interesting aspects about the organizational future of User Groups. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ew8cVJhqqenGUAVVaTQqkisyPyd1tSX-zbVfi-Uuo8U/edit?usp=sharing Cheers, Micru ___ Wikisource-l mailing list wikisourc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] New Inspire Campaign report
Hi all, We've published a report and blog post sharing some more findings from our recent Inspire campaign: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign As always, your thoughts are welcome (preferably on the discussion page or in blog comments, for easy tracking). Warm regards, Siko -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button
For those who are interested, this is the American Sign Language Wikipedia on Incubator: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase Sign languages are indeed real languages, and for example American Sign Language is unrelated to English or even British Sign Language (in fact, it's closest to French Sign Language). It is certainly true that sign languages have not historically been written in any form by most of their users, and so video should be an important part of any such project, although video is of course not really as wiki-amenable as text is. The most complete writing system for sign languages, however, a sort of International Phonetic Alphabet, is SignWriting, and its community has been active of Wikimedia projects. There are some technical difficulties with implementing SignWriting on-wiki, including the vast number of potential gestures to be represented, that it is not yet in Unicode, and also that it is written vertically rather than horizontally, but progress has been made on this with a MediaWiki software extension by the SignWriting community. Thanks, Pharos On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Il 25/Gen/2015 12:18 Martin Kraft martin.kr...@gmx.de ha scritto: Did I miss some aspect? Is there a point in converting something visual into something visual? I have been told that people born deaf find more easy to read things in sign language. I imagine it like the difference between reading something written in your mother tongue and reading something in another language you know. Yes, I had a deaf student who opened my eyes to this -- he wanted to create a video site for the deaf that would have signed videos and movies. He had staffers and volunteers take viral YouTube videos and sign them for the deaf. My first question was, wouldn't reading subtitles simply solve the problem? Why do you need to do ASL versions? He gave me an annoyed look. It's something the deaf community finds frustrating to explain to outsiders. There's a reason its called American SIGN LANGUAGE and not signed English language. It's a primary language in itself, and reading off the screen is as inferior an experience as if we read the subtitles with the sound off. -Andrew ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
