[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: AIS is considering contributing to Wikiversity in Esperanto + [Fwd: Re: Resp: Ĉu vi dezirus kontribui al Vikiversitato]
Argh, twice in the wiki/media switch trap ! :( Message transféré Sujet : AIS is considering contributing to Wikiversity in Esperanto + [Fwd: Re: Resp: Ĉu vi dezirus kontribui al Vikiversitato] Date : Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:35:16 +0200 De :Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org Pour : mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org, Reinhard Fössmeier reinh...@foessmeier.de Saluton, In a series of attempt to enrich Wikimedia projects in Esperanto[1], I'm contacting miscellaneous people who published pedagogical materials in this language. Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino (AIS)[2] was included in this project. Basically I asked whether they would be interested to publish their material under CC-by-sa license within the Esperanto version of Wikversity.[3] The first answer is really positive. It seems like they are already publishing material in the public domain[4], and that they will discuss the possibility of contribution during a meeting in end August. So that's pretty good news, I guess. Now my contact at AIS asked if I had any other idea. So I turn to you, dears members of our community, do you have idea we should pass to them? Do we have documentation on previous similar experiences? How can we help them? What should/can they expect? Do you have any other relevant question? You'll find bellow the correspondence I had so far with Reinhard Fössmeier, senata sekretario at AIS San Marino. Kind regards, mathieu [1] see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106974 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademio_Internacia_de_la_Sciencoj_San_Marino [3] https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/%C4%88efpa%C4%9Do [4] I know that there are legal issues with releasing in public domain, but I wasn't emphatic on the topic so far. Message transféré Sujet : Re: Resp: Ĉu vi dezirus kontribui al Vikiversitato? Date : Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:38:42 +0200 De :Mathieu Stumpf mathieu at culture-libre dot org Pour : Reinhard Fössmeier reinhard at foessmeier dot de Le 25/07/2015 23:28, Reinhard Fössmeier a écrit : Saluton, pardonu, ke mi respondas de mia privata adreso (kaj ne de _informo@ais-sanmarino.org_); nur tiel mi povas sendi kopion al la senato de AIS San Marino. Ne kulpecinde. :) Principe mi opinias Viki-universitaton en Esperanto interesa afero por AIS. Certe la licenco de Kreiva Komunaĵo ne ĝenas; multaj kursoj de AIS estas deklaritaj publika havaĵo, kaj krea komunaĵo signifas malpli ampleksan rajto-cedon. Mi estas preta kontribui iujn kursojn miajn al tia ret-universitato. Bonege. Notu ke vi povas publikigi kun pli ampleksa rajto-cedo sur vikimediaj projektoj se vi deziras. Sufiĉe indiki tion sur la koncernaj paĝoj. Ekzemple la MediaWiki dokumentado estas publiki je CC-0[1]. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents La vorto Vikiversitato estas (same kiel Vikipedio) ne laŭ la spirito de Esperanto, ĉar ĝi uzas arbitre apartigitan radikparton (uni-versitato). La angla lingvo ŝategas tiajn aferojn (ekzemple ĝi amas uzi copter anstataŭ heli-kopter-o, kvankam la co devenas de helico kaj la resto de la greka /pterón/ [= flugilo]). Tiaj aferoj havas la nuran celon malfaciligi la lernadon de lingvoj, kio estas legitima celo, sed ne laŭ -- ekzemple -- mia gusto. Simile pedio devenas de la greka enkiklios pedia, cirklo de klereco, kie pedia simple signifas infana. Kaj universitato (unuigaĵo) simple ne estas dividebla; fakte la latina vertere (igi; de la participo versus) estas preskaŭ sensignifa kompare al la perdita uni. Sed tio ne estu granda obstaklo al la projekto. Venas al mi la lokucio prediki la kredulon, sed eble predikas la profeton pli proksimas realaĵon! ^^ Fatke mi volas plibonigi la Vikiversitaton ĉar mi volis transŝuti projektojn de serĉado ke mi ekverkis franclingve[2][3]. Mi volas esperantajn programlingvojn por kodi aliajn projektojn. Fakte mi ŝatus havi programlingvon sen nefonetika simbolo, kaj esperanto estas bona kandidato por tio. Do oni povas diri ke mi samopinias je AIS pri ILO. Plie, eĉ en la franclingva, tra alia projekto[4], mi studas francajn leksemojn do mi povas uzi pristrukturajn vortojn, prefere al malreflektaj termoj. Nu, pri la vorto Vikiversitato, mi ne elektis tion. Eble, kiel la projekto estas ankoraŭ tra testmodo, nun kontribuantoj povas ŝanĝi tion. Sed certe la nomo devus enhavi 'viki', kio estas ambaŭ plenkonata, klardifinita vorto[5] kaj vikimedia fabrikmarko. Ekzemple Vikivortaro estas la esperanta versio de Wiktionary. [2] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Recherche:Fabelebla%C4%B5o [3] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Recherche:Algoritmaro [4] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Recherche:Lex%C3%A8mes_fran%C3%A7ais_relatifs_aux_structures [5] https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/vikio Mi vidas, ke iu (ĉu vi?) jam establis kategoriojn de sciencaj fakoj en beta.wikiversity.org https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/%C4%88efpa%C4%9Do. AIS San Marino uzas
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Offtopic] How to improve email-signatures - fixing frustrations - size and images
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Environmental impact of Wikipedia
Hoi, We can certainly aim to influence the owners. What I have read about this subject is that it is as much about having power produced that is green. We can invest in green energy and at all times at least generate the amount of energy that we use in this way. As a consequence we will increase the availability of green power and more importantly we make a statement that is soo necessary. When we invest close to our datacentres, we can push the utilities to transport the power (they often do not want to) and maybe invest in clean power as well. With the current plans of Mr Obama, we will see higher temperatures than the 2 degrees Celsius that is considered safe. If every country uses the USA as its yardstick, the Netherlands will prove to be closer to the arctic than New York . This is relevant because the ice of the North Pole will melt and the gulf stream will stop. We will get cold in winter. Thanks, Gerardm On 6 July 2015 at 18:57, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: Here is the link to the other Greenpeace Report. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/planet3/PDFs/2015ClickCleanKeyFindings.pdf This fiscal year we are going to see what can be done, if anything, to influence the owners of the data centers and the building owner for our offices to use more renewable energy. Regards, Garfield On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Greenpeace has a great writeup on the subject. It describes the current issues with the use of energy and how big websites make a difference. Thanks, GerardM http://www.greenpeace.nl/Global/nederland/report/2015/Klimaat%20en%20energie/Clicking%20Clean%20-%20A%20Guide%20to%20Building%20the%20Green%20Internet.pdf On 5 July 2015 at 17:45, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. I tried to find the info myself, with little success: I'm interested to know about the environmental impact of running Wikipedia (carbon emissions, etc.) and what we are doing about it. Sorry if I missed wikimedia-l threads, or other sources. The only thing I found regarding a green data center is a 2009 press release [1]. If I understand correctly, it was a carbon neutral data center. But, it was 2009. Now, it seems that we have a new data center [2][3]. I'm wondering what is the environmental impact of it, as encironmental impact was in the primary requirements for the choice [3]. More generally: does the Wikimedia Foundation have a green policy? Do other chapters? What can we do about it? Are we interested in doing something about it? IMHO, I think we should discuss this. I remember quite vividly that a representative of Greenpeace, at Wikimania in London, was quite clear in saying that we are not really good in this matter. As Wikimedia, as a whole, is more and more exposed (we now fight for the privacy of our users, (and I'm personally very proud of it)), and as we are the 5th website in the world, maybe it's a topic worth talking. Thank you Aubrey [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Selects_EvoSwitch_June_2009 [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/05/wikimedia-foundation-selects-cyrusone-in-dallas-as-new-data-center/ [3] http://www.cyrusone.com/data-center-locations/dallas-data-center-carrollton/#a1 [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/RFP/2013_Datacenter#Primary_Requirements ___ 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 -- Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext 6787 415.882.0495 (fax) 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 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 mailing list, guidelines at:
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Update on what happened since the Wikimedia Conference 2015
Hello dear friends, I’m happy to provide you with an update about what happened since the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. Some of the conference participants met again at the WMCON Follow-Up Day before Wikimania and build upon certain topics.[1] As it is my role as the Program and Engagement Coordinator for the Wikimedia Conference, I’m tracking what happened around the main issues of the conference. You can find all the details on Meta.[2] If you’re interested in certain topics, please don’t hesitate to contact the respective thematic ambassadors. Also, if you feel that specific aspects are missing, drop me a line. By the way: Have you seen our lovely grant report on the Wikimedia Conference? It contains a lot of learnings for the movement and might be useful for preparing future movement conferences of any kind.[3] Best regards Cornelius [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Program_and_Engagement_Coordinator/Wikimania_report [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Documentation_and_Follow-Up#Follow-Up [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Report For your convenience, I have copied the summary of the sessions here. For details, photos and links, please check the report on Meta.[2] == Movement Roles == * At the WMCON Follow-Up Day Nicole Ebber held a session regarding the idea of a “Movement Roles” consultation. People agreed that such a broad themed consultation wasn’t useful and should be focused on a certain issue. == Partnerships External Grants == * At the WMCON Follow-Up Day, John Andersson led a first session regarding external grants processes and needs among affiliates. Together with the PEC, next steps to pursue are mapping the current interested and responsible persons for external grants among the chapters and creating a kind of knowledge sharing hub on Meta for that topic. * At the WMCON Follow-Up Day, Anne-Laure Prévost (WMFR) led a session on partnerships, partnership processes and hurdles to reach them. Anne-Laure will publish a summary of the session soon. If you’re interested in that topic or would like to share your process creating a partnership with an institution, reach out to her! === Advocacy / Public Policy === * At the WMCON Follow-Up Day, Dimi Dimitrov collected and gathered further input and added them to the brainstorming list. Based on the five core policy areas (Copyright, Censorship, Access to Knowledge, Intermediary Protection, Privacy Surveillance), the WMF Legal Team will start to produce “policy white papers” and publish them on a proper site. === Governance === * Tim Moritz Hector (chair of the board of WMDE) and Abraham Taherivand (chair of the transition committee), publish a document of lessons learnt on how Wikimedia Deutschland managed its Executive Direction transition phase. == Communication == * Based on the Communications session at the Wikimedia Conference 2015, Michael Jan (WMDE) and the WMF Communications team publish the Movement Communications skill page on Meta. Please add your information, ideas and questions. * At Wikimania 2015, the WMF Communications Team and members of the Communications Committee (ComCom) met to discuss several issues. Based on the conversations, the WMF Communications team plans (until September 30) to improve and reevaluate this list, to map people on the ComCom maing list, to find out who wants to stay on the list and to assess and clarify list membership criteria. === Community Support === * The VSN published its working paper and gathered further input for it at the WMCON Follow-Up Day. * Sati Houston and Asaf Bartov published her report on the results of her research on needs and ways to support emerging communities in June. The report was published on Community Capacity Development Framework. * Based on Abraham Taherivand’s presentation at the Wikimedia Conference 2015 on user-centered software engineering, Birgit Müller is a continuous exchange with Wikimedia Israel to implement a similar process in the Hebrew Wikipedia. === Miscellaneous === * Cornelius Kibelka (PEC) supports the CEE meeting organisers in the program developing process. The process is based on gathering questions and needs of its members and members-to-be on Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015/QuestionsNeeds. At the CEE meeting, Cornelius will start to gather thematic input for the next Wikimedia Conference. * The WMCON2015 organising team (Nicole Ebber, Cornelius Kibelka, Wenke Storn, Daniela Gentner) published an extensive report including learnings on the Wikimedia Conference 2015. At the WMCON Follow-Up Day at Wikimania, Nicole presented her plan and timeline for the next Wikimedia Conference. -- Cornelius Kibelka Program and Engagement Coordinator
[Wikimedia-l] [Offtopic] How to improve email-signatures - fixing frustrations - size and images
A tip/request, for 2 perennial frustrations, re: * Usage of quite long (e.g. 5+ linebreaks) email-signatures, without the proper delimiter * Use of embedded or attached images in email-signatures. 1) Many email clients (including gmail) respect the usage of -- (*2 dashes, and a space, on a blank line*) to isolate signature blocks.[1] It will either auto-collapse the signature, or lighten the text color. Please add this to the top of your email signature! (Example at bottom.) 2) Unnecessary images in emails, which require extra downloading on mobile, plus some users have images-disabled in email (to prevent tracking-images from spammers, etc) so they just show as empty placeholders. Please consider removing any images from your email signature! Thanks, and I hope that helps someone. Quiddity / Nick [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=email+signature+delimiter -- A test of a large signature block that extends across many lines. Preceded by -- . ___ 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
