[Wikimedia-l] Travel Guide Wiki

Hi all, I'm a long-standing editor/admin/etc. at Wikitravel, though I've been less active in recent years, mainly due to work and family. I have, however, been participating in discussions among Wikitravel admins about our dissatisfaction with our current hosting provider, and what we're going to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] www.wikimedia.org (Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process)

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Mono wrote: > Erik, > > This proposal has been circulating for three years. Let's just do it. > I didn't know there was a proposal to rename Meta and supersede it, in favor of another wiki. As far as merging the dead wikis and utilizing www.wikimedia.org go, I t

[Wikimedia-l] Wikidata logo

Can we please have a Wikidata logo contest? They're such a waste of time, but they've made some really great logos and are always fun/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] www.wikimedia.org (Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process)

Erik, This proposal has been circulating for three years. Let's just do it. User:Mono On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Fajro wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > > > I've put some initial brainstorming notes a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] www.wikimedia.org (Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process)

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > I've put some initial brainstorming notes about how this could be done here: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia.org Nice. We'll add this to the discussions of the new Sister Pro

[Wikimedia-l] www.wikimedia.org (Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process)

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > - Also, could we look at merging the OutreachWiki, the StrategyWiki and > MetaWiki? Maybe they could all live at the (currently extremely > under-utilised) domain of http://www.wikimedia.org/ I've put some initial brainstorming notes about how

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia mobile application development

Hi MZ, I'm going to further address one of your questions below to shed a little more light on the relationship of mobile applications and carriers, and another reason why we need to have Wikipedia mobile apps. > Okay, I think that's sensible. In my opinion, initiatives such as Wikipedia > Zero

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

Hello, Is it just me or are we all getting email responses out of the original threads? Best On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM, James Heilman wrote: > @Yaroslov > 1) A merger within a WMF project is supported by admins from both WT and > WV. WV is going to be meeting on the possibility of merg

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

@Yaroslov 1) A merger within a WMF project is supported by admins from both WT and WV. WV is going to be meeting on the possibility of merging June 9th in Germany 2) Wikimedia's mission is to provide freely available educational content I am not sure which "WMF principles" you do not see such a s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Thank you. It's worth noting on > , where the > mailman admins are/were setting up some conventions and defining a bunch of > lists to be renamed, which will include Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

Erik Moeller, 10/04/2012 01:07: On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: The list URL should now redirect. And, Daniel just implemented an alias as well [1], which I'm testing by responding using the foundation-l address. (I promise this'll be the last meta note for a while if all'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012/4/11 John Vandenberg > I agree that travel content is within the scope. In addition to the > content itself, which helps other people, the process of writing and > communicating travel information is educational for the writer. > > There was a session about WikiTravel on at RCC2011 Canberra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Peter Coombe wrote: [snip] > > No Original Research shouldn't be an issue, we already have Wikinews > accepting original reporting. > > Neutral Point of View might be a more delicate area. You probably > couldn't write a travel guide using the same standards of NPO

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:19:05 +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, you are providing a perfect reason why you might contribute to a WMF based travel wiki... No adds Thanks, Gerard Yes, this is actually correct. Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

Hoi, you are providing a perfect reason why you might contribute to a WMF based travel wiki... No adds Thanks, Gerard On 11 April 2012 17:16, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > If you're serious about seeing it become the next Wikimedia sister project, >> I'd focus on making a better case for h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

If you're serious about seeing it become the next Wikimedia sister project, I'd focus on making a better case for how it falls within Wikimedia's scope. MZMcBride The scope has been extensively discussed in this thread, and a convincing answer has been given. This answer is that travel is an

[Wikimedia-l] Report about a great collaboration between Wikimedia France and a french ministry

Hello, I want to share with you a very great work made on several Wikimedia projects in the previous weeks in collaboration between Wikim=C3=A9dia Fran= ce and the General Delegation for French Languages and Languages of France ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9l%C3%A9gation_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia mobile application development

Thank you very much for the detailed and insightful reply. Tomasz Finc wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Mobile seems to have two branches these days: (1) the mobile versions of the >> sites; and more recently (2) specific mobile applications. Branch 1 is >> fairly unde

Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Bank adopts CC licensing

CC-BY is my favourite licence by far. Is there any plan to bring some of this content across into Wikisource etc? Richard Symonds Office& Development Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0992 -- Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company Registered in England an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic

On 11 April 2012 12:09, Tom Morris wrote: > It also fixes the whole death anomalies thing: if someone dies, we can > update the Wikidata entry, rather than having conflicting information > on different language versions of Wikipedia. I would think some of our > more fanatical BLP adherents would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic

On 11 April 2012 11:25, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > It is interesting that people consider the potential negative aspects and > forgets about the positive. > > For me the big thing is that translatable info boxes is a perfect method of > populating relevant information in stub articles. This i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic

Hoi, It is interesting that people consider the potential negative aspects and forgets about the positive. For me the big thing is that translatable info boxes is a perfect method of populating relevant information in stub articles. This is of particular relevance to the smaller Wikipedias, the pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic

I agree that Mark has written a nice article, but I disagree with some of his conclusions, as you can find in my comment on the page (alas, not permalinkable). Andreas, do you think that it is easier to monopolise and manipulate information on Wikidata, visible to potentially many editors and user

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

@ MZMcBride I just assumed that most would see travel content as educational in nature but have added this clarification to the proposal in in question. If most accept that travel is educational in nature, resources that help with travel would thus be educational resources and within the scope of t

[Wikimedia-l] teaching people how to edit Wikipedia

Have a quick question for some work I'm doing on Wikipedia literacy: What resources are folks using to teach others how to edit Wikipedia? At Wikipedia Academies etc? Thanks in anticipation :) Best, Heather. Heather Ford Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver http://ushahidi.com | http://swif