Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrew Gray, 11/01/2013 10:34: * moving their positioning (eg, to beside the header text, as is done on fr.wp This has been known to be needed for years, but it waiting for some coding. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2012-November/000215.html Nemo

[Wikimedia-l] Two 50% Community Manager position available at Wikimedia CH

2013-01-11 Thread Charles Andrès
Dear all, Wikimedia CH is looking for 2 positions of 0.5 FTE, one for Italian communities and one for German communities (percentage can be discussed). The Community Manager is a person who works actively with the communities to support it accomplishing projects and get in touch with Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Blog: Virtual Learning Environment

2013-01-11 Thread Stevie Benton
Hello everyone, I hope you're having an enjoyable Friday. I wanted to drop you a line to let you know about a blog that Wikimedia UK published today at http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/01/virtual-learning-environment-making-good-progress/ It's about our Virtual Learning Environment, providing

[Wikimedia-l] WMUK vacancies

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Nevell
Wikimedia UK are now accepting applications for three posts: Volunteer Support Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Support_Organiser , GLAM Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Organiser, and Education Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Organiser. The deadline for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUK vacancies

2013-01-11 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/11/2013 08:00 AM, Richard Nevell wrote: Wikimedia UK are now accepting applications for three posts: Volunteer Support Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Support_Organiser , GLAM Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Organiser, and Education Organiser

[Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp

2013-01-11 Thread Anders Wennersten
Inspired by the botgenerated articles of species made on nl:wp in late 2010 a colleague of mine, User:Lsj, started a similar project on sv:wp early 2012. By October 2012 his bot had generated some 65 000 articles, with essentially complete coverage of all fungi and birds. He has since then

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blog: Virtual Learning Environment

2013-01-11 Thread Deryck Chan
There is also some work being conducted to investigate ways of writing a modification to Moodle to allow HTML to be imported from wiki pages to directly, providing a transclusion function. This sentence looks somewhat awkward... On 11 January 2013 15:41, Stevie Benton

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blog: Virtual Learning Environment

2013-01-11 Thread Stevie Benton
Thanks for your email Deryck. I think it is somewhat awkward. Admittedly it isn't helped by the fact that I have absolutely no idea what a transclusion function is. It doesn't even appear in my spell check! Stevie On 11 January 2013 16:58, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk wrote: There is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blog: Virtual Learning Environment

2013-01-11 Thread Stevie Benton
Fooling aside, I have updated the text. It should me much clearer now. But I still don't know what a transclusion function is. Stevie On 11 January 2013 17:02, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Thanks for your email Deryck. I think it is somewhat awkward. Admittedly it isn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blog: Virtual Learning Environment

2013-01-11 Thread Stevie Benton
Thanks Andrew, that's very helpful. Makes a lot more sense now! Stevie On 11 January 2013 17:23, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: On 11 January 2013 17:05, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Fooling aside, I have updated the text. It should me much clearer now.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp

2013-01-11 Thread Quim Gil
Wow On 01/11/2013 08:45 AM, Anders Wennersten wrote: Inspired by the botgenerated articles of species made on nl:wp in late 2010 a colleague of mine, User:Lsj, started a similar project on sv:wp early 2012. By October 2012 his bot had generated some 65 000 articles, with essentially complete

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp

2013-01-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Quim Gil, 11/01/2013 18:42: On 01/11/2013 08:45 AM, Anders Wennersten wrote: Inspired by the botgenerated articles of species made on nl:wp in late 2010 a colleague of mine, User:Lsj, started a similar project on sv:wp early 2012. By October 2012 his bot had generated some 65 000 articles, with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-11 Thread James Forrester
On 11 January 2013 02:12, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Gray, 11/01/2013 10:34: * moving their positioning (eg, to beside the header text, as is done on fr.wp This has been known to be needed for years, but it waiting for some coding.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel ~ Leinad
2013/1/11 Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org: Wow On 01/11/2013 08:45 AM, Anders Wennersten wrote: Inspired by the botgenerated articles of species made on nl:wp in late 2010 a colleague of mine, User:Lsj, started a similar project on sv:wp early 2012. By October 2012 his bot had generated some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congrats wikivoyagers!

2013-01-11 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/wikivoyage/ An awesome writeup in Wired! Argh; Sarah Mitroff calls wikivoyage a new travel-focused wiki ;-( and then continues to present Wikivoyage as a new entrant into this space.