Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com
*.Wordpress.com blocked in China. Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]] 2013/9/6 Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org: Hi all, I was going to socialize some of the transitions for the Wikimedia blog in the next few weeks on the Wikimedia blog spacehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blogon Meta and on the blog itself with a blog post, but this conversation has sped up the discussion. I plan to have something on Meta by the beginning of next week and hope that we can continue the discussion there when the content is posted. As a general concept, we’re redesigning the blog to be less focused on the Wikimedia Foundation and more on the Wikimedia movement. For the past year, we have been sharing more narratives from the movement, making this important communications tool more about movement partners and not exclusively about the Wikimedia Foundation. We believe the public has little understanding of the people behind the projects and we want to share their stories (i.e. why the contribute, why they edit, why they develop). We still need the tool to communicate important updates from the WMF, but that can be accomplished in a larger ecosystem with more diversity of voices. We’ve had a significant increase in publication from authors who don’t work for the WMF, as well as increased multi-lingual posts, and we will continue to increase the amount and diversity of participation. Specifically, let me address a couple of points raised in this thread. - We are redesigning the blog. For those at Wikimania who saw my talk, we shared the working site for the new Wikimedia blog and explained the basics of our thinking. Here is the link for the site under construction. Please understand this is still under construction and there will be some changes, but this is the basic design of the new Wikimedia blog. It’s also populated with data from a db dump that is now 2 months old, so you will see significant content difference from the current Wikimedia blog. The draft version of the blog is hosted on an outside platform, WP Engine, but this is not necessarily the hosting company we may use in future: http://wikimedia.wpengine.com/ - We’re exploring the possibility of 3rd-party hosting of the blog. We had extensive discussions with members of the WMF Operations and Engineering teams about whether to continue to host the blog on our servers or move to a 3rd-party host. Ultimately we determined that 3rd party hosts made sense for the blog for a number of important reasons. I would refer you to the email in this threadhttp://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/387838#387838from Leslie Carr in our Ops team, but essentially they feel that a move to a 3rd party host would address important security and support concerns, and would therefore be preferable to continuing to host the blog ourselves. - A 3rd-party host will give us redundancy and strong backups. The blog has become the Foundation’s primary public communications tool (alongside, naturally, the host of wikis we use to converse with the community). We want to be sure this platform is hosted on a 3rd-party site in case we encounter a significant outage or cluster-wide downtime. Obviously we can’t rely on the projects to get that information out if the cluster is down, and although we will continue to use identi.ca, twitter, and facebook, we’d like to have a stable place to point traffic. - The blog needs to be able to handle a lot of traffic, quickly. We know that Wikimedia’s servers are up to this kind of task, but we’re experts at hosting wikis - not necessarily experts at hosting blogs. Specifically blogs that may need to handle very large volumes of traffic, spam, and comments in a short period of time. We had one such situation back in 2012 during the Wikipedia blackout. We sent tens of millions of readers to the Wikimedia blog and dealt with around 18K comments in a matter of hours. We could handle it, but we’d like to have capacity to handle that in an emergency situation. Not all blog hosting companies can do this, but a few that we’re looking at are expressly built to handle immediate and massive increases in traffic, and they’ve got amazing back up services. - We have not yet selected a 3rd-party host. We have screened a couple of 3rd-party hosts. While Wordpress.com is one of our top choices (not the standard consumer version, rather their ‘managed’ or white glove hosting services for high volume customers), we have not yet selected them. Right now the WMF legal team is in discussions with Wordpress.com and others. We appreciate that if we host on a 3rd party site, we need to navigate the important issue of ensuring our privacies
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] [X-POST] Universal Language Selector(ULS) Deployment - Phase 1
Why ULS deployment all wikis? Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]] 2013/6/6 Runa Bhattacharjee rbhattachar...@wikimedia.org: Hello, The Universal Language Selector (ULS)[1] provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). It combines the features of two earlier Mediawiki extensions Narayam[2] and WebFonts[3]. From June 11, 2013 on, ULS will be made available to all Wikimedia wikis in 5 phases[4]. # Phase 1: In the first phase, ULS will replace the Narayam and WebFonts extensions on 84 wikis[5]. User preferences from the replaced extensions will not be preserved. Affected communities will be informed by the Wikimedia Language Engineering team of the upcoming change. # Phase 2: In the 5 weeks that follow, ULS will be deployed on Wikipedias in size 11-20, # Phase 3: All projects without language versions # Phase 4: English language Wikipedia # Phase 5: All other wikis The ULS can be visible in two ways: 1. In the sidebar for wikis with language versions, like Wikipedia, or 2. In the personal toolbar at the top of wiki pages for wikis without language versions, like Wikimedia Commons and Meta-Wiki. Based on the geographic location of users, the initial set of language preferences is presented. Users can set the input methods and fonts to that they want to use. Logged-in users can also change the language for the MediaWiki menu items. ULS is already available on several Wikimedia wikis like Wikimedia Commons[6] and Meta-Wiki[7]. The beta installation of English Wikipedia on Wikimedia Labs[8] shows what will be available as the look and feel. A cog icon is present in the “Languages” section of the sidebar menu. Clicking the cog icon opens the Language settings panel that can be used to set the display and input settings. Please have a look at the Universal Language Selector feature description[9] or the Frequently Asked Questions[10] for more detailed information. Thank you. regards Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UniversalLanguageSelector/Deployment/Planning [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UniversalLanguageSelector/Deployment/Planning#List_of_affected_wikis_.2884.29 [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page [8] http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector [10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/FAQ -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Runab_WMF ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] UK.Gov passes Instagram Act
see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/ The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called orphan works, by placing the work into what's known as extended collective licensing schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organisation - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes. For the first time anywhere in the world, the Act will permit the widespread commercial exploitation of unidentified work - the user only needs to perform a diligent search. But since this is likely to come up with a blank, they can proceed with impunity. The Act states that a user of a work can act as if they are the owner of the work (which should be you) if they're given permission to do so by the Secretary of State. The Act also fails to prohibit sub-licensing, meaning that once somebody has your work, they can wholesale it. This gives the green light to a new content-scraping industry, an industry that doesn't have to pay the originator a penny. Such is the consequence of rebalancing copyright, in reality. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endangered languages, a new project by Google
license under the cc-by-3.0, see http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/tos/ Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]] 2012/6/21 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Brilliant. The WM language committee and/or lenguasoriginarias might want to apply to join the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity. http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/about/#about_alliance SJ On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:06 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: A new project by Google to protect endangered languages around the world: http://www.endangeredlanguages.com English blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html Spanish translation: http://googleespana.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/la-conservacion-de-las-lenguas-en.html Remember, there is a deadline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline : ) -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT http://code.google.com/p/avbot/ | StatMediaWikihttp://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es | WikiEvidens http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/ | WikiPapershttp://wikipapers.referata.com | WikiTeam http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/ Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
