Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
Belatedly (this thread is awesome!) On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Johan Jönsson brevlis...@gmail.com wrote: As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET. Congratulations Danish Wikipedia and Wikipedians! I note from Meta (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News) that Bulgarian Wikipedia also reached 200K this month. :) On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:35 PM, attolippip attolip...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, Liam, you are right :) We award the best newbie of the month on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the best contributor of the month, and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, f.ex.)) That is *delightful*. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: TL;DR: the Italian Wikisource has been indexed by a digital library platform used by over 4500 libraries in Italy [1]. This means that over 3500 texts (proofread and/or validated) can be read by library patrons. Many libraries will add them to the catalog too (!). This is SO COOL. And wow, cataloging!! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Thanks to Wikidata and Module:Wikidata [1], it is now possible [2] to include a basic infobox in an article using a single line, rather than the usual lengthy piece of wikicode (which new users could find off-putting). For a live example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope Mindblowing. (And possibly EVEN more mysterious for new editors -- not sure if that's good, though getting rid of a giant chunk of wikitext certainly is). On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:33 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: MZMcBride wrote: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Print_Wikipedia I have also been following the project's automated twitter feed, which lists volumes as they're uploaded: https://twitter.com/PrintWikipedia Please, keep posting delightful projects! Phoebe ___ 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] What's cool?
MZMcBride wrote: http://nyti.ms/1Bl9VpB This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of Wikipedia, described as half utilitarian data visualization project, half absurdist poetic gesture. Hopefully we'll have photos of the project on Wikimedia Commons soon. Victor Grigas delivered! :D https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Print_Wikipedia Someone also reminded me that xkcd's What If? covered a variant of this topic in Updating a Printed Wikipedia https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/. MZMcBride ___ 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] What's cool?
phoebe ayers wrote: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? Hi. http://nyti.ms/1Bl9VpB This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of Wikipedia, described as half utilitarian data visualization project, half absurdist poetic gesture. Hopefully we'll have photos of the project on Wikimedia Commons soon. Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes. MZMcBride ___ 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] What's cool?
Nice! I love that someone has finally settled the size-in-volumes debate in a somewhat... direct... fashion. Incidentally, the largest print serial I'm aware of is the 'Serial Set' of American official papers; it currently runs to around 14,000 volumes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_Serial_Set So we're half-way there. If we take the reasonable guess that enwiki is about the same text volume as all other Wikipedias put together, then we're probably just about to overtake them... Andrew. On 17 June 2015 at 14:06, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: phoebe ayers wrote: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? Hi. http://nyti.ms/1Bl9VpB This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of Wikipedia, described as half utilitarian data visualization project, half absurdist poetic gesture. Hopefully we'll have photos of the project on Wikimedia Commons soon. Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes. MZMcBride ___ 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 -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.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] What's cool?
Interesting! But there are a few problems with this: 1) This gives you the data that is in the item, but what does it give you when there is no data in the item? 2) I am missing a discrete [edit] somewhere indicating where I go to add the data for the fields that are missing from the template I really like the one line aspect - very clean-looking in the edit window! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Thanks to Wikidata and Module:Wikidata [1], it is now possible [2] to include a basic infobox in an article using a single line, rather than the usual lengthy piece of wikicode (which new users could find off-putting). For a live example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Wikidata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Wikidata [2] for an example of how to enable this for your favourite infobox, see the source code of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_telescope Thanks, Mike ___ 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] What's cool?
1) This gives you the data that is in the item, but what does it give you when there is no data in the item? Ideally, all of the data would be in the wikidata item, and if there's no data then there's nothing to display. ;-) But in practice, you can pass parameter information to the template in the usual way, which will then be shown in the infobox regardless of whether there is information on wikidata about that parameter or not. This infobox template is still in use in other articles in the usual fashion, and it only reverts to wikidata information for empty parameters. 2) I am missing a discrete [edit] somewhere indicating where I go to add the data for the fields that are missing from the template This could probably be handled by an [edit] link in the infobox that points users towards wikidata. However, there's currently no way to show blank fields on wikidata for empty entries that are used in the template, you have to know the right property number or name in order to add it. This is definitely something that needs more technical development, but that doesn't stop it from being cool. ;-) Thanks, Mike ___ 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] What's cool?
Oh I totally agree that it is cool. Thanks for posting this! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: 1) This gives you the data that is in the item, but what does it give you when there is no data in the item? Ideally, all of the data would be in the wikidata item, and if there's no data then there's nothing to display. ;-) But in practice, you can pass parameter information to the template in the usual way, which will then be shown in the infobox regardless of whether there is information on wikidata about that parameter or not. This infobox template is still in use in other articles in the usual fashion, and it only reverts to wikidata information for empty parameters. 2) I am missing a discrete [edit] somewhere indicating where I go to add the data for the fields that are missing from the template This could probably be handled by an [edit] link in the infobox that points users towards wikidata. However, there's currently no way to show blank fields on wikidata for empty entries that are used in the template, you have to know the right property number or name in order to add it. This is definitely something that needs more technical development, but that doesn't stop it from being cool. ;-) Thanks, Mike ___ 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] What's cool?
Thanks to Wikidata and Module:Wikidata [1], it is now possible [2] to include a basic infobox in an article using a single line, rather than the usual lengthy piece of wikicode (which new users could find off-putting). For a live example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Wikidata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Wikidata [2] for an example of how to enable this for your favourite infobox, see the source code of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_telescope Thanks, Mike ___ 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] What's cool?
Dear Johan, Our greetings to you! [1] And Ukrainian Wikipedia now has one more article because of Danish Wikipedia :)) [2] (and because of 100wikidays challenge, of course [3]) [1] https://wikimediaukraine.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/wikipedia-danskoiu-siahnula-200-tysiach-statei/ [2] https://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1957629 [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-06-11 1:11 GMT+03:00 Johan Jönsson brevlis...@gmail.com: As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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 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] What's cool?
And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is designed to be about things going right goes to Trilliam. Congratulations on being the official party pooper of Wikimedia-l. There will be cake tomorrow. To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A ntanana: I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't give out barnstars, the give out cans of condensed milk! Why? Because they're sweet :-) https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the best newbie each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just the coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating new contributors I've heard of! -Liam / Wittylama. wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ 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] What's cool?
Todd, since you credit yourself as a collaborative creator of a world-historic
educational work, what are some of the articles you have created or greatly
contributed to? Or is it that you derive your credit from administrative work
and blocking others, if so what are your most notable administrative
achievements or are some of the bad Wikipedia participants you have blocked?
Trillium Corsage
10.06.2015, 21:54, Todd Allen email clipped:
Well, let's not forget the big picture.
For all the bickering and squabbling it might have entailed, for all the
stumbles that might have happened in the process, the lot of us have
created the largest and probably most significant educational work in the
history of the world. And we've done it in a not for profit and freely
shared fashion.
I think that's damned cool and I think it's something to be very proud of.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote:
Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:
Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
2015-06-08):
{
users: 183,
bytes_added: 1832120,
edits: 9057
}
To be compared with the month before the challenge: (2015-04-04 -
2015-05-01)
{
users: 132,
bytes_added: 71879,
edits: 493
}
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2015-06-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org:
This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that
there
is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
[re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
work
to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
A couple updates on that front:
1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js
as a
player tech.
2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/
working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's
running
Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed
audio
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101716! To keep the bitrate sane
we'll
have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better
than
nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the
embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's
latest
embedding APIs.
-- brion
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
Oh, Liam, you are right :) We award the best newbie of the month on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the best contributor of the month, and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, f.ex.)) For this we create the lists with all contributions (main namespace only) for all users per project per months [2] and look if the contributions are in line with the rules (no copyright violation, vandalism etc.). Then a message on the talk page with a picture of a can and after the winner gives us his/her postal address, we send him/her the can itself :) [3] It is sweet. I can vouch for that :) [1] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E [2] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E/bb:%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zgushchivka_poshtoyu Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-06-11 22:04 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is designed to be about things going right goes to Trilliam. Congratulations on being the official party pooper of Wikimedia-l. There will be cake tomorrow. To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A ntanana: I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't give out barnstars, the give out cans of condensed milk! Why? Because they're sweet :-) https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the best newbie each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just the coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating new contributors I've heard of! -Liam / Wittylama. wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ 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
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Trillium Corsage trillium2...@yandex.com wrote: I wasn't going to join in, not wanting to affect Fae's situation with my own, but reading the latest emails he was actually concerned with the UK list, so I'll go ahead. Would someone mind taking me off moderation as well? I see what the issue was in the first place, and will not do it again. I think it has been much more than a year since then. You had one job, man: don't attack people on the mailing list. You lasted a little more than two weeks. Since you obviously don't see what the issue is, after all, and I don't know what to expect from you (although I hope I can be forgiven for admittedly suspecting more of this), I'm flagging this address for moderation again. Best of luck with your next sockpuppet. Austin ___ 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] What's cool?
Todd, is it perhaps this diff among yours (https://archive.is/MRUkZ) where you
called for the keeping of an apparently explicit autofellatio image in a
since-deleted autofellatio article that makes you think you're partially to
share the credit for a world-historic educational work?
Note to all: the link provided doesn't contain a sexual image, though the image
under discussion must be.
Trillium Corsage
11.06.2015, 19:31, Trillium Corsage trillium2...@yandex.com:
Todd, since you credit yourself as a collaborative creator of a
world-historic educational work, what are some of the articles you have
created or greatly contributed to? Or is it that you derive your credit from
administrative work and blocking others, if so what are your most notable
administrative achievements or are some of the bad Wikipedia participants you
have blocked?
Trillium Corsage
10.06.2015, 21:54, Todd Allen email clipped:
Well, let's not forget the big picture.
For all the bickering and squabbling it might have entailed, for all the
stumbles that might have happened in the process, the lot of us have
created the largest and probably most significant educational work in the
history of the world. And we've done it in a not for profit and freely
shared fashion.
I think that's damned cool and I think it's something to be very proud of.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote:
Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:
Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
2015-06-08):
{
users: 183,
bytes_added: 1832120,
edits: 9057
}
To be compared with the month before the challenge: (2015-04-04 -
2015-05-01)
{
users: 132,
bytes_added: 71879,
edits: 493
}
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se
0729 - 67 29 48
*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens
samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se
2015-06-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org:
This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that
there
is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
[re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
work
to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
A couple updates on that front:
1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js
as a
player tech.
2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/
working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's
running
Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed
audio
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101716! To keep the bitrate sane
we'll
have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better
than
nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as
the
embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's
latest
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That's such a wonderful, sweet project! :) It seems likely infeasible for bigger projects but as a way to build a strong small wiki community, I think it's amazing! Kudos to you! -Emily On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:35 PM, attolippip attolip...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, Liam, you are right :) We award the best newbie of the month on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the best contributor of the month, and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, f.ex.)) For this we create the lists with all contributions (main namespace only) for all users per project per months [2] and look if the contributions are in line with the rules (no copyright violation, vandalism etc.). Then a message on the talk page with a picture of a can and after the winner gives us his/her postal address, we send him/her the can itself :) [3] It is sweet. I can vouch for that :) [1] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E [2] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E/bb:%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zgushchivka_poshtoyu Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-06-11 22:04 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is designed to be about things going right goes to Trilliam. Congratulations on being the official party pooper of Wikimedia-l. There will be cake tomorrow. To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A ntanana: I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't give out barnstars, the give out cans of condensed milk! Why? Because they're sweet :-) https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the best newbie each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just the coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating new contributors I've heard of! -Liam / Wittylama. wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ 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] What's cool?
TL;DR: the Italian Wikisource has been indexed by a digital library platform used by over 4500 libraries in Italy [1]. This means that over 3500 texts (proofread and/or validated) can be read by library patrons. Many libraries will add them to the catalog too (!). Longer and librarianer explanation. Some knowledge of Wikisource is needed too :-) As an employee of MediaLibrary Online, I worked in these months to get all the metadata and index the texts from Italian Wikisource. A bit of perspective * All the texts have been either proofread or validated. * They are not all whole books: we indexed the texts directly in namespace 0 (and not in the Index: namespace), in order to provide the user a better search experience and findability. This, in our opinion, is very important: we used the MediaWiki API to retrieve all the data, and some HTML scraping for the rest :-) * We link directly the EPUB generated by the awesome tool from Tpt, but also to the page in Wikisource. * We automatically generated the EPUB covers for every text which didn't have one. Ex: http://www.medialibrary.it/media/scheda.aspx?id=850275912 MediaLibraryOnline is a digital platform that provide Italian libraries with the possibility of lend digital resource, as ebook or audiobooks. It's not just a portal on the Internet, but a service used and managed by single libraries for their uses. It also has an Open collection, freely accessible and downloadable for everyone (and not only the patrons of the libraries which have access to MediaLibrary). I've been hired few months ago to develop such collection, and this is a major milestone for us (and for me :-). I'm expecially excited by the fact that now Wikisource ebooks enter in the collection of libraries, and often in their very catalog. I think it is a very good step forward for our project, and I'm eager to replicate this project with other Wikisources as well :-) If needed, I can explain some details. [1] http://www.medialibrary.it/media/ricerca.aspx?seltip=310selarg=-1keywords= wikisourcex=0y=0portalId=1 On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: That's such a wonderful, sweet project! :) It seems likely infeasible for bigger projects but as a way to build a strong small wiki community, I think it's amazing! Kudos to you! -Emily On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:35 PM, attolippip attolip...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, Liam, you are right :) We award the best newbie of the month on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the best contributor of the month, and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, f.ex.)) For this we create the lists with all contributions (main namespace only) for all users per project per months [2] and look if the contributions are in line with the rules (no copyright violation, vandalism etc.). Then a message on the talk page with a picture of a can and after the winner gives us his/her postal address, we send him/her the can itself :) [3] It is sweet. I can vouch for that :) [1] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E [2] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E/bb:%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zgushchivka_poshtoyu Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-06-11 22:04 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is designed to be about things going right goes to Trilliam. Congratulations on being the official party pooper of Wikimedia-l. There will be cake tomorrow. To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A ntanana: I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't give out barnstars, the give out cans of condensed milk! Why? Because they're sweet :-) https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the best newbie each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just the coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating new contributors I've heard of! -Liam / Wittylama. wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ 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,
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This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that there is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!! On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: [re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler] And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ work to support browsers without OGV/WebM support. A couple updates on that front: 1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js as a player tech. 2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/ working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's running Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed. 3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed audio https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101716! To keep the bitrate sane we'll have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better than nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's latest embedding APIs. -- brion ___ 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] What's cool?
Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:
Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
2015-06-08):
{
users: 183,
bytes_added: 1832120,
edits: 9057
}
To be compared with the month before the challenge: (2015-04-04 -
2015-05-01)
{
users: 132,
bytes_added: 71879,
edits: 493
}
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
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Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se
2015-06-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org:
This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that there
is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
[re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
work
to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
A couple updates on that front:
1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js as a
player tech.
2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/
working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's running
Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed audio
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101716! To keep the bitrate sane
we'll
have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better
than
nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the
embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's
latest
embedding APIs.
-- brion
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
Well, let's not forget the big picture.
For all the bickering and squabbling it might have entailed, for all the
stumbles that might have happened in the process, the lot of us have
created the largest and probably most significant educational work in the
history of the world. And we've done it in a not for profit and freely
shared fashion.
I think that's damned cool and I think it's something to be very proud of.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote:
Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:
Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
2015-06-08):
{
users: 183,
bytes_added: 1832120,
edits: 9057
}
To be compared with the month before the challenge: (2015-04-04 -
2015-05-01)
{
users: 132,
bytes_added: 71879,
edits: 493
}
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se
0729 - 67 29 48
*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens
samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se
2015-06-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org:
This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that
there
is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
[re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
work
to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
A couple updates on that front:
1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js
as a
player tech.
2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/
working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's
running
Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed
audio
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101716! To keep the bitrate sane
we'll
have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better
than
nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the
embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's
latest
embedding APIs.
-- brion
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As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: [re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler] And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ work to support browsers without OGV/WebM support. A couple updates on that front: 1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js as a player tech. 2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/ working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's running Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed. 3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed audio https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101716! To keep the bitrate sane we'll have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better than nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's latest embedding APIs. -- brion ___ 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
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Hoi, Ori I am seriously impressed !! WOW Thanks, GerardM On 8 June 2015 at 07:55, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? Six months ago, the average time it took to save a page was 6.1 seconds. It's now 1.4 seconds. The performance team is in the process figuring out our goals for the next quarter and we think we can get to sub-second page saves by September. ___ 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
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? Six months ago, the average time it took to save a page was 6.1 seconds. It's now 1.4 seconds. The performance team is in the process figuring out our goals for the next quarter and we think we can get to sub-second page saves by September. ___ 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
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I felt that this year's elections went remarkably smoothly. I believe that we have the Elections Committee and its tireless leader Varnet, project manager James Alexander, and the SecurePoll devs to thank. There were a few technical issues but overall I feel that everyone did a very fine job. 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
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On 6 jun. 2015, at 17:25, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, just in case you have missed this thread in Wikimedia where I mentioned you, and now SJ asks. -- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu mailto:sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu Date: Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool? To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Quim writes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 (33 hackathon events) Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day [TheDJ special]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106 Very neat. Does this work with popcorn? I guess with popcorn, you mean popcornjs.org http://popcornjs.org/. In that case, no, it works with https://videojs.com https://videojs.com/ The point was to show how easy it would be to replace what we have now, with something better and I just wanted to get something of the ground and demonstrable. I picked the most popular/active github project, and that seems to be videojs.com http://videojs.com/ at this moment in time. I did also consider popcornjs actually, but it seems more an experiment with temporal events, then focusing on being a good extensible player that everyone wants to use (no offense to that team, but that was the first impression). Anyway, both of them would still require significant time to get it to production. But both of them will be easier to maintain than (fixing) what we have right now. Ideally, I think we will want to make sure that players can be used interchangeably, just based on the the information in the DOM. I’m looking at defining some extensions hooks, so that we can decouple players from the TimedMediaHandler extension. And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ work to support browsers without OGV/WebM support. DJ signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ 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
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Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia. Thanks, GerardM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil On 5 June 2015 at 07:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active. I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic. I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com כתב: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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 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] What's cool?
That we had the highest-ever votes in a Wikimedia Foundation board election - and participation from many more wikis. Cheers Bishakha On 5 Jun 2015 13:01, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia. Thanks, GerardM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil On 5 June 2015 at 07:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active. I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic. I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com כתב: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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 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] What's cool?
At least 33 hackathon projects were developed and showcased in 3 days, all crowd-documented at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 before the end of the event. Unseen in Wikimedia as far as I'm aware, and we'll try again in Wikimania For instance, Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day effort (but not just any person, TheDJ no less), and it was demoed with a functional and funny sneak preview. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ 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
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. No no, please go on. This is one of the best wiki tools in a while. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. Next time: video? ! Quim writes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 (33 hackathon events) Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day [TheDJ special]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106 Very neat. Does this work with popcorn? ___ 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
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FWIW, Community Engagement will be doing something similar (mix of positive-serious with positive-fun) in metrics meeting every month. You can see the first iteration during last month's metrics meeting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2015-05 Luis On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all cool things. Would love to learn about more as well. Phoebe On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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 -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all 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
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What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along with MSF and charity:water) -- and it's actually a pretty good bundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/ Dan Rosenthal On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: FWIW, Community Engagement will be doing something similar (mix of positive-serious with positive-fun) in metrics meeting every month. You can see the first iteration during last month's metrics meeting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2015-05 Luis On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all cool things. Would love to learn about more as well. Phoebe On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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 -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all 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 ___ 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] What's cool?
I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active. I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic. I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com כתב: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive. You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :) Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for three separate initiatives for building Wikipedia articles in a number of Latin American native languages. That reminded me that there are a lot of people in the wild willing to work on Wikipedia content, even in many languages which don't have its edition of Wikipedia yet. And we should start searching for them collectively. Very cool! Which languages? 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
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On Jun 5, 2015 03:01, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive. You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :) Glad to hear that :) I mean, at least I am not the cause... Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for three separate initiatives for building Wikipedia articles in a number of Latin American native languages. That reminded me that there are a lot of people in the wild willing to work on Wikipedia content, even in many languages which don't have its edition of Wikipedia yet. And we should start searching for them collectively. Very cool! Which languages? Global Voices folk are going to Bogota and one Wayuu speaker will join them. We have incubator project. Similarly, French Wikimedian Sylvain Mailler is working on Kichwa Incubator and he has access to native speakers, as his wife is Kichwa (from Ecuador). Canadian doctor and Wikipedia activist James Heilman is working on medical articles in Guarani, Haitan Creole, K'iche', and Quechua. Except Ki'che', we have projects in all other languages. Translation companies are donating those translations, which opens interesting area, that we didn't explore yet. ___ 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
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Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all cool things. Would love to learn about more as well. Phoebe On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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
