Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

2017-07-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I checked, the license is non commercial. I have been in contact with John Cummings about this, he will look into what can be done. To be honest, we are terrible at getting a public for the work that is done at Wikisource. We could do so much more and this fact should be obvious as there are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

2017-07-01 Thread rupert THURNER
katherine maher already made 4 edits in 6 monts: https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/?user=Maherkr (not counting bureaucratic pages like talk, meta, as nobody gives money for them) if 2 billion persons with internet capability on this planet would do like here wikipedia would ahve 8 billtion edits in 6

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

2017-07-01 Thread James Heilman
If it is from UNESCO does that mean it is under a Wikimedia compatible license? One could put it on Wikisource :-) James On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I found a complete history of Africa that is available in PDF format from > UNESCO.. It is in eight parts and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

2017-07-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I found a complete history of Africa that is available in PDF format from UNESCO.. It is in eight parts and I am happy that it exists.. I added the data in Wikidata but this is the link for the English version.. There are versions in other languages as well :) Thanks, GerardM http://www.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

2017-06-26 Thread Pax Ahimsa Gethen
What's making me happy: I'm giving a talk about transgender issues at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco tomorrow (June 27): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_QueERG/LGBTQ%2B_Speaker_Series The talk will be livestreamed (1:30 p.m. PDT) and archived for later

[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

2017-06-26 Thread Pine W
I like a tool for Wikidata that Hay created which is called VizQuery. More information about it is below. What's making you happy this week? Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Hay (Husky) Date: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:10 PM Subject: [Wikidata] A visual way to query Wikidata To: "