Hoi, Regularly there are awards conferred by stellar organisations like Amnesty International or Creative Commons. In the last week I was able to add their 2018 winners.. The good news is that increasingly the awards are complete except for the latest. My hope / expectation for the future is that I will find nothing to do. :) It already happens occasionally. Thanks, GerardM
On 22 April 2018 at 04:02, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > *"To be, or not to be"* > > A phrase from Shakespeare's *Hamlet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet> > *is > "To be, or not to be, that is the question"*.* > > Chris Koerner from WMF Discovery published some interesting information > about the verb "to be", and how on-wiki search deals with it, in this issue > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2018-April/001652.html> > of > the *Discovery Weekly Update*: > > "The English verb "to be" is kind of weird—the infinitive "be" and > participles "being, been" start with "b-", while the preterite forms > "was, were" start with "w-", and the present forms "am, is, are" start > with vowels. The conjugations originally come from three or four > different verbs! Why "three or four"? Wiktionary disagrees with itself > a bit, listing four on the etymology of "is" [5] and three on the > etymology of "be". [6] The conflation goes back at least to > Proto-Germanic, [7] so German is similarly weird. [8] Dutch has a > greatly simplified paradigm, but still shows some trace of the > multiple sources. [9] Other languages, including ASL, Arabic, Bengali, > Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and > Ukrainian at least partly avoid this mess by having a zero copula. > [10] For search on-wiki, we deal with this problem in part with > stemming [11] and stop words. [12] > > "[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Etymology_1 > [6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be#Etymology > [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language > [8] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein#Conjugation > [9] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zijn#Inflection > [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula > [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming > [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words" > > > > > > *Legal case ends well for Greek Wikipedia administrator*From the Wikimedia > Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/greece-legal-case-ended/ > > > > > *Photos from the 2018 Wikimedia Conference in Germany* > Some photos of the 2018 Wikimedia Conference are available on Commons > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Conference_2018>. > Here are a few: > > * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ > Conference_2018,_Group_photo.jpg > * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ > Conference_2018_by_ZUFAr_01.jpg > * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_Sweets_Table_1.jpg > * > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_by_Rehman_-_ > Posters_(2).jpg > * > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ > Conference_2018_%E2%80%93_091.jpg > > > What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any > language. > > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>