Terima kasih, Pine.

Wishes from Indonesia




Pada tanggal Kam, 22 Agt 2019 08.12, Pine W <[email protected]> menulis:

>  *Meta issues*
>
> * Updates regarding the GlobalFactSync project were provided in an email
> sent to Wikitech-l
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-August/092403.html
> >,
> and in a Wikimania presentation
> <
> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Technology_outreach_%26_innovation/GlobalFactSync
> >
> with slides
> <
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2019_Global_Fact_Sync_Talk.pdf
> >
> .
>
> * Wikimedia Indonesia published a video (Youtube link)
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSULY1eMMn8&lang=en> that highlights
> Wikipedia's uses for preservation and transmission of languages and
> cultures. The languages spoken in the video are Sudanese
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundanese_language> and Minangkabau
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minangkabau_language>.
>
> *Content highlights*
>
> * The "Selected anniversaries" section of English Wikipedia for 16 August
> noted that the day was the anniversary of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt> setting the world record for
> the
> 100 meter sprint in 2009.
>
> *  This is a photo of one of two a 17 meter (56 foot) high sculptures named
> *Skyhooks* at the east end of Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, England
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trafford_park_hook_and_chain.jpg>.
> Trafford Park was the English Wikipedia Article of the Day for 18 August.
> The photo is a featured picture on Commons. I feel that the sculpture is
> thought provoking.
>
> * The English Wiktionary Word of the Day for 16 August was neroli
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neroli>, which Wiktionary defines as "More
> fully *neroli oil *or *oil of neroli*: an essential oil distilled from the
> blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (*Citrus* × *aurantium*
> subsp. *amara*) used to make perfumes." The etymology is interesting: "
> Borrowed from French *néroli
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/n%C3%A9roli#French>* (“neroli”), from
> Nerola, a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy.
> Marie
> Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins
> <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Anne_de_La_Tr%C3%A9moille,_princesse_des_Ursins
> >
> (1642–1722), Princess of Nerola but originally from France, is thought to
> have made neroli popular as a fragrance in her country of birth around
> 1670. The word is cognate with Italian *nerola* (obsolete), *neroli*."
>
> * I appreciated this English Wikiquote of the Day for 13 August from
> German-American philosopher Felix Adler
> <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Felix_Adler>: "The condition of all
> progress
> is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.
> We struggle, and grope, and hurt ourselves until we learn the use of
> things, and this is true of things spiritual as well as of material things.
> Pain is unavoidable, but it acquires a new and higher meaning when we
> perceive that it is the price humanity must pay for an invaluable good."
>
> *Off wiki*
>
> *The New York Times* published an opinion piece by Agnes Callard, who is an
> associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, titled "Why
> Philosophers Shouldn't Sign Petitions
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/opinion/philosophers-petitions.html>".
> In the context of reflecting on how we make decisions in the Wikiverse, I
> feel that the distinction between petitioning and arguing is a good topic
> for reflection. Hopefully in the wikiverse we make collective decisions
> that are largely based on rational consensus.
>
>
> *Closing comments*
>
>
> Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations>. Thanks to
> User:Veracious <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Veracious> for the
> Indonesian translation.
>
> What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
> language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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