@Nico: Thanks Nico for offering help regarding French Translation. @Emmanuel: * We plan to send the Newsletter also to this mailing list! * Activity on Wiki: Do you think it would be helpful to announce major changes on the wiki in the News area? Just let me know if you have any ideas… I am happy to get input or to discuss ideas! * Interview with the WIR: The interview was held in August and you'll find it on our Website in english-> Activties -> Wikipedia in Residence in Swiss Federal Archives or in german -> Aktivitäten -> Wikipedian in Residence in Bundesarchiv. We also did a short update about KIWIX in Jail here ;-)
Muriel Staub Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Escaliers-du-Marché 2 - 1003 Lausanne - Switzerland mobile: +41 79 752 78 69 mail: [email protected] www.wikimedia.ch Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. However: 83% of it is written by male. So please, women out there, close the gender gap & edit Wikipedia! On 02.09.2013, at 14:00, [email protected] wrote: > Send Wikimediach-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediach-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: A few remakrs about the Wikimedia CH Summer Newsletter > (Nico Ray) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:42:43 +0200 > From: Nico Ray <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikimediach-l] A few remakrs about the Wikimedia CH > Summer Newsletter > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > A quick comment from my side : would you need a French-speaking person > to read and correct the newsletter **before** sending it, please do not > hesitate to contact me... > Regards, > Nico > > On 31.08.2013 22:55, Ilario Valdelli wrote: >> Thanks for the comments. >> >> About LabisAlps, at the moment I don't push a lot the templates of >> Wikimedia Switzerland because the work is on going. At the end of 2013 >> the template will be in any article part of the project and there will >> be the rollout in other languages. >> >> The De Re Metallica is uploaded from Archive.org because it has been >> the first test to upload ancient books. It wa simportant to avoid *any >> problem connected with the digitization* and to proceed with a book >> already in PDF. >> >> Instead of fighting with books digitized from scracth, this book was >> already present in open source, so it has been uploaded in Wikisource. >> >> The main job of Wikisource is the transcription and I can assure that >> that of De Re Metallica is really hard *and not adapt for people >> without a strong knowledge in Latin language*. >> >> The remaiming books will be uploaded by Wikimedia CH as the first >> attempt has been done with success and with a good result. >> >> Regards >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have received yesterday the WMCH newsletter. This is great to >> get some >> news in that format, I guess this is the work of our new community >> managers. Also the work of Manuel, it seems to me that this is the >> first >> newsletter sent by CiviCRM? So, congratulations to all the people who >> have worked on it. >> >> Here are a few remarks related to this mailing, the contents, and >> others: >> >> * Newsletters are elaborated on the wiki, you can help and find the >> archive here: https://members.wikimedia.ch/Newsletters/ >> * I think the English version of this newsletter should be also posted >> here, on this ML. It's primarily for members, but this could be also >> interesting for others. >> * Unsubscribe/re-subscribe procedure seems to work. >> * How to change the recipient email address for this mailing? I have >> tried the "unsubscribe" link and then tried to recover my password >> with >> my email address but this seems to fail (hostname >> test.wikimedia.ch <http://test.wikimedia.ch> is >> also strange)... >> >> * In general, it's really great to see more activity on the >> wiki... but >> it's pretty difficult to be triggered about something new. The >> only way >> I know, is to use the atom/rss feed of the recent changes... and in my >> case it does not work with my online aggregator (Netvibes). So >> this is a >> problem to be triggered about what happens and this looks to me to >> be a >> brake to get involved members. >> >> * Do we have periodic reports about the LabisAlp project in English? I >> can't find one neither on the Mailing-List nor in the wiki nor in the >> GLAM working group report. >> * LabiAlp project uploads (for example >> http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Labi_1996.djvu) should be >> labelled >> as sponsored by WMCH and categorized in a dedicated project category. >> * >> https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber:Agricola_De_re_metallica.djvu was >> scanned and uploaded to archive.org <http://archive.org> in 2008, >> so I'm not sure to >> understand the relation with the LabisAlp project. >> >> * Do we have reports in English about the activity of the WIR? >> * Nice to have the interview of Micha, I don't know if this one is old >> or not, hope not so... I was not informed about its release. >> * It was impossible to me to find the WIR interview on the WMCH >> web site >> (without having the direct link) >> >> https://www.wikimedia.ch/%5Bi18n-termpath-raw%5D/wikipedian-residence-swiss-federal-archives >> ... I think this is linked nowhere in other pages and also the URL is >> pretty strange ("%5Bi18n-termpath-raw%5D") >> * I feel somehow bad to read something like "No, there are no such >> specific targets of my residency" from a WIR. Paying a WIR without >> having many new interesting pictures in Commons is IMO a problem. It's >> also a problem, because without these upload pictured, I don't really >> see how to involve the community (also AFK) in this partnership. I >> hope >> the legal problems will be fixed soon @BAR. >> >> Regards >> Emmanuel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website >> Wikimediach-l mailing list >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ilario Valdelli >> Wikimedia CH >> Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens >> Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre >> Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera >> Switzerland - 8008 Zürich >> Tel: +41764821371 >> http://www.wikimedia.ch <http://www.wikimedia.ch/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website >> Wikimediach-l mailing list >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/private/wikimediach-l/attachments/20130901/5d89fbf2/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website > Wikimediach-l mailing list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l > > > End of Wikimediach-l Digest, Vol 82, Issue 2 > ********************************************
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