The community was invited to collaborate on a new draft proposal for policy on
the creation
of wikis in new languages. Over the past several months quite a few people
participated in
the formulation of the new draft proposal, and there was extensive discussion
of every
aspect. Attention was paid
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From: Leigh Babbage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:07:47 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Why we should use the community draft of the language
proposal policy
Some Wikimedia users (and I am
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:01 AM, K.Siva Senthil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to find out what is the difference between an article and page
> in wiki's terminology?
>
> I found this article which talks about article -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ARTICLE
>
> Howev
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/12/3 David Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Nothing personal, but when tl;dr is given as a response, it indicates
>> that there is something certainly substantial and probably interesting
>> to be seen and understood--a
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:01 AM, K.Siva Senthil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was trying to find out what is the difference between an article and page
> in wiki's terminology?
"Article" refers to an encyclopedic text in the main namespace of a
Wikipedia; "page" refers to any given title on the w
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM, K.Siva Senthil
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was trying to find out what is the difference between an article and
> page
> > in wiki's terminology?
> >
>
> Usually, a "
On 12/2/08, Milos Rancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is no article about the ultimate fate of the universe on sr.wp,
> while there is no article about Grgur Branković on en.wp. Conclusion
> about usefulness is obvious: for the most of pupils and their parents
> the article about Grgur Branko
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM, K.Siva Senthil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to find out what is the difference between an article and page
> in wiki's terminology?
>
Usually, a "page" is used more broadly in Wikipedia terms: It can be
everything from a redirect, to a discus
Hello,
I was trying to find out what is the difference between an article and page
in wiki's terminology?
I found this article which talks about article -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ARTICLE
However, there is not such descriptive article about what a page means in
wikipedia.
Can some
In fact, the most useful link here is:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv
(with text in English)
Ziko
2008/12/4 Hay (Husky) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Note that this topic is also being discussed on Commons-l.
>
> I think this is a fantastic development, and hopefully a precedent
Note that this topic is also being discussed on Commons-l.
I think this is a fantastic development, and hopefully a precedent for
many more institutions and archives to release their assets under a
free license.
-- Hay
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Ziko van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ne
News flash: German Federal Archives donate more than 100,000 pictures,
uploading to Wikimedia Commons has started (CC-BY-SA).
Some more details (in German):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier
The pictures are very important to close the lack of photographs from the
20th century. They do
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> Geni wrote:
>>
> "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
> people around the world " first line of the mission statement. By
> actively promoting minority languages you lock more people into them
> whi
Tim Starling wrote:
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
>> It seems obvious to people who deal with small projects that usability is
>> one of the big issue when it comes to the moribunt status of our small
>> projects. The question I put to you, what are we going to do to first agree
>> that this is an
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