Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

> > I think that Tim's point was precisely to get to some non touristic-only > (i.e. often unreal) destination, to understand better the life of local > inhabitants and the conflict. > This is not part of Wikimania, obviously, but would be an interesting > possibility (e.g. more than beach, IMHO).

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

Harel Cain, 12/08/2010 07:13: > Tim, I don't know how this has any direct bearing on the conference. > > The conditions in the West Bank are not what anyone would wish them to > be, including, of course, us. I could try to argue here that still, > the average income there is higher than in most Ar

[Foundation-l] Wiki-Conference NYC August 28-29

Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC will be held over the weekend of August 28-29 2010, hosted by ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City. Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner will be giving a keynote, and we will al

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > On 08/06/2010 07:47 PM, Michael Galvez wrote: > > 3. We acquire dictionaries on limited licenses from other parties. In > > general, while we can surface this content on our own sites (e.g., Google > > Translate, Google Dictionary, Google T

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, stevertigo wrote: > Michael Galvez wrote: > > Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late. I'm one of the members > of > > Google's translation team, and I wanted to make myself available for > > feedback/questions. > > Thanks for stopping by. A few question

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Michael Galvez, 05/08/2010 15:12: > > Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late. I'm one of the members > of > > Google's translation team, and I wanted to make myself available for > > feedback/questions. > > Thank you, you've

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Mark Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Mark Williamson > wrote: > > > >> > 2) Implement spelling and punctuation check automatically within GTTK > >> before > >> > posting of the articles. > >> > > >> > There is spell check in Translator Toolki

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:56 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 6 August 2010 18:47, Michael Galvez wrote: > > > 3. We acquire dictionaries on limited licenses from other parties. In > > general, while we can surface this content on our own sites (e.g., Google > > Translate, Google Dictionary, Google

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

Hi Amir, Apologies for the late reply. Replies inline below. Mike On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Dear Michael, I also thank you for joining the discussion. See my > question below. > > 2010/8/6 Michael Galvez : > >> Also, as far as Ind

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > Michael Galvez wrote: > > 2. Once the articles exist in multiple languages, the articles take on a > > life of their own and become out of sync. If Wikipedians want to keep > those > > articles in sync, we would like to help them by enabling

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

The Tom's hardware article does link to the Wired article mentioning it as the source, that where I first read about it. Theo On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > It was also covered by Wired fairly well: > > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/humane-wikipedia-reader/ >

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

it would be cool to get these guys out for the open video conference! On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > It was also covered by Wired fairly well: > > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/humane-wikipedia-reader/ > >

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

It was also covered by Wired fairly well: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/humane-wikipedia-reader/ Steven Walling On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Pharos wrote: > This is a pretty great embodiment of our copyleftism, that'

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

This is a pretty great embodiment of our copyleftism, that's for sure. BTW, here's the guy's website: http://humaneinfo.com/ Thanks, Pharos On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:07 AM, David Gerard wrote: > http://www.tomsguide.com/us/humane-reader-wikipedia-console,news-7706.html > > Just a tiny gadget t

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 16:19, Mark Williamson wrote: > Interesting to note the geographic distribution of members of the > committee... hmm... If I counted well: 9 native Germanic speakers, 2 Romance and 2 Slavic. Or 10 centum and 2 satem or 10 Northern Indo-European and two Southern or all West

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

Slightly OT, in some parts, sorry in advance, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Mariano Cecowski wrote: > > Osama, I'm afraid your view is very self-centric. > > We Southamericans have a really hard time getting into USA; and I'm sure many > couldn't go to that Wikimania because of visa problems.

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

Interesting to note the geographic distribution of members of the committee... hmm... -m. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Our new member is Huib Laurens (meta:User:Huib). His main role is to > help us in keeping up to date archives of our mailing list [1] and > other techn

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

Milos Rancic, 13/08/2010 13:20: > Our new member is Huib Laurens (meta:User:Huib). His main role is to > help us in keeping up to date archives of our mailing list [1] and > other technical things. However, LangCom doesn't have strictly divided > roles, which means that Huib is a also a full member

[Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

Our new member is Huib Laurens (meta:User:Huib). His main role is to help us in keeping up to date archives of our mailing list [1] and other technical things. However, LangCom doesn't have strictly divided roles, which means that Huib is a also a full member of LangCom, which includes decision mak

[Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/humane-reader-wikipedia-console,news-7706.html Just a tiny gadget that hooks to your TV to display stuff and holds a copy of en:wp. Nice reuse :-) - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

Re: [Foundation-l] relocating search servers

Hi all, The relocation process took more than we anticipated, so it now looks like the situation is going to continue throughout the day today. Towards the afternoon/evening various wikis are going to be gradually restored to normal. Cheers, Robert On 12/08/10 22:27, Robert Stojnic wrote: >