Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-09 Thread Pharos
I think I would consider it educational. Travel itself is an educational experience, and a fuller travel experience enabled by the sharing of Wikimedia-style free knowledge all the more so :) Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Patricio Molina wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9,

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-07 Thread Pharos
Indeed, I would expect for the 'Sister Projects Committee' to have both the options of project fission and project fusion within its toolbag. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tarc Meridian wrote: > > In some respects, that change would be quite good. My experience o

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - Q&A site

2012-04-07 Thread Pharos
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Some modifications and requested info has been added to:   > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site) > > -greg aka varnent There have also been a couple of other proposals on meta along these same lines, and perhaps som

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Pharos
> new projects any more. It would be great to see one new project every year > :) I had suggested earlier that we might even run this as an annual thing, with a Wikimania-style bidding process for the new sister projects. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) > No dia 4 de Abril de 2012 05:53,

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> >>> We had started a stub table about this: >>> https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free >> >> This is

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40: > >>  - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are >> as a society towards reaching that goal > > > We had started a stub table about this: > https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lis

[Foundation-l] WikiWorldDays and multi-events

2012-03-05 Thread Pharos
Hi folks, I've started this page to help list the various themed multi-event campaigns that have been popping up around the Wikimedia universe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWorldDays Not sure if it's the best name, I was also thinking WikiSpring, or WikiSeason, or WikiWhatnot. (ye

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-02 Thread Pharos
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> That sounds reasonable.  Most things discussed on this list are not >> specially relevant to the Foundation. > > OK. Any strong objections to changing the list name and scope (the > latte

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia's ebook and PDF creation feature doesn't support Chinese and Japanese

2012-02-22 Thread Pharos
Side question: Does Chinese Wikipedia indeed have an elected or consensus "leader" or some sort? Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > Hi All, > > I think you guys can all see how useful it would be if the Chinese > Wikipedia also has the ebook/PDF c

Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

2012-01-03 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Przykuta wrote: >> > >> I agree cities are probably better, but I don't think that's really the >> best place to start editing Wikipedia either, because it's an area where >> it's really easy for new users to mistakenly think that they should >> write content based

Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

2012-01-02 Thread Pharos
I would pitch it as a simple appeal to edit the Wikipedia article on your hometown (or home neighborhood if you're from a big city). In my experience, something like this has been attractive to a very broad spectrum of people, and gives them a nice "in" as a place to get started. Thanks, Richard

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiKids - Vikidia: encyclopedia for children

2011-11-19 Thread Pharos
Earlier this year, I helped organize and archive some of the past proposals for new Wikimedia projects on meta, and those with an education focus (including several for children's education) are collected here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_projects_-_education Perhaps these hi

[Foundation-l] Hypothetical project rebranding Wikimedia

2011-09-08 Thread Pharos
I thought folks might be interested in this, which was created by Moving Brands as a hypothetical project for rebnranding Wikimedia, and published in Viewpoint Magazine in the UK: http://www.movingbrands.com/?category_name=wikipedia-work Note the very elaborate work on this, and the particular ro

[Foundation-l] Taxonomy of Free Culture Movements

2011-07-17 Thread Pharos
I'd like to approach the "Unnamed Movement" idea from a slightly different perspective. What we really have emergent is a series of related movements, many of which are nested inside of each other. At the highest and most general level is the Free Culture Movement, which is a real and active move

Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

2011-07-13 Thread Pharos
Informally, and in my own mind, I tend to think of like-minded free culture wiki sites as part of a broader "Wiki Knowledge" movement. Of course, this is not meant to be an exclusivist or trademarked term :P Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > I

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

2011-07-04 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:02 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Pharos wrote: >> .. >> >> >> I agree, a focus on new namespaces (perhaps with differentiated >> editing permissions, per Liam) certainly looks like the best path >> fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

2011-07-04 Thread Pharos
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On 07/01/2011 11:52 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: >> One thing I find irritating and complex about our structure is the >> proliferation of small wikis. Now I've no objection to the idea that >> we have a wiki for every language on Earth, though

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia at events

2011-06-04 Thread Pharos
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > James Forrester wrote: >> On 2 June 2011 03:25, MZMcBride wrote: >>> Samuel Klein wrote: I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start. >>>

Re: [Foundation-l] "How many articles have you created?"

2011-04-10 Thread Pharos
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran wrote: >> >> For that matter, the contents of >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for >> the site notice. > > Yes, w

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-10 Thread Pharos
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Дана Sunday 10 April 2011 06:36:22 MZMcBride написа: >> featured article requirements or anything like that. They might be >> inundated with too many links in welcome messages (which I view as a >> largely separate issue from policy creep)

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

2011-03-07 Thread Pharos
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Translation is an important problem, and it is also key to making > material available in less developed languages. Linked with moral rights > it gives too much leeway to those who would claim that a given > translation is defamatory. > > It m

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-02-01 Thread Pharos
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 28 January 2011 20:33, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Such a solution would make it easier to fold separate wikis >> (such as a conference wiki) back into Meta when we were done with >> them, too. > > Why fold them into meta afterwards rather tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-01-28 Thread Pharos
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola wrote: >> >> I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very >> unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one >> day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a single information, >> collaboration and discussion hub, s

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-13 Thread Pharos
There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that probably has more to do with it. Thanks, Pharos On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > "Broadband use remains another predictor, as 59% of those with home > broadband use the service, compared w

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-07 Thread Pharos
I actually tried to set up a geonotice to catch Wikipedian Antarcticans a while back, but unfortunately the convergence of the longitude lines kind of threw it off :P Thanks, Pharos On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > On 01/05/11 4:52 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> On

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners inviting people to edit.

2010-11-16 Thread Pharos
It would also be great if we could have banners inviting people to participate in major local community events, like the many Wikipedia 10 celebrations planned for January. http://ten.wikipedia.org Thanks, Pharos On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Daniel ~ Leinad wrote: > One of Polish bann

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010-11-13 Thread Pharos
tral ground: not > necessarily tied to the values of our Foundation or anyone else's. > > What do you think? Does such a thing exist already? Would it work? > > -- Phoebe Ourproject.org does something like this, but I thin

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-24 Thread Pharos
Perhaps an alternative strategy could be to hold a grand round-robin vote to launch one new project per year, at least in beta phase. This might ensure that the very best ideas get through and are actualized, without quite opening the floodgates. Thanks, Pharos On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:47 AM

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] LocalWiki project needs your support

2010-09-28 Thread Pharos
LocalWiki looks like a great project. In a similar vein, Wikimedia NYC has been engaged with local free culture and community groups on our joint 'NYCwiki' initiative: http://nycwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page http://nycwiki.org/wiki/NYCwiki:Community_portal Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) Wikimedia NYC h

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

2010-08-13 Thread Pharos
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] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

2010-08-13 Thread Pharos
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 >

Re: [Foundation-l] How many books are there in the world?

2010-08-05 Thread Pharos
so on. Well, it's a minor issue from out point of view, I > guess. How would Mediawiki scale to 130 million articles? Gotta cover > everything... The number of notable subjects covered in all those books is much much greater than >> 130 million. Thanks, Pharos > ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Pharos
I presume the interview with Jimbo was in English? This would probably be a good opportunity for collaboration with English Wikinews... Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the coordinator of w...@home in Wikimedia Italia. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Pharos
This is just wonderful. Bravo, Italian Wikinews! Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Ilario Valdelli, 04/08/2010 10:37: >> A translation can be found here: >> http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione > > Yes,

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-24 Thread Pharos
l the projects in each language, for children" That's an interesting conception, right there. Thanks, Pharos > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Uns

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-24 Thread Pharos
What about wikipediajr.org ? And so we would have en.wikipediajr.org, fr.wikipediajr.org etc. Thanks, Pharos On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Thanks for your very useful thoughts, Samuel. They lead us to these > two key questions: > > - Create new Wikipedi

Re: [Foundation-l] "The problem with Wikipedia..."

2010-06-17 Thread Pharos
This is the best source of the "zeroth law" of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/Raul%27s_laws#Laws_by_others I believe people have tried to track down the original coiner, but noone really knows. Thanks, Pharos 2010/6/17 Jon Harald Søby : > Yes, it's commu

Re: [Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

2010-05-23 Thread Pharos
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > tbh, I'm very fond of "Double check".  It seems to imply exactly what > we want: the edit isn't being accepted automatically, nor rejected, > but simply getting a second look.  It's fairly neutral in tone, and > understandable to the ave

Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikimania locations

2010-05-12 Thread Pharos
en, worthy bids that do not win Wikimania could still be funded and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation as regional conferences. Thanks, Pharos On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Wikimania 2011 has come, yet again another location in the middle-east. > > It see

Re: [Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

2010-05-07 Thread Pharos
ewiki is part of the "wiki knowledge movement" :) Thanks, Pharos ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] list o' image donations?

2010-03-16 Thread Pharos
I believe this is the page that Phoebe is looking for: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading Thanks, Pharos On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > Also see the 'content partnerships' page on the Wikimedia UK wiki > that I've p

Re: [Foundation-l] Chinese languages (was: Changes in Language committee practice: ancient and constructed languages)

2010-03-08 Thread Pharos
t; Serbian language - two different scripts are used and what it evoked. > We are in a similar situation. > > At this moment Classical Chinese sources are hosted on zhwikisource > whose default is simplified Chinese. Formerly some of them were in > traditional and then we at Japanese wikis

Re: [Foundation-l] The name "Old Wikisource"

2010-03-01 Thread Pharos
for changing the abbreviation? >> >> > You are right. I just noticed this name a couple of days ago and i also > think that it's unfortunate. > > Be bold: raise this issue at > http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium and open the bug at > bugzilla wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wikinews

2010-02-27 Thread Pharos
The proposal in this instance seems to be for merging all of the Wikinews language editions into one mega-project, which seems to me an exceedingly radical and perhaps counterproductive step. Thanks, Pharos On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > I am cleaning Requests for

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wikibooks

2010-02-27 Thread Pharos
tional value in its own right, and even if someone were to donate a textbook in a rather obscure language I don't think that we should turn such a gift away. Thanks, Pharos On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Som

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wiktionary

2010-02-27 Thread Pharos
OmegaWiki was originally intended to be a multilingual Wiktionary project... http://www.omegawiki.org Has there been any thought on bringing it back somehow into the Wikimedia fold? Thanks, Pharos On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > I am cleaning Requests for new langua

Re: [Foundation-l] I'm here to request a new Wikimedia project

2010-02-27 Thread Pharos
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Bod Notbod wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Pharos wrote: > >>>>  I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That >>>> would be neat, a wiki > >> Our friends at the allied project Ope

Re: [Foundation-l] I'm here to request a new Wikimedia project

2010-02-27 Thread Pharos
recent feature from the BBC about 'The volunteer mappers who helped Haiti': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8517057.stm Thanks, Pharos > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

2009-12-15 Thread Pharos
e to spend that money directly on special efforts to increase high-quality free content about environmental topics on Wikipedia and the other projects. Thanks, Pharos On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Tim Starling wrote: >> It'

Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

2009-12-11 Thread Pharos
estly with just a handful of GLAMs, run through a chapters "vouching" system, and move on from there. If Wikimedia Australia were able to take the initiative on this and start a pilot project, I personally think that would be fantastic. Thanks, Pharos > > wittylama.com/blog > Pe

Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

2009-12-09 Thread Pharos
s. Thanks, Pharos On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > When they are blocked like it happened with the Tropenmuseum, I will ask the > person who did this to reconsider... There has to be a reason for a block > and these organisations do what they do and they do it

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-12-01 Thread Pharos
the Wikiversity and Wikijunior projects, both started as "virtual wikis" on Wikibooks. Wikiversity eventually took its own path, while Wikijunior after some discussion was still felt to be best as part of the mother wiki. I feel that this Wikiversity/Wikijunior model could prove valuable

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-11-18 Thread Pharos
s. Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Laura Hale wrote: > Erik suggested I post this to the list for further discussion. > > Sincerely, > Laura Hale > > > > > > *Introduction* > Fan History Wiki is a project dedicated to documenting the history o

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Pharos
FYI my comment was on the whole thread, not about any particular response. Hence the "[general comment]" disclaimer. Thanks, Pharos On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Chad wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> Pharos wrote: >>> I can th

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-01 Thread Pharos
I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list. [general comment] Thanks, Pharos On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/11/1 Anthony: >> >>> Here

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [openmoko-announce] WikiReader

2009-10-13 Thread Pharos
ncludes a small subset of pre-approved articles. Thanks, Pharos On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Sean Moss-Pultz > Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:51 AM > Subject: [openmoko-announce] WikiReader > To: annou..

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-16 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > John Vandenberg wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Brian wrote: >> >>> I propose expanding the notion of the Wikimedia Incubator to include >>> entirely new projects that are very, very easy to create. They don't need to >>> be approve

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Thank you!

2009-09-15 Thread Pharos
images into videos (with fading in/out) is fairly > standard in video editing software. It's something that could be done > by the community a) if they want, and b) if they have the software. > > Mike In an ideal world, it might be nice to have a video of the speaker and a slidesho

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009

2009-09-10 Thread Pharos
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/9/10 Sue Gardner : >> Hi Thomas! >> >> Sorry to top-post, and to be late replying. I believe that all 26 >> proposals are up now on the meta page. Let me know if you can't find >> it, and I can post the link tonight when I'm back on my l

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

2009-09-02 Thread Pharos
uld also like to note, this image is a shiny example of the new > annotations feature! I agree, the scroll-over annotation and translation looks brilliant to my taste. Thanks, Pharos > Cary > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > fou

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

2009-07-15 Thread Pharos
Indonesians speak English than Dutch, and if translation to English is relatively easy, this will probably facilitate translation to Indonesian also. Thanks, Pharos > 2009/7/15 John at Darkstar > >> At least the term base should be translated. >> John >> >> Gerard M

Re: [Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-13 Thread Pharos
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Sure. Actually the New York chapter probably sends some press releases to US > media too; I'm not sure. FYI We have had a number of contacts with journalists, but so far we have not been in the habit of putting out formal press releases. This

Re: [Foundation-l] Recommending a Browser for High Quality Ogg Theora Video Support

2009-07-10 Thread Pharos
ove video playability without encouraging people to upload > at low qualities which are completely unsuitable for editing. I presume there's no way to thumbnail them in a way analogous to how images are thumbnailed? Thanks, Pharos > ___ > founda

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

2009-07-08 Thread Pharos
ee it working with supra-local efforts like "Wikimedia Working Group for Catalan". Of course, the "Working Group Organizer" can and should delegate activities to other trusted persons, but the overall responsibility (and the blame if things somehow go horribly wrong) is theirs. Thanks

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL-only + OTRS

2009-06-24 Thread Pharos
es for Commons? I'd personally like to deprecate the GFDL, > but if it's a Commons-accepted free content licence then there's no > reason not to accept it. Of course, there are and always have been a wide range of free content licenses used for images

[Foundation-l] Wiki-Conference New York July 25-26

2009-06-11 Thread Pharos
Hi folks, The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will be held over the weekend of July 25-26 2009 (confirmed!) at New York University, and hosted by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City. Jimmy Wales will be giving a keynote, and we'll also have several dedicated panel discussions to be organi

Re: [Foundation-l] Open teaching materials in the Netherlands

2009-05-19 Thread Pharos
al does not make much sense to me. Thanks, Pharos > Ziko van Dijk > > read more in German on > http://groups.google.de/group/infobrief-wiki-welt/msg/21c9f6c00634d13c? > > > > -- > Ziko van Dijk > NL-Silvolde > ___ > found

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum

2009-05-14 Thread Pharos
useums participate. > > -- Hay Hooray for Patricio and Wikimedia AR! Looks like everything went brilliantly, and that you had a very productive 'invasion'. Like Hay, I am very happy to see this cross-fertilization of ideas, and I very much look forward to future updates from everyone.

Re: [Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

2009-05-04 Thread Pharos
se cheap pendants colorful, make them collectible, let people string dozens on a necklace, and soon you'd have thousands of copies of books floating through society that can never be lost. Wow, I can't believe they let us post this stuff on foundation-l :) Thanks, Pharos > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of livingpeople

2009-05-01 Thread Pharos
s too. Devs like Aude can be be a real asset in jumpstarting chapters activities as well, as she has shown with her great organizing work in Washington DC. Thanks, Pharos > It was all really great :-) > Sue > > > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Dalton > > Date:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum

2009-05-01 Thread Pharos
would be added -in addition- to the encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata. Possibly in the future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection, you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata. Thanks, P

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-05 Thread Pharos
pure review process by academic experts would be of great value, and help to indirectly guide the contributors to such articles along more productive paths. Thanks, Pharos On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >> But I do not believe that experts should have any specia

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-04 Thread Pharos
ntributing to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_peer_review Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > >> One of your points there was: >>> 6. The current experience (or at least my current experience) is not >>> really

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-24 Thread Pharos
ted, I believe the other language most suited to such a project would be French, because of its lingua franca status in large parts of the developing world. Thanks, Pharos > 2009/2/25 Cary Bass > >> Ray Saintonge wrote: >> > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: >> >> However

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-19 Thread Pharos
dozen museums and cultural institutions around the globe who will be participating next month. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art Thanks, Pharos ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Loves Art- photography contest at museums worldwide

2008-12-28 Thread Pharos
n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/wikis-take-manhattan/ If anyone anywhere is interested in helping their local museum to participate in this project, please contact me and I'll help. Thanks, Pharos ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008-12-23 Thread Pharos
a personal appeal, rather than an impersonal donation > message, the letter seems more likely to resonate with people. This is really important. Even the fact there was a picture is helpful. It humanizes the process, and makes it much less anonymous. When this letter has reached its audience

Re: [Foundation-l] Some Ideas About Technical Stuff/Community Relations Improvements

2008-12-10 Thread Pharos
Maybe we the technical side of WMF could get a "communications advisor", some trusted volunteer from among the regular Wikimedians, like they've done at the Chapters Committee recently. Thanks, Pharoos On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Eugene Zelenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > There are

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-09 Thread Pharos
n, but hopefully adequate: > http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php > > Examples: > > http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php?uselang=nl&search=paard > http://toolserver.org/~nikola/mis.php?uselang=el&search=%CE%AF%CF%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%82 Something like this looks pretty goo

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008-12-05 Thread Pharos
"14 articles on famous cows" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle That's still gotta be way more than Britannica. Thanks, Pharos On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Pharos <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008-12-05 Thread Pharos
"2,434 articles on people born in 1908" Ha! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1908_births Thanks, Richard On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Rand Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All- > > If you have the time and energy, take a look at this site notice here: > http://dev.donate.wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008-12-05 Thread Pharos
"260 languages" This page says they are technically 264 Wikipedias: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Languages But Herero and Tokipona have 0 articles, and Simple English, useful as it may be, isn't really a separate language. So, I say we go with 260. Thanks, Pharos On Fri, De

Re: [Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

2008-11-30 Thread Pharos
l be the case that many students "quit" Wikipedia for the summer, and only take it up again after winter break, when they are more settled into their academic routine than in the fall. Thanks, Pharos > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Pharos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >&

Re: [Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

2008-11-30 Thread Pharos
s whats > happened, any theories as to why? > > Nathan Summer break for students would be the obvious reason. Or just good weather, generally. You might find the inverse if you look only at Southern Hemisphere IPs. Thanks, Pharos > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Robert R

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phase 2

2008-11-25 Thread Pharos
I think it's good that this started after the election. We would lose if we competed with Obama donations... As it is, I think some of the donors may be looking for new places to give. Thanks, Pharos On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-25 Thread Pharos
If the 'mo' language code is deprecated, then why not ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org ? Thanks, Pharos On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For quick background, it's pretty painful to rename a database in our > system, and we currentl

Re: [Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

2008-11-23 Thread Pharos
hould also be a great aid in improving literacy in English and other spoken languages. Several SignWriting studies have focused on its use as an educational tool that increases student's real literacy in spoken languages. Thanks, Pharos On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Gregory Maxwell <[EM