Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010/7/24 Casey Brown : > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Pavlo Shevelo > wrote: >>> These days Google and other translate tools are good enough to use as >>> the starting basis for an translated article >> >> No, it's far not true - at least for such target language as Ukrainian etc. >> >> So a

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

Hi, I'm the coordinator of w...@home in Wikimedia Italia. With this project we have already managed to interview a few notable[1] people. The questions are written collaboratively, opening a page on the italian Wikinews[2]. Then Wikimedia Italia takes contact with the potential interviewee and fin

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

2010/8/4 Pharos : > I presume the interview with Jimbo was in English? This would > probably be a good opportunity for collaboration with English > Wikinews... Absolutely. 2010/8/4 Nikola Smolenski : > Publish the interview in .ogg format, then if needed volunteers can transcribe > it? Till now

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012/2/2 Oliver Keyes : > Oh, agreed. But what I'm interested in is not "should be", but whether the > rhetoric in internal chapter elections is usually dominated by, or even > includes, mention of the wider governance issues. > > I think chapters have a crucial role to play in movement governance,

Re: [Foundation-l] Con rispetto per questa azione coraggiosa

2011/10/5 Anneke Wolf : > Hi folks, > > the german community made the decision to have a short notice about > the issue on the front page as well (see: Wikipedia aktuell) > http://de.wikipedia.org > > In addition there's a support letter you can sign: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Solida

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011/10/5 David Richfield : > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: >>> Regardless, what's done is done, for >>> the moment. >> >> Except that WMF as steward of the open information can roll any of that >> blackout crap back. >> Primary mission is spreading the knowledge, and now i

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011/10/5 M. Williamson : > Editors aren't the only people who use Wikipedia. About that point it's worth noting that in Facebook several autonomous supporting groups have appeared, the most numerous has > 215.000 followers and it's now still growing with a 1000 likes/hour rate. Cristian ___

[Foundation-l] Khan Academy contradictory licensing conditions

I posted a question in the comment group[1] of Khan Academy[2], a great education website. In fact in this page on the wiki of the site[3] under "Our Principles: the rules of the game", is said: "Openness. [...] Open content means that all content distributed by or through the Khan Academy us

Re: [Foundation-l] Duolingo, potential way of getting good quality translations?

I found this TEDx presentation by Luis von Ahn (the ideator of the project [and father of CAPTCHAs, btw]) worth watching: TEDxCMU -- Luis von Ahn -- Duolingo: The Next Chapter in Human Computation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4 Cristian __

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012/1/17 Milos Rancic : > Wikimedia Serbia also supports English Wikipedians [...] Wikimedia Italia too, see http://www.wikimedia.it Here's the text (in italian): --- Milano, 17 gennaio 2012 Domani, 18 gennaio 2012, l'edizione in lingua inglese di Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) verrà oscur