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Federico Leva (Nemo | 8 May 16:33
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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis

Sorry for crossposting but it's something that will (hopfeully, IMHO) 
affect hundreds of wikis and it's interesting to know how to get to it.

Nemo

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Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis
Data: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:40:00 +0200
Mittente: とある白い猫

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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Disable_uploads_on_smaller_wikis

Feel free to participate.

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Aashish Mittal | 14 Feb 15:00
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Book (collection) feature for Wikibooks

Hello devs,

I am Aashish Mittal and am currently working on a project for creating a
'Book' extension for Wikisource/WikiBooks. There is a bug filed for this
feature (check bug 15071<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071>)
by the wikimedia community developers.

This extension would enable the users to group selected pages into logical
'books' and use these books as per their needs. We are currently working on
defining the scope of this project, but an initial thought to this project
defines the following deliverables for this extension:

   1. Create a book
   2. Page addition wizard (also containing search filters for finding
   particular pages)
   3. Import book metadata (where user can directly add set of pages from
   his export list)
   4. Export book metadata (export the book details containing all page
   links to a file which can be saved by user, similar to MetaBooks)
   5. Add to a book option for every page
   6. Table of contents for a book
   7. Read a book (navigate through pages or some kind of an ajax based
   book reader)
   8. Recent changes for each book
   9. Create chapters
   10. Arrange order of pages in a book
   11. Protect/watchlist/move/delete all pages of a book
   12. List books
   13. Search for a book
   14. Search in a book
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Casey Brown | 1 Jul 21:55
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Call for image filter referendum

/Please distribute this message widely/

*Call for referendum*:  The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of
the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether
members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in
personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen
particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly.
The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be
conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party.  Referendum
details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will
be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum
shortly.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

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Samuel Klein | 26 Jun 10:21
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Publications we should support hosting and sharing

Here's an example of a remarkable publication that we should support
capturing, in its elements and its final layout, to support reuse and
sharing in other sorts of documents:

http://skateistan.org/skateistan_blog/out-now-student-mag-arts-skateboarding
http://www.skateistan.org/PDFs/Bridge-Final.pdf

We need to improve automation for adding these sorts of things to
wikisource: scripts to request and capture license information, and to
batch upload PDFs, extracting individual images and text from source
files, uploading them separately, and approximating the original
layout.

Sam.

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Samuel Klein | 8 Jun 21:46
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DPLA Beta Sprint: Calling all Submitters!

Dear Wikimedians --

A project to build a national public digital library in the US, the
"Digital Public Library of America", is asking for statements of
interest from people or groups who have ideas for what this might look
like -- and mean to create a prototype or detailed proposal over the
course of this summer.

Actual proposals, of whatever form, are due in September, but a
statement of interest is due by June 15.  If you are interested in the
subject, or currently working on a project you could see being part of
such a public resource, you can submit a statement online:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/forms/statement-of-interest/

See below for background on the DPLA.  While this group is focused on
a national project for a single country (formed by a consortium of US
libraries, foundations, and academics) , they are conscious of the
need to do something similar worldwide, and committed to making this
process and ersulting tools as open and reusable as possible.

SJ

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From: Maura Marx <maura@...>
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:51 PM
Subject: Fwd: [berkmanfriends] DPLA Beta Sprint: Calling all Submitters!
To: Samuel Klein <meta.sj@...>

statements of interest for the DPLA Beta Sprint are due in a week -
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Federico Leva (Nemo | 10 Oct 12:50
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[Fwd: Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects]

I suppose this may interest you.
Sorry for crossposting; please join the discussion on foundation-l, if 
you wish.

Nemo

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Oggetto: Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects
Data: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:33:07 +0200
Da: Federico Leva (Nemo)
A: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@...>

Despite repeated assurances at Wikimania, on lists and on strategywiki,
that the strategic plan was going to consider all Wikimedia projects as
important, now at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Five-year_targets the
second target, «Increase the amount of information we offer» considers
only the number of Wikipedia articles.
«We're aware of the challenges around bot-created articles, articles of
low quality, etc., and the limited focus on Wikipedia, so this metric
shouldn't be seen in isolation, but is an important indicator.» Yes, but
a wrong one.

I'm, very, very disappointed: I have to conclude that all the words on
community participation etc. were only empty rhetoric.

Nemo
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Casey Brown | 22 May 23:50
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Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation Extended

Due to numerous requests we have extended the submission deadline for
Wikimania 2010 as follows:

* Abstract Registration: May 24, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for workshops: May 29, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for panels, tutorials, presentations: June 3, 11.59
p.m. (Pacific Time)

See the Call for Participation for more details:
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP

Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-)
See you in Gdansk, July 9-11!

With best regards,
 Wikimania Team

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Amal Hanna | 15 Feb 03:54
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Are you a Wikibookian? Invitation to Online Interview

Dear Wikibook Contributor,

Thank you for those who participate in the online questionnaire which aims to assess the motivation of
Wikibooks' contributors.

I am pleased to advise that the analysis of the data from the completed online questionnaires has been
finalized. The analysis provides some initial insights into the reasons Wikibookians contribute to
Wiki textbook projects. However, some of these results require further investigation to gain a better
understanding of the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors.

Now, I would like to invite you to participate in the online interview. The interview will take from 30 to 45
minutes. This interview will be in the form of text chat. I have attached a 'Research Information Sheet',
which provides more detailed information about the research and interview. This research project has
been approved by the University of South Australia's Human Research Ethics Committee. 

Could you please reply to this email with the appropriate local time for you to meet with you online? 
Date & Time: ----/----/2010 @---- AM or PM?
City: --------------------

Your reply will be considered as your consent (agreement) for the interview. When I receive your reply, I
will add you to my messenger contact list, and you will then receive an invitation from
InterviewonWikibooks 

I look forward to meeting with you online

Thank you

Kind regards

Amal Maher
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Cary Bass | 6 Oct 20:57
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Office hours this Friday, October 9

Hi everyone,

This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal Counsel.  If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can
read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.

Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM
PDT).  Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to
1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT).

The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.  If you do not have an IRC
client, you can always access Freenode by going to
http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and
choosing wikimedia-office as the channel.   You may be prompted to click
through a security warning. Go ahead.

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Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Cary Bass | 1 Oct 01:12
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Wikimedia Staff office hours


Hi all, this is a reminder that office hours will be tomorrow, Thursday,
October 1, at 1600 UTC (9:00 AM PDT) and feature Rand Montoya.

The IRC channel that will be hosting Rand's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.  If you do not have an IRC
client, you can always access Freenode by going to
http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and
choosing wikimedia-office as the channel.   You may be prompted to click
through a security warning. Go ahead.

The channel is also available through the Wikizine site at
http://chat.wikizine.org/
and picking one of the two gateways, while choosing "wikimedia-office"
from the dropdown on the next page.

-- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free
Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Cary Bass | 28 Sep 23:41
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Wikimedia Staff office hours


Hello all!

This Thursday, October 1, 2009 between 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM PDT (UTC
16:00 and 17:00) Rand Montoya, Wikimedia's Head of Community Giving will
be joining us for office hours.  Rand will be online to answer your
questions and talk about the role of fundraising for the Wikimedia
Foundation and the upcoming Fundriaser.

The IRC channel that will be hosting Rand's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.  If you do not have an IRC
client, you can always access Freenode by going to
http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and
choosing wikimedia-office as the channel.  You may be prompted to click
through a security warning. It's fine.

--
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

PS: I'll be sending a follow up email to start a thread to discuss the
times of the office hours.
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