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Jon Davis | 4 Apr 2010 04:44

Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center

All,
As you may know, we Wikinewsies are the most technologically advanced of any group.  We've got a bunch of tech toys, and some of the coolest gadgets.  One of the problems with all our toys is that the source code is stored...everywhere.  Some of the scripts aren't even published publicly.  This isn't a problem on day to day activity, but what if a person leaves the project, goes MIA or god forbid something worse happens to them.

So I've started the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center.  Really, the core goal of this "project" is to get all the source code for all our goodies in one place.  That happens to be setup at http://code.google.com/p/enwikinews/ .  If you aren't familiar with Google Code, basically it is a code repository, wiki and bug tracker all rolled into one. 

For improved communication, I've started #wikinews-tech on freenode and Wikinews-Tech-L on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/wikinews-tech .  Some have asked the usefulness of Yet Another Mailing List.  It may or may not be useful, but at least this way we can send more regular emails about technical things (bitch/moan/complain about Javascript breaking) and not irritate everyone.

.......

So, how does this effect you?  If you care about technology, write scripts, apps and etc... feel free to stop by.  I'm happy to give anyone that wants to code, commit access.  You can stop by IRC, mail me off list...what ever.  If you don't care about technology, coding or anything of that jazz, feel free to ignore us.

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gopher65 | 4 Apr 2010 20:14
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Re: Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center

Great idea ShakataGaNai.
 
gopher65

From: Jon Davis
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:44 PM
Subject: [Wikinews-l] Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center

All,
As you may know, we Wikinewsies are the most technologically advanced of any group.  We've got a bunch of tech toys, and some of the coolest gadgets.  One of the problems with all our toys is that the source code is stored...everywhere.  Some of the scripts aren't even published publicly.  This isn't a problem on day to day activity, but what if a person leaves the project, goes MIA or god forbid something worse happens to them.

So I've started the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center.  Really, the core goal of this "project" is to get all the source code for all our goodies in one place.  That happens to be setup at http://code.google.com/p/enwikinews/ .  If you aren't familiar with Google Code, basically it is a code repository, wiki and bug tracker all rolled into one. 

For improved communication, I've started #wikinews-tech on freenode and Wikinews-Tech-L on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/wikinews-tech .  Some have asked the usefulness of Yet Another Mailing List.  It may or may not be useful, but at least this way we can send more regular emails about technical things (bitch/moan/complain about Javascript breaking) and not irritate everyone.

.......

So, how does this effect you?  If you care about technology, write scripts, apps and etc... feel free to stop by.  I'm happy to give anyone that wants to code, commit access.  You can stop by IRC, mail me off list...what ever.  If you don't care about technology, coding or anything of that jazz, feel free to ignore us.

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Philippe Beaudette | 6 Apr 2010 00:53
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Strategic Planning Office Hours


Hi everyone,

The next strategic planning office hours are:

Tuesday, 6 April, from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is:
-Tuesday (1-2pm PDT)
-Tuesday (4-5pm EDT)

Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's
happened as well as the work to come.

As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
security warning. It's fine. More details at:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.
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the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!

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Luqman Michel | 7 Apr 2010 03:36
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Re: Dyslexia - A new perspective

michael west <michawest <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On 18/03/2010, luqman michel <luqmanm2002 <at> yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Dear Sir,
> > I would be grateful if you could kindly let me know why my article
> > "Dyslexia - A new perspective" was not published (deleted).
> >
> > Just want to know why?
> > Thank you and kind regards,
> > Luqman Michel
> >
> >
> > Visit my blog at: http://www.parentingdyslexia.com
> >
> >
> >
> 
> I don't think it was published because Wikinews is not a spammed
> article board. A quick google search lists the article on countless
> sites.
> 
Thank you for your response. I want my article to be made known to as many 
people, who may be interested in dyslexia, as possible. To - date no one has 
disputed on what I have written.If writing to get my findings to as many 
people as possible is considered spamming that I am guilty.However, no one to 
date has accused me of spamming.Wish you well.
Luqman Michel
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gopher65 | 7 Apr 2010 06:14
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Re: Dyslexia - A new perspective

Sorry for the confusion. We're not accusing you of spamming in general, 
we're pointing out that anything that is posted to Wikinews must be *news*. 
As in, a factual representation of events that have happened in the past 3 
days. Nothing older than 3 days is accepted (it's not news if it isn't new), 
and editorials are not considered news.

Anything that doesn't qualify as news is considered spam and deleted, even 
if it isn't posted with ill intent.

If a significant event happens in (or to) the dyslexia community then you 
could write a news article about that event on Wikinews... as long as the 
significant event was less than 3 days old. A significant event would be 
something like a new medical discovery about dyslexia, or (potentially) even 
a large conference about dyslexia.

But editorials or personal anecdotes will never be accepted on Wikinews. 
That simply isn't what the site is for. That's what blogs are for.

Thank you for your interest in Wikinews. I hope that this encounter hasn't 
soured your opinion of us or our site.

gopher65

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From: "Luqman Michel" <luqmanm2002 <at> yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:36 PM
To: <wikinews-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Dyslexia - A new perspective

> michael west <michawest <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> On 18/03/2010, luqman michel <luqmanm2002 <at> yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Dear Sir,
>> > I would be grateful if you could kindly let me know why my article
>> > "Dyslexia - A new perspective" was not published (deleted).
>> >
>> > Just want to know why?
>> > Thank you and kind regards,
>> > Luqman Michel
>> >
>> >
>> > Visit my blog at: http://www.parentingdyslexia.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I don't think it was published because Wikinews is not a spammed
>> article board. A quick google search lists the article on countless
>> sites.
>>
> Thank you for your response. I want my article to be made known to as many
> people, who may be interested in dyslexia, as possible. To - date no one 
> has
> disputed on what I have written.If writing to get my findings to as many
> people as possible is considered spamming that I am guilty.However, no one 
> to
> date has accused me of spamming.Wish you well.
> Luqman Michel
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikinews-l mailing list
> Wikinews-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
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Brian McNeil | 9 Apr 2010 00:02
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Re: Dyslexia - A new perspective

Gopher,

I've been ultra-busy, but - assuming you explicityly CC'd the
correspondent, thanks for such a professional and polite response.

B.

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 22:14 -0600, gopher65 wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion. We're not accusing you of spamming in general, 
> we're pointing out that anything that is posted to Wikinews must be *news*. 
> As in, a factual representation of events that have happened in the past 3 
> days. Nothing older than 3 days is accepted (it's not news if it isn't new), 
> and editorials are not considered news.
> 
> Anything that doesn't qualify as news is considered spam and deleted, even 
> if it isn't posted with ill intent.
> 
> If a significant event happens in (or to) the dyslexia community then you 
> could write a news article about that event on Wikinews... as long as the 
> significant event was less than 3 days old. A significant event would be 
> something like a new medical discovery about dyslexia, or (potentially) even 
> a large conference about dyslexia.
> 
> But editorials or personal anecdotes will never be accepted on Wikinews. 
> That simply isn't what the site is for. That's what blogs are for.
> 
> Thank you for your interest in Wikinews. I hope that this encounter hasn't 
> soured your opinion of us or our site.
> 
> gopher65
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Luqman Michel" <luqmanm2002 <at> yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:36 PM
> To: <wikinews-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Dyslexia - A new perspective
> 
> > michael west <michawest <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> On 18/03/2010, luqman michel <luqmanm2002 <at> yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > Dear Sir,
> >> > I would be grateful if you could kindly let me know why my article
> >> > "Dyslexia - A new perspective" was not published (deleted).
> >> >
> >> > Just want to know why?
> >> > Thank you and kind regards,
> >> > Luqman Michel
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Visit my blog at: http://www.parentingdyslexia.com
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> I don't think it was published because Wikinews is not a spammed
> >> article board. A quick google search lists the article on countless
> >> sites.
> >>
> > Thank you for your response. I want my article to be made known to as many
> > people, who may be interested in dyslexia, as possible. To - date no one 
> > has
> > disputed on what I have written.If writing to get my findings to as many
> > people as possible is considered spamming that I am guilty.However, no one 
> > to
> > date has accused me of spamming.Wish you well.
> > Luqman Michel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikinews-l mailing list
> > Wikinews-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
> > 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Wikinews-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
> 

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Brian Anderton, (Wikinews | 9 Apr 2010 08:30
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Re: Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center

Belated Reply: Yep Sounds good :)


Brian

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:14 AM, gopher65 <gopher65 <at> hotmail.com> wrote:
Great idea ShakataGaNai.
 
gopher65

From: Jon Davis
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:44 PM
Subject: [Wikinews-l] Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center

All,
As you may know, we Wikinewsies are the most technologically advanced of any group.  We've got a bunch of tech toys, and some of the coolest gadgets.  One of the problems with all our toys is that the source code is stored...everywhere.  Some of the scripts aren't even published publicly.  This isn't a problem on day to day activity, but what if a person leaves the project, goes MIA or god forbid something worse happens to them.

So I've started the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center.  Really, the core goal of this "project" is to get all the source code for all our goodies in one place.  That happens to be setup at http://code.google.com/p/enwikinews/ .  If you aren't familiar with Google Code, basically it is a code repository, wiki and bug tracker all rolled into one. 

For improved communication, I've started #wikinews-tech on freenode and Wikinews-Tech-L on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/wikinews-tech .  Some have asked the usefulness of Yet Another Mailing List.  It may or may not be useful, but at least this way we can send more regular emails about technical things (bitch/moan/complain about Javascript breaking) and not irritate everyone.

.......

So, how does this effect you?  If you care about technology, write scripts, apps and etc... feel free to stop by.  I'm happy to give anyone that wants to code, commit access.  You can stop by IRC, mail me off list...what ever.  If you don't care about technology, coding or anything of that jazz, feel free to ignore us.

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Kristofer Bjornson | 9 Apr 2010 12:48
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Help building "List of things that need to be free"

The Content scope Task Force at strategy.wikimedia.org is at the moment compiling a "List of things that need to be free". The purpose of this list is to list all kinds of content that ought to be available for free, to see what other organizations provide such content, and to judge in which areas WMF can help providing such content. Any help in filling this list in would be very much appreciated.


You will find it at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free

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Chiacomo | 7 Apr 2010 13:20
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~~Hi~~

http://sites.google.com/site/h45ce4tcg/hdfq2c

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Brian McNeil | 11 Apr 2010 18:06
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Re: ~~Hi~~

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 06:20 -0500, Chiacomo wrote:
> http://sites.google.com/site/h45ce4tcg/hdfq2c
> 

Sorry to take so long to cleanup the moderation queue, but precisely
which site has been disabled?

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