Planeta Wikimedia

O Ingénuo

2008-08-26T08:41:13+00:00

Acabo de ler "O Ingénuo" de Voltaire, do qual há artigo na wiki.en e na wiki.fr (ler especialmente este segundo).

Guia de leitura:

1 - Quanto tempo demoraria o Ingénuo a fugir da wiki.pt?

Muito pouco. Certamente.

Year: 2008 Week: 33 Number: 98

2008-08-12T12:56:40+00:00

Technical news

[New and useful] - it is now possible to insert the magic word __NOINDEX__ into a page. The result of this is that when a search engine spider comes by, it gets the instruction not to index that page. This way, it should for example be possible to keep certain pages out of the search results of google. This only works on pages that are not in the content namespace; for example, on Wikipedia it will not work in an article like [[Michael Shmerkin]].
Note that anyone who can edit a page can insert this magic word in a page. There is also a magic word __INDEX__ now. Its use is not clear.

[Double redirect] - a long-standing problem is the creation of double redirects when a page is moved. The user then needs to click on a redirect link to continue. There is now a "double redirect fixer". It works at the MediaWiki level but it behaves like a bot. Sometime after the move is done, the wiki will check if there is a double redirect. If so, it will be fixed automatically. By default, the correction will be done by [[User:Redirect fixer]]. Those edits do not appear in recent changes.
The name of this "user" can be specified by the setting [[MediaWiki:double-redirect-fixer]]. If for some reason you wish the system to not get involved in a double redirect you can insert the magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ .

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-July/038751.html

[Wikisets] - Not so long ago, a new functionality was activated to create "global user groups". These groups can be given certain rights (like "grant and revoke bot flags"); when users are enrolled, they have the rights of that group on all Wikimedia wikis.
The problem is that those rights are valid either everywhere or nowhere, and not all communities agree with external users having special rights on their wiki.
To solve this problem, the "wiki sets" option has been created. This makes it possible to have "global groups" that are not global. Certain wikis can opt out, or a global group can be made opt-in.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook#wikisets

[New mail] - Almost (*) all wikis now offer an user the option to receive an e-mail when their talk page has been changed.
(*) exceptions are enwiki, eswiki, frwiki, plwiki, jawiki, ptwiki, ruwiki, zhwiki, itwiki and dewiki.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15031

[Download wikipedia] - You are free to download the database dump of wikis, but for most users this is not very useful. As an alternative, you can also download a static HTML dump: a huge collection of HTML files that gives you a local copy of the Wikipedia of your choice. This makes it very easy to bring Wikipedia to places where there is no internet or where it is prohibitively expensive.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/03/new-wikipedia-downloads-available

[Ogg support in Firefox] - The fairly popular internet browser Mozilla Firefox now supports the Ogg Vorbis and Theora media formats in its experimental version 3.1. It is considered normal that a webbrower is able to display images by itself; however, for video or audio an external program or a plugin is required. The Wikimedia Foundation projects use Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis for their video and audio recordings. However, besides Wikimedia, these formats are very rarely used by websites for end users.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206

Request for help

[Illustration Project] - In November 2007 it was announced (wikizine 84) that a donation was received of US $ 20,000 for creating and improving illustrations. The "Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP)". It has taken some time to organize but now round 1 is open. Requests for illustrations can now be submitted. People who make a good illustration that is requested can get paid for it. US$ 40 or 15 US$ will be paid. Organizer is [[commons:User:Pfctdayelise]]

Proposals

[Flood flag] - A proposal has been made for a new sysop function called the "flood flag", that would allow users to hide batches of repetitive edits from recent changes, like a bot flag does.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flood_flag

Foundation

[Job offers] - Wikimedia is offering several technical jobs; at least a few of the new employees are to work in the San Francisco office, but remote development and system administration is also possible.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/39257

[WMF budget] - The financial plan for the next fiscal year of the WMF has been presented. The WMF plans to spend almost 6 million US dollars and have an income of 7,33 million US dollars. This is a big increase compared to the budget of 2007/2008. The hiring of several new staff members, especially for technical functions, has been budgeted. An extensive "FAQ" on the budget is available.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/01/wikimedia-foundation-2008-2009-annual-plan/

Community

[EN Wikinews] - has started to use the flagged revisions system on the wiki. The community is working to integrate this function into the publishing procedures.
[Move Main Page] - Traditionally, the main page of a Wikimedia project is in the content namespace. This is because the main page was the first page created of every wiki. And for most wikis, that was before namespaces existed. Some wikis have moved their main pages to another name space. For example, the German Wikipedia uses the "Wikipedia:" namespace and the Swedish Wikipedia uses the "Portal:" namespace. The English language Wikipedia is now also discussing a move.

http://tinyurl.com/6dvldz

Media

[Hebrew Wikipedia] - an Israeli newspaper published extensively about Wikipedia. Some fragments have been translated in English. It tells the Wikipedia story from the Hebrew Wikipedia point of view.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005293.html

Stats

[布拉沃] - The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles. Due to the Olympics, the Chinese wikipedia is mostly unblocked in China for now.

http://zh.wikipedia.org

Other news

[Wikimania 2008] - More videos of Wikimania 2008 have become available. An overview can be found on a special Wikizine posting and the Kaltura site. WikipediaWeekly also has some new Wikimania-related postings.

[Wikipedia.org] - The poll discussing which Wikipedias are to be listed on the central space of the portal Wikipedia.org is now closed. The result is a very simple criterion: a ranking by most visitors, without any further specifications or exceptions. These rankings are to be obtained from Alexa.com.
The portal has been updated according the new system. As a result of this the Dutch language Wikipedia has been replaced by the Chinese Wikipedia. According to Alexa, 1% of all traffic to wikipedia.org is to the Chinese Wikipedia.
Alexa gets those statistics by monitoring the internet usage of people who have installed the (English language) Alexa toolbar.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Wikipedias/poll

Did you know ...

... that the definition of a "community member" can differ strongly between wikis?

... that the Hebrew-language Wikipedia only gives users the right to vote if they have made at least 100 edits in the last 90 days?

... that the idea for using this system is to make it more difficult for users with sock puppets to control votes?

Quote

'It occurred to me that when the dust settled on the Wikipedia versus Britannica question, the likely conclusion would be 'Wikipedia is more up to date; Britannica has better illustrations.' —Philip Greenspun

Number of subscribers: 714 , Unique Visitors website last week: 76 , Editor(s): Walter , Corrector(s): Oliphaunt , Thanks to: Yonatan, adambro, pfctdayelise
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Exagero

2008-08-09T08:40:19+00:00

serei o único a achar que isto é um exagero ...

... eu sempre foi da ideia quando mais wikipedista melhor, mas nos ultimos tempo a minha ideia mudou, há ai muito pessoal que necessita urgentemente de uma wikiférias...

Special post: url's to the Wikimania 2008 streams

2008-07-28T19:11:58+00:00

The video recordings of Wikimania 2008 are online at the Biblotheca Alexandrina webcast section But these do not work if you are not using Windows it looks like.

To make it more esay to watch them Wikizine provides you with the direct links to the files. Try several players if needed. It seems to work mostly with VLC. But for some I needed Mplayer to get it working.

The "Kalura" videos are copys of the Biblotheca Alexandrina webcast streams. So there are not better but the are maybe more easy te view.

Overview of all Kaltura videos can be found at the Kalutra website at the Wikimania2008 section.

Opening Ceremony
Ahmed Darwish, Florence Devouard, Hoda Baraka, Ismail Serageldin
Thursday July 17, 2008

View by streaming

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-17-3.wmv

Download the video;

http://www.badongo.com/vid/816416 this is wiki-17-3.wmv
note: this video breaks down in the middle of the speech of Florence , sorry, it is the best I can do

Kaltura;

Kaltura

Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel
Domas Mituzas, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Jimmy Wales, Kat Walsh, Michael Snow
Thursday July 17, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-17-7.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

Content creation strategies for emerging countries
Jürgen Galler
Thursday July 17, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-17-4.wmv

Kultura;

Kaltura

Keeping the Media accountable
Rhonda Shearer
Thursday July 17, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-17-6.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

New Paradigms For New Tomorrows
Ismail Serageldin
Thursday July 17, 2008

Vieuw by streaming;

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-17-1.wmv

View by downloading;

http://www.badongo.com/vid/817019

Kaltura:

Kaltura

Recent Developments in Search Technology
Usama Fayyad
Friday July 18, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-18-2.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

Wikimedia and libraries
Jakob Voss, Phoebe Ayers, Sohair Wastawy, Tim Spalding
Friday July 18, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-18-5.wmv

kaltura;

Kaltura

Free Knowledge & Wikimedia Projects
Oliveir Hugot
Friday July 18, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-18-4.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

Open culture and the Internet in the Middle East
Ahmed Tantawy
Friday July 18, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-18-1.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

LibraryThing and Social Cataloging
Tim Spalding
Friday July 18, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-18-3.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

Diplopedia: Wiki Culture in the U.S. Department of State
Eric M. Johnson
Saturday July 19, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-19-1.wmv

Kaltura

Kaltura

Communication issues : Musings of a Dinosaur

Florence Devouard
Saturday July 19, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-19-2.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

Closing Ceremony
Florence Devouard, Ismail Serageldin, Jimmy Wales, Michael Snow, Noha Adly, Sue Gardner
Saturday July 19, 2008

mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-19-3.wmv

Kaltura;

Kaltura

Year: 2008 Week: 30 Number: 97

2008-07-24T21:59:15+00:00

Notice from the editor: this edition does not includes all relevant news for the time frame between the previous Wikizine and this one. I decided that getting something out is more important then more delays. Walter

Foundation

[New board chair] - The board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has a new chair. All board members where in favour to appoint Michael Snow for the job. Michael, who is a board member since February 2008, is best known as the founder of the Wikipedia Signpost. The former chair, Anthere (Florence Devouard), was Chair since October 2006 and board member since 2004. She is now not longer a WMF board member. Anthere has joined the WMF Advisory board.

[Board election] - [[meta:user:Wing]] (Ting Chen) is elected as a community board member to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. His term will expire in July 2009. 3019 valid votes where registered.

[New hires] - The WMF has hired 5 new staff members; Erik Zachte (Tech stats guy), Sara Crouse (Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations), Rebecca Handler (Major Gifts Officer), Rand Montoya (Head of Community Giving), and Frank Schulenburg (public outreach coordinator). Erik Zachte starts in September as a part-time contractor. Erik is a Wikipedian from the Dutch language Wikipedia but is mostly know for his volunteer work in creating detailed statistics for the Wikimedia projects. As a contractor for the WMF Erik will also work on this.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31508 -- Erik Zachte
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31661 -- Sara Crouse
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31367 -- Rebecca Handler / Rand Montoya
http://stats.wikimedia.org/ -- the stats of the WMF by Erik Zachte
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_staff -- overview staff

Technical news

[SUL] - Bureaucrats can now rename a user to a name that is already migrated to the Single User Login. This at least when if the global account and the local account have the same email address or password.
[Video on wiki] - Kaltura, Inc is sponsoring Michael Dale, lead developer of the MetaVid project, to work in the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco beginning in August. Michael will work on adding support for video editing operations and other video-related functionality to MediaWiki.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31756

[ERATA] - the item "Restrict upload", section "Proposals", in Wikizine 96 was not correct. Restricting uploads to auto confirmed users only is not a proposal but is live on all wikis ... except those wikis who have requested to disable this function explicitly.

Request for help

[Wikizine] - assistance would be useful (understatement)

http://report.wikizine.org

Proposals

[Front door] - Just like most people have a very hard time to understand that a domain of a website can end with something else then .com have visitors the urge to put "www" before everything. The means the url "www.wikipedia.org" is an important page and the front door for many visitors of Wikipedia. 10 Wikipedias have currently the honour to be listed very prominently around the wikipedia-globe, the Wikipedias who have the most articles. When a Wikipedia breaks the 100,000 articles milestone the also like to move up and get a spot around the globe. But space is limited. This a long standing source of discussion.

A poll is currently opened to find a solution. Users can indicate there support for different ways to present the Wikipedia-options to the visitors. The poll is open until July 31, 2008 at 23:59 UTC.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Wikipedias/poll

Community

[Wikimania 2008] - For this year is it over. WikipediaWeekly provides audio reporting about Wikimania.The 2009 Wikimania conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

http://wikipediaweekly.org/ -- podcasts 52 / 57
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2008_Alexandria -- some
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery pictures from Wikimania 2008
http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Sessions -- If you are very lucky you can find some video recordings there
http://tinyurl.com/6l4gwr -- Bibliotheca Alexandrina Webcast
http://linuxawy.org/node/28 -- how to get those streams working
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/07/wikimania-alexandria.html -- Impression by GerardM, who was there
http://tinyurl.com/6fu5hy -- and also one from User:Pfctdayelise

[Most read] - The English Wikinews has a new page that displays the top 20 of the most read articles of the last hour. This is not done by MediaWiki but by means of the Domas's wikistats.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Popular_articles

[The Other Side] - Once was it a mystery and cause to speculation how the dark side of the Moon would look like. Now the question is raised; how does the other side of the Wikipedia globe looks like?

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31763

Other news

[Knol] - Google has gone live with their project to create user written information articles. It is not like Wikipedia in the sense that an article is owned by an author, at least as default. When you start a new "knol" you can also allow everyone to edit if logged in. That author can write about what he wishes to write, even when there is already an article about that topic. Other people can give a rating (stars) and give comments. Authors received a part of the earnings of the advertisements displayed on there articles if the switch the advertisements on. The default license is "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0". It is currently not clear of the GFDL-licence that Wikipedia is using is compatible. But you can also pick a licence that does not allow commercial use or you can disallow all use elsewhere. So knol be very open or very restrictive depending on what you chose as author of a knol.

http://knol.google.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PYO-fN_VgU -- Jimmy Wales gives his idea about Knol & Wikipedia

[China] - The Chinese language Wikipedia is now, months after the unblocking of the other languages editions, also unblocked. At least in some parts of China. It is expected the will be blocked again as soon as the Olympic fire is extinguished.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Chinese_Wikipedia_unblocked_by_government

Quote

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla

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Ensaio sobre a Cegueira

2008-07-24T09:38:25+00:00

Procura-se na wiki.pt (ainda e sempre) a mulher do médico, a única pessoa que vê perfeitamente apesar de em redor tudo estar cego.

Caso esta não se apresente prosseguiremos a ordem de trabalhos para o Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, onde nos encarregaremos de a assassinar.

Credibilidade

2008-07-21T16:06:12+00:00

por causa do Wikimania, a Globo fez um artigo...

... todos os dias é posto em causa a credibilidade da wikipedia, todos nós (wikipedista) reconhecemos que existem muitos erros e estamos constantemente a corrigir.

Será que somos os únicos a errar...pior é não reconhecer, achar-se que são perfeitos... nós ainda temos uma desculpa, não somos profissionais e pelo menos não traduzimos o nome do fundador.

... quem será Jimmy Gales?

hehehe