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Rei-artur: Jimmy Wales é premiado pela Fundação Nokia

Qui, 05 Nov 2009 19:37:30 +0000

A Fundação Nokia concedeu nesta terça-feira seu prêmio anual ao criador da Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, “por suas contribuições para a evolução da Worl Wide Web como uma plataforma participativa e verdadeiramente democrática”, de acordo com comunicado da fundação.

Para a Fundação, Wales é “um indivíduo que tem contribuido de forma singular para acelerar a colaboração online e a interação de milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo, assim como para democratizar a troca de informações”.

Desde sua criação, em 2001, a Wikipedia evoluiu graças a colaborações espontâneas dos internautas, até converter-se em um dos sites mais consultados na internet, com uma média de 330 milhões de visitas ao mês.

fonte: Terra

Rei-artur: Habemus Papam

Qua, 04 Nov 2009 21:27:04 +0000

Foi hoje divulgado a acta da 1º assembleia geral da Wikimédia Portugal.

A associação recentemente criada e está a dar os seus primeiros passos, o início é sempre o mais complicado e o mais chato, tratar de burocracias legais.

Boa sorte a toda a direcção.

Wikiesfera: Wave Teste

noreply@blogger.com (helix) — S�b, 24 Out 2009 19:15:14 +0000

Abaixo uma Wave Teste. Julgo que só pode ser vista se tiverem uma conta Google Wave activada.

Wikizine: Year: 2009 Week: 41-42 Number: 120

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Zariv (Az1568)) — S�b, 24 Out 2009 01:10:12 +0000

Technical news

[Wikimedia data sets] - Wikimedia XML data sets have been released on Amazon Public Data Sets. This should help Wikimedians who do analysis on project data.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/wikimedia-xml-data-sets-released-on-amazon-public-data-sets/

[Media Features Gadget] - there is a "New Media Features" gadget on Commons. When it is enabled, you can test out the new media developments from the Kaltura sponsorship.

[Click Tracking Deployed] - click tracking has been deployed for the edit toolbar. This collects information about which buttons are clicked on the toolbar during editing for the Usability Initiative.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/click-tracking-on-edit-toolbar-deployed/

[Babaco: Now ready] - preview of the second set of usability features, Babaco, is now available through user preferences. Be sure to try out the new tools.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/babaco-is-ready-for-tasting/

[Book creator updated] - the new version of the Book creator interface has been deployed within the Wikimedia projects. The extension is now a lot more intuitive and useful.

http://blog.pediapress.com/2009/10/create-books-easily-new-version-of-book.html

[WP Mobile Update] - Hampton Catlin, the Wikipedia Mobile developer, posted a blog entry detailing the updates done to the Mobile interface this month.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/october-mobile-update/

[en.wp: FlaggedRevs update] - two people, William Pietri and Howie Fung, have been signed on as contractors to help with the deployment of Flagged Revisions on the English Wikipedia.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-October/104938.html

Request for help

[Perspectives from other projects] - the Wikipedia Signpost is calling for editors active in one or more non-English Wikipedias to write accounts comparing governance, process and policy, and editing culture across languages. The key questions are: how is it different working on another Wikipedia?; and what could English Wikipedia learn from that project—and vice versa?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-12/From_the_editor

Foundation

[Bookshelf Project: Manager Announced] - Frank Schulenburg (Head of Public Outreach) announced that Wikimedia's Bookshelf Project will be led by Marlita Kahn. The Bookshelf project aims to develop a slate of basic educational materials -- print, online and video -- to attract new authors and editors to Wikipedia.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-October/055518.html

[Office hours] - the log of the Office Hours with Mike Godwin, the Foundation's General Counsel, has been published.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-October/055517.html
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2009-10-09

[Job openings] - two job openings are now open: Chief Development Officer (a fundraising-related position) and Code Maintenance Engineer (a technical position).

[Wikimedia Report Card] - Erik Zachte has published the first Wikimedia "report card" that aims to help everyone get a quick overview of trends in the Wikimedia projects.

[Multimedia Usability: Product Manager] - Guillaume Paumier ("guillom") has been announced as the Project Manager for the Ford Multimedia Project.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-October/055659.html

[Report to the Board August 2009] - Sue Gardner, the Executive Director, has published her Report to the Board for October 2009.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-October/055639.html

[OpenMoko Launches WikiReader] - OpenMoko, a company that previously created an open source smartphone, has just launched The WikiReader, a dedicated reader device with an offline copy of the entire English Wikipedia (without images) stored on a small chip.

Community

[Nobel Prize] - when announcing the recipients of its Nobel Prize, the Nobel Prize committee used free photos from Wikimedia Commons to depict two of the prize winners.

http://bit.ly/2BWN4Q

[German ArbCom dissolves] - the German Wikipedia has dissolved its Arbitration Committee. On projects that have them, the Arbitration Committee (or "ArbCom") is the final step in on-site dispute resolution.

http://bit.ly/3hg64n

[Wikinews: new Main Page and skin] - in addition to selecting "Vector" (the Usability skin) as its default skin, Wikinews has also created a new Main Page design. There are even "copy us" and "social networking" links on the page, like other news sources.

[Academy: Telugu wiki] - on October 6, the first Telugu Wikimedia Academy was held in Chirala, India.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2009-October/000209.html

[Wiktionary lookup gadget] - A new gadget is being developed on English Wikinews and slowly being spread to other wikis. The gadget looks up the wiktionary definition for the language of the wiki you are reading, but what it returns is the definition in your user-preferences language.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WN:WiktLookup

[Bing search] - Bing.com, the Microsoft search engine, is offering "Bing Reference", a way to search "enhanced Wikipedia articles". The Wikipedia Signpost has a detailed story on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-12/Bing_search

[WikiTrust demo now live] - demos of WikiTrust are now up on some Wikipedias. WikiTrust is a Firefox add-on that changes the color of the text based on how reliable or unreliable it seems to be.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikiquality-l/2009-October/000560.html

Media

[Encyclopedias + China] - CNN published a very good article about the situation in China with regards to Wikipedia and other encyclopedia sites.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/14/wiki.china/

[Meet Jimmy Wales] - the newspaper of Yale, a prestigious university in the United States, recently interviewed Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia).

http://www.yaledailynews.com/scene/interview/2009/10/09/meet-jimmy-wales-founder-wikipedia/

[Real fight becomes Wikipedia War] - a rivalry fight on a college campus turned into a big edit war on the English Wikipedia.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2009/10/10/war-over-bladderball-extends-wikipedia/

[Wikipedia + Olympics Committee?] - Wikipedia seems to be at the center of a recent copyright battle between a photographer and the International Olympics Committee.

http://ragesoss.com/blog/2009/10/09/wikipedia-and-olympics-committee-heading-for-collision/

Did you know...
...about the proposal for global sysops on Meta-wiki?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysop

Quote

"I really have no idea what most of those languages are, but I'm also super happy to support them." - Hampton Catlin, Mobile Wikipedia developer, after reporting the localization status of the Mobile Wikipedia site.

Editor(s): Casey, Alex Corrector(s): None Thanks to: Frank, Cary, Daniel, Philippe, Rodrigo, Liam, Infodisiac, Signpost, Tomasz, Sage, Michael Dale, Nimish, Bawolff, ShakataGaNai, ErikZ, Naoko, Arjun, Brianmc, Sage, Phoebe, Hampton, Sue, Jay, Luca, Erik, Greg Contact: reply or http://report.wikizine.org Website: http://www.wikizine.org

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Wikiesfera: Google Waves

noreply@blogger.com (helix) — S�b, 24 Out 2009 01:06:37 +0000

Já ando a testar o Google Waves. Já li qualquer coisa sobre integração de ondas e projectos Wikimedia, mas não me recordo onde. Promete ser uma ferramenta interessante de colaboração, mesmo no universo Wikimedia.

Ele são gadgets, extensões, bots. Falando em bots, existe já um ligado às coisas da wikipédia. O wikifier-wave-bot:

A simple Google Wave robot that replaces specific text with a link to Wikipedia or the Wikipedia definition contained in the article

E isto é só mesmo o começo. Promete muito mais.

Entretanto, enquanto escrevia isto, lá cheguei a alguns links de interesse:

Extensão Google Wave
Uma extensão que permite colocar Waves embebidas no MediaWiki

Extensão MediaWiki-Wave
This extension provides a WYSIWYG interface where multiple people can edit the same MediaWiki article using Google Wave technology

Uma proposta na wiki da planeamento estratégico da Wikimedia

Para já é tudo.

User:Nuno Tavares: Actualização das páginas órfãs

Dom, 18 Out 2009 03:45:13 +0000

A pedido do Lijealso, aqui vai uma actualização das estatísticas incompletas da Wikipédia lusófona para o caso das páginas órfãs.

Constatou-se que o dump utilizado anteriormente era insuficiente, pelo que se descarregou a tabela pagelinks, desta vez do dump de 20091015. Para se excluir os redireccionamentos, importou-se também a tabela redirect.

Fartei-me entretanto de alternar entre o que estava a fazer e a lista de códigos de domínios, pelo que criei uma pequena tabela auxiliar:

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MySQL:

mysql> CREATE TABLE _namespaces ( id TINYINT NOT NULL, namespace VARCHAR(50), PRIMARY KEY (id) );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO _namespaces VALUES (-2,'Media'),(-1,'Especial'),(0,''),(1,'Discussão'),(2,'Usuário'),(3,'Usuário Discussão'),(4,'Wikipedia'),(5,'Wikipedia Discussão'),(6,'Ficheiro'),(7,'Ficheiro Discussão'),(8,'MediaWiki'),(9,'MediaWiki Discussão'),(10,'Predefinição'),(11,'Predefinição Discussão'),(12,'Ajuda'),(13,'Ajuda Discussão'),(14,'Categoria'),(15,'Categoria Discussão'),(100,'Portal'),(101,'Portal Discussão'),(102,'Anexo'),(103,'Anexo Discussão');
Query OK, 22 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Records: 22 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0

O resultado deu-me um incrível total de 769854 páginas órfãs, pelo que decidi separá-las por namespace para permitir prioritizar a análise:

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MySQL:

mysql> SELECT p.page_namespace,count(1) FROM page p
-> LEFT JOIN redirect r
-> ON p.page_id = r.rd_from
->
-> LEFT JOIN pagelinks pl
-> on pl.pl_namespace = p.page_namespace
-> and pl.pl_title = p.page_title
->
-> WHERE r.rd_from IS NULL
-> AND pl.pl_from IS NULL
->
-> GROUP BY p.page_namespace;
+----------------+----------+
| page_namespace | count(1) |
+----------------+----------+
| 0 | 12958 |
| 1 | 103645 |
| 2 | 16592 |
| 3 | 568675 |
| 4 | 1954 |
| 5 | 856 |
| 8 | 773 |
| 9 | 17 |
| 10 | 7522 |
| 11 | 1014 |
| 12 | 3 |
| 13 | 27 |
| 14 | 51735 |
| 15 | 1315 |
| 100 | 1190 |
| 101 | 117 |
| 102 | 173 |
| 103 | 1288 |
+----------------+----------+
18 rows in SET (20.90 sec)

O resultado do cruzamento das duas tabelas foi afixado aqui, com uma listagem de 15M para os 12958 artigos no domínio principal. Na verdade, esta listagem foi feita para colar numa página wiki, no entanto tenham em atenção que são 15M, pelo que não recomendo fazê-lo. Têm outras listas (como a mais simples, em formato pageid,namespace,title) nessa directoria.

Rei-artur: Deveres mais deveres e ainda mais deveres

S�b, 17 Out 2009 10:56:51 +0000

Recentemente foi criada mais uma regra sem qualquer sentido, todos os administradores como menos de 50 edições administrativas nos últimos 180 dias perdem o cargo.

A lista do que perderam o cargo:

Eu fui um dos abrangidos, para ser honesto, eu claro que não gostei, como se costuma dizer,”Quem não se sente não é filho de boa gente”.

Mas neste processo houve especialmente duas desnomeações que eu considero ridículas, a do Waldir e da Belanidia. Retiram à Belanidia quando esta ainda era burocrata e o caso do Waldir é o “agradecimento” que a comunidade lhe deu pelo enorme trabalho que ele tem tido e ainda tem na criação da Wikimedia Portugal. Se ele não tivesse a trabalhar na criação da associação talvez tivesse tempo para fazer as edições.

Nos últimos tempo a Wikipédia está a sofre uma onda de deveres e burocracias desmedidas, actualmente tanto a nível de editor ou de administrador é quase necessário ler uma “biblia” de regras e obrigações. Nunca podemos esquecer que somos voluntários e como tal só podemos participar neste projectos nos nossos tempos livre.

E como disse o Daniel:

Precisa-se de Administrador. Requisições: Estatura moral e ética acima de qualquer profissão do planeta. Agora sem direito a férias. Salário: hein?

Pois é com tantos deveremos também devíamos de ter algum direito como o salário…

A Wikipédia está se a transformar num projecto para putos de 15 anos que não fazem nada na vida ou para pessoas que tem empregos onde pode editar. Se não querem as minhas vinte e tal edições administrativas (é o que o tempo me permite) o problema não é meu, mas sim da Wikipédia, eu tenho mais que fazer, prefiro gastar o meu pouco tempo livre em coisas que me dão prazer, a Wikipédia já não me dá…

Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt: Nada muda...

noreply@blogger.com (Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt) — Sex, 16 Out 2009 09:19:25 +0000

Faça uma Wikimedia mais feliz! Participe globalmente de seus projetos!

Estava pensando em escrever muita coisa, porém ao clicar em uma página aleatória do Wikiquote achei uma bela citação que acho ser suficiente pra retornar para a comunidade Wikimediana.

Quote:

"Acho que a primeira prova da grandeza de um homen é a sua humildade."

John Ruskin

Rei-artur: WikiReader: Wikipedia no bolso

Ter, 13 Out 2009 19:52:01 +0000

Um novo dispositivo que começa a ser vendido nesta terça-feira promete levar 3,1 milhões de artigos da Wikipedia no bolso de quem o comprar.

É o WikiReader, que, por enquanto, só traz informações da enciclopédia online em inglês.

O WikiReader funciona com duas pilhas AAA e tem a tela sensível ao toque e apenas três botões na sua parte frontal: um para buscar informações, outro que acessa o histórico de artigos vistos e um randômico, que traz páginas ao acaso.

Fonte: Terra

Rei-artur: Os mais influentes

Seg, 12 Out 2009 18:52:18 +0000

É a segunda vez que Steven Jobs assume o primeiro lugar do ranking dos mais influentes no sector da tecnologia mundial, o que aconteceu também em 2003.

Steve Jobs, director-executivo da Apple, é a pessoa mais influente da indústria tecnológica de acordo com a selecção da Agenda Setter 2009, divulgada pelo site Silicon.com.

Top Ten

Steve Jobs – Apple CEO
Evan Williams – Twitter CEO and co-founder
Jimmy Wales – Wiki Media founder and co-founder of Wikipedia
Eric Schmidt – Google CEO
Rupert Murdoch – News Corp CEO
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook founder
Barack Obama – US President
Tim Berners-Lee – Father of the world wide web
Nandan Nilekani – Head of the Unique Identification Authority of India and co-founder of Infosys
Larry Ellison – Oracle CEO

fonte: pplware

Wikizine: Year: 2009 Week: 41 Number: 119

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Zariv (Az1568)) — S�b, 10 Out 2009 23:39:08 +0000

Technical news

[Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet] - Brion Vibber, the Chief Technical Officer, announced that he's leaving the Wikimedia Foundation after four years.

[Labs: FlaggedRevs] - due to some miscommunications, a lot of people didn't realize that the FlaggedRevs labs test wiki has been active and waiting for people to poke at it for a month. The developers need interested people to be set up as local administrators to try out the per-page stabilization settings (accessed via the "protect" tab); by default most pages do not activate FlaggedRevs in the configuration we're testing for English Wikipedia.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/flaggedrevs-test-wiki-awaits-you/

[Labs: LiquidThreads] - another Wikimedia Labs wiki has been created, this time for Liquid Threads. Liquid Threads aims to clean up the way we communicate about articles, turning talk pages into cleaner/threaded discussion pages.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/mediawikis-new-discussion-system-in-testing-on-wikimedia-labs/

[Supporting translatewiki.net] - the Wikimedia Foundation has hired Siebrand Mazeland as a contractor. He will get paid one day a week to work on translatewiki.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/supporting-translatewiki-net/

Foundation

[WMFI and WMMK] - Wikimedia Suomi (Finland) and Wikimedia Macedonia were recently approved.

[Report to the Board] - Sue Gardner has posted her Report to the Board for the month of July 2009.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/055326.html

[Fundraising page demos] - Rand Montoya, the Head of Community Giving, has posted some demos of the new Fundraising pages. Your feedback would be appreciated.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2009/Website_Design

[WMF IRC Office hours] - Following the Wikimedia Foundation Office hours with Sue Gardner, one with Rand Montoya was held on Thursday. The log is available on Meta.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2009-09-25

Agenda

[NO: Academy] - Wikimedia Norway is planning a Wikipedia Academy for October 14-15, 2009.

Community

[DE: New Wikimedium] - Wikimedia Deutschland has published its third newspaper. This German newspaper is intended for sponsors, partners, friends and fans of Wikimedia. It's very visually appealing and even includes content about Wikimedia "around the world".

http://blog.wikimedia.de/2009/09/30/neue-ausgabe-der-vereinszeitung-wikimedium/ (de)

[Bug: Google News and Wikinews] - the recent MediaWiki updates caused yet another problem: now Wikinews isn't being indexed by Google News anymore!

[Translatewiki.net as a WMF project?] - Siebrand asked what Translatewiki (the website where the MediaWiki interface is translated) and the Wikimedia Foundation would gain by translatewiki being made an official Wikimedia project. Gerard offered a few of his own thoughts.

[Wikipedia Journal] - Liam Wyatt made a proposal about a peer-reviewed journal for academics to write Wikipedia articles. It might be interesting to read the proposal and discussions about it.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/844

[en.wn "Report"] - an English Wikinews user posted a mini-report about what happened in September 2009 on the project.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2009-October/001671.html

Media

[BD: Chapter planning] - there has been more coverage on the planned Wikimedia chapter in Bangladesh.

http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=144160

Stats

[sr.wn] - the Serbian Wikinews became the largest Wikinews version (by number of articles), ousting the English Wikinews from that spot. This is the second time that a Wikimedia project has surpassed the English version, the first time being the French Wiktionary.

http://wikinews.org/
http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/Vikivesti_na_srpskom_prve_po_broju_%C4%8Dlanaka -- (sr) Wikinews article on its own milestone

[fr.wikt] - the French Wiktionary has reached 1,500,000 entries.

http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9coredevance -- 1.5 millionth article

[ru.ws] - The Russian Wikisource has reached 50,000 texts.

[hy.wp] - The Armenian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

Other news

[Google Search] - Google Search results now actually link directly to the section that you're looking for.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/jump-to-information-you-want-right-from.html

[WikipediaVision] - A student from Helsinki has created "WikipediaVision", a live visualization of anonymous edits to Wikipedia by location. The site combines Wikipedia's Recent Changes feed with Google Maps. Although this seems to have been around for a while, the link has resurfaced after it was exhibited live at MFK in Bern (from April until August).

http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html

[Why do they edit?] - Ziko offers some suggestions on the different reasons people choose to edit (and what/where they choose to edit).

http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/why-do-they-edit-ego-subject-wiki-and-language/

Did you know ...

...that you can even upload home movies to Wikipedia? Wikipedia's video support is improving, Wikimedians have even been uploading videos of their children illustrating certain Wikipedia topics.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-September/104617.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_reflex

Quote
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." -- Mohandas Gandhi

Editor(s): Alex, Casey Corrector(s): Thanks to: Sue, Liam, Kat, jeblad, Rand, Judson, Belayet, Shizhao, bawolff, David, Brion, Otourly, Cary, Sage, Gerard, Signpost, @WikimediaDE, Andrew, Ziko, Erik, Philippe, Filip, Milos, Belayet, Jon, Platonides Contact: reply or http://report.wikizine.org Website: http://www.wikizine.org

Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of accuracy, validity and especially but not limited to, correct grammar and spelling. Satisfaction is not guaranteed.Wikizine.org is published by [[meta:user:Walter]].

User:Nuno Tavares: Revisita aos dumps da Wikipédia

Ter, 06 Out 2009 00:44:59 +0000

Desta vez em português, decidi dar [alguma] continuidade ao que comecei há uns dias com a importação dos dumps da Wikipédia. Graças à dica do Rei-artur foi fácil extrair a lista de robôs, para excluir das estatísticas.

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[myself@speedy ~]# wget 'http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allusers&aufrom=A&augroup=bot&aulimit=500&format=txt' -q -O - > bots.tmp
[myself@speedy ~]# cat bots.tmp | grep '\[name\]' | sed 's,^.*\[name\] => ,,' > /tmp/bots.txt

Aproveitei e repesquei os user_id para simplificar as pesquisas sem fazer alterações na tabela user.

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MySQL:

mysql> CREATE TABLE user_bots ( bot_name VARCHAR(25) );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/bots.txt' INTO table user_bots;
Query OK, 136 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Records: 136 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> ALTER TABLE user_bots add COLUMN bot_user_id INT;
Query OK, 136 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 136 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> ALTER TABLE user add index idx_t ( user_name );
Query OK, 119134 rows affected (2.63 sec)
Records: 119134 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> UPDATE user_bots ub JOIN user u on user_name = bot_name SET ub.bot_user_id = u.user_id;
Query OK, 134 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 134 Changed: 134 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> ALTER TABLE user_bots add PRIMARY KEY (bot_user_id);
Query OK, 136 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
Records: 136 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 1
mysql> SHOW WARNINGS;
+---------+------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Level | Code | Message |
+---------+------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Warning | 1265 | Data truncated for COLUMN 'bot_user_id' at row 71 |
+---------+------+---------------------------------------------------+
1 row in SET (0.00 sec)
mysql> UPDATE user_bots SET bot_user_id = -1 WHERE bot_user_id = 0;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 WARNINGS: 0

Não tinha reparado que havia um utilizador/robô com o nome "MediaWiki default" mas, bem, depois de criar a Primary Key ficou com o bot_user_id=0 e, para evitar que coincidisse com o agregado para anonymous, dei-lhe o bot_user_id=-1.

Então agora já estamos prontos a completar a query onde ficámos no último dia (número de edições em artigos distintos em cada namespace por utilizador):

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MySQL:

mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT epn.user_name,epn.page_namespace,epn.edits
-> FROM edits_per_namespace epn
-> LEFT JOIN user_bots ub ON epn.user_id = ub.bot_user_id
-> WHERE ub.bot_user_id IS NULL
-> AND epn.user_id <> 0
-> ORDER BY edits desc limit 20;
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+----------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+----------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | epn | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 187624 | USING WHERE; USING filesort |
| 1 | SIMPLE | ub | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | ntavares.epn.user_id | 1 | USING WHERE; USING index; NOT EXISTS |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+----------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
2 rows in SET (0.00 sec)
mysql> SELECT epn.user_name,epn.page_namespace,epn.edits
-> FROM edits_per_namespace epn
-> LEFT JOIN user_bots ub ON epn.user_id = ub.bot_user_id
-> WHERE ub.bot_user_id IS NULL
-> AND epn.user_id <> 0
-> ORDER BY edits desc limit 10;
+----------------+----------------+-------+
| user_name | page_namespace | edits |
+----------------+----------------+-------+
| EMP,Nice poa | 0 | 58138 |
| Dantadd | 0 | 44767 |
| João Carvalho | 3 | 44533 |
| OS2Warp | 0 | 43396 |
| Yanguas,Sonlui | 0 | 37020 |
| Lijealso | 0 | 34157 |
| Rei-artur | 0 | 33863 |
| Tumnus | 3 | 33213 |
| Nuno Tavares | 0 | 31910 |
| Bisbis | 0 | 29886 |
+----------------+----------------+-------+
10 rows in SET (0.76 sec)

Os resultados completos estão aqui.

Já agora, para finalizar, a tão afamada lista de wikipedistas por número de edições:

PLAIN TEXT

MySQL:

mysql> CREATE TABLE edits_per_user SELECT rev_user,count(1) as counter FROM revision GROUP BY rev_user;
Query OK, 119134 rows affected (12.61 sec)
Records: 119134 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> SELECT u.user_name,epu.counter
-> FROM edits_per_user epu
-> LEFT JOIN user_bots ub on ub.bot_user_id = epu.rev_user
-> JOIN user u on epu.rev_user = u.user_id
-> WHERE ub.bot_user_id IS NULL ORDER BY counter desc limit 10;
+----------------+---------+
| user_name | counter |
+----------------+---------+
| anonymous | 3119758 |
| EMP,Nice poa | 176338 |
| OS2Warp | 163751 |
| Dantadd | 105657 |
| Lijealso | 90025 |
| Yanguas,Sonlui | 89152 |
| Rei-artur | 83662 |
| Mschlindwein | 75680 |
| Bisbis | 75361 |
| Nuno Tavares | 73141 |
+----------------+---------+
10 rows in SET (0.05 sec)

Os resultados completos estão aqui.

User:Nuno Tavares: Revisita aos dados estruturados

S�b, 03 Out 2009 14:36:47 +0000

Há alguns dias num mergulho profundo sobre a utilização de wikis em campos específicos deparei-me com uma "foto" da Wikipédia muito interessante, aqui, que ilustra, entre outras coisas, a actividade na Wikipédia, a vários níveis: Visualizing Science & Tech Activity in Wikipedia:

Fonte: A Beatiful WWW

O website, A Beatiful WWW, dedica-se à extracção e representação dos volumes de informação distintos que conhecemos hoje. Eu já tinha falado nisto e descobri, entretanto, que o Google disponibiliza uma API de representação de dados estruturados.

Consigo pensar numa série de brincadeiras para isto Imaginem, por exemplo, juntar isto tudo, logo agora que a Wikimedia vai estar empenhada em manter os conteúdos disponíveis no Amazon Public Data Sets!..

Olhem aqui um exemplo do que pode ser feito, desta vez com Hadoop e Hive: Hot Wikipedia Topics, Served Fresh Daily.

User:Nuno Tavares: Importing wikimedia dumps

Seg, 28 Set 2009 01:48:26 +0000

We are trying to gather some particular statistics about portuguese wikipedia usage.
I proposed myself for import the ptwiki-20090926-stub-meta-history dump, which is a XML file, and we'll be running very heavy queries (it's my task to optimize them, somehow).

What I'd like to mention is that the importing mechanism seems to be tremendously simplified. I remember testing a couple of tools in the past, without much success (or robustness). However, I gave a try to mwdumper this time, and it seems it does it. Note however that there were schema changes from the last mwdumper release, so you should have a look at WMF Bug #18328: mwdumper java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid contributor which releases a proposed fix which seems to work well. Special note to its memory efficiency: RAM is barely touched!

The xml.gz file is ~550MB, and was converted to a ~499MB sql.gz:

1,992,543 pages (3,458.297/sec), 15,713,915 revs (27,273.384/sec)

I've copied the schema from a running (updated!) mediawiki to spare some time. The tables seem to be InnoDB default, so let's simplify I/O a bit (I'm on my laptop). This will also allow to speed up loading times a lot:

PLAIN TEXT

MySQL:

mysql> ALTER TABLE `TEXT` ENGINE=Blackhole;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> ALTER TABLE page DROP INDEX page_random, DROP INDEX page_len;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> ALTER TABLE revision DROP INDEX rev_timestamp, DROP INDEX page_timestamp, DROP INDEX user_timestamp, DROP INDEX usertext_timestamp;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0

The important here is to avoid the larger I/O if you don't need it at all. Table text has page/revision content which I'm not interested at all. As regarding MySQL's configuration (and as a personal note, anyway), the following configuration will give you great InnoDB speeds:

PLAIN TEXT

CODE:

key_buffer = 512K
sort_buffer_size = 16K
read_buffer_size = 2M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 1M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 512K
query_cache_size = 0
query_cache_type = 0
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 2M
innodb_file_per_table
transaction-isolation = READ-COMMITTED
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 2700M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 20M
innodb_autoinc_lock_mode = 2
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0
innodb_doublewrite = 0
skip-innodb-checksum
innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog=1
innodb_log_file_size=128M
innodb_log_buffer_size=8388608
innodb_support_xa=0
innodb_autoextend_increment=16

Now I'd recommend uncompress the dump so it's easier to trace the whole process if it's taking too long:

PLAIN TEXT

CODE:

[myself@speedy ~]$ gunzip ptwiki-20090926-stub-meta-history.sql.gz
[myself@speedy ~]$ cat ptwiki-20090926-stub-meta-history.sql | mysql wmfdumps

After some minutes on a Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.0GHz and 2.4 GB of datafiles we are ready to rock! I will probably also need later the user table, which Wikimedia doesn't distribute, so I'll rebuild it now:

PLAIN TEXT

MySQL:

mysql> ALTER TABLE user modify COLUMN user_id INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.12 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> ALTER TABLE user DROP INDEX user_email_token, DROP INDEX user_name;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> INSERT INTO user(user_id,user_name) SELECT DISTINCT rev_user,rev_user_text FROM revision WHERE rev_user <> 0;
Query OK, 119140 rows affected, 4 WARNINGS (2 min 4.45 sec)
Records: 119140 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> ALTER TABLE user DROP PRIMARY KEY;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> INSERT INTO user(user_id,user_name) VALUES(0,'anonymous');
Query OK, 1 row affected, 4 WARNINGS (0.00 sec)

It's preferable to join on INT's rather than VARCHAR(255) that's why I reconstructed the user table. I actually removed the PRIMARY KEY but I set it after the process. What happens is that there are users that have been renamed and thus they appear with same id, different user_name. The query to list them all is this:

PLAIN TEXT

MySQL:

mysql> SELECT a.user_id,a.user_name FROM user a JOIN (SELECT user_id,count(1) as counter FROM user GROUP BY user_id HAVING counter > 1 ORDER BY counter desc) as b on a.user_id = b.user_id ORDER BY user_id DESC;
....
14 rows in SET (0.34 sec)
mysql> UPDATE user a JOIN (SELECT user_id,GROUP_CONCAT(user_name) as user_name,count(1) as counter FROM user GROUP BY user_id HAVING counter > 1) as b SET a.user_name = b.user_name WHERE a.user_id = b.user_id;
Query OK, 14 rows affected (2.49 sec)
Rows matched: 14 Changed: 14 WARNINGS: 0

The duplicates were removed manually (they're just 7). Now, let's start to go deeper. I'm not concerned about optimizing for now. What I wanted to run right away was the query I asked on Toolserver more than a month ago:

PLAIN TEXT

MySQL:

mysql> CREATE TABLE `teste` (
-> `rev_user` INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
-> `page_namespace` INT(11) NOT NULL,
-> `rev_page` INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
-> `edits` INT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
-> PRIMARY KEY (`rev_user`,`page_namespace`,`rev_page`)
-> ) ENGINE=INNODB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 ;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO teste SELECT r.rev_user, p.page_namespace, r.rev_page, count(1) AS edits FROM revision r JOIN page p ON r.rev_page = p.page_id GROUP BY r.rev_user,p.page_namespace,r.rev_page;
Query OK, 7444039 rows affected (8 min 28.98 sec)
Records: 7444039 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> CREATE TABLE edits_per_namespace SELECT STRAIGHT_JOIN u.user_id,u.user_name, page_namespace,count(1) as edits FROM teste JOIN user u on u.user_id = rev_user GROUP BY rev_user,page_namespace;
Query OK, 187624 rows affected (3.65 sec)
Records: 187624 Duplicates: 0 WARNINGS: 0
mysql> SELECT * FROM edits_per_namespace ORDER BY edits desc limit 5;
+---------+---------------+----------------+--------+
| user_id | user_name | page_namespace | edits |
+---------+---------------+----------------+--------+
| 76240 | Rei-bot | 0 | 365800 |
| 0 | anonymous | 0 | 253238 |
| 76240 | Rei-bot | 3 | 219085 |
| 1740 | LeonardoRob0t | 0 | 145418 |
| 170627 | SieBot | 0 | 121647 |
+---------+---------------+----------------+--------+
5 rows in SET (0.09 sec)

Well, that's funny Rei-artur's bot beats all summed anonymous edits on the main namespace I still need to setup a way of discarding the bots, they usually don't count on stats. I'll probably set a flag on the user table myself, but this is enough to get us started..

Wikizine: Year: 2009 Week: 37 Number: 118

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Zariv (Az1568)) — Dom, 27 Set 2009 01:48:34 +0000

Technical news

[Image renaming re-enabled] - Image renaming has been re-enabled for administrators on all Wikimedia projects.

[LocalisationUpdate deployment delayed] - The deployment of LocalisationUpdate, an extension meant to keep the localized messages as up to date as possible, was delayed after it killed the entire site. You don't have to be a tech to interpret the blog post graph as "bad news".

[Feature deployment updates] - Brion mentioned that the system administrators are starting to maintain a list of feature & extension deployments that they're rolling out in the very near future (and their status) on the Wikitech wiki.

[MakeSysop Removed] - MakeSysop, the old extension for managing user rights, has been disabled on Wikimedia sites.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20291

[CTO Job Opening] - back in issue #115 we reported that the current Chief Technical Officer position would be splitting into two, with Brion's position being changed to something with more of a MediaWiki software focus. The job opening for the new CTO position has been posted on the Foundationwiki.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Chief_Technical_Officer -- job opening
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/cto-position-split/ -- reminder about the details of the split

Request for help

[Strategic Planning CFP] - the Strategic Planning Team has released a call for participation. The CFP was distributed through a CentralNotice with a link to a letter from Jimmy Wales and Michael Snow, but there is also a blog post giving more details on the process.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/22/help-shape-the-future-of-wikimedia/

Foundation

[Jennifer Riggs leaves] - Sue Gardner, the Executive Director, announced on Thursday that Jennifer Riggs would be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation. Jennifer was the Chief Program Officer and, although she has made good contributions so far, she and Sue decided she wasn't the right fit for the job.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/055215.html

[Wikimedia and OneWebDay] - September 22 was OneWebDay, a day that aims to highlight the critical importance of protecting the values and principles of an open, participatory web. In a blog post, Jay Walsh used the OneWebDay initiative to thank Wikimedia's huge volunteer force.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/22/wikimedia-and-onewebday/

[New volunteer position] - the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a local volunteer to help catalog customer service correspondence at the local office in San Francisco.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Customer_service_clerical_volunteer_(RPP)

Agenda

[Wikimedia Staff office hours] - after the success of the Strategic Planning "Office Hours", the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to hold its own as well. Sue Gardner, the Executive Director, will be online to answer questions in #wikimedia-office on freenode. The "office hours" will be between 15:30 and 16:30 PDT (UTC 22:30 to 23:30) on Friday, September 25, 2009.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/055246.html

[Wikis Take Manhattan] - the third Wikis Take Manhattan, a planned scavenger hunt and free content photography contest in New York City, will be held on Saturday, October 10, 2009.

Community

[Chapters reports] - Lodewijk Gelauff reminded the community about the chapters-reports mailing list and highlighted a few of the ones he thought were the most interesting.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/055242.html

[European Heritage Days] - "European Heritage Days" are held in several European countries. On these days, many buildings notusually open to the public are open for visiting, as are the workshop of certain artisans. Some French Wikipedians found a way to take advantage of this by running a sitenotice mentioning the event and pointing out that the general public can help Wikipedia get more photos.

[Wirtualna Polska] - in our last issue we reported that there were a few problems with the local press when Orange Poland launched its branded Wikipedia mirror. The Polish Wikipedia community has written a statement that they hope will clear up the confusion.

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:O%C5%9Bwiadczenie_nt._Wikipedii_na_WP (pl)
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Wpedzich/O%C5%9Bwiadczenie -- English translation

[IRC: GC Review] - the new IRC Group Contacts have published a review of the last three months, highlighting what they've done, what they plan to do, and how you can help.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts/Noticeboard#3_month_review

[WMFR + Cultural institutions] - David Monniaux gave an update on what Wikimedia France has achieved with cultural institutions in France. He also highlighted some issues that they ran into.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/5147

Media

[Where Wikipedia Ends] - Time Magazine published an article questioning if Wikipedia is a victim of its own success. The article includes a few quotes from Wikimedia Foundation representatives.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1924492-1,00.html

[Jimmy Guest Blogs] - Jimmy Wales guest-blogged on the Huffington Post about what the mainstream media gets wrong about Wikipedia and why.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jimmy-wales/what-the-msm-gets-wrong-a_b_292809.html

[Small Businesses & Wikipedia?] - Small Business Search Marketing, a blog about small businesses, published an article about whether or not "small businesses" should have a Wikipedia article. The article actually mentions quite a few English Wikipedia policies too.

http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/should-small-business-have-wikipedia-article/2311/

[German courts and wiki] - a German website attempts to teach its readers how to more accurately cite Wikipedia -- by using the permanent link to the article.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wikipedia-korrekt-zitieren--/meldung/145444 (de)

[Wikipedia Falsified from Parliament] - the Swedish media reports that articles of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia have been falsified from computers placed in the Swedish parliament.

http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&format=1&artikel=3116556

[Strategic Planning] - the Harvard Business Blogs published a good post about Wikimedia's Strategic Planning Initiative.

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/09/one_fine_winter_saturday_in.html

[Chinese trademark donation] - Hudong (a large Chinese encyclopedia) donated the Chinese trademark of Wikipedia to the Wikimedia Foundation.

http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20090922/CNTU04822092009-1.html

[Grass Is Greener on a Million Little Wikis] - a humorous article from Wired.com explains what the article "Grass" on the English Wikipedia would look like in different "language" Wikipedias (ranging from Limerick Wikipedia to "Even More Simple English" Wikipedia).

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/09/alt-text-million-little-wikipedias/

Stats

[hi.wp] - The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

[ca-wp] - The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.

http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnaval_de_Solsona

[cbk-zam] - The Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

[translatewiki.net hits one million] - Translatewiki, the website for translating the MediaWiki software, has reached a million translations. Congratulations to the Translatewiki staff and all of their translators!

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2009/09/when-size-is-good-cool-million-for.html

[Forget articles, it's editors] - Erik Zachte, the maintainer of Infodisiac (the Wikimedia statistics website), wrote a blog post about how we should stop focusing on the article count. Instead, we should be focusing on the number of editors the site has (and other aspects of community participation).

http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/09/partipication-level-a-new-metric/

Other news

[WikiMarriage] - two Wikimedians got married this weekend: Arne Klempert (akl) and Delphine Ménard (notafish). Arne is currently a member of the Board of Trustees and Delphine is the former Chapters coordinator and current Treasurer of Wikimédia France. Congratulations to the new WikiNewlyweds!

[PediaPress: Job opening] - PediaPress, Wikimedia's partner in printing personal "Collections" of Wikipedia articles, is hiring. The job matches the predominant skills of Wikipedians and is specifically looking for "wikifriendly" people, you may want to apply.

http://blog.pediapress.com/2009/09/hiring-community-and-communications.html
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable -- background information about the partnership

[FR: GNU GPL Legal Win] - the GNU General Public License, a widely used free software license, has been held up by a French court. (They ruled in favor of the author of the content rather than a company who used it.)

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/09/big-win-for-gnu-gpl-in-france.html

Did you know ...

...that the Wikipedia Mobile interface provides anonymous statistics about its use? The stats page provides total traffic, average page serving speed, and more.
http://stats.m.wikipedia.org/

Quote

"I am not asking you to explain Wikipedia here, I'm asking for a vision!" - Femke Halsema

(The Chair of the Netherlands's Green Party interrupted the presentation of the new government budget to Parliament with that when the Prime Minister referred to the many committees that are going to search for potential budget cuts.)

Editor(s): Alex, Casey, Thanks to: Sue, Sage, Brianna, Leinad, Pharos, Dcljr, Hampton, Sj, Erik Z, Lodewijk, Rjd, Brion, Cary, Submarine, Philippe, Eugene, Gerard, Janson, Anders, Nihiltres, Frank, Amgine, David, Contact: reply or http://report.wikizine.org, Website: http://www.wikizine.org

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Wikizine: Year: 2009 Week: 36 Number: 117

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Zariv (Az1568)) — Qui, 17 Set 2009 02:30:25 +0000

Technical news

[Software updates] - Brion is in the process of updating the Wikimedia sites with several weeks of new updates.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-September/045179.html

[Mobile survey] - the Wikipedia Mobile team is running a survey, hoping to get feedback on their progress so far and suggestions for future additions.

http://bit ly/LBXdK
http://m.wikipedia.org/

[Sever donations] - do you know of a non-profit that needs servers? The Wikimedia Foundation is donating 35 servers (over 3 years old) that aren't fast enough to run our sites anymore, but would probably work fine for smaller projects.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/server-donation-time-again/

[TIFF support] - the tech team is adding full TIFF support in the near future. This support will help MediaWiki render TIFF images (an image format widely used by museums and in scientific research) so that users can view them in their browsers.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/full-tiff-support-is-comming/

Foundation

[Board Minutes] - the minutes for the April and June Board meetings have now been published. You can view them on foundationwiki.

[Wikimedia IRC meeting] - the new three new Board members held an introductory meeting on IRC where they introduced themselves and answered questions. A full log is available on Meta and minutes are to come.

[Report to the Board] - Sue Gardner, the Executive Director, published her Report to the Board for the month of June.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/054904.html

[Foundation-l LSS] - The latest summary for foundation-l has been posted on Meta-Wiki, thanks to Phoebe. In addition, you can now also follow updates to the LLS on identi.ca, either from the site there or via RSS.

[Orange Poland] - the Orange partnership has expanded into Poland. Unfortunately, though, there were a few issues with local press during the launch (see the foundation-l post).

[Usability Beta Status] - Naoko Komura, Program Manager for the Usability Initiative, gave an update on the status of the usability updates (the "Try Beta" link). She also included statistics on how often they were enabled/kept enabled.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/14/usability-beta-status/ -- blog post

[Omidyar Grant] - the Wikipedia Signpost has an article further explaining the nature of the Omidyar Grant of US$2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-09-14/News_and_notes

[Job openings] - the Wikimedia Foundation has three job openings, as of press time, including a software developer, project manager, and development associate.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings

[Transcom] - the translation committee has released another newsletter summarizing open requests.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2009-September/001004.html

Legal

[WMIT being sued] - Wikimedia Italia, the Italian chapter, has been sued for €20,000,000 over a possibly defamatory article. WMIT is in no way connected to the article or edits in question, but they still have to pay the legal fees and fight a court battle due to the Italian legal system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gianfranco/Wikimedia_Italia_sued_for_20,000,000_%E2%82%AC -- unofficial summary (en)
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Sabato_19,_a_Roma,_abbiamo_bisogno_di_te -- community notification (it)

Community

[University course about WP] - a university course solely devoted to Wikipedia has recently been started in Sweden.

http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_release_August_30,_2009

[Translatewiki.net update] - Gerard and Niko both published blog posts giving updates on Translatewiki, the site for translations of the MediaWiki software.

[Office Move] - the Wikimedia Foundation officially announced its upcoming office move (to be completed in mid-to-late October). It has also publicized the address, something the Foundation has shied away from in the past.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/055204.html

[Improving Foundation-l] - Foundation-l, the mailing list intended to discuss Foundation issues, has started a request for comment. Do you know ways the mailing list could be improved or replaced?

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Improving_Foundation-l

[Restoration Discovery] - Durova, one of the people on Commons who works on restoring images, received a pleasant surprise. While restoring a photo, she discovered that there was actually human remains in picture. This discovery has been noted in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Library of Congress even credited her in its bibliographic record.

http://durova.blogspot.com/2009/09/synergies.html

[WMBD Meeting] - Wikimedia Bangladesh (a planned local chapter) had a meeting on September 10

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh/Online_Meeting_2009-09-10

Media

[Biggest blunders] - CNN has assembled a list of "Wikipedia's Biggest Blunders".

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/09/06/wikipedia.biggest.blunders.cnn

[Wikipedia grows up] - the UK Telegraph wrote an article saying that Wikipedia and the Internet are growing up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6122514/Wikipedia-and-the-Internet-grow-up.html

[Strategic Planning] - the New York Times covered the new Strategic Planning Initiative and the other consultants that are helping professionalize the Foundation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=2

[Editing For Beginners] - the Australian Lifehacker wrote an article trying to teach beginners how to contribute to Wikipedia.

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/wikipedia-editing-for-beginners/

[Wikipedia reacts to outburst] - a reporter for the New York Times wrote a blog post describing the Wikipedia community's response to a US Representative shouting at the president during his speech.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/wikipedias-rapid-reaction-to-outburst-during-obama-speech/

Stats

[Commons reaches 5 mil] - just in time for its 5th birthday, the Wikimedia Commons has reached 5 million files. See the blog post and chapter press releases for more information.

[Wikistats Portal 2.0] - Erik Zachte, maintainer of Infodisiac (a set of Wikimedia statistics), wrote about a recent overhaul of the statistics portal.

http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/09/wikistats-portal-20/

[Wikipedia's Growth Animated] - all the Wikipedias grow at different rates and have started at different times. How can we compare them other than just by the numbers? Erik Z has updated an animation that shows this growth visually.

http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/09/wikipedias-growth-animated/

[vi.wp] - the Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.

http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-11

[th.wp] - the Thai Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

[cs.ws] - the Czech Wikisource has reached 10,000 pages.

http://cs.wikisource.org/wiki/Ilias/Zp%C4%9Bv_p%C3%A1t%C3%BD

[bo.wp] - the Tibetan Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

http://tinyurl.com/bowp1k

Other news

[Semantic Web Problem] - TechCrunch wrote a humorous article centering the unfortunate results when robots try to get meaning from Wikipedia text.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/02/netbase-thinks-you-can-get-rid-of-jews-with-alcohol-and-salt/

Did you know ...

...the first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper?

Quote

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Wikiesfera: Wikipédia colorida

noreply@blogger.com (helix) — Qua, 16 Set 2009 08:15:26 +0000

Embedded video from CNN Video

Rei-artur: Direitos contra Direitos

S�b, 05 Set 2009 08:42:45 +0000

Vai decorrer amanhã (dia 6 de Setembro) no Porto, uma conferência sobre direitos de autor, é uma pena é que Wikimedia Portugal ainda não está a 100%, seria interessante participar.

Mesmo assim quem poder passe por lá… Conta com a presença de eurodeputados e de especialista no assunto.

aqui está o programa

Rei-artur: Wikipédia mobile

Sex, 04 Set 2009 20:49:18 +0000

Tive a testar a versão mobile da wikipedia e gostei, é a melhor maneira para ver a wikipedia no telemóvel/celular. Fica aqui a algumas screenshot do smartphones htc magic. nos próximos dias irei fazer mais posts semelhantes com outras aplicações disponíveis no Android Market.

Wikiesfera: Subarrendamento?

noreply@blogger.com (helix) — Sex, 04 Set 2009 20:34:41 +0000

Mais uma história interessante que começou a circular:

Wikimedia Foundation subletting space?

Wikizine: Year: 2009 Week: 34-35 Number: 116

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Zariv (Az1568)) — S�b, 29 Ago 2009 16:16:46 +0000

Technical news

[Tech Update] - Brion posted an update on the status of a few projects, before shipping off to Wikimania.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/weekly-wiki-tech-update-pre-wikimania-edition/

[Commons: ImageAnnotator] - Wikimedia Commons added a new gadget: an Image Annotator, where users can place comments *onto* images (like flickr).

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator

[Bugs] - Trevor Parscal, of the Usability Project, gave an update on the Usability Beta by saying that more than 40,000 users have now participated in the process.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/squashing-the-bugs/

[iPhone app released] - the Wikimedia Foundation released its own official iPhone/iPod application for Wikipedia, in addition to the regular mobile interface.

[SmartWikiSearch] - Smart Wiki Search, a "concept similarity" search, tries to make your Wikipedia search experience better by finding other Wikipedia pages that discuss the same or similar concepts to the one you searched for.

http://www.smartwikisearch.com/

Request for help

[Wikipedia Signpost RfC] - the Wikipedia Signpost, the English Wikipedia's newspaper, is looking for comments about what is their mission, purpose and where they should go from here. Feedback is appreciated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/About#Where_does_the_Signpost_go_from_here.3F

[Multimedia Usability Meeting] - we previously reported on the upcoming Multimedia Usability Project by Wikimedia France, suggestions and feedback are being requested on Meta-Wiki. There is also a planning event to take place in October 2009.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Usability_Project_Meeting_October_2009

[Report to the Board] - Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, published her report to the board for May 2009.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/054008.html

[New "labs" sites] - two new "labs" sites have been created to test out the flagged revisions and reader feedback extensions. In general, "Wikimedia Labs" is the name given to sites created to test out new extensions before they are used on Wikimedia wikis.

[Hewlett Foundation grant] - the Wikimedia Foundation received a US$500,000 grant towards operational support from Hewlett Foundation. The grant's purpose is to allow the Foundation expand its work bringing free educational content to everyone on the planet.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlett_Foundation_grant_August_2009

[Omidyar Network Grant] - the Omidyar Network gave a grant of up to $2 million over two years to the Wikimedia Foundation. The grant will support Wikimedia's key goals: to bring free educational content to every person on the planet, to engage and empower more people to author that content and to continually increase the quality and breadth of the information provided through Wikimedia?s projects.

[New board members/officers] - at Wikimania, the Board of Trustees officially accepted the results of the election, welcoming Samuel Klein (Sj) and thanking Domas for his service. Kat Walsh has also taken the position of executive secretary. In addition to these community-selected board members, an "expertise" seat was filled with Matt Halprin.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/054318.html
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/user:Mhalprin -- biography of Matt

[Wikimania 2009] - Wikimania 2009, the international Wikimedia conference, ended this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Even if you were not there, you can enjoy it too with twitter, flickr photos, and presentation videos.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wikimania+OR+%23wikimania2009 -- twitter for #wikimania2009 or #wikimania
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/wikimania2009/ -- flickr
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2009_presentations -- videos of the presentation

[WikiExpedition 2009] - a summary (in English) of the recent Polish Wikimedian's "WikiExpedition" was published.

http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiekspedycja/Summary

[mediawiki/ IRC cloaks now available] - the Group Contacts are now offering "mediawiki/" IRC cloaks for developers.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/054120.html - mailing list post
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks -- IRC cloak explanation

[GLAM-WIKI Recommendations] - now that the GLAM-WIKI conference is over, Liam Wyatt (the conference coordinator) has compiled a list of recommendations to "GLAM", to Wikimedia, and to the government. This list is based on the discussions and findings at the conference.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_Recommendations

[Wikimedia UK blog/twitter] - Wikimedia UK, the British chapter, has started a blog and twitter account.

[WMES: Planning Reboot] - Wikimedia España, the planned Spanish chapter, has had a planning reboot. Join the mailing list if you're interestd in creating a Spanish chapter.

http://lists.wikimedia.org.ar/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-es

[WMSE: Image donation] - Wikimedia Sweden has helped Regionarkivet (the municipal archive of the Gothenburg area in Sweden) upload some of its most prized images to the Wikimedia Comons.

[Chapcom membership update] - the Chapters committee (those charged with coordinating the chapters, especially with getting new chapters started) welcomes two new members. Milos Rancic and Lodewijk Gelauff replace the seats of Carlos Barcenilla and Michael Bimmler, who recently resigned.

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

[Wikinews ArbCom] - Blood Red Sandman, Brian, Brian McNeil, Cirt, Cspurrier, and Tempodivalse were elected to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikinews.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Arbitration_Committee/2009_elections

[Wikimedia Belgium Meeting] - Wikimedia Belgium, the proposed Belgian chapter, had a coordination meeting on August 28. The English and French minutes are available.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediabe-l/2009-August/000006.html

Awards

[UK Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes] - Wikimedia UK's Wikipedia Loves Art project finally announced its winners.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2009-August/004565.html -- mailing list post
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2009/08/wikipedia-loves-art-prizes/ -- WMUK blog post

Media

[Generate PDFs from Wikipedia] - Lifehacker.com covered the ability to creates PDFs and Multi-Article Books using PediaPress, something that happened a while ago.

[Tale of another Mangalore on Wikipedia] - some commentary on a local Wikipedia Academy in Mangalore, India.

[Health Care and Wikipedia] - Columbia Journalism Review compliment's the English Wikipedia's coverage of the American "health care debates".

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/health_care_and_wikipedia.php

[Wikimania 2009] - a pre-Wikimania article about Wikimania 2009 and the Wikimania idea.

http://www.en.argentina.ar/_en/science-and-education/C954-wikimania-2009-in-argentina.php

[Wikinews: The unsung news source] - Wikinews got a favorable blog post that includes a Q&A and explanation of the project.

http://perspective.cfezra.com/?p=105

[AP tries to rival WP?] - apparently the Associated Press is going to try to rival Wikipedia in the search results. The AP will hold back some content from member websites and hope that Google will rate it higher due to the increased number of links to that page.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/how-the-associated-press-will-try-to-rival-wikipedia-in-search-results/

[Wikiversity media coverage] - Wikiversity is in the news again, with a whole article devoted to it. According to the article, "Wikiversity" is to be a university for every Internet user. Some professors are smitten with it - others are skeptical.

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/magazin/wissen/Wikiversity;art304,2876731 (de)

[Inkblot Poster] - remember the controversy on the English Wikipedia because there were copies of the Rorschach inkblot tests in the article? Well, according to the New York Times, te doctor who helped publish the 10 inkblots is being investigated by his local doctors? organization after it received complaints that his actions were unprofessional.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24inkblot.html

Stats

[enwp: 3m] - the English Wikipedia has reached 3,000,000 articles with the creation of "Beate Eriksen", a Norwegian actress.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/17/3000000/

[cswikt] - the Czech Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.

http://cs.wiktionary.org/

Other news

[Growing Wikipedias] - Hausa Wikipedia, one of the African-language Wikipedias, was previously in danger of being closed but now it's growing very quickly. This comes at an interesting time, there have been recent foundation-l discussions about the process for closing projects.

http://hausaonline.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/hausa-wikipedia-is-growing/ -- Hausa Wikipedia
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/175836 -- mailing list thread
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects -- current project closing process

[Wikipedia Diver] - a new Firefox add-on gives you a visual history of everywhere you've been on Wikipedia, and organizes it down to the day, order, and session in which you visited the sites, making it easy to revisit old entries.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10315483-248.html

[Enterprise Wikis] - a blog post gives 8 more reasons to use a wiki for you internal corporate site.

http://www.ikiw.org/2009/08/21/8-things-you-can-do-with-an-enterprise-wiki/

[Citizendium founder ready to leave] - Larry Sanger, the founder of Citizendium (another encyclopedia created to rival Wikipedia) and one of the first contributors to Wikipedia, is ready to leave his project and move on.

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/08/citizendium-founder-ready-to-jump-ship/

Editor(s): Casey, Alex, Corrector(s): MarkW, Thanks to: Too many to name. Contact: reply or http://report.wikizine.org

Website: http://www.wikizine.org Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of accuracy, validity and especially but not limited to, correct grammar and spelling. Satisfaction is not guaranteed.

Wikiesfera: O dinheiro faz o mundo girar?

noreply@blogger.com (helix) — Ter, 25 Ago 2009 23:11:54 +0000

Omidyar Network today announced a grant of up to $2 million over two years to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, one of the world’s top 5 most visited websites. The Wikimedia Foundation has also appointed Matt Halprin, a partner at Omidyar Network, to its Board of Trustees.

Já está a dar que falar...por exemplo na lista electrónica da Wikimedia Foundation.

Esta combinação de 2 frases dá muito que pensar.

Assumam a boa-fé.

Rei-artur: Estatisticas de Pesquisa do Google

Seg, 24 Ago 2009 11:55:48 +0000

Uma interessante estatística das pesquisa no Google do termo Wikipédia.

O video da evolução:

Free online screencasting tool

Rei-artur: Wikipedia recebe US$ 500 mil

Sex, 21 Ago 2009 15:43:35 +0000

A organização sem fins lucrativos que opera a maior enciclopédia online do mundo, a Wikipedia, recebeu uma doação no valor de 500 mil dólares da gigante The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

O aporte visa a ajudar na expansão do trabalho da Fundação Wikimedia em levar conteúdo educacional gratuito para pessoas em todo o mundo.

Segundo a agência Associated Press, a Hewlett Foundation declarou que a Wikipedia tem um importante papel em tornar a informação acessível. A fundação já recebeu mais de 100 milhões de dólares em doações desde 2001 para promover material educacional de alta qualidade, acessível a qualquer pessoa e sem qualquer custo.

Recentemente, a Fundação Wikimedia declarou que quer tornar seus serviços ainda mais fáceis de usar, desenvolvendo materiais de treinamento para engajar novos editores voluntários e implantar métricas que rastreiem o impacto da organização.

Em 2008, a enciclopédia colaborativa recebeu a maior doação individual de toda sua história: 3 milhões de dólares da Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

fonte: idgnow

Wikiesfera: IPs

noreply@blogger.com (helix) — Seg, 17 Ago 2009 16:31:18 +0000

Já foram relatados vários casos de edição em artigos por parte de IPs que geraram alguma controvérsia, nomeadamente por causa de conflitos de interesse, por virem de redes de alguma forma relacionadas com os artigos.

De vez em quando detecto alguns.

Desta vez, foi um artigo que tentei salvar das páginas para eliminar, tentando colocar o máximo de referências possível.

A edição em causa, retirou todas as referências do artigo, eliminando também a última frase da biografia (por sinal, a mais referenciada de todas).

Estranhando a situação, decido fazer, como muitas vezes acontece, fazer um WHOIS ao IP.

E desta vez saiu BINGO.

O que vale é que não é um PM, presidente de um banco, ou afins.

Rei-artur: DUMP wikipedia

S�b, 15 Ago 2009 18:40:54 +0000

Já a alguns meses que não fazia o download dos dump da wikipedia, e foi com muito agrado que vejo que finalmente já funciona com deve ser, foram anos consecutivos a dar problemas.

fica aqui em baixo a evolução dos dumps (pelo menos daqueles que eu tenho), desde 2007 até hoje

Wikizine: Year: 2009 Week: 33 Number: 115

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Zariv (Az1568)) — Sex, 14 Ago 2009 05:53:28 +0000

Technical news

[Tech Update] - the sysadmins posted a tech update of what happened last week and what will be coming up this week and beyond.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/weekly-wiki-tech-update/ -- techblog post

[clone $brion;] - Brion Vibber, the current Foundation CTO, announced that they want to split his position into two. There will be a new Chief Technical Officer and Brion will become the "Senior Software Architect"; more information about the responsibilities of each can be found on the blog post.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/cto-position-split/ -- techblog post

["Try Beta"] - Have you noticed the new "Try Beta" link at the top of Wikimedia project sites? The usability team is proud to introduce the new skin, Vector, and the newly enhanced edit toolbar. Check it out and give them your feedback!

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/try-the-usability-beta/ -- techblog post

[pl.wp: Report a Problem] - The Polish Wikipedia has put together a neat little pop-up tool for reporting errors in articles. (The "Zgłoś błąd" link in the sidebar.)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-August/102708.html -- post on wikien-l

[MW.org: FlaggedRevs] - MediaWiki.org is currently testing out Flagged Revisions in their Manual and Help namespaces.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-July/043806.html -- reason for FlaggedRevs
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-August/044582.html -- brion telling about it being enabled

[Image Annotations] - a hack for Wikimedia Commons allows for image annotations, just like Flickr has them, be sure to check it out!

http://ur1.ca/8tik -- example image
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator -- help page

[MediaWiki Wave] - a new project, "MediaWiki Wave", has been launched. It attempts to find a way for Google Wave, a communication and collaboration tool in development, to work with and make the best of MediaWiki.

http://mediawikiwave.blogspot.com/ -- blog
http://code.google.com/p/mediawikiwave/ -- project code

Request for help

[BBC & Wikimania] - this is a weird request for help, because it doesn't come from the community. The BBC's "Digital Revolution", an open and collaborative documentary on the way the web is changing our lives, wants to come to Wikimania 2009 but can't make it! They're looking for people to film some content for them, are you going to Wikimania and interested? Visit the blog post for more information and contact them ASAP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/08/wikimania-2009-are-you-going-w.shtml

Proposals

[Global sysop opt-out] - a new proposal about global sysops has been created and feedback is requested!

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops/opt-out_proposal

Foundation

[Report to the Board] - Sue Gardner, the Executive Director, has published her report to the Board of Trustees for April 2009.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/053920.html

[Board Election Results] - the results of the Board of Trustees elections have been released; the three winners are: Ting Chen (Wing), Kat Walsh (Mindspillage), and Samuel Klein (Sj). The Election Committee started a "post-mortem" section to collect commentary for future elections. Your comments on what went wrong and what went right will be highly appreciated.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Results/en -- results
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2009#Post_mortem -- post mortem

Agenda

[IN: WP Takes Chennai] - Are you in India? Love Wikipedia? Got a camera? Then participate in 'Wikipedia Takes Chennai' this Sunday (August 16).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Chennai

Community

[WMFR: Multimedia Usability] - Wikimédia France has announced a new Multimedia Usability Project. It is intended to support and compliment the Wikimedia Foundation's project funded by the Foundation.

[MW Translation Rally] - Translatewiki.net, the site that coordinates translations of the MediaWiki software, is running a translation rally. Contribute 500 MediaWiki translations and share in 1,000 Euro!

[WikiExpedition] - the Polish community has had its first annual WikiExpedition. The ten-day journey to the Polish region of Podlasie (northeastern part), focusing on collecting material that would be used to enrich Wikimedia project content with photographs, has brought gigabytes of photos and tons of material.

http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiekspedycja (pl)
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiekspedycja#Wikiekspedycja_w_mediach -- media coverage (pl)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikiekspedycja_2009 -- images

[New wikis] - a large number of new projects were created this week: 5 content projects and 2 chapter wikis. The 5 content projects were Sorani Wikipedia (ckb), Western Panjabi Wikipedia (pnb), Mirandese Wikipedia (mwl), Acehnese Wikipedia (ace), Turkish Wikinews (tr) and the 2 chapter wikis, Wikmedia Ukraine (ua) and Wikimedia Colombia (co; in planning).

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20181 -- bug: content projects
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19533 -- bug: ua.wikimedia.org
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19609 -- bug: co.wikimedia.org

Media

[Usability Feedback] - Mashable, "the social media guide" has posted an article covering Wikipedia's recent usability release.

http://mashable.com/2009/08/07/wikipedia-redesign/

[Wikipedia's on the wane] - the Sydney Morning Herald and the Guardian both ran an article about a new California study related to Wikipedia. The study found the number of new articles added a month was on a steep decline and new contributors were being pushed out by the rusted-on Wikipedia elite.

[Wikimanía] - a Spanish technology site reports on Wikimania and Richard Stallman's keynote ("the Father of the Free Software Movement")

http://www.infobaeprofesional.com/notas/85723-El-padre-del-software-libre-dara-una-conferencia-en-Buenos-Aires.html&cookie (es)

[GLAM-WIKI coverage] - the GLAM-Wiki conference in Australia has gotten a lot of media coverage, and the organizers are keeping a list on their site. One of the articles has an interesting analogy from Liam Wyatt, "People who like sausages or obeying the law shouldn't see either being made, and the same goes for encyclopedias - it's a messy process but the outcome is good." Tim Starling has also posted a report on what he saw while he attended.

http://glam.wikimedia.org.au/ -- glam coverage listed
http://wikimedia.org.au/w/images/5/52/GLAM-WIKI_twitter_hashtag_transcript.pdf -- 59 page pdf with all the #glam-wiki tweets
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/053946.html -- Tim's report

[Wikiversity] - Wikiversity was mentioned in a news article! The Colombia news site, Unviersia, ran an article entitled: "Web 2.0 to share and build collective knowledge" and used Wikiversity as one of its examples.

http://www.universia.net.co/noticias/mas-noticias/web-2.0-para-compartir-y-construir-conocimiento-colectivo.html (es)

Stats

[sr.wn 10k] - the Serbian Wikinews has reached 10,000 articles and is now the second largest Wikinews.

http://tinyurl.com/srwn10k -- ten thousandth article

[pt.wp 500k] - following closely behind the Spanish Wikipedia (es), the Portuguese Wikipedia has also reached 500,000 articles!

Quote

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." - Cherie Carter-Scott

Editor(s): Alex, Casey, Corrector(s): Ryan, MarkW, Thanks to: Techman224, Wpedzich, Naoko, Erik, Brion, Milos, Pharos, @wikipedian, private musings, Sage, Siebrand, Julien, NuclearWarfare, Liam, Lijealso, Gerard, Contact: reply or http://report.wikizine.org
Website: http://www.wikizine.org, Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of accuracy, validity and especially but not limited to, correct grammar and spelling. Satisfaction is not guaranteed.

Rei-artur: Wikipédia lusófona chega aos 500 mil artigos

Qui, 13 Ago 2009 19:46:57 +0000

Mais de 500 mil artigos deram entrada, até esta quinta-feira, na Wikipédia em português ou lusófona. A Wikipédia é uma enciclopédia livre, na Internet, totalmente escrita por voluntários e mantida por uma fundação sem fins lucrativos chamada Wikimedia Foundation.

Das 267 versões em várias línguas, a Wikipédia lusófona foi a quinta a ser criada, em Maio de 2001, e encontra-se agora em nono lugar em relação às restantes, na questão do tamanho.

Trata-se de uma enciclopédia, onde qualquer pessoa tem o direito de editar ou criar um artigo, sem a necessidade de qualquer tipo de autorização ou de se identificar, explica a Wikipédia, em comunicado.

Em particular, a versão portuguesa é visualizada, em média, mais de 280 mil vezes por hora, e em geral, o domínio wikipedia.org é o sétimo mais visitado no mundo, o 16º mais visitado no Brasil e o 14º em Portugal, de acordo com o site Alexa Internet.

O convívio multicultural, proporcionado pela Wikipédia, é uma mais-valia salientada pelos utilizadores e colaboradores, que variam desde a imprensa ao meio académico.

O registo pode ser feito por qualquer pessoa, que poderá escolher um nome de utilizador para se identificar e ser reconhecido pelos restantes wikipedistas, denominação dos editores frequentes da enciclopédia livre.

Verifica-se uma ajuda mútua entre a comunidade de utilizadores. É o caso de um utilizador que ainda não domine o sistema e decide então passar pelo programa de tutoria, através do qual recebe ajuda de um utilizador experiente, de forma a poder familiarizar-se com a Wikipédia e todo o sistema de editoria.

Fonte: iol

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Wiking: "A" votação ou "A" hora

Ter, 11 Ago 2009 08:57:21 +0000

Há muito tempo em conversa informal que uma votação do fair use deveriam ser verificadas todas as contas votantes... para se averiguarem quais os fantoches que por ali andariam.

De acordo com a heurística do rei-artur à partida muitos fantoches estão identificados, mas, daquilo que vi em termos de distúrbio mental enquanto fui verificador, acredito que muitos se deram ao trabalho de conquistar o direito ao voto com proxys diferentes. E à partida palpitaria para resultados semelhantes aos do rei-artur, ambos os lados têm gente apanhada mas o pró dominaria. Sim, é discriminação e não sei que mais...

Citei, há muitos posts, e por outras palavras, que pela wiki.pt como na vida, "se queres ser bom, morre ou ausenta-te", há sempre os bons, os maus e os que se foram embora e são deificados.

Só há meses passei a ter net em casa, editei sempre do trabalho. Editei com o braço partido, editei do estrangeiro, editei quando estava de férias, editei quando estava a trabalhar durante o suposto período de férias, e com directas em cima, editei quando tinha dois trabalhos, e muitas outras gabarolices...

Foi giro. Não gosto muito do que leio, não suporto muito do que se passa, e como não tenho força nem um milionésimo do entusiasmo inicial, só mesmo o vício que me faz ler as polémicas e não os artigos, prefiro, como tantos outros, ir. A wiki.pt é grande, vai continuar a crescer, e eu, espero definhar de pequenino...

User:Nuno Tavares: A importância da Wikipédia enquanto fonte de dados e não [tanto] de informação

Seg, 10 Ago 2009 02:08:02 +0000

Tão cedo comecei a ganhar destreza na Wikipédia, não pude evitar lamentar-me com o desperdício, em termos de esforço, da criação de artigos em texto corrido a partir de dados na forma bruta - não havia, aparentemente, grande forma de contornar. Com efeito, os artigos da Wikipédia são pautados por relações intrínsecas de dados sobre determinado assunto, e digeridos numa determinada língua para que nos sejam facultados na forma de informação, o que faz com que se tornem mais ou menos eloquentes, menos brutos, mas menos isolados, menos reutilizáveis. Por exemplo, IIRC Jorge, um dos pioneiros da Wikipédia lusófona, teve um esforço imenso em criar as Freguesias e Municípios de Portugal, em pequenos, sucintos, artigos com tanto português quanto se poderia gerar a partir de alguns dados do INE. O problema é que os anos iriam passar, e não haveria forma de actualizar esta informação a não ser fazendo-o manualmente um a um, porque entretanto alguém mudaria o formato do português. Mais tarde, no projecto da criação dos municípios brasileiros, orientado IIRC pelo E2m, alguém se terá apercebido desta dificuldade, e surgiram então os artigos com horríveis marcações (exemplo), provavelmente para alimentar bots que fariam parsing dos dados e fariam a substituição. Mas neste caso, como alguém barafustou meses mais tarde, a edição tornava-se terrível especialmente para os novatos, que se a medo editavam, então quando viam aquelas marcações fugiam!

Demorar-me-ia apenas 6 meses a aprender a trabalhar com bots e a perceber a utilidade das predefinições - a tal ponto que era conhecido pelo maluquinho das predefinições [desculpem não facultar referências, mas teria que procurá-las nos primórdios dos meus milhares de edições...] - para convencer-me que "já que perdemos tempo a fazer isto, faça-mo-lo de forma estruturada, aproximando-nos da linguagem das máquinas, sem prejuízo para a edição, e lancei-me no esforço de fazer isso mesmo: ressuscitando as freguesias e municípios com dados estrutrados.

Terminada esta tarefa, foi altura de iniciar a criação de artigos com base na informação estruturada, mantendo-a siponível (na verdade, houve séries de artigos que foram mesmo feitos com predefinições e, com uma passagem final, foram instanciados com subst:). Mas a informação estruturada iria agora manter-se, e mesmo que não constasse no texto corrido, seria sempre acessível (e facilmente actualizável) nos quadros informativos - basta correr um bot com um simples search & replace por dados actualizados.

Creio que hoje, quiçá por estar mais normalizado em termos de estética (o pessoal, sem querer, foi-se habituando a estes quadros informativos) do que pelos benefícios tecnológicos, já poucos ousam fazer qualquer artigo deste género (do género que se baseia em dados estruturados para constituir informação) sem uma predefinição: temos as Cidades, os Animais (sempre difíceis devido às várias formas de classificação, mas enfim..), os Asteróides, etc.

Mas isto porquê? Porque hoje descobri um projecto interessantíssimo: a DBpedia que, segundo a visão do Tim Berners-Lee, o autor da World Wide Web, é o primeiro passo para aquilo que ele chama de Linked Data: chegámos a um ponto em que as interrelações de informação estão mais do que estabelecidas - mas e as interrelações de dados? O engraçado é que somos vários a pensar assim: OK, uma página web tem, de facto, informação, mas como é que podemos usá-la fora do contexto dessa página - e em grandes quantidades? Será que esses dados - e o esforço de publicá-los - estão condenados a serem só aquilo: inúteis para terceiros? É que extrair informação de páginas de múltiplas fontes não-estruturadas é virtualmente impossível (pode bastar mudar uma vírgula ou uma cor de texto para que o parsing falhe) e obrigar cada pessoa que deseje usar a informação a ter que construir mecanismos que extraia essa informação parece-me um gigantesco desperdício de recursos.. aliás, uma das aplicações que se projectava para o XML/XSL é que ele substituísse o HTML mais tarde ou mais cedo, mas parece que isso nunca vai acontecer.

Então o que Tim Berners-Lee propõe é que a disseminação da informação seja complementada com os dados em bruto que a gerou - ou disponibilizada de forma a que estes possam ser reutilizáveis. E isto é particularmente importante num momento em que há imensas comunidades a gerar conteúdo - é curioso como do trabalho humano passámos para o PC e evoluímos para arquitecturas distribuídas e de escala, e destas evoluímos para plataformas distribuídas em que o factor humano pode ser também (novamente) gerador de substância a uma escala muito, muito maior... mas isto é outro post, noutro dia..

Deixo-vos este artigo interessante sobre a Web semântica, onde se expõem várias formas de relacionamento de dados que se podem obter da web, de forma semântica, e como eles estão (ou podem vir) a ser utilizados:

Vale a pena ver, especialmente para quem, como eu, acha que vivemos numa era dos diabos em que tudo pode acontecer, inclusivé uma

Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web

Tim Berners-Lee, 1999