Hoogtepunten Wikimedia, juli 2015
"Darshan Kandolkar talks about Konkani Wikipedia.webm" by Wikimedia India, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.; "File:Leigh Thelmadatter-7697.jpg" by Karen Sayre for the Wikimedia Foundation, released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license; "London-Eye-2009.JPG" by Kham Tran, feely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.; "IFTTT Logo.svg" by IFTTT, public domain; "File:Albert_V_Bryan_Federal_District_Courthouse_-_Alexandria_Va.jpg" by Tim Evanson, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.; Collage by Andrew Sherman.
Hier zijn deSpecial:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Highlights van de https://blog.wikimedia.org/ van maart 2015
Wikipedia Konkani komt online
Wikimediaan Darshan deelt zijn ervaringen door bij te dragen aan de Konkani Wikipedia. Video in Konkani.Video by Wikimedia India, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
De Konkani Wikipedia uit Goa kwam op 18 juni jongstleden online, na een rijpingsperiode van zo'n negen jaar. Het project had te maken met vele tegenslagen, maar de noeste arbeid van de redactionele gemeenschap, het merendeel afkomstig uit de deelstaat Goa, resulteerde in de volwassenwording van het project.
"Ik droom van het begin van een project ten dienste van de vrijheidsbeweging in Goa en de betrokkenheid van veel verschillende mensen, van studenten tot journalisten en opiniemakers. Ik wil ook samenwerking genereren met onderwijsinstituten om met de studenten de continuïteit te kunnen waarborgen, waarbij de bestaande Konkani gemeenschap leidinggevend zou kunnen zijn"
"Deel te zijn van de veranderingen die je nodig acht": Leigh Thelmadatter
Leigh Thelmadatter, gefotografeerd voor de Wikimedia Stichting fundraising campagne 2012 Photo by Karen Sayre for the Wikimedia Foundation, released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
Universitair docent en Wikipedia vrijwilligster, Leigh Thelmadatter hielp artikelen te schrijven variërend van de mexikaanse cuisine tot biografieën en kerken. Tegenwoordig werkt zij met studenten aan de Wikipedia pagina's over Mexico en z'n cultuur, en bereist zij het land op zoek naar waardevolle informatie.
"Ik denk dat Wikimedia en dergelijke ten minste de notie verspreiden dat we gemakkelijker meer informatie kunnen verschaffen aan meer mensen".
The logotype for the Wikidata Menu Challenge. Logo by Offnfopt, freely licensed under CC0 1.0
At Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden), we like food, traveling, and open data. So we started thinking: What can we could do to make life a bit easier for the frequent flyer? With help from Wikidata, members decided to host a menu challenge for restaurants, around the world, to expand their menus with key information. Participants used Wikidata to provide labels, translations, and images.
Wikidata is a collection of structured data that can be edited by computers and people alike. A main focus is of course Wikipedia, but the possibilities are unlimited, which was what we wanted to show with this project.
Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
Images of the London Eye can be shared online under freedom of panorama rights. Photo by Kham Tran, feely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Recently, the European Parliament amended recommendations that places restrictions across all European Union member states. The Wikimedia community has mobilized in response.
Update (July 13): On July 9, the European Parliament voted on the Reda Report. The paragraph addressing the Freedom of Panorama was ultimately deleted from the report. This means that for now, nothing has changed: countries that had Freedom of Panorama rights under their domestic laws still have them. Countries that lacked Freedom of Panorama rights under their domestic laws still do not have them.
ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
Blind Justice stands with scales aloft over the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. Photo by Tim Evanson, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
On March 10th, the Wikimedia Foundation joined a lawsuit against the NSA over its upstream surveillance program. A hearing is scheduled for late September on the government's recently filed motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT
If This Then That, or IFTTT, introduces new tools to make connecting with Wikipedia’s public data simpler than ever. Logo by IFTTT, public domain.
Wikipedia’s new Channel on IFTTT makes it easier than ever to share free knowledge. Recipes include:
- Picture of the day: An alert with the Wikimedia Commons picture of the day
- Article of the day: An interesting article from Wikipedia, chosen daily from among Wikipedia’s best articles
- Word of the day: The definition of the Wiktionary word of the day
- New edits to a Wikipedia article: New edits on any Wikipedia page (similar to your watchlist on Wikipedia)
- New edits from a specific user: New contributions from a specific Wikipedia user
- New edit with a hashtag in the edit summary: Watch for a hashtag in the edit summary (try a hashtag for your next #editathon!)
- Article updated in a category: New edits to any Wikipedia page in a category
- Articles added to a category: Each time an article is added to a category
Andrew Sherman,Digital Communications Intern, Wikimedia Foundation