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Multilingualism on Wikipedia

By On September 6, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Aphaia recently reminded us on the translation list that there are users on Wikipedia who would like to raise questions and comments to the Wikimedia foundation, however these users may not speak English.  In that case should these Wikipedians be encouraged to post in their languages on the foundation list?

This has been quite an [...]

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Back from Boston

By On August 10, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Wow.

That’s already one week in Boston and 4 more weeks before London? I only have a month in Hong Kong and I already start missing the place. But I know I will have fun in London… Just gotta round up my thesis now. Lok gave me some good advice in the importance of having [...]

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Opening of Wikimania

By On August 4, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Jimbo started the keynote with the Colbert’s Analysis on Wikipedia and this:

/Refering to John Seigenthaler incident: ‘Apparently, there was an error in Wikipedia’

/everybody laughed

He also mentioned what Wikipedia needs, especially when it comes to representativeness. With the Wikimedia Foundation maturing, it is easier to apply grant and start other projects. [...]

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Presentation today

By On August 4, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I was quite sleep-deprived yesterday and man, I locked myself up after shower, realized I didn’t bring the key and basically just panicking – lucky enought I came across Brian and half-dying James, and they called and rescued me with the nice Indian guard that I happened to chat with.  That was really lucky.  Or [...]

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