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| The ] of Amsterdam has donated 35,000 images about Indonesia to Wikimedia Commons. ] to help categorize the material. High resolution selections will also be available upon request for digital restoration. Editors who are interested in doing restorations can contact ]. | The ] of Amsterdam has donated 35,000 images about Indonesia to Wikimedia Commons. ] to help categorize the material. High resolution selections will also be available upon request for digital restoration. Editors who are interested in doing restorations can contact ] if they wish to be pulled into an abusive relationship which will end in tears. | ||
| The Tropenmuseum's partnership with Wikimedia projects received coverage in two national radio broadcasts in the Netherlands last week. The broadcasts (in Dutch) are available online. A separate video presentation in English by Tropenmuseum representative Susanne Ton is provided below. | The Tropenmuseum's partnership with Wikimedia projects received coverage in two national radio broadcasts in the Netherlands last week. The broadcasts (in Dutch) are available online. A separate video presentation in English by Tropenmuseum representative Susanne Ton is provided below. | ||
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Tropenmuseum donates 35,000 images to Wikimedia Commons
The Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam has donated 35,000 images about Indonesia to Wikimedia Commons. Volunteers are invited to help categorize the material. High resolution selections will also be available upon request for digital restoration. Editors who are interested in doing restorations can contact Durova if they wish to be pulled into an abusive relationship which will end in tears.
The Tropenmuseum's partnership with Wikimedia projects received coverage in two national radio broadcasts in the Netherlands last week. The broadcasts (in Dutch) are available online. A separate video presentation in English by Tropenmuseum representative Susanne Ton is provided below.
The continuing collaboration between the Tropenmuseum and Wikimedia is expected to bring more donations in the future. The museum has more then 100.000 images about Indonesia alone, but the focus has been on releasing images that will be most relevant for use in Wikipedias and other projects. The Wikimedian restorationist community is also in determining which material is released, with the possibility of the Tropenmuseum creating high-quality scans of specific images that make good candidates for restoration.
New book-class released, WikiProject Misplaced Pages-Books looking for volunteers
On 23 October 2009, WikiProject Misplaced Pages-Books, PediaPress, and the Version 1.0 Editorial Team discussed the best way to monitor Misplaced Pages-Books (collections of articles that can be downloaded electronically or ordered in print, not to be confused with Wikibooks; see previous story). As a result, a new WP 1.0 assessment class was created: the book-class.
This book-class would permit individual WikiProjects to monitor the various books that fall in their scope, and thus oversee merges, renaming, deletions, and so on, by tagging the talk page of individual books with the projects banner (with |class=book). WikiProjects that are interested in adopting the book-class can do so by adding |book=yes to their project's {{class mask}} (see how-to guide), or by contacting Headbomb if they are unfamiliar with the procedure.
WikiProject Misplaced Pages-Books is also looking for volunteers to join the WikiProject and help convert Good topics and Featured topics into books, as well as participate and create discussions about all things related to Misplaced Pages-Books.
For more about Misplaced Pages-Books, see Misplaced Pages:Books and Help:Books. For pages that need to be tagged by WikiProjects, see Category:Misplaced Pages Books.
Article assessments milestone
In other article assessment project news, just over two million articles on the English Misplaced Pages have now been assessed for their level of quality. This number doesn't count articles more than once, even if there have been multiple assessments; there have been over 5,000,000 assessments done. Assessment levels are recorded in WikiProject templates on an article's talk page. One caveat to article assessment counts is that ratings do not update themselves: if the quality of an article changes, only a human editor can re-assess the article and change the assessment.
The assessment counts are part of the Version 1.0 project, whose goal is to produce offline versions of core, quality Misplaced Pages content for use in various settings. The project has so far had two CD and DVD-based releases of articles.
When counting assessments, the current bot uses the rating of the first project to assess the article. According to User:CBM, there is a new bot under development, which
| “ | takes the "highest" rating for each article, which is more likely to be what people expect. The old bot is more or less frozen in its current state; the only changes I want to make to it are for bug fixes. The beta version of the new bot will be publicly announced in December. | ” |
Assessments are typically done by members of WikiProjects, although any editor can make or change an assessment. (In the case of the "stub" category, sometimes assessments are done by a bot). Assessments are to be based on a set of standardized assessment grades: Stub, Start, C, B, GA, A and FA. According to the project page, "Quality assessments are fairly standard across all projects, but priority/importance are evaluated relative to the project's own priorities." There are over 1500 WikiProjects participating in quality assessments; a list can be found here.
Fundraiser holds steady in third week
Donation statistics for the last two weeks of the 2009 Wikimedia fundraiser show the rate of donation roughly holding steady, with donations coming in at a faster rate than in previous years. According to the fundraiser timeline, new methods to attract donations, including email solicitation of past and prospective donors, may be initiated in the coming weeks. The tentative schedule indicates that the fundraiser will go through five "phases" before ending in early January. In 2008, a personal appeal from Jimmy Wales stimulated a dramatic boost in donations late in the fundraiser; something similar is planned for December in this fundraiser.
Milestones
- The English Wiktionary reaches 1,500,000 entries with the Latin verb ingeminō.
- The Hebrew Wikisource reaches 30,000 text units.
- The Interlingua Misplaced Pages has reached 5,000 articles.
Discuss this story
These comments are automatically transcluded from this article's talk page. To follow comments, add the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try purging the cache.The new book-class sounds interesting, but how does it affect the article quality ratings? While I would like to track the Books related to the WikiProjects I am involved with, I think it will do more harm than good to abandon the quality assessment. Why not just implement a tracking method that sits beside the assessment structure? Why can't something be GA-class and a book at the same time?
Am I just missing something here? Road Wizard (talk) 21:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
- It doesn't affect the quality rating. The book-class is for Misplaced Pages-Books which are collections of article (and which are all located at Misplaced Pages:Books/...). It's much closer to the template-class or category-class in purpose than it is to the C-Class or B-class. Does that answer your question? Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:45, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
- I think I am starting to piece together what is involved.
- When articles are included in a "book" they are listed on a page like Misplaced Pages:Books/Politics. The related Wikiprojects can then add their banners to the talk page (Misplaced Pages talk:Books/Politics) and that is where they use the Book-class. Even though articles are included in the book list (like the article Parliamentary system in the politics book I linked to) the assessment on the talk page (Talk:Parliamentary system) retains the normal article quality rating.
- In short, Book-class is only to be used for pages in Misplaced Pages:Books/(subpage) namespace. Is that a correct assessment of the situation? Road Wizard (talk) 21:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
- It is indeed correct. Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:10, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Just a note- all good and featured topics are already in books; it was made one of the steps in the promotion process a few months back. There's been a push recently to expand these books to a logical size, i.e., make the book for the "Atlantic Hurricane season of 1941" be "1941 Hurricanes" and include articles that aren't in the good/featured topic, since it makes more sense that way. It's this latter step that needs volunteers, I think. --PresN 16:20, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
- Re Milestones, what's a "text unit"? --Dweller (talk) 14:45, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
- If I've guessed correctly, a text unit is anything from a story to a news article to an entire book. JW.. 01:33, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
- If I've guessed correctly, a text unit is anything from a story to a news article to an entire book. JW.. 01:33, 10 December 2009 (UTC)