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In its initial stages, the project will aim to improve a core set of articles on important medical information and [[neglected diseases]], using article reviews provided by professional medical writers. Later, once a [[User_talk:TimVickers/Health_translation_project|set of interested editors]] have been recruited in the English Wikipedia, Google.org will try to recruit native speakers that can use translation software developed by Google to transfer the English articles. This effort will follow the lead set by Google's recent [http://www.google.com/events/kiswahili-wiki/ Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge], that aimed to expand the Swahili Wikipedia in a collaboration with three African Universities (see [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-02-15/News and notes#Kiswahili contest ends|''Signpost'' coverage]]). |
In its initial stages, the project will aim to improve a core set of articles on important medical information and [[neglected diseases]], using article reviews provided by professional medical writers. Later, once a [[User_talk:TimVickers/Health_translation_project|set of interested editors]] have been recruited in the English Wikipedia, Google.org will try to recruit native speakers that can use translation software developed by Google to transfer the English articles. This effort will follow the lead set by Google's recent [http://www.google.com/events/kiswahili-wiki/ Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge], that aimed to expand the Swahili Wikipedia in a collaboration with three African Universities (see [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-02-15/News and notes#Kiswahili contest ends|''Signpost'' coverage]]). |
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== April 2010 good article nominations backlog elimination drive already achieves its goal == |
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Following the conclusion of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force/Sweeps|GA Sweeps]] in March 2010, the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GAN backlog elimination drives/April 2010|April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive]] has accomplished its goal of the number of outstanding GA nominations to below 200 – 12 days before the scheduled end of the drive. As of 00:00 19 April 2010, from the beginning of the drive, 512 good article nominations have been reviewed so far with 379 of them passed, 67 failed, and 68 placed on hold according to the list of completed GANs by the participants; 330 GANs were reviewed in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GAN backlog elimination drives/Spring 2009|backlog elimination drive in Spring 2009|previous GAN backlog elimination drive]] in February–March 2009. Here are some other statistics from as a result of the backlog elimination drive: |
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*The drive started with 463 outstanding GA nominations; it is currently down to 146. |
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*The [[WP:GAN]] page was at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations&oldid=353252613 110KB in size] on 1 April. That page has almost been cut in half at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations&oldid=356878709 60KB]. |
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*At the beginning of the drive (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations/Report&oldid=353116658 this GAN report from 31 March]), the longest waiting times for a GA nomination have been about 13 weeks. Currently ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations/Report&oldid=356746490]), the longest waiting times have been reduced to 2 weeks. |
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*60 Wikipedians have volunteered in this current drive and have reviewed at least one good article nomination – almost twice as many as the previous [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GAN backlog elimination drives/Spring 2009|backlog elimination drive in Spring 2009]]. |
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Revision as of 02:42, 19 April 2010
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Wikimedia Conference ends, Foundation to expand into India and Brazil
From April 14 to April 18, the Wikimedia Conference 2010 (WMCON) was held in Berlin, Germany. It consisted of a Developers' Workshop (April 14-16), a Chapters meeting (April 16-18) and a Board of Trustees' meeting (April 17-18).
At the conference, Sue Gardner presented plans for an international expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation. According to an April 16 article (in German) by Heise News, the Foundation plans to open offices in India and Brazil early next year, followed by a third one in an Arab country.
The many presentations at the Developer's workshop (preliminary schedule) included several about usability topics, and one about the first results of the flagged revisions study commissioned by Wikimedia Germany (see last weeks Signpost coverage).
The air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption had a major impact on conference attendees. On Sunday, Wikimedia Deutschland called for volunteers among local Wikipedians to support ca. 20 international guests stranded in Berlin after the end of the conference. In an effort to apply the customary problem solving process of MediaWiki development to the geophysical situation, Bug 23223 was created.
Brooklyn Museum uploads to Wikimedia Commons
On April 12, the Brooklyn Museum announced that it will be "Cross-posting the Collection to Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive". In a test run, BrooklynMuseumBot has already uploaded images of nine public domain paintings. More than 9000 other images are queued for upload on Commons, whereas on the Internet Archive, the museum is not just uploading all its "no known copyright" images, but also those licenced under a non-commercial Creative Commons license (which is not accepted on Commons).
Shelley Bernstein, the museum's Chief of Technology, said that the institution intends to benefit from the collaboration by importing metadata that has been added or changed on the wiki back to the collection. She also recalled some of the difficulties that were encountered in last year's Wikipedia Loves Art project ("This was a project that simply didn’t scale").
Wikiprojects and Google.org to collaborate in translation project
The Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Medicine Wikiprojects have announced an article translation project with the charitable foundation Google.org. This project aims to address the lack of accessible medical information in languages used in the developing world by translating articles from the English Wikipedia and transferring them to smaller Wikipedias, such as the Swahili Wikipedia.
In its initial stages, the project will aim to improve a core set of articles on important medical information and neglected diseases, using article reviews provided by professional medical writers. Later, once a set of interested editors have been recruited in the English Wikipedia, Google.org will try to recruit native speakers that can use translation software developed by Google to transfer the English articles. This effort will follow the lead set by Google's recent Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge, that aimed to expand the Swahili Wikipedia in a collaboration with three African Universities (see Signpost coverage).
April 2010 good article nominations backlog elimination drive already achieves its goal
Following the conclusion of the GA Sweeps in March 2010, the April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive has accomplished its goal of the number of outstanding GA nominations to below 200 – 12 days before the scheduled end of the drive. As of 00:00 19 April 2010, from the beginning of the drive, 512 good article nominations have been reviewed so far with 379 of them passed, 67 failed, and 68 placed on hold according to the list of completed GANs by the participants; 330 GANs were reviewed in the backlog elimination drive in Spring 2009|previous GAN backlog elimination drive in February–March 2009. Here are some other statistics from as a result of the backlog elimination drive:
- The drive started with 463 outstanding GA nominations; it is currently down to 146.
- The WP:GAN page was at 110KB in size on 1 April. That page has almost been cut in half at 60KB.
- At the beginning of the drive (See this GAN report from 31 March), the longest waiting times for a GA nomination have been about 13 weeks. Currently ([1]), the longest waiting times have been reduced to 2 weeks.
- 60 Wikipedians have volunteered in this current drive and have reviewed at least one good article nomination – almost twice as many as the previous backlog elimination drive in Spring 2009.
Briefly
- On Friday, April 16, 2010 the Wikimedia projects passed a total of 1 billion edits, as measured by the edit counter.
- The UX (formerly Usability) team reported on some user feedback from the April 5 switch to the new "Vector" skin on Wikimedia Commons, and invited testing of a still experimental template folding feature.
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