Western Ghats: Thanks for your email about the ever so sad and dramatic Harbin / Middletown / Valley fire, A little more about the fire here plus how this crisis might dovetail with publication of my "Naked Harbin" book ... In preparing to make a present of CC wiki World University, Both L and L went to MIT at the same time in Cambridge, MA, in the late 1960s and know each other from that time, and as MIT graduates Len and Larry may be able to facilitate working with CC MIT OCW in Wikidata

Good morning, Friends,

Thanks for your email about the ever so sad and dramatic Harbin / Middletown / Valley fire ... I'm sad, yet also fascinated to see the varieties of expression of love for Harbin come out in all kinds of ways.

A little more about the fire here plus how this crisis might dovetail with publication of my "Naked Harbin" book -
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - soon I hope.

More here in my blog entry too -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/09/harbin-hot-springs-and-middletown-wild.html

... Check out too the 5 minute video of Harbin's Mainside and the pool area ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhSHRJbnrCw ... which shows some of the devastation, but the pools are intact ... now a wasteland until growth starts again with the rains ...

Missing the meditation in the warm pool a lot especially - it's a kind of Meeting with far-reaching and profound Friendly centering.

See some of you at Quaker Meeting at R's tomorrow.

Namaste,
Scott

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Dear Runa and Magnus (and Liam, Len and Larry), 

Thaanks for a great WMF Language Engineering online meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5l7fNeMQg on Wednesday. Magnus, you were mentioned in this video conference a number of times, so I'm including you in this email as well, as a key and innovative Wikidata tool developer. 

In preparing to make a present of CC wiki World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in 289 languages with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (e.g. accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and planned in all 7,941+ languages and 257+ countries, for CC Wikidata's third birthday, I'd like to follow up with an inquiry about how best to do this with the WMF Language Engineering team. 

I'm curious too to explore how best to develop CC MIT OCW in CC Wikipedia/Wikidata, if as Pau Giner seemed to suggest in the video conference, that turning all these into Wikipedia pages might make less sense that working with these pages as they currently are directly in Wikidata, if possible - and similarly with CC World University and School's 720 wiki pages. 

I don't have WMF Language Engineering Team members Pau, Santhosh's or Nikolas's emails for example to follow up with them about this either. I'm also including a Wikipedian, Len Tower, in Somerville, Massachusetts, who has edited the Wikipedia MIT OCW page some, and may know that community, and Larry Viehland, who is working on CC World University and School with me. Both Len and Larry went to MIT at the same time in Cambridge, MA, in the late 1960s and know each other a little. As MIT graduates Len and Larry may be able to facilitate working with CC MIT OCW in Wikidata as well. 

Since many of you are experienced Wikipedians I'm writing also to inquire how you would suggest best developing MIT OpenCourseWare  in Wikipedia/Wikidata and especially on the educational side of Wikipedia?

World University's intention is to make it easier to enjoy MIT OCW in its 7 languages and to explore extending MIT OCW's ~ 2300 courses in English in Wikidata into all its 289 languages if at all possible, and with machine learning and artificial intelligence in Wikidata as well. We'd like to get in touch with the Wikipedia OpenCourseWare community in addition to the Languages' engineering team about this further as well. if possible. Runa and Magnus, what is the best way to develop CC MIT OpenCourseWare's 7 languages and CC World University' 720 pages in Wikipedia/Wikidata's 289 languages, and especially on the educational side of Wikipedia?

The WMF Languages Engineering team and Wikidata are impressive and growing organizations, and Wikidata is an amazing development in general, and I'm a relative newby to all of this - and am seeking to learn some Wikidata ways in the process of sending this inquiry to you. Thank you. 

Best regards,

Scott

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