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Year: 2006 Week: 22 and 1/2 Number: 27
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Technical news ===
[Magic words] New magic word: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Time
[Tiny bits] A lot of small changes to the Wikis. See B.R.I.O.N. of the
Signpost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-29/Techno…
=== Request for help ===
[Activism Wiki] is a non-wikimedia project. But the hope to become it
one day. The request help for making there content less POV.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7464
http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/User:Nabarry
=== New project proposals ===
[WikiPoll] "a wiki whose goal is to propose polls to everyone". The have
a testwiki with a nice MediaWiki extension to support polls.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiPoll
http://wikipoll.free.fr/mediawiki-1.6.5/index.php?title=Society
[WikiBrain] - see meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiBrain
=== Foundation ===
[New employee] The Foundation decided to hire a full time employee to
answer phone calls and handle emails send to Wikimedia (OTRS).
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_OTRS
[RedHat] Jimbo is invited by Red Hat, the company behind Red Had and
Fedora Linux distribution, to come and speak at a conference in Delhi,
India. Red Hat will be paying for the air plain tickets for Jimbo and
donate $3000 for the Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7424
=== Community ===
[CA.wikinews] There is now a Catalan edition of Wikinews.
http://ca.wikinews.org
[logo] It seems there is a new logo for wikisource. Or is it not new?
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Logo_update
=== Media ===
Wikipedia second as the best "Global Web Site" in Byte Level Research
Study.
http://cio.tekrati.com/research/news.asp?id=7122
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