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Year: 2007 Week: 07 Number: 61
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Foundation ===
[Fair Use and more] - Board member Kat Walsh has posted the position of the
Wikimedia Foundation regarding media licensing policies. A formal resolution
will follow later. This post is very important and cannot be properly
summarized in one or two sentences. A large amount of feedback has been given
and is still coming in for this topic.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14344 -- Kat's initial
message and direct feedback
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14399/ -- more
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14551 -- even more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Kat_Wa…
-- A talk page can also be used
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-02-12/Media_…
-- Good Signpost article about it
[Wiki up] - Anthere gave a presentation at a conference in Switzerland. One of
things she said was that the Wikimedia Foundation currently has the cash to pay
the bills for about three months. This quote is showing up on the internet
globally as "Wikipedia might disappear in 3 months" and "The end is near
for
Wikipedia". In a post to Foundation-l Ant wishes to reassure that this is not
the case. It'd probably be best to read Anthere's post yourself.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14559 -- Response from
the WMF chair on the rumors
http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/02/the_wikimedia_c.html -- Florence Devouard
sets the record straight
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/02/10/1515233.shtml -- and the talk on /. about
it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-02-12/Financ…
=== Community ===
[Wikimania 2007] - The people working on Wikimania 2007 have published a new
Team Bulletin. If you want to know how planning for Wikimanina is progressing,
you should take a look at the bulletin. And if that reason alone is not enough
incentive, you can find out how to go to Wikimania 2007 for free by taking a
look at the bulletin.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Team_Bulletin/20070205
[US gov's] - United States agencies seem to be interested in articles about them
or related topics. They have been caught editing their own articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-02-12/More_g…
[Welcome!] - How new users are welcomed on a wiki can differ from project to
project. In the early days of a project new users often got a personal welcome.
Later that changed, and personal welcomes were replaced with templates. Some of
this is even done with automated "welcome bots". On Meta, a list has been
compiled that provides an overview of how different projects and languages
welcome new users.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cross-project_comparisons/MediaWiki:Welcomec….
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14272/ -- The page was
started after analysis of welcoming efforts was posted to the foundation-l
mailing list by Commons user pfctdayelise.
=== Suggestion for help ===
[de.wikizine] - Several people have started with a translation of Wikizine in
there language but stopped after a couple of weeks. The latest attempt is a
German language translation. The user who is trying to get that started will be
offline for a couple of weeks. If there is a German speaker who wants to give
it a try you are free to do so.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikizine
=== Media ===
[DE interview] - A very nice interview of [[w:de:Benutzer:Mathias Schindler]]
with English and Chinese translations
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-29-n19.html - English
http://google.blogoscoped.cn/?p=35 -- Chinese
=== Stats ===
[%] - Have you ever wondered what uses the most bandwidth on Wikipedia? Well,
44.50% of bandwidth is uploads (images, video), 18.51% articles, 10.67%
non-article pages, 8.66% skins-css, 5.73% skins-js, 7.59% skins-image, and
4.36% other.
https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Squid_bandwidth_breakdown
[es.wp] - The Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia has passed the 200,000
article mark. This is quite an impressive achievement. The Spanish Wikipedia is
also one of the oldest Wikipedias. Back in February 2002, they encountered some
difficulty when many of the editors left the Wikipedia family and created a
fork, La Enciclopedia Libre. After the fork, the Spanish Wikipedia slowed down
quite a bit, having very few editors and very little activity. The community
was almost completely gone, and the fork became the largest free Spanish
encyclopedia. But, over time, the ES Wikipedia again came to life and overtook
the fork. Now the ES Wikipedia has 200,000 articles and the fork, Enciclopedia
Libre, a mere +/- 35,000 articles. Luckily in this case forking only slowed
down the Spanish Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre
[hu.wp] - The Hungarian Wikipedia is now one of the biggest wikis, having
reached the 50,000 article mark. Like many wikis do, they are in the process of
choosing a special logo to commemorate the event. At first, however, there was
some confusion about what the 50,000th article was. Eventually it was
determined that [[w:hu:Kettős kockázat (Csillagkapu)]] was the 50,000th
article, a page about a Stargate episode. The hu.wp has received some limited
but positive press attention due to this accomplishment.
http://totya.freeweb.hu/wiki/pics.html -- draft versions of the logo, logo 13/b
is interesting (watch out for pop-ups!)
http://hu.wikipedia.org/
=== Other news ===
[Google] - has added a new feature. If you include "info" or
"information" in
the search box, the first result should be the English language Wikipedia
article, if it exists. This works only on the English Google. Do not put to
much trust in it. It works but not always. Some articles can not be found this
way like when you look for "info United States"
http://googlified.com/2007wikipedia-oneboxed/
[WikiXRay] - A project to develop a robust and expandable software tool for
quantitative analysis of Wikipedia is under development. This tool would make
it easier to create graphics and statistical results of vital statistics from
any language wikipedia automatically. It is being developed by José Felipe
Ortega, of the Libresoft Group (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain). A
Python software tool has already been released.
Anyone interested in contributing in any form (deveolpers, graphic interfaces
builders, beta-testers, bug-hunters,people with additional proposals...) is
welcomed to contact [[meta:User:GlimmerPhoenix]] <glimmer_phoenix AT yahoo DOT
es>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiXRay
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/wikixray
=== Did you know ... ===
... you can include a "recent revisions" menu to the your Monobook skin?
The result is that when you view a page you can get clean list of who has edited
that page and when. Just try it. If you do not like it you can revert. To
install this extension:
Go to your monobook.js file. If you can not find it, paste
[[Special:Mypage/monobook.js]] on your userpage and use the link. Paste the
code below onto the page;
document.write('<scr'+'ipt type="text/javascript"'
+
'src="http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gebruiker:JePe/recentrevisionsbox.js'
+
'&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></scr'+'ipt>');
Most likely you will not see anything at first. To get around this problem, you
need to clear your browser's cache. For IE6.0; extra -> Internet options ->
General -> Temporary Internet files -> Delete files -> select option and
"ok".
For other browsers, you should be able to figure it out for yourself.
Refresh, see left upper menu. The section is in Dutch or English, works on all
wikis. Credit for this extension goes to [[w:nl:gebruiker:JePe]]
=== Donation comments ===
"Wiki is helping this poor medical student through Medical School" -- Robert
Paull
"Because any group run by a guy named "Jimbo" deserves my cash." --
Anonymous
"Keep wikipedia ad-free and international!" -- Anonymous
"wikipedia must not disappear!" -- Anonymous
"I am overwhelmed by the diversity and incredible depth of the knowledge here. I
am grateful on behalf of mankind for a wonderful creation." -- Oren Menache
"Free knowledge is not free without our donation" -- Ying Hung Gan
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