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Year: 2006 Week: 35 Number: 40
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Technical news ===
[The Return Of The Stats] - On a wikipedia long ago, before MediaWiki and the
WMF, there where webalizer visitor stats. You could see which pages where the
most popular of Wikipedia. Now, many years later, this information can be again
available for your wiki. [[w:de:User:LeonWeber]] has created a tool to count
the requests. See the page on Meta for the information how to get it. But I can
be a good idea to discuss this in your community first to avoid problems.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCharts
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27848/focu…
[Time] - Tim Starling has written a new parser function for time and date
formatting, called
#time and it is live now on the projects. It gives many options for displaying
the time and date. One of the possibility's is that it can give the current
time +X-hours (or minus) or the same with dates.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/26416…
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23time
[Linksearch]] - There is special page named [[Special:Linksearch]]. By entering
there a domain name or part of a domain name you can see on wish page those
external links are placed. Can be useful to clean up linkspam vandalism.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch
=== Request for help ===
[Candidates] - There is still for to do in translating that statements of the
candidates for the board.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_translations_2006/En#Candidates
=== Politics ===
[Election] - The registration of candidates for the board election is closed.
There are about 20 candidates now, some have presented thyself near the end,
some have withdrawn thyself. And some will probably be excluded because the
have not confirmed there candidacy like requested. The actual voting is
supposed to start on September first and will close on the 21th September.
Wikizine has done an attempt to present to you the candidates with the extra
editions. Also the Signpost has done a special effort. A sort of written
interviews with the candidates who responded to there questions. If you are
interested in this elections this is a must read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-28/Board_…
=== Foundation ===
[New committee] - The WMF board approved the creation of the "fundraising
committee". The function of this committee is not defined in the resolution.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_fundraising_committee/member…
[CFO resigns] - Daniel Mayer resigns as Chief Financial Officer of the
Wikimedia
Foundation. Daniel Mayer remains involved with the WMF finances as member of the
newly created "fundraising committee". The WMF has hired a professional
experienced bookkeeper who will work to start with on a part-time basis.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9689/focus=9689 - Daniel
resigns as CFO
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9728/focus=9728 - New
bookkeeper hired
[SP-com] - The WMF Special projects committee is holding a public meeting on
IRC. This on September 2 or 3 arround 20u UTC. See the meta-page for more
information.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Special_projects_committee#SPC_Public_M…
=== Community ===
[Beta] - The announced Beta Wikiversity is now live. This wiki is an incubator
for Wikiversities in various new languages. And also a global platform aiming
at coordinating Wikiversity projects in several languages. This coordination
should deal with Wikiversity's mission and general guidelines of the project's
scope. For example, about original research.
http://beta.wikiversity.org/
[Logo] - A new project (Wikiversity) so there is need for a new logo. The start
is given for that process by collecting possible logos for Wikiversity.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
[Verifiability] is a policy on the English Wikipedia. "The threshold for
inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." That means that what is
written must be proven by sources, the fact that it is true is not enough. Not
all Wikipedias have the same policies. Local wikis are looking for policy
inspiration on other projects and sometimes the adopt policies form other
wikis. Currently the Russian Wikipedia is holding a vote regarding the question
to adopt also the policy of verifiability for there wikipedia. Verifiability
has currently on the ru.wp with 53 votes more support then "no" with 32 votes.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вики&a…;роверяемость
[Signpost Radio] - w:en:user:Omaryak provides now audio versions of the English
language Wikipedia Signpost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Audio
[userboxes] - On userpages are sometimes loaded with boxes to inform about the
most unexpeted topics. Those boxes can give controversy about them. One way of
dealing with userboxes that some wikis are using is the "German solution". The
Spanish comunity has decided to implement the German solution for the
userboxes,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:German_userbox_solution
[Swedish Wikipedia] shows everything the are proud of from there community in
the interwiki report of the Signpost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-21/Interw…
=== Media ===
[China] - News about Wikipedia/media in the Chinese press; "Wikipedia chief says
no to censorship"
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=51805
[Africa] - "African Languages Grow as a Wikipedia Presence" article about the
african languages Wikis and the lack of africans working on them. Publised
several newsparers including the NY Times, Herald Tribune and Slashdot.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/BIZ04/608270326/…
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/27/1757237
=== Stats ===
[ku.wp] - The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles. This is the work of
the 15 active users and mostly of only 5 very active users.
http://ku.wikipedia.org
[tg.wp] - The Tajik Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. And that is mostly the
work of only 3 very active users of a total of 9 active users.
http://tg.wikipedia.org
[Wikizine] has now 500 subscribers by email.
Editorial remark: Thank you. Walter
=== Did you know ... ===
... how to enter directly a search query to the wiki?
You enter [alt]+F The result is that the cursor is blinking in the search box.
Type what you look and press enter. But it can even more easy. If you add some
code to you [[Special:Mypage/monobook.js]] then the cursor will always be
waiting by default in the search box for your request.
Include;
// Park the the cursor allways in the search box - by [[w:en:User:Splarka]]
addOnloadHook(function()
{document.getElementById('searchform').elements[0].focus(); return false;;});
=== IRC Quote ===
<Toazt> "Too few women on the internet?
<Toazt> There are lots of women on the internet,
<Toazt> only most of them are naked and in JPG-format."
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Unique Visitors website this week: 962
Editor(s): Walter
E-mail: ihavenews AT wikizine DOT org
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