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=== Technical news ===
-[Rename User] the special page to rename users has come back the same way
as it disappeared; unexpected. Bureaucrats should now again have the
option to rename a user-account to another name, given that the name of
the new user-account does not yet exist (see special pages). It also looks
like the original limit, stating that only users with less then 6800 edits
can be renamed, is still valid. Using Kate's tool, users can check
themselves their number of edits doesn't exceed this limit. If your wiki
does not have a formal policy for renaming users, please make sure at
least that all users requesting to be renamed have placed a properly
signed request on your wiki themselves. This to cover your ass as a
bureaucrat.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits
-[Fancy nicks]- For nicks including tags, such as <font color="red"> color
tags, it was found that many times the closing tag, in this case </font>
had been left out, messing up pages. The MediaWiki software has been
changed because of this. Wiki markup and HTML markup do no longer function
in the Nickname field any longer, unless the Raw signatures option is
checked in your preferences. The current version has been tested and found
to be secure against scripts, too. For more information follow the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_fix_your_signature
=== Global ===
-[Wikimentary] a project about making documentaries of Wikimedia from
uncut source video made at Wikimania 2005. This project is looking for
people to help. "WIKIMANIA-ROUGH_CUT.mov" is a work-in-progress
documentary, 11min, QuickTime, 316 MB.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/5246http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimentaryhttp://www.archive.org/details/WIKIMANIA-ROUGH_CUT.mov
-[Wikimania 2006] is on it's way in being organized. There are many things
that need to be done for the organization of this event. To see how to
help go to [[meta:Wikimania 2006]] or at ask at wikimania-l
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
-[Catalan Wikipedia]- The second Wikipedia to be created after the
original English Wikipedia, has reached 20,000 articles.
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Twenty_thousand_articles_in_Ca…
=== Media ===
-[Award] the Wikimedia Foundation was awarded a World Technology Award in
communication, joining the ranks of other World Technology Network
members. (no article about this in WikipediaEN yet)
http://www.wtn.net/2005/summit/
=== Stats ===
-[Stats]- ERRATUM: In number 0 of Wikizine we wrote that "Erim Zachte" has
created the new stats. This is not correct. This is of course Erik Zachte
([[w:nl:Gebruiker:Erik_Zachte]]), also the creator of Wikipedia for Pocket
PC, Palm, EPOC and EasyTimeline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htmhttp://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/
=== Other news ===
-[Wikizine]- a new information channel for the Wikimedia community came
into being.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l
=== Quote ===
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." -Jimmy
Wales, July 2004
=== Editorial comment ===
The number of our readers has increased by +/- 110 subscribers, to a total
of 160 since last week. Nice :-)
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=== Technical news ===
The [Search] function now require all given terms to match by default.
You can use options like;
* stuff AND (foo OR bar)
* stuff "foo bar"
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20327
=== Policy ===
-[CheckUser] The policy for CheckUser has gone live this week.
A quote from the policy: "The tool is to be used to fight vandalism or
check abuse of sockpuppets,
for example when there is a suspicion of illegal voting.
It must be used only to prevent damage to one or several of Wikimedia
projects."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_Policy
=== Politics ===
-[Access Denied!] after China blocking Wikipedia, next the Kurdish
Wikipedia is now blocked in Iran.
The other versions are not (yet) blocked.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25494http://ku.wikipedia.org/
=== Stats ===
-Erim Zachte has released the new stats, based on the SQL-dumpfiles of
Saturday, November 5 2005.
The do not contain visitors stats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm
- [Wiktionary] has 100,000 articles in English.
http://en.wiktionary.org
=== Other news ===
-[Physical Wiki] Semapedia.org provides a service to create tags to be put
on objects
in the real world. With those tags and a cellphone you can request the
relevant article.
http://www.semapedia.org/
=== Quote ====
"[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it,
but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made"
- "Who knows?", The Guardian, Tuesday, October 26, 2004
=== Editorial comment ===
So, that is it. Number 0. The experiment is over. The feedback about
Wikizine was limited but enough.
I can now confirm that there will be Wikizine next week. I will try to
make some publicity about Wikizine.
Now everbody may know about it. The first issue of Wikizine, number -5, is
sent to about 40 listmembers.
We now have about 55 members. What it will be for number 1 I will tell you
next week. Bye!
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=== Technical news ===
-[Sitemap] We now provide sitemaps for all Wikimedia wikis.
Sitemaps are XML lists of all the pages in a website.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20316http://sitemap.wikimedia.org/sitemap/
=== Policy ===
-[CheckUser] there is a draft-policy for the use of the "CheckUser" function.
Users who have this function can look-up the ipadress of any user.
This policy will apply for all Wikimedia projects.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_CheckUser_Policy
-[Bots] the page to request bot-status is from now on separated from the
general "Requests for permissions" page.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_bot_status
=== Foundation ===
-[Print Wikipedia] many media sources are reporting that Wikipedia will be
printed and sent to Africa around mid 2006.
Userfriendly has a nice cartoon about it.
Back in the real world; since end of 2004 there is a CD-rom and also a DVD
of the German Wikipedia.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/01/wikipedia.reut/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051102http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pressemitteilungen/Wikipedia-DVD
-[Wikimania2006] request for help for the organisation of Wikimania
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4849
-[Wikiversity] the formal vote for this new project will close very soon
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity
=== Other news ===
- [New user level] the English Wikipedia is considering to create a new
category of users. Users with "Rollback privileges".
These will be registered users who have also a "rollback" link that you
see in the RC if you are a sysop.
Mediawiki supports this function but for the moment there is not yet an
interface to set this permission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback_privileges
=== Quote ===
"To change time settings, do as Timwi instructed.
To change _time_, on the other hand, is a great deal more complex, and
I don't think anybody on this mailinglist wants to explain it." -- Mark
Williamson
=== Editorial comment ===
Wikizine has now the new section "Quote". In a ideal world this would contain
a new quote made the previous week by a member of the Wikimedia community.
But like you probably noticed already this is not an ideal world.
For this week I was lucky to find a good one on the mailing lists.
But mostly the quotes will be old ones from Wikipedians, geeks and similar.
After this Wikizine there is only one experimental issue left, number 0,
before we start with the real stuff. So if you have a comment about
Wikizine how to make it better or to help contact me.
I hope to receive at least the same response like on the Wikizine of last
week. I can now confirm there is at least one (1) reader of Wikizine.
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=== Technical news ===
-[OTRS] is down. Emails do not get lost. Technical staff knows about it.
https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl
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=== Technical news ===
-[Rename user] This option is disappeared. No news why or if it will return.
-[Nuke] On the Wiki of Meta the is an new option for sysops "Mass
delete" (Special:Nuke). This tool allows for mass deletions of pages
recently added by a given user or IP.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Specialpages
-[Korean Wikipedia] has moved to the Yahoo-cluster in Korea. This is the
first real use of this cluster. Other East Asian wikis will follow.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/19869
-[IRC-Wikimedia] the IRC-channels of the Wikimedia have moved. All
#prefix.wikixxx has changed.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/24978
-[IRC-usernames] Freenode will also change policy for the usernames. Not
yet active.
http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#usernames
==Politics ==
-[Wikinews] will now be using the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Licensure_Poll
== Stats ==
-[Alexa] says Wikipedia is now around the 32th most popular website
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&comp…
== Other news ==
-[deads] French core contributor dies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-10-10/News_a…
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== Why do I get this ?? ==
You probably do not remember it but you are an member of the mailing
list "Announce-l". This list is created in November 2002.
Even in that time, when Wikipedia was much and much smaller then now,
it was not easy to follow everything what was going on on the mailing
lists and on the Wikis. The idea of this list "Announce-l" was that
important things where announced on that list. So that the ambassadors
could get feedback from there home-wiki and participated in the
discussion. And also so that you do not need to read all the mailing
lists posting and watch many wiki-pages to know what is going on.
There was no support for this.
A new attempt was done recent;
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4071
This time only to use to announce technical changes and problems that
have an impact for the end-users of the wikis. This has received more
support. But because of the lack of co-operation of the technical staff
of Wikimedia also this did not work out.
And now there is the attempt do do whit "Wikizine" something useful whit
this dead mailing list. And this "Wikizine" is using the dead list
"Announce-l" for sending its message. And that is why go you are
getting this.
== And what is "Wikizine"? ==
Basically it is an overview of news regarding the Wikimedia-community
that the editor has discovered and thinks is important. There are many
places inside the Wikimedia-world where there can be found news. And it
is also hidden under many other messages.
The idea of "Wikizine" is to give an selection of that news whit an very
small summary and the url where you can read about. Wikizine is not for
writing news but to collect the fragments of news and linking to them.
== Who should read Wikizine? ==
Everybody who likes to do so may read it off cource. But the target
audience is definitely; stewards, ambassadors, bureaucrats and sysops,
members of the board of one of the wikimedia foundations.
It is for the people who are doing the Wiki-management. The focus will
be on the technical aspect. News about changes in the way the wiki
works, news functions. Things that are broken. Other Wikimedia news
will also be included but the focus is technical news that has an impact
for the users and readers of the wiki.
== Who is creating Wikizine? ==
For now I, Walter Vermeir, am creating it. I try to find out all the
news that I can find and if I find it is is important I put it in
Wikizine. If you new some news you may send it to my: walter(a)wikipedia.be
== Time-line ==
This type of editions of Wikizine will be special. It is not the idea of
Wikizine for writing this type editorials. A normal edition will be send
once a week on Monday (more or less). The can be very short. It is not
my intention to include a lot of other things when there is not much
important news
When there is urgent news you will receive a Wikizine extra edition.
Example: Some time ago I discovered that the emails whit questions from
visitors send to the dutch language Wikipedia where not received. There
was a problem whit the email system of Wikimedia. So for some days the
emails where lost. We, the email team of the dutch wiki, did not know
that. We where not informed. If this was the case now I would send a
"Wikizine extra".
For know this Wikizine-thing is an experiment. It is possible it will
stop after some editions. You have received now also the first real
"Wikizine". Number "-5" (minus 5). So long the have negative numbers
it will only be send to you, those few current members of Announce-l.
There will not be made any notice about this experiment any where.
If we make it to edition "zero" it will be announced on Wikipedia-l and
Wikimedia-l and we will go public. But that is still some weeks from
now. For now please do not forward Wikizine to to other mailing lists.
Wikizine is still alfa. You are the testers.
Also, do not respond on these messages. This list is only for the
sending of Wikizine, not for discussion.
== Unsubscribe ==
It is an mailing list. So you can unsubscribe the normal way if you are
not interested. I prefer to have 10 readers who read it then 30 who
delete it.
Go to;
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l
If you do not know anymore what the email address is you have used to
subscribe view this message whit full headers (view source) and look for
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