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=== Foundation ===
[Image filter referendum] - Voting has started and it will last up to
August 30th. You can discuss it as well. It is about providing the
reader the opt-in option to hide certain types of images that reader
does not like to see.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/enhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/en
=== Chapters ===
[Wikimedia Hungary] - Wikimedia Hungary published reports for March
and April 2011.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…
=== Community ===
[Wikimania 2011] - has come and is gone. It was in Israël, city of
Haifa, this year. Media is available online. Reports about it can be
found in The Signpost. Next Wikimania, the 2012-edition, will be in
the United States of America, Washington.
http://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaIL -- video of Wikimania 2011 on Youtube
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2011 -- media at Commons
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012
[Stewards election] - Candidate submission for the second election for
stewards this year will be open between August 21st and September 7th.
Voting will be held between September 15th and October 6th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2
[Mingrelian Wikipedia] - Wikipedia in Mingrelian language has been
created in July. Mingrelian is a Karvelian (South Caucasian) language
spoken by 500,000 people in Georgia. There are now 282 Wikipedias but
not all are active.
http://xmf.wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingrelian_language
[Language committee] - Language committee report for July has been published.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-07
[Research committee] - Next Research committee meeting will be held on
September 2nd.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2011-09-…
=== Meetups ===
[Manila 14] - August 27, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Manila_14
[RegioWikiCamp Brest (France)] - September 2, 2011
http://wiki.regiowiki.eu/RegioWikiCamp_2011
[Manchester wikimeet] - September 17, 2011
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Manchester
[Berkeley Wikipedia Meetup] - September 17, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley
(Meetups section is filled from Wikipedia:Meetup page at English
Wikipedia. Please, add your meetup there and it will be published by
Wikizine.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
=== Request for Comments ===
[Stewards] - A proposal has been made to simplfy the rules for
granting admin and bureaucrat rights by Stewards. This only relevant
for small wikis that have no (active) bureaucrat.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stewards%27_question:_H…http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/54567
=== Media ===
[Wikipedia Signpost] - Volume 7, Issue 33 ? 15 August 2011 has been
published. Stories in this edition: Women and Wikipedia, Chapter
funding and what skeptics and Latter Day Saints have in common,
Wikipedia a ?sausage fest?, Chicago Wikipedians (?the people you?ve
probably plagiarized?), and other silly season stories, WikiProject
report: The Oregonians and so on.
http://www.wikipediasignpost.com/blog/?p=369
=== Stats ===
[Wikipedia] - Chinese Wikipedia is again in the top 10 Wikipedias by
page views and it seems that it will stay so in August, as well. For
the period July 2010 - July 2011 Kazakh Wikipedia raised visits for
514%.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
[Wikinews] - Page views raised for 16% during the last year, mostly
thanks to the raise of French, German and Portuguese editions. Persian
Wikinews raised for almost 6000% during the past year.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
[Wikisource] - The first 13 Wikisource editions by page views have
increased level of visits for the last year.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
=== Was ist das? ===
"OpenZim" - if you have used the function on the wiki to make a "book"
you maybe have noticed that besides PDF and ODT as export option there
is also "OpenZim".
Kiwix is the program you need for that. It is a project to offer a
offline reader for Wikipedia. The have just released a new
beta-version, version 0.9. Supported are; GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows.
Kiwix provides a user experiences that is very close to reading the
live wiki. You can view a selection of articles you have bundled
yourself or someone else, like The Signpost (see "book edition").
You can also download the database of a specific language edition of a
Wikipedia. This gives a very convenient way to have a offline version
of Wikipedia.
http://www.kiwix.org
PS; do not confuse it with "kwiki" when installing form repository.
=== Did you know ... ===
... you can edit your Galaxy?
When Wikipedia started 10 years ago it was revolutionary; a
encyclopedia that everybody can edit. How to top that? Edit your own
galaxy!
http://www.galaxiki.org/
=== Quote ===
"It's a bad idea, and should be strangled at birth."
-- mailing list responds about the idea to include a "like button" to edits
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=== 2010 ===
[News of the Wiki: year 2010] - Wikizine totally failed at informing
you about Wikimedia news last year. This was regrettable but
unavoidable due the lack of active staff. Fortunately, "The Signpost"
looks better than ever and provides an excellent overview about the
main topics of the past year in the Wikimedia world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-03/2010_i…
=== Technical news ===
[Virginia Data Center] - the WMF has rented space in a data center in
Virginia, USA. Installation of the hardware has been scheduled for
February 2011. This location will soon become the main WMF data center.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Data_Center_Virginia
[Article feedback] - a function to give readers the option of rating
the quality of an article has been activated on a few pages of the
English Wikipedia. The test showed that anonymous users give a much
higher score than registered users. It started in September 2010 and
is ongoing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion -- an article with the feedback
function enabled
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot_Phase_2
[WMF Engineering Update] - an extensive overview of technical news,
events and more.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/wmf-engineering-update/#more-1268
=== Request for help ===
[Keep your news clippings] - Do you see an article about Wikipedia in
a newspaper or other printed media? Keep it. Contact your local
chapter (if it exists) to ask if they can keep it safe for your local
community. When there is no chapter, just keep it yourself --
especially if you are from a small language Wikipedia. Every article
that appears in print is something to collect.
=== Foundation ===
[Founder] - A video message from Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to
the world
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WalesCalltoAction.ogv
=== Agenda ===
[StrataConf 2011] - February 1-3, 2011, Santa Clara, California ? Many
Wikimedians will be attending the O'Reilly conference, and there will
be a an informal meetup with foundation staff member Erik Zachte on
Wikimedia Data.
http://strataconf.com/strata2011
[FOSDEM] - February 5-6, Brussels, Belgium ? Tomasz Finc, Arthur
Richards, and Roan Kattouw will be at FOSDEM 2011 this year. They will
be speaking about data collection at Wikimedia.
http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
=== Community ===
[Celebrations] - A collection of photos from many Wikipedia 10
community events are available on the "Ten Wikipedia". All of these
photos, especially the "international birthday cakes", are very nice
and worth a look. Online you could see that there was something
special at the English Wikipedia which used the special Wiki10 logo,
and at the Dutch Wikipedia which used the old Wikipedia logo for one
day.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_gallery#Wikipedia_10_Cakeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-17/News_a… -- report about Wiki10 by the
Signpost
=== Media ===
[10 years] - There has been a huge amount of media coverage. A very
long - and totaly incomplete - list of links to articles can be found
at the "Ten Wikipedia". There has been also radio and television
interviews, not only with WMF key figures but also with regular users.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage
[A few links] - A very small selection of recent articles about the
10th anniversary of Wikipedia. For more, see above.
http://www.wired.co.uk/topics/wikipedia-weekhttp://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899/http://www.slate.com/id/2281294/
=== Other news ===
[Translating EN WP] - A common misconception is that the many language
editions of Wikipedia are actually translations of the English
Wikipedia. In the case of Thai, however, this is correct. "Asia
Online" created a complete translation of EN Wikipedia to the Thai
language. This was done through advanced machine translation and a
staff of 10 proofreaders.
http://www.globalwatchtower.com/2011/01/13/asia-online-thai-wikipedia/
=== Did you know ... ===
... there are two Spanish language "Wikipedias"?
The ES Wikipedia forked to an independent project in the early days of
Wikipedia: "Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español". At first the new
project was very successful, but ES Wikipedia overtook the fork in
2004. A couple of days ago the Spanish language Wikipedia passed the
700,000 article mark and remains the 7th largest Wikipedia. The fork
is still bravely working on their own version and has a respectable
46,000 articles. It would be 53th largest Wikipedia if it were part of
our club.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre_Universal_en_Espa%C3%B1olhttp://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/2011/01/15/spanish_fork/
-- read me; long interview with Edgar Enyedy, early ES Wikipedia about
the fork and Wikipedia
=== Quote ===
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should
be afraid of their people."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)
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=== Community ===
[Wikipedia-day] - Once more it is almost the most important holiday of
the year: Wikipedia day. Now Saturday we celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the project. The start of the very first Wikipedia, the
English language Wikipedia.
But this is also a day of celebration for all the other many projects
and language editions who form the Wikimedia-family;
Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity,
Wikispecies, Commons
10 years. 400 million unique visitors a month. 80,000 active volunteer
editors. 17 million articles (wikipedia's only). A very successful
fundraiser ( $US 16 million).
Time to celebrate! - And how to do that? - With a special celebration-wiki;
http://ten.wikipedia.org/
There are many Wikimeets and events world-wide. Check the
celebration-wiki for an event near you. Wikipedia will also come these
day extra in the news so watch those news reports on TV and newspapers
to see what the traditional media write about our project.
=== Wikimedia news ===
[Steward elections] - Call for candidates for the upcoming
steward-election. Stewards perform technical tasks on all Wikimedia
wikis. Sort of über admin.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011
[Wikimania 2011] - Applications are open until the end of the month
for a subsidy to go to Wikimania 2011 in Israel.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
=== Quote ===
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge.
That?s our commitment.
Jimmy Wales
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Dear subscribers to the announce-l mailing list,
this list was was set up to distribute WikiZine, a community news
bulletin. The last bulletin was distributed in January, and WikiZine
has fallen through periods of activity and inactivity before. So, this
list will continue to remain available, and your subscription will
remain active.
I wanted to take a moment to inform you of other ways to keep abreast
of developments in the Wikimedia universe:
1) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaAnnounce-l
This is a moderated mailing list where representatives of the
Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia chapters, as well as volunteer
groups, share reports and updates. You can view the list archives
through the above URL. I encourage you to subscribe, as we're trying
to develop this list into a key internal communications tool.
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
The English Wikipedia Signpost is one of the most comprehensive
community-written updates on important Wikipedia happenings. You can
subscribe to the weekly Signpost by RSS feed and by a number of other
means here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Subscribe>
For reports and updates in other languages, please see the sidebar of
language links.
3) http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
Planet Wikimedia is a blog aggregator. It groups together various
Wikimedia and community blogs and is topically filtered to
Wikimedia-relevant posts. If you blog about Wikimedia, you can add
your blog to the aggregator to give it a greater audience:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia>. Again, please note
the availability of "Planet Wikimedias" in other languages.
4) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports
This wiki page is a central hub of reports from organizations and
projects that make up the Wikimedia movement. You can help us make it
more complete, and you can help us create wiki copies of reports so
that they can be translated and enriched by the community.
I hope this information was helpful :-). Wikimedia is a global
movement, and we view it as one of our key responsibilities to help in
the development of clear and understandable internal communications
structures and processes.
All best,
Erik
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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=== Technical news ===
[Flagged revisions] - status information about flagged revisions and
how the English Wikipedia is going to use it.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/flagged-revisions-your-questions-answ…
[10gbit/sec] - on the 11th of January Wikimedia's world-wide
five-minute-average transmission rate crossed 10gbit/sec. This peak
rate was achieved while serving roughly 91,725 requests per second.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/46655
[Wikipedia and Google] - A custom Google skin for Wikipedia is
created. It provides advanced Google/Wikipedia search options.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/26/google-experiments-with-new-ways-to-se…
=== Foundation ===
[Stewards] - Candidate submissions are open for the function of
Steward. A steward is a user who has the administrative user rights to
grant and revoke all existing user levels on all Wikimedia Foundation
projects. It can be compared with a super-bureaucrat.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010/Guidelines#Candidates
-- until 28th January
[WMF fundraiser] - it has come and is gone again. The Wikimedia
Foundation was able to raise just over $8 million USD. In Euro it 5,5
million. In any case it was the most successful fundraiser to date.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/2009_Fundraiser_Closing_…
[WMF move] - The Wikimedia Foundation started in Saint-Petersburg,
Florida. And moved in early 2008 to San Francisco, California. A
couple of months ago the WMF moved again to a larger office in the
neighborhood of the old office.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
=== Community ===
[Commons] - Post of Erik about how the contend imported on Commons
from partnerships have been used on the projects.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/43645
[Wiki jobs] - If you work on a WMF project and do your best, maybe,
just maybe, you will be offered a job. That was the case with
[[user:Mike Halterman]] from EN Wikinews. His work on Wikinews
attracted the attention of a new magazine starting up in Tampa,
Florida, USA, This user did had a journalistic background but this
online work at Wikinews was the ticket. Nine months after being hired
as a writer, Mike Halterman is now lead editor of OMG! Magazine.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Mike_Haltermanhttp://omgmag.com
=== Awards ===
[PL Wiki] - Polish Wikipedia has been awarded a "Jan ?ukasiewicz
special award for social innovation in the application of IT" by the
Polish IT Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne). The award has
been received by Pawe? Jochym, a co-founder of pl.wiki, and Prof.
Janusz "Ency" Doro?y?ski, an active Polish Wikimedian and a member of
the Society.
=== Media ===
[A editor story] - A nice article about one of the many people working
on the wiki
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR200910220…
=== Other news ===
[Wikitravel] - has changed there license to "Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0". This is the same license as the Wikimedia
Foundation is using for most projects.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:License_upgrade
[Upcoming holiday] - 25th of January Magnus Manske Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day
=== Editorial notice ===
So, this was the first Wikizine of 2010 (and it was not even a good
one). It has been a couple of months since the previous Wikizine.
There was a short revival of Wikizine in the period of August,
September and October. And now this edition in January. I can not make
any promises for a next edition. Maybe until Wikizine 121,
Greetings,
User:Walter
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