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Year: 2007 Week: 24 Number: 74
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Technical news ===
[Frameless] - New option for displaying an image; Frameless, like thumbnail,
respects the user preferences for image width but without border and no right
float. [[Image:Example.jpg|frameless]]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images
[Watch this page] - When changing the access level of page sysops have now also
a box to put that page directly on your watchlist.
[New pages] - [[Special:Newpages]] now has option to display new pages from all
namespace; not only from the main namespace.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Newpages
[Block email] - When blocking a user or an IP, sysops now have option to also
block the user or IP to send email using [[Special:Emailuser]].
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Blockip
=== Request for help ===
[Translate] - Help with translations for the board elections, has been
requested.
http://tinyurl.com/2q9d5r
=== Foundation ===
[Elections] - Candidates are been called for the election of to the Wikimedia
Foundation's Board of Trustees. At least three positions will be filled from
this election, with the elected members serving a two year term. Candidates
have until 2007-06-23 23:59:59 UTC to become a candidate. Voting is expected to
start on 2007-06-28. Wikizine will publish presentations of the candidates for
so far the are interested in extra editons.
http://tinyurl.com/22wpg5
[Update data policy] - The board approved a new version of the "Access to
nonpublic data policy". In this version it is not longer explicit necessary to
provide proof of being at least 18 years old but it remains possible that it
will be asked. People working on the emails send to the projects (OTRS) are not
longer included in this policy but fall now under non specific instructions of
the WMF office staff.
http://tinyurl.com/2mbdzg -- The new and old policy , the diff function does
not work good
http://pages.citebite.com/n1b8m5t0g7suy -- Sending proof is possible, not
necessary
=== Community ===
[The Wikinews Bulletin] - Following the success of EN Wikipedia’s SignPost,
New Wikinewise Daniel Bryant, establishes a EN Wikinews community newspaper
that will appear every two weeks on Monday.
http://tinyurl.com/32lgmz
[Deleted] - The last image of Spanish Wikipedia has been erased, so it uses
images from Commons only.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Imagelist
[Mirror] - Wikinews has a problem. It is writing news articles but an important
channel for readers of news to find it, Google News, exclude it. This because
of the wiki way of making the articles. A user on EN Wikinews has made a mirror
of the articles of the EN Wikinews so that Google News can present that version
to the readers of there service.
http://tinyurl.com/2dg2e3
http://thenewswiki.com/
=== Media ===
[Privacy] - Privacy International, a nonprofit organization, reports Wikipedia
being among best sites regarding privacy, but needing improvement.
http://tinyurl.com/2to9f3
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22495
[Holland Open] - Anthere gave the keynote speech in the Netherlands at the
Holland Open Software Conference. One of things Anthere said was that the WMF
wants to improve the software so that the visual impaired have better access to
the content.
http://tinyurl.com/2b99pq -- News report about it (Dutch)
http://tinyurl.com/yvb49q -- Impression by [[meta:user:GerardM]]
=== Stats ===
[Global Stats] - There are no real visitor logs of the WMF websites to
calculated the number of visitors. But there is sampling of the visitors
traffic. Brion has made extrapolations from those to make global total page
view estimates. Brion comes out at seven thousand million (7,008,306,975) for
the number of monthly page views for all WMF wikis. That does not mean that
there seven thousand million visitors monthly. How many unique visitors there
are is not clear. But the ceiling number is known; there are one thousand
million (1,133,408,294) internet users.
http://leuksman.com/log/2007/06/07/wikimedia-page-views/
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
[EN Wiktionary] - The English language Wiktionary got its 400,000th entry.
http://en.wiktionary.org
[pi.wp] - The Pali Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The is not bad
considering that Pali is a dead language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali
=== Other news ===
[Carbon neutral?] - On Foundation-l the topic was raised to consider by the
Wikimedia community to reduce the environmental footprint of the Wikimedia
projects. This by attempting to work environmental friendly and possibly to
look for ways to invest in green projects to compensate the environmental
impact of the projects.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17517/
[Citizendium] - Some technical news about it. Including the report that
Citizendium had in April about 100,000 unique visitors. That is nothing
compared with Wikipedia but it is no fair to compare it with Wikpedia.
http://tinyurl.com/yql79z
[Wikitravel] - The English language edition of Wikitravel has won the "Webby
Award 2007" for best travel website. Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia Foundation
project.
http://www.wikitravel.org/
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php#webby_entry_travel
=== Did you know ... ===
... there is a webbased Ogg Vorbis/Theora player?
The WMF projects use for audio and video the Ogg file format. This format is not
supported out of the box so the necessary codex or a player that supports it
must be installed. That is a step that some users are unable to take for
whatever reason. A webbased player is the way to provide convenient access to
the media to all.
[[w:en:user:Gmaxwell]] has created such a player on the toolserver. A link to
play the media in that player can be added to the audio and video templates. It
is not as good as like on YourTube but is a big improvement. Look at the source
of the templates to find out how to use it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Listen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Video
http://tinyurl.com/2bmvyf -- Example of a webbased played video
=== Ferengi Rules of Acquisition ===
"A woman wearing clothes is like a man in the kitchen." -- Rule 4
"Satisfaction is not guaranteed." -- Rule 19
"Treat people in your debt like family... exploit them." - Rule 111
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