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Year: 2006 Week: 26 Number: 31
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Technical news ===
[SpecialPage] again a new one; "[[Special:Uncategorizedimages]] - to
translate edit [[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages]] and
[[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages-summary]]
[Magic word] {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} and __NOGALLERY__ added.
"[OpenID] will likely be supported later this year. - Brion" OpenID is
a system to be used for identification for website who are supporting
the system. The benefit is that you only need one account that can be
used to log on to all participating websites.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8281
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
=== Request for help ===
[Translation] request for the new privacy policy.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests
=== New project proposals ===
[Simple Spanish] "Would it be an idea to start a "simple Spanish" wiki:
sencillo.wikipedia.org?" - There is some support but like it looks now
not enough.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8010/focus=8226
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sencillo - Embryo of the
project
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Simple_Spanish_Wi…
=== Policy ===
[Privacy policy] the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy has been
updated. The most current version is the version "June 2006". The
changes between the versions are modest.
http://tinyurl.com/re9vx - current version
http://tinyurl.com/pkjyg - the changes between the versions
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8241/focus=8241
[NewLogos] Discussions are ongoing with logo proposals on Meta regarding
the redesign of logos on Wiktionary and Wikibooks, as well as on a logo
for Wikimedia Incubator. Currently the incubator logo proposals look the
most original.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_logo_for_Wiktionary
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_for_Incubator
=== Politics ===
[Board expansion?] Jimbo considers to expand the board with a famous
person. There is support for the idea but not to add them to the board
but to a "advisory board".
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8122/focus=8122
=== Foundation ===
[Wikimedia Italia] was present at the "FestAmbiente 2006", held in
Vicenza, Italy, from June 22nd to 25th. This is an event that attracts
the general public and has many visitors. Many pictures and some details
are available.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Vicenza_2006
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Raduno_di_Vicenza_2006
=== Media ===
[NYT wave] the effect of the article published last week in the New York
Times keeps spreading across the globe. Articles about this none-event
have appeared in newspapers in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and
India. In Belgium on the Flemish television there was even a small item
about this in a general news bulletin.
http://blog.jimmywales.com/index.php/archives/2006/06/19/ - new posting
from Jimbo regarding this
[:-(] "The Six Sins of the Wikipedia" - Not everbody loves Wikipedia
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1911&cid=1&sid=19
[TorontoStar] article about Wikipedia and the Britannica with no obvious
errors
http://tinyurl.com/kotw8
[Spotlight] - Now that Brad Patrick is the new Interim Executive
Director and legal counsel of the WMF the press has found him. Jimbo
seems to get competition.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=64…
=== Stats ===
[GoogleStats] Wikipedia is extremely popular. That is no news. But how
do get people end up at Wikipedia? For a very large part by google. And
google is putting statistics online of the evolution of the search
requests of the those words. So you can see the rise of Wikipedia by
Google (TM)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Wikipedia&ctab=2&geo=all&date=all -
Wikipedia
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikimedia&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all -
Wikimedia
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiktionary&ctab=1&geo=all&date=a… -
Wiktionary
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Wikiquote&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all - Wikiquote
[100] There are now 100 Wikipedias with 1000 articles or more. In total
there are 229 Wikipedias. There are estimated 7300 languages.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
[PT.wiki] The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles with Çon
dilleri.
http://pt.wikipedia.org
=== Did you know ... ===
... that Delphine is not a fish?
notafish : inv. n. from English "not a fish" .
From Delphine, pronounced Delfin [de], or delfín [es] =
dolphin, which, as everybody knows, is not a fish but a mammal
NB : notafish does
not take a capital "n". Never. Ever.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Notafish - Chapter co-ordinator,
board member of Wikimédia France
=== IRC Quote ===
<i8b4uUnderground> d-_-b
<BonyNoMore> how u make that inverted b?
<BonyNoMore> wait
<BonyNoMore> never mind
<Beeth> Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are
already taken.
<honx> well, you can stil get one from a strange country :-P
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