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Year: 2006 Week: 21 Number: 26
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Technical news ===
[NewTool] CommonsTicker is a tool written by [[w:de:User:Duesentrieb]] for
collecting critical events regarding images on Commons and posting them to
the wikis using the respective image. So with this tool you see what is
going on with the images that your wiki is using from commons.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7246
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker
[nofollow] On the English Wikipedia is the rel="nofollow" attribute now in
use on external links outside the main article namespace. By adding
rel="nofollow" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of
that hyperlink should not be afforded any additional weight or ranking by
user agents which perform link analysis upon web pages (e.g. search
engines).
http://
tinyurl.com/ng3cw
[Magic words] New magic words {{BASEPAGENAME}}, {{BASEPAGENAMEE}},
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}} and {{CURRENTVERSION}} were introduced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-15/Techno…
=== New project proposals ===
[Wiki Activism] WikiActivism is a project for past and present social
movements such as the Civil Rights movement, Animal Rights movement, and
the blooming Immigrant Rights movement.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_new_projects#Wiki_Activism
=== Foundation ===
[Chapters news] Delphine (notafish) is back from Europe where she visited
various Wikimedia chapters. Read the interesting report of Delphine about
Wikimedia Polska, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia
Serbia and Montenegro.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7300
[de.wikimedia] Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. has decided to open a office in
the real world. The WMDE is currently searching for office space in the
Frankfurt area. The hope that the office will be open from October.
Initially there will be one employee for that office, a "Geschäftsführer"
(director, chief clerk, manager). There where 65 candidates for that
function. Arne Klempert [[w:de:Akl]], member of the board of WMDE, is
selected for this function.
=== Community ===
[About Wikimania] The Wikipedia Signpost has a interesting series about
Wikimania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-04-10/Wikima…
=== Stats ===
[Stats update] Project statistics updated, except for Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-22/Statis…
http://stats.wikimedia.org/
[wo] The Wolof Wikipedia passes the 100 article mark with the addition of
French Southern Territories (French Southern Territories), part of a
series of unencyclopedic "articles" started by Ji-Elle.
http://wo.wikipedia.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language
=== Did you know ... ===
... there is a Wikipedia-game?
http://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm
=== IRC quote ===
<mage> what should I give sister for unzipping?
<Kevyn> Um. Ten bucks?
<mage> no I mean like, WinZip?
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it
works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
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