[Announce-l] Wikizine - number: 36

Mon Jul 31 23:22:51 UTC 2006

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Year: 2006  Week: 31  Number: 36

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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community

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=== Technical news ===

[More] servers are coming. The WMF board approved the purchase of 20 new
servers
with a value of $61440.00. There are now already 167 servers in service.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Hardware_Purchase_Jul-06
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_server.jpg - View of the
distribution of the server around the world

=== Request for help ===

["Free"] - There is a project for creating a clear definition about what
a free
content licence needs to be to be called "free". Main forces behind this are
Erik Möller/[[meta:User:Eloquence]] and [[w:en:Benjamin Mako Hill]].
Input is
requested to work on the definition and move it to version 1.0
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7076/focus=7090 -
First
announcement 2006-05-01
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8935/focus=8935 -
Update
2006-07-30
http://freecontentdefinition.org/Definition/Unstable

[Job] Wiki expert in Nigeria needed
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27781/focus=27781

=== New project proposals ===

[Wikicat] a project to create an open, bibliographical catalog.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8892

=== Policy ===

[Ombudsman] - A special ombudsman commission is founded to take care of
complaints regarding possible privacy violations. This includes complaints
about the use of the checkuser function.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_ombudsperson_checkuser

[Logo] - The name for the incubator-wiki is confirmed. It stays
"Incubator". The
project also now has its own logo now and is live. And even the
test-wiki has
now a logo.
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/
http://test.wikipedia.org/

=== Foundation ===

[Move] - The WiktionaryZ test site will be hosted by the WMF. This does
not mean
that WiktionaryZ has become an official Wikimedia project.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:WiktionaryZ
http://www.wiktionaryz.org

=== Community ===

[DE.wp news] The Signpost brings a report about how the the German language
Wikipedia is doing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-24/German_Wikipedia_report

=== Media ===

[Front page] - In Japan Wikipedia made it to the front page of one of
the leading newspapers with a long and positive article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tangotango/Asahi - Translation of the
article
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27775/focus=27775
- more info

[Onion] - They say parody is the greatest praise ...
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

=== Stats ===

The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles
http://simple.wikipedia.org/
The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/
The English Wikibooks has reached 20,000 book modules.
http://en.wikibooks.org/

=== Other news ===

[Censor] Saudi Arabia blocks Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-24/Country_blocking

[Private Wikipedia] - Wolf Mountain Group now offers servers for sale with
Wikipedia installed (or any other project/language) on a configuration with
updating software and support for this. With this setup companies and
organisations can offer access to Wikipedia content yet exercise control
because it allows them to remove topics they find less suitable for their
audiences.
A very special function is machine translation of the project installed
to many
native American languages like Cherokee and Comanche. Support for Spanish,
German and Latin are expected. These translations are also available on the
website Wikigadugi.
http://www.wolfmountaingroup.com
http://www.wikigadugi.org/

[Wikizine] - In an attempt to get more people from different project and
languages exposed to Wikizine nearly all wikis will be visited with a
request
to support Wikizine in the coming weeks or months. Thanks to wikis who
agreed
to help recently will be included in the footer weekly.

=== Did you know ...  ===

... that you can add functionality to MediaWiki yourself?

MediaWiki has the option that you as a user can override the default
settings
and change the behavior, add functionality and the look of the wiki by
editing
your [[Special:Mypage/monobook.js]] and[[Special:Mypage/monobook.css]].

There is a useful javascript extension called "popups". It has many
functions.
Highlights are; preview of the page where a hyperlink leads to. So you can
check an edit done by an anonymous without the need to open that page. A
"roll
back" option like the sysops have to revert easy edits.

See;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POPFAQ

=== Ferengi Rules of Acquisition ===

"Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity." Rule 6
"Enough... is never enough." - Rule 97
"Even in the worst of times, someone turns a profit." - Rule 162

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