[Announce-l] Wikizine - number: 44

Wed Oct 4 10:55:29 UTC 2006

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Year: 2006  Week: 40  Number: 44        

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

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=== Technical news ===

[Portal] - Wikibooks has now also its own real portal. It used to point to a
page on the wiki to act as portal. The portal is in Wikipedia-style.
http://www.wikibooks.org/

=== Policy ===

[vanity/vandalism] - Our CEO posted a strong statement about corporate
vanity/vandalism-articles. Corporates created non-encyclopedic articles and
when the are removed that call the office of the WMF to complain about it. That
advice of Brad is to be firm and remove that type of articles and block the
users.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/10888/focus=10888

=== Politics ===

[Logo] - the process for selection a new logo for Wikibooks, Wiktionary and
Wikiversity is continuing. No new proposals can be submitted now anymore. The
vote for these logos is not yet open but is closing in.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo

=== Foundation ===

[Promotion] - A new committee for promotion is created. It is a subcommittee of
the Communications committee. Users are invited to help out and work and submit
promotion material. See the posting of Elian.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/10893

[RFC] - On meta is there a page where users can write there comments about the
organisation of the recent board election
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comments/Board_Election_2006

[$] - In September the WMF received $36,311 on donations form PayPal. That is
less then in August but in general the donations are still increasing.

=== Community ===

[Report] - This week it is time for the Danish Wikipedia to write there pice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-25/Interwiki_report

[Summary-l] - the WMF mailing lists receive many postings. Reading everything is
not always possible because it takes a lot of time. User:Improv started a
service to provide a summary of the threads posted on Foundation-l so you can
get quickly get the general idea of the postings. Providing this service is a
lot work. User:Improv seeks volunteers to help and to expand this service to
other lists.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Improv/LSS/foundation-l-current
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Improv

[Jimbo] - the ongoing mission of Jimbo to travel the world and meet Wikipedians
in far away places has brought him recently to India. Where was a
"unconference" with the local Wikipedians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

=== Media ===

[Copyvio] - The french news agency "Agence France Presse" has used text from the
article about the Amish from the DE Wikipedia in a news report. So far no
problem. What is a problem is that the have not given any attribution to
Wikipedia like is required by the GFDL-licence. When contacted by Wikipedian
Mathias Schindler the AFP office confirmed that the text was from Wikipedia and
stated that this was against "AFP policy" because "wikipedia is not a citable
source". They refuse to retract or amend the story with proper attribution for
Wikipedia and the license. AFP sued Google News in 2005 because in AFP's point
of view, Google was violating their copyright with there "google news"
service.
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-03-n18.html

=== Stats ===

[en.wikt] - The English wiktionary has reached 200'000 entries
http://en.wiktionary.org

[en.wp] - The Bengali Wikipedia Reaches 10, 000 articles. It is the 50th
language to do so, and the 2nd language from South Asia to do so. 
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-September/010448.html

=== Other news ===

[+20] - A new batch of 20 new Wikipedias has been created. 
Wu (wuu:), Mazandarani (mzn:),Newar / Nepal Bhasa (new:), Lak (lbe:),
Emilian-Romagnol / Sammarinese (eml:), Buryat (Russia) (bxr:), Upper Sorbian
(hsb:),Novial (nov:),Pangasinan (pag:),Bavarian (bar:), Bishnupriya Manipuri
(bpy:), Zazaki (diq:), Zealandic (zea:), Tarantino (roa-tara:), Zamboanga
Chavacano (cbk-zam:), Classical Chinese (zh-classical:), Old Church Slavonic
(cu:), Siberian/Nort Russian (ru-sib:), Gilaki (glk:), Min Dong (cdo:) 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages#Recently_created_wikis

=== Was ist das? ===

POV: Point of View, the way how things are according the person who writes it
NPOV: Neutral point of view, core value of the WMF-projects. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

=== Quote ===

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little
consequence. The only consequence is what we do.  - John Ruskin 

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

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