[Announce-l] Wikizine - number: 45

Sun Oct 8 06:00:38 UTC 2006

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Year: 2006  Week: 41  Number: 45        

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

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=== Technical news ===

[username at foobar.com] - New accounts on the WMF-wikis can not longer be created
if the username contains the @-symbol. Existing users who have that symbol in
there username can still login but only temporary. All these users need to
request for a username change. Contact a local bureaucrat to do that or ask a
steward if your wiki does not have a bureaucrat.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#Username_changes
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6849

[CategoryTree] - On the category-pages there is now a function added that lets
users
browse through the lower category levels from the higher category.
There is an option to "expand" the category. This makes it much more
easy to navigate and find the category you are looking for without the
need to actually request the different layers of the category. This function
works only if javascript is enabled. If not, the "+" symbol appears but
does not work. Those users can still use the categories the traditional way.

Besides the implementation of this function on the category pages, 
there is also a new special page [[Special:CategoryTree]] that provides
this functionaly. To localize the messages for this, modify the
MediaWiki-pages starting with "Categorytree".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CategoryTree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History - example of a categoryusing this
function

=== Stats ===

[Going-up] - According to comScor is the traffic to Wikipedia in Europe in
August strongly increased and has Wikipedia now the 6th place of the most
popular websites (in Europe).
http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20061005/CGTH03005102006-1.html

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