[Announce-l] EN Wikizine - number: 46

Wed Oct 18 22:08:48 UTC 2006

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Year: 2006  Week: 42  Number: 46        

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

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=== Technical news ===

[AntiSpoof] - there is a new check when creating a new account live to prevent
the creation of new accounts who look like existing users. For example if there
is a user named "Ellen" the creation of the account "E11en" is not allowed.

[Math skills are needed] to make a new account on some of the smaller projects.
To protected wikis from bots making accounts or inserting spam a captcha system
is active on the smaller wikis. To save a page of make an account you need to
answer a problem like 48-10=? . This is because there are problems in loading
the images displaying the letters of the classic captcha-system. The math
version is only temporally until the problem with the loading of the images is
fixt. 

[Default block settings] - the default option when a sysop blocks a user to
block logged in user by default seems to make a good change to be changed to
not blocking logged in users by default when blocking an ipadress. To override
the default options see Wikizine number 34
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/27425/focus=27425
http://en.wikizine.org/2006/07/wikizine-number-34_17.html

=== Policy ===

[Logo] - the last fase for the selection of new logos for Wikibooks, Wiktionary
and Wikiversity has started. Votes are open until 31 October.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo

=== Politics ===

[unblock Wikipedia] - Since rencently internet users of mainland China have
again access to the English language after one year of blocking. The Chinese
language version of Wikipedia is still blocked for many Chinese users. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-16/China_unblock
http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/10/16/chart-wikipedia-access-in-china/

=== Foundation ===

[Dreams:If...] - Jimbo posted a message to call for the community to enter ideas
about how $100 million (hypothetical money) could be used by the WMF for paying
to free copyrighted works. So that there is confusion about it; there is no
$100 million. This is only a "what if...".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-16/Copyright
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_wishlist
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Copyright_wishlist (inspiration of the
community about how to send $100 million)

[$] - The PayPal-donation system used by the WMF can now also accepted donations
in a lot more different currencies. The new are; Czech korunas, Danish krone,
Hong Kong dollars, Hungarian florints, New Zealand dollars, Norwegian krone,
Polish zloty, Singapore dollars, Swedish krone and Swiss francs. Please update
the fundraising page of you languages projects if needed.  
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising

[Wikimania2007] - A new Wikimania, a new wiki. Not (yet) very interesting .
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org

=== Community ===

[Wikisource] - the WMF project for source texts - is doing good. Or at least the
German language version. The German Wikimedia chapter has found some money to
pay the digitization of some very old books and documents. The scans are from a
very good quality and presented in such a way that the are very accessible. The
digital version of a 16th-century handwritten mathematical schoolbook is
uploaded to Commons as a DjVu-file. Commons is able to present those files in
such a way that is very user friendly and fast to browse inside the book. DE
Wikisource is also working on transcribing the scans to writing that is
readable for the public.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-September/010048.html
http://tinyurl.com/vc6no  - Example of scan of book
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Drei_Register_Arithmetischer_ahnfeng_zur_Practic:101
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
[New Internal Media] - The internal news reporting community is growing. We have
the Wikipedia Signpost; Wikipedia news in a more or less newspaper style, we
have Wikizine; (very) sort items and url's for more reading. And now there is
also the newbie; the "WikipediaWeekly" is  bringing news about Wikipedia in an
audio-recoding form. w:en:User:Fuzheado and w:en:User:Tawker are the hosts of
the pilot edition. The bring the news and background information about news and
events related to Wikipedia in a very relaxed style. More like a radio talk
show then a classic news bulletin. WikipediaWeekly will attempt to bring on a
weekly basis a new audio-recording. The recoding is currently now available as
Ogg Vorbis and Mp3, it is listed on iTunes and there is a webbased player on
there website. 
A previous project to bring Wikipedia news in audio form, Signpost Audio, lasted
only 3 editions. People interested in making this new project a success can go
to the IRC channel #wikipediaweekly and see how you can help out.
http://www.wikipediaweekly.com - there website with overview of the topics of
the edition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_WikipediaWeekly - for
feedback and ideas for new editions

=== Media ===

[Larry] - the new project, Citizendium, of Larry Sanger to write an encyclopedia
of better quality then Wikipedia is now hitting the news websites. And not only
in USA-media. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger_announces_Wikipedia_fork
http://news.google.com/news?hl=&q=Citizendium&btnG=Search+News

[CBC News:The hour] - Item about Wikipedia and the Chinese block of wp starring
Jimbo on the Canadian television. 
http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos/20061013_wiki.wmv -- direct link to the video
(windows media, 11,8Mb)

=== Stats ===

[Enquiry] - In the Netherlands the company Multiscope has done an enquiry about
what websites the people most value. The results from the enquiry to over
14,000 Dutch internet users are that Wikipedia (Dutch edition) is on the 3th
place of the most valued websites.
http://www.multiscope.nl/persbericht-volledig.phtml?uniek=20061017165834

=== Other news ===

[Service notice] - the url of website of Wikizine has changed to en.wikizine.org
This is to make it more easy to launch posible other languages versions of
Wikizine in the futhere. Currently has Wikizine barely the resources to support
one language version so other versions must not be exspected soon.

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

... you can move around the tab pages of some programs?

Programs that let you open windows in the same frame but in different tabs are
popular. Mostly know is FireFox but also programs like the instant messaging 
program Gaim is using that. Try it. Click on the tab, keep it selected and try
to move it. 

=== Quote ===

“We congratulate those in charge of Wikipedia, especially Jimmy Wales, who could
have chosen to censor their own site to get official blessing. Instead they
stuck to their principles and spurned self-censorship. Their determination has
paid off inasmuch as Beijing has partially reversed its decision. It is an
example that other Internet giants could follow.” -- Reporters Without Borders

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15374

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