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=== Technical news ===
[[Special:Unwatchedpages]] this new special page gives a listing of the
first 5000 pages that are not on someones watchlist. It is a static list
updated regularly (hopefully). This is only for "users with protect
permission". Sysops have access. Seems to be live on all wikis. This
special page is not listed on the [[Special:Specialpages]] page so put
it somewhere.
[Semi-protection] is now live on the English Wikipedia. See
[[w:en:George W. Bush]] for an example of a semi-protected page. Only
registered users with accounts older than 4 days can edit that type of
page.
About getting this function enabled for other languages or projects
Brion says "The policy's only been made on en.wikipedia. If there's some
consensus or order to put it on everything that can be done."
As a result for the implementation of this function the interface for
protecting pages is modified. You can still protect/unprotected and
protect against moves. The protection log history of that page is also
displayed now. A page whit "move protection" only appears to be
protected for sysops. All the others do not see that. You can see the
difference when you try to edit that page as a sysop because you do not
get the warning that you are editing a protected page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bushhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/26086http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semi-protectionhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Semi-protection.JPG --
Semi-protection in action
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:View_source.JPG -- Semi-protection
in action
[Old search database] the database used for the search function seems
not to be updated for some weeks. A page created on 28th November 2005
is now still not found.
Suggestion: put on [[MediaWiki:Searchresulttext]] a notice that it can
take weeks befor new pages can be found whit the search function.
[Deleted pages] when requesting a deleted page a non-sysop will from now
not longer see the old versions history. This situation can change again.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/21267
=== Politics ===
[Steward] elections are open. New candidacies are still accepted.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006
=== Media ===
[Edit???] "Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio" -- some think that is news
http://tinyurl.com/atywl
[CNN] Positive item about Wikipedia on CNN -- sorry no video
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/26110
[Wikibooks] interesting and well-written (and sourced) blog entry by Ben
Crowell, a pioneer in e-book publishing about Wikibooks
http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/infrastructure.html
=== Stats ===
[AR] The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
http://ar.wikipedia.org/
=== Did you know...===
...that you can include a link to any page to emty the cache of that page?
[{{fullurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=purge}} Purge the cache]
Anonymous users get a question and confirmation button; "Clear the cache
of this page?". You can translate it whit [[MediaWiki:Confirm purge]].
Consider to put also an explanation on that page what this exactly is
"cache". Not all users are so smart as you. See the version of Meta for
inspiration.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Confirm_purge
=== Q4 fund drive quotes ===
*"Proof that the best things in the world are free." by Vijay P Choksi
*"If Plato would have the internet he would constantly read Wikipedia."
by anonymous
*"Best signal to noise ratio on the internet today" by Simon Pichette
*"I have an atrocious memory - Wikipedia fills in the blanks!" by Ian
Henderson
*"Wikipedia makes me look with hope at the future of humanity." by Dario
Teixeira
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=== Technical news ===
[IRC] IRC client restarted, allowing new channels on the Browne IRC server.
irc://browne.wikimedia.org
[Q4] and the money is pouring in! If you put the code below on any
page you get the donation status bar. Hit F5 and be amazed; it is
going faster then the article counter.
<center class=plainlinks>Already received
[http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/ <fundraising/>]</center>
=== Policy ===
[Semi-protection policy] is a new policy from the English Wikipedia.
When a page is "semi-protected" then newest X% of registered users and
all unregistered users can not edit that page. The technical aspect of
it does not yet work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Semi-protection_policyhttp://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2147680/vandals-force-wikipedia-lock
=== Politics ===
[Stewards] are users who can give and remove user rights to any
Wikimedia project, among such rights are: bot, sysop and checkuser.
There is now a nomination round for new stewards. Voting will start on
20th December 2005 and it'll end on the 10th January 2006. You can
list yourself during that time, but you'll have lower chances then.
The Board will eventually choose a group of users (from 1 to 10)
who'll gain steward status.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006
=== Foundation ===
[Bravo Italia] Wikipedia wins two Awards in Italy.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goings-on&oldid=251967
=== Media ===
[Good] One week Wikipedia is "not trustworthy", the next we are
"almost as good as Encyclopedia Britannica". The result is a lot of
very good press around the world. And also Wikipedia traffic
skyrockets. We are now bigger then CCN.com (according to alexa.com).
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v438/n7070/nature-2005-12-15.mp3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/Nature_compares_Wikip…
[Nobel Prize] In a program called "Noble minds", with the nobel prize
winners of 2005 in a round table talk with the BBC reporter John
Simpson Wikipedia got merit. The medicine prize winner Barry Marshall
mentioned the Wikipedia article about their discovery (he got the
prize together with Robin Warren) and he said that they could not have
written a better article themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori
=== Proposal===
A New proposal for a Wikimusic, "A Wiki with (1) both score and text
of a free piece of music, (2) the music itself in a playable music
file (in different versions, for example one version with trumpet, one
with a whole orchestra, not MIDI), (3) the sheet music in a wiki-text
format (MIDI can be made out of it) and (4) information about the
piece of music. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimusic_II .
=== Stats ===
[milestones] The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E6%96%B0%E9%97%BB%E7%A8%BF/2005%E5%…
[Stats, no more] wikipedia.be and wikipedia.nl are probably the oldest
national portals of Wikipedia. Since the creation of them, end of
2002, they have been counting the visitors with their own visitor
counters. This until last thursday when these where removed by the
technical staff without any notice.
In those years traffic to Wikipedia.nl started with 255 page views a
month to 194372 page views in november 2005. And wikipedia.be from 128
page views a month to 33755 in november 2005.
=== Other news ===
[meetup] 10 December 2005, Taiwan Wikipedians meetup in Taipei. about 25 people.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E8%81%9A%E6%9C%83/2005%E8%87%BA%E5%…http://vista.tw/2005/12/10/39/http://fancy.twbbs.org/blog/tsaiid/2005.12.10/http://www.wretch.cc/blog/kaurjmeb&article_id=2709059http://charlesc.ilovemeow.net/node/451?PHPSESSID=408e4d34d0606c4b1590530985…
[Law] - ERRATUM: in last week's issue it was not very cleary indicated
the the website "www.wikipediaclassaction.org" is not a Wikimedia
Foundation website. They are people who say they will try to sue
Wikipedia. But some are also making fun of them because there exists
also a parody site of it: www.wikipediaclassaction.comhttp://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VPN#Wikipedia_Class_Action_Lawsuithttp://www.wikipediaclassaction.com
=== Quote ===
About Wikipedia;
"I call you my husband's mistress because you get his attention much
of the time..." by anonymous "
=== Editorial ===
Wikipedia was never very good in internal communication. But lately we
have seen some sad highlights. The implementation on the English
Wikipedia of the reduced edit powers came as a total surprise and we
have received the news from external news media. My first reaction
when I read about it was; what a load of bullshit! We, the
Wikipedians, would surely know about it if such change of a
fundamental aspect of Wikipedia was true?
Also the policy of "Semi-protection" only gets widely known after
articles in the traditional media about it.
And finally the removal of visitors counters after more then 3 years
of service without any word to there Wiki is also not nice. Wikipedia
has no working statistics about visitor counts. So when you try to do
it yourself you do not expect that your own system gets sabotaged. It
are not only the articles of Wikipedia that need improvement.
[[user:Walter]],
Editor-in-chief Wikizine
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=== Technical news ===
[Privacy] A new Privacy policy link added in the footer.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-November/032773.htmlhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policyhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policyhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/talk:Privacy_policy
=== Request for help ===
[Interwiki links] there are lots of articles in one Wikipedia which have
the same name as articles in other Wikipedias, but are not linked by an
Inter-Wiki-Link. These articles have been listed for many language
combinations by de:Benutzer:SirJective. But not all articles with
identical names are about the same subject, so human work is needed to
decide whether an Interwiki-Link can be automatically generated by a bot.
In order to make this decision easy and comfortable, there is a brilliant
tool called Interwiki-Link-Checker written by de:Benutzer:Flacus.
http://www.flacus.de/wikipedia/Interwiki-Link-Checker/index.html
[Fund drive] Please help translate messages for the next fund drive. The
drive will be held from Friday 9 December to the end of the year.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations
=== Community ===
[User boxes] A box containing information about that user placed on the
user page of user. Original used first on commons for something useful;
indication the language skills of a user. Now the "user boxes" have
mutated. There are now boxes used on some Wiki's to indicate a lot of
diverse things like; "I am using FireFox", "This user is a Java
programmer", "This user has a quad monitor configuration", "This person
does not enjoy userboxes.", "This user is an transseksuel", "This user is
a Catholic", etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes
=== Media ===
[Bad Press] A lot negative media coverage about Wikipedia. Including "USA
Today", the most read US newspaper. Problem; false information in an
article that has not being noticed for months. The subject of the article
is not pleased about that.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/0030200http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggesti….
=== Other news ===
[Planet Wikimedia] map of the location and type of servers that Wikimedia
is using.
http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Image:Wikipedia_cluster_mockup_of_a_map.p…http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Image:Wikimedia_cluster.jpg
=== Quote ===
"Wikipedia knows all, and what it doesn't know, you can tell it." - Shaye
J.D. Horwitz
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