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French version below
Dear Wikipedians,
we'd like to invite you to the Swiss Wikipedians Meeting in Zurich. The main
topic will be the discussion of the foundation of Wikimedia Switzerland, the
Swiss local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. The meeting will be at
November 13th, 2.00 pm (Swiss time) in the "Schweizerische
Epilepsie-Zentrum", Zurich. A more detailed description of the meeting,
including a description of how to get there, may be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Meeting_Zurich_13_November_2005<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Schweiz/International>(in
German, English, French and Italian). Mineral water and some snacks
(chips etc.) will be provided. We look forward to seeing you!
Kind regards,
Michael Bimmler Nando Stöcklin Jürg Studer
Cher wikipédiens,
Nous souhaiterions vous inviter à la réunion des Wikipédiens suisses qui
se tiendra à Zurich. Le but principal de cette réunion est de discuter
de la mise en place d'une association suisse (Wikimedia CH),
aassociation fille de la Fondation Wikimedia. La réunion aura lieu à
Zurich le 13 novembre 2005 à 14.00h au "Schweizerisches Epilepsie-Zentrum".
Une description plus détaillée de la rencontre, ainsi que les
indications pour s'y rendre, se trouve sur
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Meeting_Zurich_13_November_2005…
allemand, anglais, français et italien). Eau minérales et chips au
programme. Nous vous
attendons avec impatience.
A très bientôt.
Michael Bimmler Nando Stöcklin Jürg Studer
Just wanted to notify the Wikimedia community, that [[Requests for bot
status]] on Meta was created a few minutes ago.
Of course, [[Requests for permissions]] is still active - please put
all the requests for sysop/bureaucrat status on that page.
Nothing has changed with the current bot policy besides that. Please
update the local request pages on your Wikis to reflect the page
change on Meta.
--
Pozdrawiam,
Dariusz "Datrio" Siedlecki
As a reminder, a check user policy is being worked out on meta.
You may find it here :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_CheckUser_Policy
Though the opinion of many was seeked out, rather few people commented.
Which might mean approval or disapproval. I just do *not* really know.
On the other hand, amongst the comments this proposed policy got :
* if this policy goes live, horrible things will happen
* give me checkuser access now, we need it anyway
* you are too slow in doing this policy and blocking the process.
I am a bit pissed off :-)
So, what I propose is a 7 days approval.
If there is support or no comments at all (or minor constructive
comments) within 7 days, this policy will go live.
If comments such "horrible things will happen" or equivalent comments
are made, I will simply put that policy in the *trash*.
The policy which will then go live until *someone else* works on a
general policy, will be very simple : you ask Jimbo (and Jimbo only) (I
am sure he will hate it so much that it will not last long anyway)
Anthere
In this case we have to possible solutions:
1. Somebody will write the necesary interface so that bureaurcats may add bot flags.
My idea for this is that Meta MakeSysop interface may be transfered to bureaucrats
with limited groups. (just Sysop, Bureaucrat and Bot flag - for now)
2. We shall have - as I already proposed in a discution at meta - a new election for
stewards which can help the existent ones in their job. Most of them have many things
to do and no time for this kind of issues and at least one of elected stewards in may
is not and was not active. There are many unsolved requests at meta and persons
must wait a lot of time for a steward to have time to answer to their request.
M
Will Thailand be the next country Wikipedia gets blocked in? Thailand
recently slipped on a mediafreedom list published by a Paris based
mediawatchdog from 50 something to 100 something. A slip of 50 places.
Thailand now ranks behind Cambodia! On that list.
Thaksin (our beloved despot) said he couldn't believe it as the Thai
press was free according to him. Today these 2 messages were in the press:
From:www.2bangkok.com:
*The real harm to country's image
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01Nov2005_news17.php>*
/Bangkok Post/, November 1, 2005
[This is the kind of tough editorial that used to only be in /The Nation/.]
/...Proof of that, if any were needed, was supplied by the minister
himself in a report by the government's official mouthpiece, Radio
Thailand. Mr Suranand, just back from a trip to China, told the radio
service he praised the Chinese system of media control extensively, and
apparently had not a word to say about the official protection of press
freedom in Thailand. Mr Suranand said he was strongly impressed with
China's ``state-of-art technology system'' which is used to monitor
citizens, control the media and block access to thousands of internet
websites which the Chinese find inconveniently democratic, including
several in Thailand.
According to Mr Suranand, some media ``make problems for society'' and
he signed an agreement with China to cooperate on this issue. Mr
Suranand made no attempt to defend his country's democratic system and
constitutional protection of free speech and press. Instead, he publicly
agreed with the statements of his hosts, who represent a dictatorship
with no pretence of press freedom. He agreed with the Chinese that the
government should ``play a more important role in examining the members
of the press who trigger problems to the society''. That seems a good
reason to downgrade Thailand's press freedom and harm Thailand's image
yet again.
The climate of harassment is well known. Last year, police in the South
invited reporters to a news conference on the Tak Bai homicides, then
locked them in the room and demanded notes, photos and video footage. Mr
Thaksin has claimed several times that the press is hurting the image of
the country by certain news coverage or commentary. On the contrary, it
is clear the government is harming the country's image abroad by
creating an environment of badgering that has caused a huge loss of
respect for Thai media independence. And it is using state agencies,
including security forces, to help...
/From:www.2bangkok.com:
/*Thairath
*/(translation of Thai newspaper articles)/*
*After the by-election in four areas and knowing the official vote, the
opposition parties are happy that opposition MPs now reach 125. This
means they will be able to call no-confidence debates on ministers
concerning corruption issues. Meanwhile Thaksin Shinawatra said during
his mobile cabinet meeting at Nakornsawan Province that Nakornsawan is
the province that trusts TRT and select all TRT MPs so this province
will get privileges to help specifically. Provinces that trust TRT less
will be helped later in a queue. He said this frankly and revealed to
the media what he thought.
/
Will Thailand be the next country Wikipedia gets blocked in? Thailand
recently slipped on a mediafreedom list published by a Paris based
mediawatchdog from 50 something to 100 something. A slip of 50 places.
Thailand now ranks behind Cambodia! On that list.
Thaksin (our beloved despot) said he couldn't believe it as the Thai
press was free according to him. Today these 2 messages were in the press:
From:www.2bangkok.com:
*The real harm to country's image
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01Nov2005_news17.php>*
/Bangkok Post/, November 1, 2005
[This is the kind of tough editorial that used to only be in /The Nation/.]
/...Proof of that, if any were needed, was supplied by the minister
himself in a report by the government's official mouthpiece, Radio
Thailand. Mr Suranand, just back from a trip to China, told the radio
service he praised the Chinese system of media control extensively, and
apparently had not a word to say about the official protection of press
freedom in Thailand. Mr Suranand said he was strongly impressed with
China's ``state-of-art technology system'' which is used to monitor
citizens, control the media and block access to thousands of internet
websites which the Chinese find inconveniently democratic, including
several in Thailand.
According to Mr Suranand, some media ``make problems for society'' and
he signed an agreement with China to cooperate on this issue. Mr
Suranand made no attempt to defend his country's democratic system and
constitutional protection of free speech and press. Instead, he publicly
agreed with the statements of his hosts, who represent a dictatorship
with no pretence of press freedom. He agreed with the Chinese that the
government should ``play a more important role in examining the members
of the press who trigger problems to the society''. That seems a good
reason to downgrade Thailand's press freedom and harm Thailand's image
yet again.
The climate of harassment is well known. Last year, police in the South
invited reporters to a news conference on the Tak Bai homicides, then
locked them in the room and demanded notes, photos and video footage. Mr
Thaksin has claimed several times that the press is hurting the image of
the country by certain news coverage or commentary. On the contrary, it
is clear the government is harming the country's image abroad by
creating an environment of badgering that has caused a huge loss of
respect for Thai media independence. And it is using state agencies,
including security forces, to help...
/From:www.2bangkok.com:
/*Thairath
*/(translation of Thai newspaper articles)/*
*After the by-election in four areas and knowing the official vote, the
opposition parties are happy that opposition MPs now reach 125. This
means they will be able to call no-confidence debates on ministers
concerning corruption issues. Meanwhile Thaksin Shinawatra said during
his mobile cabinet meeting at Nakornsawan Province that Nakornsawan is
the province that trusts TRT and select all TRT MPs so this province
will get privileges to help specifically. Provinces that trust TRT less
will be helped later in a queue. He said this frankly and revealed to
the media what he thought.
/