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Date: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:49 PM<br>Subject: EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 23 Number: 107<br>To: <a href="mailto:announce-l@lists.wikimedia.org">announce-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><br><br>******************************************<br>
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Year: 2009 Week: 23 Number: 107<br>
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An independent internal news bulletin<br>
for the members of the Wikimedia community<br>
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=== Technical news ===<br>
<br>
[Chrome Support for Ogg] - Google's Chrome browser is going to support<br>
Theora video (the type of audio files that Wikimedia uses) natively<br>
with the HTML5 video tag. Earlier announced Mozilla also this support<br>
in there upcoming version Firefox 3.5<br>
<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/052123.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/052123.html</a><br>
<a href="http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/google-chrome-3-adds-html5.html" target="_blank">http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/google-chrome-3-adds-html5.html</a><br>
<br>
[Usability] - The Usability Team has been working on a number of new<br>
projects that hope to make editing easier. Among others, there is a<br>
new skin (vector) and an action-grouped toolbar. The toolbar which<br>
hides the overwhelming number of tool icons which are not being used<br>
by novice users and the new skin has a streamlined tab layout. Lots of<br>
clutters will be removed from the interface.<br>
<a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/06/02/" target="_blank">http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/06/02/</a> -- blog post<br>
<a href="http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Designs" target="_blank">http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Designs</a> -- design descriptions on<br>
usability wiki<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vectorskin.png" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vectorskin.png</a> -- image of skin<br>
<br>
[New search] - After some initial hardware issues, the new search<br>
backend/servers has been enabled on all wikis. This new feature has<br>
many cool parts, including "did you mean", wild cards, prefix, etc.<br>
<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-October/040022.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-October/040022.html</a> --<br>
full feature list<br>
<br>
[Google Wave] - Google has recently announced a new communication and<br>
collaboration tool called Google Wave. There was a long thread on<br>
foundation-l about how this "wiki-like" tool could fit in with<br>
Wikimedia projects.<br>
<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/052135.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/052135.html</a><br>
-- mailing list thread<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave</a> -- Wikipedia article<br>
<br>
=== Request for help ===<br>
<br>
[Licensing update] - GFDL wikis must migrate their licenses by August<br>
1 to remain compatible with Wikimedia projects. Help is needed to<br>
identify and contact the wikis affected.<br>
<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Outreach" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Outreach</a><br>
<br>
[Signpost] - The Wikipedia Signpost is looking for writers. A few<br>
have signed up so far.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-05-18/From_the_editor" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-05-18/From_the_editor</a><br>
<br>
=== Proposals ===<br>
<br>
[Social bookmarking] - EN Wikinews has voted in favor of the<br>
introduction of links to add articles to social bookmarking sites such<br>
as Facebook and Delicious. On news stories, there is now a template<br>
available to share it.<br>
<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2009-May/001512.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2009-May/001512.html</a><br>
-- mailing list proposal<br>
<a href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#Social_bookmarking_of_Wikinews_articles" target="_blank">http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#Social_bookmarking_of_Wikinews_articles</a> -- onwiki<br>
discussion<br>
<br>
=== Foundation ===<br>
<br>
[Trustee elections] - Three community representatives will be elected<br>
to the Wikimedia Foundation board this summer. The election is<br>
scheduled to run from July 28-August 10, the vote time was extended to<br>
two weeks after input from the community.<br>
<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/en" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/en</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/052070.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/052070.html</a><br>
<br>
=== Community ===<br>
<br>
[TS: New servers] - The Toolserver received a new shipment of servers<br>
that will be used as a new place for user home directories, a<br>
replacement for zedler (s2 database), a second login server, and an<br>
extra toolserver for OpenStreetMap stuff. All the new servers should<br>
be up and running before the next maintenance period, July 6.<br>
<br>
[POTY 2008] - The Third Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year<br>
Competition has concluded and the results are now available. The<br>
winner was "Horses on Bianditz mountain" by Mikel Ortega.<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biandintz_eta_zaldiak_-_modified2.jpg" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biandintz_eta_zaldiak_-_modified2.jpg</a><br>
-- Winning image<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008/Results" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008/Results</a> --<br>
Results<br>
<br>
[First logo creator] - The creator of Wikipedia's first logo has<br>
finally realized that we used his logo when he googled himself! ;-)<br>
Bjørn Smestad, had submitted his idea to a Nupedia logo competition<br>
and, while it didn't win that competition, it became the official<br>
Wikipedia logo for around 8 months (and served as a basis for the<br>
current logo).<br>
<a href="http://bjornsmestad.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-wikipedia-logo.html" target="_blank">http://bjornsmestad.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-wikipedia-logo.html</a> --<br>
creator's blog post<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_logos" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_logos</a> -- Wikipedia<br>
logos through the years<br>
<a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2009/05/28/another-reason-not-to-copyright-logos/" target="_blank">http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2009/05/28/another-reason-not-to-copyright-logos/</a> -- blog post by sj on the<br>
subject<br>
<br>
[SF+MakerFaire] - The San Francisco Wikimedians and the Wikimedia<br>
Foundation office made an appearance at the San Mateo MakerFaire. The<br>
event went very well and was mostly community run. Visitors to the<br>
booth found Wikimedia trading cards and a guess the language game!<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_Faire" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_Faire</a> -- Wikipedia article<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_Trading_Card_Game.pdf" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_Trading_Card_Game.pdf</a> -- trading<br>
cards<br>
<a href="http://austinhair.org/guess/" target="_blank">http://austinhair.org/guess/</a> -- guess the Wikipedia language<br>
<br>
=== Media ===<br>
<br>
[ArbCom + Scientology] - The English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee<br>
(final level of dispute resolution) closed a 6-month long case<br>
involving the Church of Scientology articles. This news was quickly<br>
picked up by the tech press and is making its way through the<br>
mainstream papers, with articles in many languages (including English,<br>
German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Danish).<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ScientologyWiki" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ScientologyWiki</a> -- Google News results<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Scientology" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Scientology</a> --<br>
arbitration case<br>
<br>
[nowiki comparison] - A Norwegian newspaper (VG, Verdens Gang)<br>
compared Wikipedia in Norsk (Bokmål) and Store Norske Leksikon. The<br>
latter encyclopedia is a large traditional paper lexicon transferred<br>
to a web portal, together with to other lexicons; one medical and<br>
health lexicon<br>
and one biographical lexicon. The roundup focused on five different<br>
areas; history, culture, entertainment, society and politics, and<br>
sport. Wikipedia either won or tied in all categories.<br>
<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-June/052282.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-June/052282.html</a> --<br>
mailing list post description<br>
<a href="http://bayimg.com/image/laannaacf.jpg" target="_blank">http://bayimg.com/image/laannaacf.jpg</a> -- scan of the article<br>
<br>
[WMUK denied charity] - Wikimedia UK, the British chapter of the<br>
Wikimedia Foundation, was recently denied charity status by HMRC (the<br>
organization that controls charity status in the UK). The HMRC<br>
stating that production of an encyclopaedia is not a charitable<br>
purpose; the story was listed on the front page of Charity Finance, a<br>
charity-related news site.<br>
<a href="http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=2876&pg=15&cat=30" target="_blank">http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=2876&pg=15&cat=30</a> -- story<br>
<a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">http://uk.wikimedia.org</a> -- Wikimedia UK<br>
<br>
=== Stats ===<br>
<br>
[wp] - The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles, the<br>
Arabic Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles, and the Malayalam<br>
Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ukwp150k" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ukwp150k</a> -- 150,000th article (uk.wp)<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/arwp100x" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/arwp100x</a> -- 100,000th article (ar.wp)<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/mlwp10k" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/mlwp10k</a> -- 10,000th article (ml.wp)<br>
<br>
[wikt] - The Italian Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries and the<br>
Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ukwikt20k" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ukwikt20k</a> -- 20,000th entry (uk.wikt)<br>
<br>
[more] - More stats: <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News</a><br>
<br>
=== Other news ===<br>
<br>
[Open Source City] - The Vancouver (in British Columbia, Canada) city<br>
council has stated it will try to make its data open and accessible to<br>
everyone (when possible), opting for open standards and considering<br>
open source software when replacing existing applications.<br>
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-vancouver-open-source-standards-software-city.html" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-vancouver-open-source-standards-software-city.html</a><br>
<br>
[OSM Italy] - The first conference of the Italian Open Street Map<br>
(OSM) will be held in Trento, Italy between June 5 and 6. The OSM<br>
software will be integrated into Wikimedia sites and Wikimedia Italia<br>
is also sponsoring this conference.<br>
<a href="http://osmit.fbk.eu" target="_blank">http://osmit.fbk.eu</a> -- conference website<br>
<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM</a> -- Meta page on the integration<br>
<br>
[WMDE: Job] - Wikimedia Deutschland, the German chapter of the<br>
Wikimedia Foundation, is currently hiring a new Executive<br>
Director/Geschäftsführer. Applications are being accepted until June<br>
13.<br>
<a href="http://neu.wikimedia.de/index.php?id=95" target="_blank">http://neu.wikimedia.de/index.php?id=95</a> -- more information (German)<br>
<br>
=== Quote ===<br>
<br>
"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would<br>
not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights.<br>
This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock<br>
that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions."<br>
<br>
-- Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, speech to the Aero Club<br>
of France, 1908<br>
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