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=== Technical news ===
[CommonsDelinker] - one of the most annoying things of Commons is that
if you use its content and host your files there that you did not knew
of the where deleting the file you are using until it was done and you
noticed it. Improvements has been made to solve that. There is a check
of the usage of files on the wikis and there is the "CommonsTicker" to
inform local wikis about changes to files that are in use on there wiki.
Now there is also the "CommonsDelinker". That is bot to remove the dead
links to files deleted on commons. It is a maintenance service, to
remove the trash from the hundreds of wikis after a deletion on commons.
There is currently an "Requests for permissions" to request to get an
exemption from local bot policies to run this bot. Currently there is
universal support for it. Wikis who do not want to receive the service the
CommonsDelinker can request to be excluded.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions/CommonsDelinkerhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CommonsDelinker
[Move] - the Japanese, Korean, Malay, and Thai Wikipedias will be moved
from the Korean server cluster (yaseo) back to the main servers in
Florida (pmtpa) later this week.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/28276/focu…
=== Request for help ===
[Wikizine] - Currently Wikizine is basically a one person project. This
is not a good model to provide weekly a timely and good edition of a
consistent quality.
Wanted: core staff member(s). You look for news and find it. You
constructed Wikizine. Eventually you can write an edition on you own if
needed. And this week after week, even when you have better things to
do. You can be counted on to do the work.
Wanted: freelance staff member(s). You look for news when you like to do
it. You write sometimes an item for an edition of Wikizine.
=== Foundation ===
[Board] - Erik Möller/Eloquence has won the board election. He will
continue the term of Angela. Kathleen (Kat) Walsh/Mindspillage is second
and Oscar van Dillen third.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_results_2006http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-25/Board_…
[Wikimania2007] - It is now known where the next Wikimania will be;
Taipei,Taiwan.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007#Taipei_chosen_to_host_Wikiman…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-25/Wikima…
[Wikimania2008 & 2009] - Unofficial bids are open for locations to host
Wikimania 2008 and 2009
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bidshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids
[Sep11] - the "project" September 11 In Memoriam is closed. This is the
first project ever that is closed. Sep11 was a very non-typical
WMF-project. It was created in the early days when there where only a
few wikis. This in 2001 in responds the 9/11 event. The wiki is now
read-only.
http://sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam
=== Community ===
[InterWiki-report] - this week we have the Hungarian language Wikipedia
and also the Simple English Wikipedia who present there project to you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-11/Interw…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-18/Interw…
=== Stats ===
[fi.wp] - The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
http://fi.wikipedia.org
[pl.wp] - The Polish Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles. And this on
the day that there wiki is five years old.
http://pl.wikipedia.org
=== Other news ===
[Larry Sanger] - who played an important role in the early history of
Wikipedia and was the editor-in-chief of the late Nupedia, announced a
fork of the English Wikipedia. This fork will have a different editorial
structure.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger_announces_Wikipedia_forkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendiumhttps://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/
== Was ist das? ==
SUL: Single User Login. You can use one login for all wikis.
Kudos: to praise someone for doing something.
FYI: for your info - information provided as a service to someone only
to inform them about it. No need to responds to it, do with it what you
wish.
=== Quote ===
There is an old Vulcan proverb — "Only Nixon could go to China." -- Mr.
Spock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China_(phrase)
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=== Technical news ===
[!steward] - it is now more easy to get the attention of a steward if it is
urgent. In the IRC-channel #wikimedia-stewards is there now a bot guarding the
channel provided by [[w:nl:user:webboy]]. If you enter the command !steward it
calls for the stewards. To test it use !steward-test
=== Foundation ===
[clarification] - For the current vote for the position for the board of the WMF
only users who are indefinitely banned or blocked are not allowed to vote on
any project. Users blocked for a specific time period are not allowed to vote
on the wiki where the are blocked during the time of there block. If that user
can vote on a other wiki the are allowed to do so. See also;
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9797
[New hire] - the WMF has hired Mark Bergsma to serve as Networking Coordinator
for the Foundation.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9792/focus=9792
=== Community ===
[InterWiki-report] - this week the Italian language Wikipedia is writing his
bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/Interw…
[De-sysop] - On the En wikpedia is a user de-sysoped. That would not be news on
most wikis, but on EN it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/Everyk…
=== Media ===
[Guardian] Wikipedia defies China's censors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1869075,00.html
[Law.com] - interview with Brad - Wikimedia's First GC Prepares to Tread 'Legal
Minefield'
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1157557741507
=== Stats ===
The Volapük Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. This is a language with +/- 30
speakers. So 500 is very impressive.
http://vo.wikipedia.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk
=== Other news ===
[Wikizine Closed] - There will be no Wikizine for week 38. The next edition is
expected for around the 27th September in week 39. Requests send to Wikizine
will not be answered during this period.
=== Did you know ... ===
... that you can setup local language portals?
The main domain name of the projects is a .org domain. And because most people
do not know anything else besides .com domains like www.wiktionary.com also
point to that project.
But the first domain people will try is name of the project with the TLD from
there country. Check If the domain with the name of your project for your
county top level domain is still free. If it is try to obtain it. Keep it
private. Do not start discussions about it on your wiki or it will be squatted.
Best is that the WMF would buy the domain. Contact Brad Patrick, the WMF
interim executive director & lawyer <bpatrick AT wikimedia.org> to ask to buy
the domain. If it is already taken try to figure out who it owns and of there
intentions are honorable. Possibly it it registered by a friend of your project
to prevent it been registered by someone who would exploit it by pointing it to
a sexssite or something like that. Maybe the are willing to transfer the domain
to the WMF. Do only reconnaissance and contact the [[meta:Trademarks
committee]] when you have the basic information.
List the domain and the information you have on;
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Domains
When you have the domain then you can make a local portal. Consider doing this
also even when there is one clear dominant language and other languages are of
very little importance in the country. A listing on such a portal can give a
project in such a small language the exposure it needs to become successful.
Also makes clear that a project organized by language, not by country. Some
national domains are already active and are used for portals. Others are only
redirecting to the Wikipedia in the dominant language.
Examples of national domains who point to a portal;
http://www.wikipedia.be/ - Belgium
http://www.wikipedia.ch/ - Switzerland
Examples of national domains who redirect to the dominant language;
http://www.wikipedia.at - Austria ; redirect to the German Wikipedia. Excluding
the Slovene, Croatian and Hungarian language project.
http://www.wikipedia.de - Germany; redirect to the German Wikipedia. Excluding
the Danish, Frisian, Low German, Sorbian and Romany languages projects
=== User Quote ===
If you have a dirty mind then most things look sexual. When I first saw the
Wikimedia logo it looked to me like someone ripping open their shirt, therby
revealing their naked torso underneath. --Dangherous 23:35, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
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=== Request for help from a programmer ===
[WikipediaToolbar] - For some time there is a FireFox extension to add a toolbar
to you browser especially designed for use on Wikipedia and for MediaWiki wikis
in general. This toolbar is made by [[w:de:user:Bananeweizen]]. The current
toolbar will not work with the new upcoming 2.0 version of FireFox.
User:Bananeweizen does not have time anymore to work on this and is looking for
someone to take the "Wikipedia Toolbar" over from him. If you are intrested
contact Bananeweizen on the irc channel #mediawiki on Freenode.
http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/
=== Policy ===
[New Logos] for Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikiversity can now be submitted now.
Voting is scheduled to start on September 7 for these logos.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logohttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logohttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
=== Foundation ===
[Wikimania2007] - The first round for the selection for the city to host
Wikimania 2007 will close on September 10th. No city will be accepted after
that date. Candidates may work on their bid until the 15th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007
[Election] - The vote for the new boardmember is now open. Users can vote on one
wiki only using the [[Special:Boardvote]]-page. Users who had 400 edits on a
wiki on August 1, 2006 and are not blocked have voting rights. A user with a
block on any wiki is not allowed to vote during that time, also not on other
wikis. The Board has appointed James Forrester and Jon Harald Søby as
additional Assistant Election Officials.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/Enhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9797/focus=9797
[$] - The Wikimedia Foundation received in August 1769 donations for a total
amount of $37,601.58 by PayPal
=== Community ===
[InterWiki-report] - it is now time for the Spanish language Wikipedia to tell
the whole wide Wikimedia-world about their wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-28/Interw…
[FAQ] - the new project Wikiversity presents a FAQ to try to explain what is
exactly is.
http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:FAQ/En
[WMC 2006] - last Saturday the Dutch Wikimedia chapter held, with extensive
support of Kennisnet.nl, its first own conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
This was a one day event with several presentations like on Wikimania. There
where 46 attendees; most from the Netherlands, but also from Switzerland,
Germany, Thailand and Flanders. Some pictures and audio recordings are
available. One of them is in English "Kurt Jansson: Wikimedia Chapters - Some
insights from Wikimedia Germany". This event was announced with an interview on
a Dutch national television broadcaster.
http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conferentie_Nederland/verslag
=== Media ===
[RE from Jimbo] on /. The announced new functionality of MediaWiki to support
stable versions has give inspirations to several media to report that Wikipedia
is reducing the freedom of editing to all. A responds from Jimbo about that and
the readers of /. on that responds.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/2224230
[Brittanica] - Wikipedia is now also included in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
You can read the first 75 of 737 words about Wikipedia on the Brittanica for
free.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9433599
[Free press] - A politician has found a way to get his name in the press by
saying that he is considering to sue Wikipedia.
http://www.thetranscript.com/localnews/ci_4260986
=== Stats ===
[Whois] - a new type of stats. A listing with info about from where the people
editing on a wikipedia are coming from. And also on what wikipedia are people
of different wikipedias working on. These numbers can give a general idea but
take in to account that there is a large possibly of errors.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin
[en.wp] has now 1000 sysops. The wiki with the most sysops after the English
language Wikipedia is the German with 225 sysops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/1000_A…
=== Did you know ... ===
... that there is a easy way for adding inter-wikilinks to the articles?
The webbased Interwiki-Link-Checker is a tool for semi-automatic insertion of
Interlanguage-links in all latin-encoded Wikipedias larger then 10.000
articles. Input from wikipedians fluent in at least two languages is needed to
decide wether articles named the same in two different languages should be
interlinked by the bot.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~flacus/IWLC/start.php - The tool
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Check…
- FAQ
=== Ferengi Rules of Acquisition ===
"Small print leads to large risk." - Rule 8
"Trust is the biggest liability of all." - Rule 99
"Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit." - Rule 181
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