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=== Technical news ===
[MediaWiki Parser] - There will be (another) attempt on rewriting the parser
which handles the wikitext. A new mailing list has been created for discussion
of what can be done.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
[New Preprocessor] - Mediawiki's preprocessor (which expands templates and does
parserfunctions) has been rewritten by Tim Starling. The changes include
creating a DOM document, caching template expansion and skipping unused cases.
The pre-expand include size limit has been changed into a "preprocessor node
count". This changes the rules for uncovered
syntax, so having "<ta" on one template and "ble>" on another will create a
table. However, such uses are discouraged. It's not live on wikimedia project
yet.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/35451
=== Request for help ===
[Wikibooks technical] - For a quick grant related to the production of Wikibooks
in Agriculture Florence Devouard (Anthere) is asking for input regarding wished
for technical improvements for Wikibooks.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/textbook-l/2007-November/001163.html
[Asterisk] - German Wikipedia OTRS helpdesk and press relations group are still
looking for someone who can support the development and implementation of an
asterisk software solution featuring LRU call management, forced log-off and a
web frontend to display status information. Queue size dimensioning would be
nice, as well as a web/sms front end for the press people to configure call
diversions. Anyone able to help please contact w:de:User:-jha- or, if you can
read German, go to
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS/Asterisk-Projekt
=== Policy ===
[Logo] - Wikibooks and Wikijunior are considering a new logo.
http://tinyurl.com/39txryhttp://tinyurl.com/2j7gpw
[GFDL re-licensing] - On Foundation-l there is a big discussion going on about
the GNU Free Documentation License that most projects are using and the
possible migration to a new license for those projects. Mike Godwin, the WMF
legal counsel, is involved in the discussion.
http://tinyurl.com/2l9thn
=== Foundation ===
[ED] - The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed Sue Gardner as Executive Director.
She was the Management Consultant of the Wikimedia Foundation.
[Ombuds(wo)men)] - Anthere announced that a new ombuds(wo)man committee has been
appointed. It consists of the enwiki users Mackensen and Rebecca and dewiki
user Hei_ber .
[Fundraiser blog] - A blog has been started by Cary Bass (Bastique) to mobilize
potential donators. It is all about answers to the question "Why give to
Wikimedia". The posts on the blog are not official Wikimedia Foundation
statements. Users are encouraged to add their own reasons, moderators are
choosing the best contributions and post them on the blog. This is a test run
for now. Should the blog help in increasing donations, it will be started in
languages other than English, too.
http://whygive.wikimedia.org/ -- blog
http://whygive.wikimedia.org/2007/11/22/why-wikipedia-does-not-run-ads/ --
interesting post
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Why_Give_blog -- give your
answer
=== Community ===
[Stewards] - The stewards nominations (elections) have started. There are
currently 20 candidates. Users active on all Wikimedia projects can vote.
http://tinyurl.com/26fror
[Stewards II] - Also the current stewards are going through confirmation. You
can make remarks on their functioning, and afterwards all stewards together
will decide which stewards will be confirmed. 27 stewards are up for
confirmation.
http://tinyurl.com/26b4ew
[EWW] - December 3 - 8, there will be the first ''Edit Wikipedia Week''. People
are extra encouraged to edit Wikipedia in this week.
http://tinyurl.com/2fejf4
=== Media ===
[Little China] - The Dutch press reports on the Dutch ministry of legal affairs
blocking the website Wikipedia.org . Now it is also for judges impossible to
watch what's on Wikipedia. In total 30.000 civil servants have been cut off
from Wikipedia. The sysops of Dutch language Wikipedia where not contacted
about this by ministry of legal affairs.
http://tinyurl.com/2g3ult
[Burn Wiki, burn!] - Or at least I would be if Wikipedia was in print. In the
USA several schools are uniting in banning wikipedia from the school. Not
everybody agrees with that.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004025648_wikipedia21.htmlhttp://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/chalkboard/archives/126657.asp
=== Other news ===
[Main stream] - A (English) Wikipedia search tool by default included in the
webbrowser FireFox for some time now. Recently several new computer products
are launched the give prominent attention for Wikipedia in there default setup.
Amazon presented there own e-book reader. In there description of there readers
Amazon explicitly writes; "Includes free wireless access to the planet's most
exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org." Viewing other websites
on the device in not free of charge. Wikipedia is here used as a sales argument
because when you get this reader you have free wireless access to Wikipedia
(inside the USA).
A large supermarket in the USA is selling a budget computer. On the taskbar of
the desktop there is large Wikipedia-globe icon to query Wikipedia.
Also a new micro laptop of Asus, the Eee PC, includes a prominent icon for
Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindlehttp://www.thinkgos.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
=== Stats ===
[Fundraising totals] - After roughly a month of fundraising, USD 835,334 has
been raised by the Wikimedia Foundation on November 24.
http://tinyurl.com/2c3v4h
[FR Wiktionary] - On November 26th, the French language Wiktionary reached
593,000 pages and was therefore larger than the English language version
(592,000). This is as far as we know the first time that an EN project has been
passed by a non-English version in terms of size.
[HTTP Requests] - Also November 26th the Wikimedia servers for the first time
counted a total of 50,000 (fifty thousand!) HTTP requests *per second* on all
WMF projects during peak time. This a five times higher peak of page requests
per second than in May 2006.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-November/035250.html
=== Was ist das? ===
[Free] - There are many definitions of free. Because language is not a perfect
tool, people often confuse different meanings of the word. There is a
difference between "for free" as in beer and "free" as in Wikipedia and Linux.
The latter also means you can re-use the content, change it and spread the
improved version even further, even commercially.
=== Did you know ... ===
[Not for profit] - That the Wikimedia Foundation is a not for profit
organization? And that the WMF is dependent on mainly small donations from
individuals like you? This results in a shoestring budget, especially if the
targets are not being reached.
=== Fundraising quotes ===
"Harnessing a universe of brainpower to make knowledge accessible" -- Anonymous
"Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax ..." -- William Sherman
"Stone by stone we can build the house, says an arabic proverb. I hope that my
humble donation will help to build a free Wikipedia." -- Hicham ben Hassine
"Who would have thought this would work?" -- Anonymous
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=== Technical news ===
[Wiki moved] - Betawiki, the wiki used to make the default
translations of MediaWiki and therefore also for the WMF-projects, has
moved to a new domain.
http://translatewiki.net
[pyBot] - Plans are currently being made for a major overhaul of the
code of the Pywikipediabot framework. The main goals are to start
using the MediaWiki API and to unify the coding style.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l -- place for
discussion
[Anon page creation (not!)] - The announced reactivation of page
creation by anonymous users is cancelled.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/21655
=== Foundation ===
[$$$$$] - The fundraiser is going well in the sense that the money is
rolling in. At present around 660,000 US$ is donated. The fundraiser
is intended to run until the 22nd of December. At the current rate of
donations it does not look like the 4.6 million US$, the WMF budget
for 2008, will be collected.
The counter that shows how many people have donated, has dropped a bit
because the deduction of numerous donations of 1$ or less.
http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/node/22 -- current donations totals
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/21590 -- do we
get 4,6 million?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2007#Suspicious_low-value_d… -- strong increase of tiny
donations
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/84986 --
drop of counter
[Legal] - French lawsuit against WMF won in court. An article on the
FR Wikipedia contained personal information of 3 persons who where no
pleased with that. They sued for compensations and the identity of the
anonymous editor. The court ruled that Wikimedia is a hosting provider
and as such does not need to follow up on what the users are writing.
The WMF does need to remove illegal content when they are informed
about it. Because the disputed information was removed after proper
notification the case was dismissed, including the request for damages
and information about the anonymous editor.
Florence Devouard, WMF chair, writes about this case:
"This is very good news for the Foundation. We maintain that WMF is
not the publisher, owner or monitor on any of the Wikipedia projects
(and obviously not the WP FR). We are pleased to have our position
upheld and supported in a court of law."
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/21407
[Illustration Project] - The WMF has received a donation of US$ 20,000
to be used for creating and improving illustrations. Around $40 per
illustration will be paid. The idea is to get good illustrations for
topics there are non-existing or in less suitable versions. Brianna
Laugher [[commons:User:Pfctdayelise]] is in charge of this project.
Concerns where raised that this project could undermine the defence of
the WMF that is is only a hoster and not a publisher. Sue Gardner, the
unofficial executive director of the WMF, said that is was not a
problem because technically the Wikimedia Foundation is not paying the
editors but the donor does. The WMF is "just facilitating a
relationship between a donor who wants to see a particular thing
happen in the projects, and a trusted volunteer who shares the same
goal".
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/3016 -- list
announcement of the project
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project
-- practical
http://tinyurl.com/3e4leh -- Philip Greenspun-Wikimedia Foundation
illustration project proposal (pdf)
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/21457/ --
legal concerns
[Steward elections] - Elections for new stewards will start on the
26th of November. Stewards are users who can change the user level of
any user on a WMF-project wiki. Candidates can nominate themselves
now. To be a candidate you need to be at least 18 years old and be
willing to provide real identification to the WMF. Also the current
stewards are up for confirmation.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/21683http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2007
[Chapters] - The chapters committee is looking for new members. The
chapcom is responsible for checking the proposed bylaws for a new
chapter and advises the board for acceptance of the new chapter.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-November/034705.htmlhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee
=== Community ===
[DE wp DVD] - A new edition of German language Wikipedia on DVD is
coming out. It will be available either as a basic edition that
contains thumbnail images only (10 €) or a premium edition that will
include higher quality pictures as well as a bonus disc with 1900s
encyclopedia ''Meyers'' (25 €, total 4 DVDs). An image of the DVD will
be available for downloading.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DVD
[EN wp] - Founder Jimmy Wales has personally de-sysoped a user of the
English Wikipedia. This caused very large community responds.
http://tinyurl.com/2e3dfa
=== Reports of Wikinews ===
EN Wikinews has a template that can display an image with a random
text on it. A sort of ad.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Wikinews_ads
Wikinews will possibly change the Wikinews site slogan from "Wikinews,
the free news source you can write!"" to something else to make the
site sound more professional.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:FellowWikiNews/Tagline
On EN Wikinews is the service of providing spoken news is again
restarted. Subscribing by RSS-feed is possible.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews
[Webcomics] - Last time Wikizine reported about the problems with the
EN Wikipedia community and the "webcomics" community. The Wikinews
article about it received a unusual large amount of comments.
http://tinyurl.com/36u43b -- comments about the Wikinews report
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/0328239 - /. about it
=== Awards ===
[Wikimedia IT] - The Italian edition of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Italia
have been awarded the "Premio Aretê 2007 - forum per la Comunicazione
Responsabile" (Aretê prize - forum for the responsible communication)
for the "internet" section with the following motivation;
"for the commitment in favour of the diffusion of the universal
knowledge, in a free, collaborative and constructive way, in the real
spirit of the original ideals of the Net."
The prize has been presented by [[w:en:Paolo Gentiloni]], the minister
of the Communications and president of the jury, in Rome on the 5th of
November.
http://www.premioarete.it/forum07.php
=== Media ===
[{{copyvio}}] - A book published in 2006 contains a large section of
text taken from a Wikipedia-article. And this without and reference to
Wikipedia. Ironically the publisher of this book is the same publisher
who recently threatened a blogger who had used a diagram, with full
attribution, from a publication of them on a blog.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/0356203http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ydorb/khobar-copyvio -- what
exactly is copied
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/84975 --
list discussion
[Jimmy in Africa] - In South-Africa Jimmy Wales has give a keynote at
Wikipedia Academy where workshops where giving about how to edit
Wikipedia. The Wikipedias in the many local languages of South-Africa
are extremely small, even the largest, Afrikaans has only 8600
articles. Because of the work during the workshops the isiZulu
Wikipedia crost the 100 article mark.
http://tinyurl.com/2cvcze -- What has Jimmy Wales been up to?
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7436295
[eat Wikipedia] - Wikinews has the story that in china, where access
to Wikipedia is mostly blocked, supermarkets now sell "Wekipedia"
bread with a bearded man (= Jimmy?) on the packaging.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikipedia_making_bread_in_China%3F_Not_so%2C_bu…http://sexybeijing.tv/new/eblog/default.asp?view=plink&id=127 --
picture of the bread
=== Stats ===
[Erratum] - Commons has now 1000 featured pictures, not 10,000 as was
reported in Wikizine 83.
http://tinyurl.com/2e4xab -- the 1000th featured picture
=== Other news ===
[£ BBC] - The website of the British public broadcaster, who is funded
by taxes, has started to display a limited number of advertisements to
users who visited there website from outside the United Kingdom.
Concerns where raised about impartiality of the BBC when carrying
advertisement. The BBC explicitly stated that the advertisement will
be clearly separated from editorial content. The BBC hopes to raise
around 100 million euro yearly with the advertisements.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7050625.stmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/faq/
[Comic] - "...articles on Wikipedia are written [..] by one extremely
dedicated squirrel."
http://tinyurl.com/2l5gfu
[Bye-bye Wiki-Wiki] - A classic part of any interview with the press
is to explain that the name "wiki" comes from a bus service in Hawaii.
The WikiWiki bus system in Hawaii, after which the software concept
Wiki is named, will be soon no more. It will replaced by a
"air-conditioned walkway", a sort of bridge.
http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=13096
[Wikizine: less short] - A core idea of Wikizine was to keep the items
very short so you can read it very quickly. For more information there
are the external links where you can read the whole story. The problem
is that when you translate Wikizine into non-English editions, those
short items alone contain sometimes too little information to be
really informative. Most external links are in English. For
non-English readers it is then difficult to get the story. Because of
this it will be attempted to include more information in the Wikizine
items. Being brief maybe good but if you end up by (almost) saying
nothing, we are not achieving our goals.
=== Did you know ... ===
... that donating small amounts by PayPal is not a good idea?
* donation 0,01 AUD - 0,01 AUD paypal fee = 0 AUD for WMF
* donation 0,25 USD - 0,25 USD Paypal fee = 0 USD for WMF
* donation 1,20 CAD - 0,59 CAD PayPal fee = 0,61 CAD for WMF (50% fee!)
* donation 1 EUR - 0,38 EUR PayPal fee = 0,62 EUR for WMF (38% fee)
* donation 5 USD - 0,41 USD PayPal fee = 4,59 USD for WMF (8,2% fee)
* donation 25 USD - 0,85 USD PayPal fee = 24,15 USD for WMF (3,4% fee)
* donation 100 USD - 2,50 USD PayPal fee = 97,50 USD for the WMF (2,5% fee)
Be aware that a very small donation means you are making a donation to
Paypal and not to the Wikimedia Foundation. Best you give one higher
donation then several smaller donations.
Verify of one of the other donation channels, like bank transfer (free
inside Europa), is not a better solution for making a donation from
you country.
=== Quote ===
"Hail Wikipedia" -- Anonymous
"Wikipedia, OpenOffice.org, Ubuntu - three things that makes me feel
good." -- Gergely Máté
"to get wikipedia is like to have the Alexandria's library at home!
thanks to the Wikipedia Team." -- eric malbos (editorial note: next
Wikimania will be at the library of Alexandria)
"Wikipedia, une cathédralle informatique" -- roland moreno
"Please do not go commercial." -- Anonymous
"Danke!" -- Anonym
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=== Technical news ===
[Upload limit] - The upload limit is 20 MB. Now that the recent
changes have resulted in good support for video, it was suggested to
increase this limit. There are concerns for a dramatic growth in
bandwidth and storage need.
=== Request for help ===
[Fundraising translations] - Most translations for the 2007
fundraising have been done, but some still remian. Cary Bass,
volunteer coordinator, requests your help.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007
=== New project proposals ===
[Chain of reasons] - This proposed new project aims to be a reference
for people who simply want to learn about the reasoning behind
particular beliefs -- moral, political, scientific, religious, or
whatever.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chains_of_Reason
=== Policy ===
[Page creation on EN Wikipedia] - Page creation for anonymous users
has been disabled for the English Wikipedia since December 2005. There
will probably soon be a trial of one week during which page creation
is enabled again.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/84133http://tinyurl.com/yw6gvj -- discussion at the village pump
=== Foundation ===
[Priorities] - Florence Devouard, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation
board of trustees, has stated priorities for her next term as a chair.
She also summarizes the major developments of last year.
http://tinyurl.com/325sjo
[Fundraising] - The 2007 fall fund raising has started on October 22
and will run until December 22. People are encouraged to place web
buttons on their private websites. At present around US$130,000 has
been donated. The live stream of donations from Paypal can be seen in
the IRC channel #wikimedia-donations on freenode.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/web_buttons and
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising_FAQhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2007 -- feedback from
the visitors of the projects on the fund raiser
http://chat.wikizine.org -- provides access to #wikimedia-donations
[Budget] - Together with its fundraising, the Wikimedia Foundation has
also published its budget for 2007-2008. The Foundation plans to spend
US$4.6M in total, of which 57% is reserved for technical services. The
rest is going to overhead, staff and other activities such as Wikimania.
http://tinyurl.com/3bxpwa
[New chapter] - Wikimedia Sweden was founded in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lennart Guldbrandsson was elected Chair. For the board several members
of community were elected as well as persons from the free knowledge
movement of Sweden. One of them is Lars Aronsson, founder of
susning.nu, which was the second largest wiki in the world before it
was closed.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Sverige
[Treasurer] - The foundation is looking for a treasurer who will
succeed Miles Davis on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
http://tinyurl.com/2y9ryy
[Job openings] - As a result of the relocation of the Wikimedia
Foundation's headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to San
Francisco, several positions are to be filled.
http://tinyurl.com/24ow5e
=== Community ===
[Dutch Conference] - On October 27, Wikimedia Nederland held a
conference in Amsterdam about Wikimedia, Wikis and Education. Most of
the program was in Dutch; however, a few presentations were in
English. Florence Devouard was one of the keynote speakers.
http://tinyurl.com/2r9e4p -- conference website
http://tinyurl.com/2r2na9 -- Wikinews report on the conference
[Russian Conference] - The Wiki-Conference 2007 was held on October 27
and 28 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
http://tinyurl.com/35axup
[Wikijunior] - It is proposed that stable versions of the Wikijunior
books hosted on the English Wikibooks will be published on
www.wikijunior.org. Also there are discussions on a new logo.
http://tinyurl.com/32vh9bhttp://tinyurl.com/3afhp3
=== Media ===
[Wikicomics] - "Wikimedia fundraiser highlights webcomic community's
frustration with Wikipedia guidelines" reports Wikinews
http://tinyurl.com/2z8mda
[Edit for grades] - Some schools may ban Wikipedia, but the story
about a teacher of the University of Washington-Bothell who makes her
students write Wikipedia articles for grades was in the news this week.
http://tinyurl.com/2hjnmm
[Anons best?] - "Anonymous Wikipedia entries the most accurate" writes
Brockpress.com.
http://tinyurl.com/3c4895
=== Stats ===
[Commons] - Three years have passed since Commons started selecting
their best pictures; now, the 10,000th featured picture has been
selected.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/21385http://tinyurl.com/2e4xab -- the 10,000th featured picture
[hu.wp] - The Hungarian Wikipedia just reached 75.000 articles.
http://hu.wikipedia.org
[haw.wp] - The Hawaiian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
http://haw.wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_language
[simple wp] - The Simple English Wikipedia has reached its 20,000th
article with "Mandurah railway line, Perth". Simple is looking for
editors to write even more articles.
http://simple.wikipedia.org
[Erratum] - Wikizine 82 reported that the Vietnamese Wikipedia had
reached 100,000 articles. This is not correct. The count was 100,000
pages in total, not just articles. The Vietnamese Wikipedia has over
25,000 articles.
=== Editorial ===
Dear readers,
Today, Wikizine has existed for three years. A couple of weeks ago, I
was seriously considering to stop contributing to Wikizine. My reason
was that it became too difficult to continue creating weekly a new and
good edition of Wikizine virtually alone.
At this time, the start of the third year of Wikizine, I want to
inform you, my readers, that Wikizine will continue. This is possible
because of the recent assistance in creating Wikizine that has been
provided to me by users londenp and effeietsanders and a slightly less
pessimistic state of mind.
It will not longer be a goal of Wikizine to have a weekly issue. The
new publication frequency will be "You will get a new Wikizine
whenever one is ready".
The Spanish and Indonesian language edition of Wikizine will mostly be
terminated soon because of lack of activity of the people who started
them. For the German edition there is just a new volunteer so there is
hope that this one can stay.
Thanks for reading Wikizine. That is the reason for existence of a
newsletter. This newsletter is "for the members of the Wikimedia
community". The main purpose of Wikizine is to inform you, the
Wikimedia community, what is going on in the community. That is across
all projects and languages.
Only what is known by the (small) staff of Wikizine can be reported.
Currently Wikizine fails in reporting what is going on in the global
community due to lack of information. Please take a minute to send
notice to Wikizine if there is something of interest to report from
your home-wiki.
Greetings,
[[meta:user:Walter]]
=== Did you know ... ===
... that the income of the Wikimedia Foundation is mainly based on
small donations from individuals who appreciate the Wikimedia
projects? The Wikimedia projects are hence mainly supported by the
large public, not by major organisations.
=== Fundraising quotes ===
"For tripling the number of Elephants in Africa!" US$500 --Anonymous.
"Instead of a banner asking for donations, why don't you just have a
banner with an ad, and skip the middle step." --Anonymous.
"Wikipédia est d'une utilité publique colossale." -- Lionel Bolnet
"Who's that guy? The guy on the banner looks like Osama bin Laden."
--Anonymous
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