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=== Policy ===
[Foundation Licensing] - The WMF approved a licensing policy for its projects.
The policy has an impact on all projects about how they are allowed to use
media (like photos, logos). The policy heavily restricts the use of media under
a "Fair use" or similar status and allows it only under very specific
circumstance if no other possibility exists. All new files uploaded from March
23, 2007 must comply with the new policy or be deleted. Please read the policy.
Reading this text is no substitute.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15318http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policyhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_policy_FAQ_draft -- *!*draft*!*
Editorial note: spreading the news accords all projects and languages is the
objective of Wikizine. Please bring this new policy under the attention of your
home-wiki community and help to close the language barrier by translating or at
least report the essence of the new policy.
[NL.wikibooks] - The Wikibooks NL community has decided to change the default
license
of textbooks for the future. That will mean that from a certain
point in the near future all new submitted changes and new texts will
be default double licenced under GNU FDL *and* CC-BY-SA-2.5 or later.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15213http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Dubbellicentie
=== Technical news ===
[Upgrade] - A large hardware purchase for $280,000 is approved. This will
include 36 Apache servers and 20 Squids. After this upgrade the server park
will be able to handle the traffic until it doubles from the current one.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Hardware_purchase_March_2007
[Quiz] - On Wikiversity (that is a WMF project) is the MediaWiki quiz extension
enabled. With this extension you can make wiki-based quizzes.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz
=== Request for help ===
[EN Wikinews] - There is interest by some users of EN Wikinews to try to make a
video news bulletin. The problem is that there is need for people who know how
to do that. People who are interested to help can say so in the "Water cooler".
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#wikinews_Video --
Like to help?
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Broadcast -- early attempts
[Wikimentary] - In Wikizine 64 there was an item about a project to make a
documentary about Wikipedia. But there is also another unrelated project for
making a documentary. This is a project of Rory O’Connor, a documentary maker
and journalist. This documentary is supposed to be focused on wiki technology
including Wikipedia. Video recordings have been made at the previous
Wikimanias. This project is now seeking financial support to complete a film.
To contact the people working on this; <roc AT globalvision DOT org>
http://www.archive.org/details/WIKIMANIA-ROUGH_CUT.mov -- A possible segment of
the documentary
=== Foundation ===
[Resignation] - Brad Patrick, General Counsel (lawyer) and ex-interim Executive
Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, has announced that he will leave the WMF
on March 31, 2007. Brad was hired by the WMF in June 2006. In his statement
Brad makes clear that he announced his decision to leave Wikimedia weeks ago
and is totally unrelated with the resignation of Danny.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15210 -- statement by
Brad about this resignation
[Danny] - Danny also has posted a statement about his resignation. He writes
that he will run for the board of WMF in next election.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15204http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-26/Depart…
-- Danny&Brad
[Job] - The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a legal coordinator to handle the
day-to-day legal needs of the Foundation and to coordinate outside help.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15307
[Hire upgrade] - Anthere announced that Rob Halsell who has been working
part-time as data center technician since December is hired full-time now to
work for the WMF. Rob will work as IT'er in the Tampa data center of and as
office IT technician in the Wikimedia Foundation world headquarters in Saint
Petersburg.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15253
[Advisory Board] - Two new members are added to the WMF Advisory Board: Teemu
Leinonen and Debbie Garside. This brings the board up to 20 members.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15291
=== Community ===
[Wikimeet Serbia] - Everyone who has time and means is welcome to come to
Belgrade,
Serbia during the weekend of April 21 and 22 for a Wikimeet.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dungodung -- contact person for this
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15300
[Wikimania 2007] - New Team Bulletin, edition March 25, 2007
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Team_Bulletin/20070325
[JA Wiki] - Japanese Wikipedians have held a public interview with Jimbo Wales
who is staying in Japan for a month until 2th April. Twenty questions to ask to
Jimbo were written by the Japanese Wikipedia community. The questions where
send to Jimbo in advance and Jimbo answered questions at the event. There were
about 60 people attending. Jimbo also answered non-prepared questions from the
audience.
[Wikiquote-l] - There was not yet a general mailing list for the Wikiquote
project. Now there is one; Wikiquote-l
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquote-l
=== Stats ===
[EO.wp] - The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles with Biblioteko
de Aleksandrio (Library of Alexandra). The Esperanto Wikipedia is one of the
older Wikipedia's and now the 11th largest Wikipedia out of +/- 240.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_Wikipedia
[Wikibooks] The Russian Wikibooks and the Chinese Wikibooks has reached 500 book
modules.
=== Other news ===
[Open] - Citizendium, then encyclopedia project of Larry Sanger, co-founder of
wikipedia depending on who you ask, has opened his Wiki to the general public
for reading. Applying for an account is also possible but it will take more
effort then on our projects.
http://en.citizendium.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium
[WikiSym] - International Symposium on Wikis; Call for submitting of a paper,
panel, workshop, etc
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/30941http://www.wikisym.org/
=== Was ist das? ===
OTOH: On The Other Hand
Stroopwafels: plural form of stroopwafel
Shills and Astroturfing: A type of sockpuppet created by the manufacturer of a
product or the author of a book for the sole purpose of recommending the
product/book by posing as an enthusiastic consumer or reader. A single such
sock puppet is a shill; creating large numbers of them to fake a "grass-roots"
upswelling of support is known as astroturfing. (Source: [[w:en:Sockpuppet
(Internet)]])
=== Linus Torvalds quotes ===
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." (1991)
"If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know
better than you do." (1996)
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." (2000)
"They are smoking crack." (2003) Source: eWeek interview. Notes: said about SCO
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect." (2003)
"Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go
suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but
that's _my_ choice, dammit." (October 26, 2004) rms = Richard Stallman
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=== Technical news ===
[Hope] - "Stable versions", a function in the wiki so that the readers can see
some form of approved version of an article, that was announced to go live very
soon almost a year ago, is not forgotten. A developer is hired to work on that
function.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/30700
Notice: people who read the Wikipedia Signpost and Wikizine will notice that the
Signpost reports much more technical news in their B.R.I.O.N section than
Wikizine, and mostly also a lot earlier than Wikizine. There are two reasons
for this. Some changes are considered too trivial or technically obscure so
that it is not likely that there is a benefit in informing the target audience
of Wikizine about it. Also many of the changes listed in the Signpost are not
(yet) live on the Wikimedia websites but only present in the code. In general
Wikizine chooses to report only technical changes when they are live on the
projects. Major technical changes that are known in advance will be reported
before they are live. But those are rare and even more almost never known in
advance enough to report it.
=== Foundation ===
[New hire] - The Wikimedia Foundation has hired [[meta:User:Bastique]] for the
position of " Volunteer Coordinator".
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15190http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique
[Exit] - Danny Wool, Grants Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation in the
Florida office, from September 2005 has left Wikimedia. Danny has also resigned
from all his functions on EN Wikipedia, Meta and as steward.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Former_staffhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Danny
=== Community ===
[South Asia] - Interview with two users about the Bengali and Indonesian
Wikipedia's
http://wikipediaweekly.com/2007/03/14/wikipedia-weekly-15/
[Abuse] - On the Dutch language Wikipedia it was noticed that a user had placed
a link "Donate to Wikipedia" inside an article pointing to a PayPal donation
form to donate to a stranger. The page [[Special:Linksearch]] can be of use to
find this type of fraud. Also because some companies give money to people who
bring to them new customers some users try to add to some links a referrer - a
special code so that they can gain profit from the traffic that comes from
Wikipedia.
[Sinbad] - Vandalism on the article [[w:en:Sinbad (actor)]] declaring this
person deceased has been used to start a hoax sent by email linking to that
article, even making it to the mainstream media. The problem is that when the
link used to point to the article is a permalink, a link pointing to a specific
revision, people only see the old version and may not be aware that the most
current version is different form version the are reading. The specific
revision can be deleted by a sysop by deleting the article and restoring it
selectively. Or by a user with oversight rights.
What also can help is to make it more clear to the reader that the page the are
seeing is an old version. Edit your local page [[MediaWiki:Revision-info]] to
modify the text displayed on the top of an old revision.
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10520/1103/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Revision-info -- discussion on EN
about how the notice must look like
=== Media ===
[Andrew Lih] - Pod/Vod-cast interview with Andrew Lih, maybe more know to some
as Fuzheado. Andrew Lih is a writing a book about Wikipedia, has blog about
Wikipedia and is a core member of the WikipediaWeekly podcast.
http://www.calacanis.com/2007/03/20/calacaniscast-18-beta/http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/
[.gov] - The Wikipedia Factor in U.S. Intelligence; Wikipedia used in U.S.
Government intelligence reports.
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/03/the_wikipedia_factor_in_us_int.html
=== Stats ===
[cy.wp] - The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles with the article
[[w:cy:Livorno]]
http://cy.wikipedia.org
[el.wp] - The Greek Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
http://el.wikipedia.org
[tr.wikt] - The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 120,000 entries.
http://tr.wiktionary.org
=== Other news ===
[Wiki] - It is now offical. "Wiki" is a word - it must be so because it is now
in the Oxford English Dictionary.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2362781.ece
=== Did you know ... ===
... you can add advanced editor functions to the edit-box?
[[w:en:User:Cacycle]] has written in javascript a full-featured in-browser text
editor called "wikiEd" that adds enhanced text processing functions to
MediaWiki edit pages. wikEd is a complete rich-text pseudo-WYSIWYG editor and
comes with many MediaWiki-specific features. Currently it only works with
FireFox or other Mozilla browsers. But User:Cacycle is trying to make it also
work for IE 7.0 and would welcome help with it.
Its functionality is extensive, taking you time to get to know before passing
judgment about it and reading the manual is recommended. WikiEd is also
available in other languages besides English or you can translate it. To
install it you only need to include some code to your monobook.js
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEdhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd_international
=== Ferengi Rules of Acquisition ===
"A woman wearing clothes is like a man in the kitchen." Rule 4
"Females and finances don't mix." - Rule 94
"Wives serve, brothers inherit." - Rule 139
"A wife is a luxury... a smart accountant a necessity." - Rule 255
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=== Technical news ===
[Planet Wikimedia] - A website has been created to collect Wikimedia related
blog entries in one place. English blogs about Wikimedia can request their feed
be added on Meta (see links). Non-English blogs can can request a similar
system for that language. In addition to the Wikimedia version of this service,
[[w:en:user:Nickj]] has created his own version at open.wikiblogplanet.com.
This version has a "Edit this planet" link which allows you to your own blog.
http://planet.wikimedia.orghttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimediahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planet_Wikimedia -- Change of the url?
http://open.wikiblogplanet.com/
=== Foundation ===
[Wikimania 2007] - Registration is open for Wikimania 2007, which will be held
from 3-5 August in Taipei, Taiwan. A 3-day ticket costs 40$US. You can also
register for the Hacking Days and "Citizen Journalism Unconference".
Registration for sleeping arrangements are also open; the fee is 20$US if you
register now, and the number of beds is limited. The Wikimedia Foundation is
also offering some scholarships for Wikimania.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registrationhttp://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
=== Community ===
[Usurpation] - 'Usurpation' is a new Wikipedia jargon term whose real meaning is
to seize something by force. It is used on the English Wikipedia to refer to
the process of changing the username of an inactive user so that the username
becomes available for registration or can be assigned to another user. This is
not a new function; it has existed for as long as renaming users was possible.
However, it may not have been very well known until now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CHU/Uhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/usurpation
[Torrent] - The "Picture of the Year 2006 archive" containing the best
photographs that Wikimedia Commons has to offer from the year 2006 are now
available as a torrent download (321 pictures, 526MB).
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/poty2006.torrent
[Bias] - A company active in selling worthless college degrees was not happy
about the article about their business. They have published a job offer for a
watchdog to follow the article and remove negative content about them. Although
it is not uncommon for a company to edit their own article in this way,
offering a paid job as a professional bias-pusher is new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-12/Paid_e…
=== Media ===
[According to Wikipedia] - The English language Wikipedia article about the US
town "Sioux Falls" is printed in a local publication of that town. This is what
Wikipedia is all about, giving people information they can use freely. However,
people of Sioux Falls where not charmed with the article's description of their
town as a "dirty little town" and "full of drunks".
http://tinyurl.com/2xmda9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux_Falls
[Jimmy] - A short written question-and-answer session with Jimmy Wales.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1755098.cms
[Audio] - BBC has broadcast a radio interview about Wikipedia versus
Conservapedia, a new wiki intended to provide information from a Conservative
point of view.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today4_wikipedia_20070307…
-- RealAudio 5:34min
=== Stats ===
[RU.wp] - The Russian Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles just one week after
they reached 140,000 articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Wikipedia
[EL.wikt] - The Greek Wiktionary has reached 75,000 entries.
http://el.wiktionary.org/
=== Other news ===
[MediaWiki book] - A new book by Mizanur Rahman about MediaWiki will soon be
released. It is a technical book for MediaWiki administrators. If you
pre-order, you get a discount and free shipping (for some reason, it is cheaper
when you use US dollars as currency).
http://www.packtpub.com/book/Mediawiki -- "MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial
Guide"
[Doc] - A real documentary about Wikipedia is in production. The people involved
have already made a documentary about craigslist.org, a popular website in the
United States, and a movie about graffiti in San Francisco. The producers are
accepting donations to pay for the production. Donors of at least $50 are
included in the credits in the movie on DVD when it is ready. The documentary
is scheduled to be released in 2008. Their website contains preview video
clips.
http://www.wikidocumentary.org
[Stella Artois] - An advertisement bureau working for InBev, the world's largest
brewery company, has used Wikipedia in their online campaign for their beer
brand "Stella Artois" for the Belgian market. They replaced the text of the
article about "Stella Artois" in the French- and Dutch-language Wikipedia with
their own fictional history of the beer. Their version is permalinked on the
official website of Stella Artois as "proof" for the fictional history used in
a publicity campaign.
http://www.stella-artois.be/hacking/NL/
=== Did you know ... ===
... that it is possible for non-sysop to semi-protect a page?
This method is based on last week's "did you know" about protecting unborn
articles (see link below). If you "transclude" pages you would like to protect
(including them as templates) on a page that is semi-protected with the
'cascading protection' option enabled, they will be automatically protected
from edits by non-sysops.
Because the semi-protected page can be edited by almost all users, most editors
can protected pages.
For example, make a page like [[Wikipedia:Non-sysop protected pages]], with
semi-protection and cascading protection. An editor adds the "Foobar" article
with '{{:Foobar}}'. The article [[Foobar]] is now fully protected (not only
semi-protected, as would be expected).
When this system is used, the semi-protected page (in the example,
[[Wikipedia:Non-sysop protected pages]]) will become very large if many pages
are included in it.
This type of protection is not listed in the block logs, and this behaviour may
change in the future. Although it is probably not a good idea to use this
system, at least now you know that it is possible.
http://en.wikizine.org/2007/03/year-2007-week-10-number-63.html -- last week's
"did you know"
=== Quote ===
Some people put a lot of work into their lawn, as if a patch of green grass was
the most important thing in the world. As if they thought that as long as the
lawn out front was green and mowed and beautiful, it wouldn't matter at all
what was going on inside of the house. -- Character Allie Keys / science
fiction miniserie "Taken"
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=== Technical news ===
[IRC bots] - All operators of Wikimedia IRC bots are requested by IRC group
contact and freenode staff member m:User:Xyrael to read this posting, and
respond to him via e-mail. The post was submitted to multiple lists and it is
requested that it be distributed to all IRC bot operators:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/30428http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Group_Contacts
=== Request for help ===
[Wikimania] There is an open call for submissions for the the Wikimedia event of
the year, Wikimania 2007, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on 3-5 August.
The following are requested: presentations (10–30 minute talks), workshops
(30–120 minute sessions with more involvement of the audience),
Birds-of-a-Feather (45-60 minutes of informal group discussion on a particular
topic), panels (groups of 2-5 speakers to discuss a specific subject), posters
(printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own), and
artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or other
representations of some aspect of the projects).
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Particpation
=== Foundation ===
[WMF update] - Board member Anthere has posted an unofficial announcement about
how the Wikipedia Foundation is doing. The Foundation is looking for people
with certain qualifications: a professional fundraising person, a professional
in international employment, and a brand strategist.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14960
[Draft] - Board member Erik Moeller requests comments on a draft licensing
policy resolution, intended to guide projects on copyright issues.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14730
[Job offer] - The WMF has a (paid) job offer as Volunteer Coordinator.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14870
=== Community ===
[ :-( ] - w:en:User:Essjay , a (now former) heavily involved and high
ranking Wikimedia member, has become the center of media attention and internal
discussion. Extensive reports what is going own can be found by the hyperlinks
below. The essence of the case is; User Essjay has presented himself on
Wikipedia as a professor of theology. And now it has come out that this is not
true. Essjay has resigned form all his functions and has left the project. The
story is reported in the general mass media, including television. Also the
non-English media is reporting about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-05/Essjayhttp://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/03/05/essjay-departure-questions-remain-…http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales_asks_Wikipedian_to_resign_%22his_po…http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Ex-Wikipedian_accuses_Pulitzer_winner_of_bad_jo…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_scandalhttp://wikipediaweekly.com/podpress_trac/web/27/0/WW12-32kbps.mp3 -- Audio;
WikipediaWeekly 12
http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/03/01/wikipedia-firmly-supports-your-right…http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/1313251http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/03/233224http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/06/wwiki106.xml
Related posts on WikiEN-l;
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/64370http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/64486http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/64548http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/64725
[The Babylonian] - The translation subcommittee has published its second
newsletter with news about translations-related news and requests for help.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Trans/Newslette…
[NL Arbcom] - The Dutch language Wikipedia has elected its own Arbitration
Committee. For the 7 positions are 7 users elected in a close call because only
7 members has enough votes to be considered. The normal term will be one year
but because this was the first election now 4 members are elected for one year
and 3 for six months.
=== Awards ===
[Picture of the Year] - The Wikimedia Commons has chosen the 2006 picture of the
year: a photograph of the [[w:en:Aurora Borealis]] taken by Senior Airman
Joshua Strang of the United States Air Force.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2006
=== Other news ===
[Law] - In Belgium has a court made some interesting rulings. A editor of a
story on the Belgium edition of Indymedia was sued by the company that was
written about for libel. The court ruled that a private person writing for a
community news site must be treated the same way as a professional journalist.
In this case this mean that case must come for a jury.
In a other case, also in Belgium, a court destroyed part a law about the
protection of sources used by journalists. The judges ruled that it is illegal
to make a difference between professional journalists and bloggers by giving
only professional journalists protection of source. "Protection of sources is
an essential part of the freedom of speech and of the freedom of the press."
http://zdnet.be/news.cfm?id=65592http://lvb.net/item/2909
[A new pedia] - A new wiki-based encyclopedia project is started; Conservapedia.
It is a encyclopedia project written from a fundamentalistic Christian American
point of view. It is intended as a serious project. Probably this project will
be more competition for uncyclopedia then Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapediahttp://www.conservapedia.com
=== Did you know ... ===
... how you can protect an unborn article?
If you are a sysop, you may have noticed that sometimes an article you deleted
has a long history of creation and deletion. Often these pages have weird title
that will likely not become a valid article, or it is deleted after consensus
that it does not belong on the project.
It is possible to make it impossible to recreate. Create a new page to list such
pages, such as [[Project:Protected unborn articles]]. On that page you
transclude all the pages that you want to block the creation of. For example,
to prevent the creation of the article "Example", you would add "{{:Example}}"
to the page. Then protect the page with the list (in this example,
[[Project:Protected unborn articles]]) with 'cascading protection' enabled.
The result is that the inexistent articles are protected and can only be created
by a sysop. Any sysop can edit the list (here, [[Project:Protected unborn
articles]]) to add or remove entries; there is no need to re-protect it every
time it is edited.
=== Quote ===
"Uveigil as lok at mennet, homennet thorpar ey wat marta ok etin."
"How clear a river may be, upstream always will something disgusting float in
your direction." -- Marbak proverb
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