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=== Technical news ===
[Autoblockedtext] - If you block a user you have the option to also block the ip
address that this user is using. This appears in the blocklog as a number like
"#47980". There is now a special message to be displayed to users who try to
edit when the are blocked because of a hidden autoblock. The text of the page
[[MediaWiki:Autoblockedtext]] is send to that user. The only way to know what
the ip address is that is blocked is if the blocked user can give the block ID.
This number is included in the default message so the blocked user needs to
include this in his communication. A sysop can then look in the blocklist for
that ID and unblock it.
[image border] - There is a new display instruction for images. The new one is
"border". The result is a very small gray border. The idea is that some images
because of there colors flow over in the background of a page when used. By
putting a small border around it the border between the image and the page is
more clear.
Usage: [[Image:Filename|border|100px|right]]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images -- Example, see MediaWiki logo
[Special] - There is a new special page that gives a list of all articles that
have no interwiki links. It is a stored lists that is only updated some times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Withoutinterwiki
[404] - The Esperanto Wikipedia, one of the older Wikipedias, has lost, possibly
definitive, an old file from there early days. Due to changes of url's and
systems for uploading files the path to the file is broken. To prevent this
from happening it is best to look on your wiki to links to old files. The are
using absolute url's using the wikipedia.com-domain. If the are not inside the
current local or commons upload system then save them and re-upload them or put
them somewhere safe. At least if you want to keep the early history of your
wiki.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/31770
[Wap] - A special gateway to Wikipedia for mobile devices is created under the
Wikipedia-flag, a wap-portal. It exists in a few languages including German,
Spanish and English and is fairly buggy. There is a good alternative:
wapedia.mobi
http://de.wap.wikipedia.orghttp://es.wap.wikipedia.orghttp://en.wap.wikipedia.orghttp://wapedia.mobi
=== Foundation ===
[Wikimedia IT] - Wikimedia Italia is working on an agreement to obtain part of
the image archive of Società Geografica Italiana. SGI is one of the most
important and respected geographical institutes of the world. Founded in 1867,
the Society owns thousands of precious historic volumes, maps and a huge
archive of photos related to colonialism and the XX century's explorations. On
Friday May 18, some members of it.wiki met Franco Salvatori, president of
Società Geografica Italiana. The meeting resulted in an exclusive interview
for IT Wikinews.
http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/La_Societ%C3%A0_della_Geografia
[Legal] - The German Wikimedia chapter was sued by a powerful German
lobby/public relations organisation. This because of a negative comment by an
anonymous user on a archived talk page about them that did not amused them. The
sued the German WMF chapter because in there opinion Wikimedia DE has control
over the German language Wikipedia. The lost and also the appeal.
http://www.wikimedia.de/2007/05/wikimedia-gegen-insm/http://www.golem.de/0705/52486.htmlhttp://www.onlinepc.ch/index.cfm?page=104029&artikel_id=13889
=== Community ===
[RIP] - Norwegian Wikimedian, journalist, and author Tron Øgrim
[[w:no:User:Togrim]] passed away last week.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-05-28/Wikipe…
[Wikisource News] - Presents the news from Wikisource from January to May 2007.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:News/2007-05-01/Wikisource_report --
(en)
[Wikiopen] The Hakka Wikipedia, a spoken variation of the Chinese language
spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group has been
created.
http://hak.wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_language
[Wikiclose] The Old English Wikisource has been closed.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Ol…http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10059
=== Awards ===
[IT Wikipedia] - was granted one of the nine Special Prizes of the Grand Prix
di Pubblicità Italia (Advertising Grand Prix of Italy) for "succeeding in
exploiting the Internet potential at its best, directly involving users for a
widespread growth of culture". Wikimedia Italia board member Ivan Vighetto
attended the gala, and received the prize, a plaque. The event had great
resonance on Italian media.
http://www.pubblicitaitalia.it/news.asp?id_news=41827 -- (it)
=== Media ===
[Club of Rome] - Anthere at the Club of Rome
http://euforic.blogspot.com/2007/05/behind-screens-at-wikipedia.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
[Audio & video] - Good audio interview with Jimmy Wales and David Weinberger.
And Jimmy also made an appearance as a guest in the American satirical
television program "The Colbert Report".
http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/wikipedia_is_ju.html -- Audio interview,
22min
http://www.newscloud.com/read/Jimmy_Wales_The_Colbert_Report -- video fragment,
turn brain off before watching
http://blog.valuewiki.com/2007/05/29/more-stephen-colbert-wiki-pranks/
=== Stats ===
[NL.wp & IT.wp] - The Dutch language Wikipedia has passed the 300,000 article
mark almost exactly one year after the 200,000 mark. The NL Wikipedia is the
7th largest Wikipedia. With only 22 million speakers the Dutch language
Wikipedia is compared with the larger Wikipedias versus there number of
speakers extremely large. Also the Italian language Wikipedia has now 300,000
articles. With 60 to 120 million speakers the are one step higher then the
Dutch at the 6th place.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
[FR.wp] - The French Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.
[The Wiki top 50] - An attempt to make a top 50 of the most popular wiki on the
the internet according Alexa.com and Google PageRank. Number one we know but
on the second place is a surprize, we have "Adobe labs wiki" as the second most
popular wiki.
http://www.advolcano.com/blog/?p=11http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
=== Other news ===
[Clean School WP] - This week a website went live with a "2007 Wikipedia
selection for schools". Created by SOS Children, a charity focust on orphan and
abandoned children, is aimed at British school children following the National
Curriculum, and consists of all of the English Wikipedia's Good and Featured
Articles, excluding content SOS Children deemed 'adult'. The site uses the
Wikipedia logo, with permission. The content of there website is also available
as a CD-rom or DVD that can be downloaded for free from there website.
http://schools-wikipedia.org/
[The perfect logo] - The Wikipedia logo appears to be very "Wikipedia" in the
meaning that there are mistakes on it. Some of the characters on the globe are
reported to be incorrect. Editing the logo seems to be from a technical and
possibly also from a legal (trademark) POV difficult.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo
[Wikizine] - The last weeks the domain wikizine.org has been down several times
for longer periodes of time. This is a direct result of the hoster of
Wikizine.org being down. When this is noticed the DNS-settings of the domain is
changed to a back-up hoster to be able to provide minimal service. Because of
possible slow updating of DNS-servers it can take a long time before Wikizine
resolves at your location.
Users of the public DNS service of opendns.com will be one of the first to
resolve Wikizine if it is online. The hoster reported to have find the source
of the problems. Hopefully Wikizine will stay online now.
In the last weeks users of several communities have contacted Wikizine to setup
a translated edition of Wikizine. Wikizine does now also exist in German,
Spanish and Indonesian. And for the readers who read this as a translation,
there is also an English version :-)
For now and in principle the translations will contain exactly the same content
as EN Wikizine. Possibly and hopefully these editions will become eventually
more then only a translation but also include there own original content
directed directly to there local language community. The homepage at
wikizine.org provides easy access to the different editions and subscription
possibility.
As always the assistance of the readers for all levels and all languages
versions of Wikizine to Wikizine is very welcome.
http://www.opendns.comhttp://www.wikizine.org
=== Weird ... ===
And now music ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Song/The_RfA_Candidate%27s_Songhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Candidate%27s_song_take_2.ogg
=== Quote ===
Encyclopedias are now suffering obsolescence (*), evolving from traditional
publishing to a new form - I don't know what this form is [...] but we sure
have a new horizon in front of us, related to the very bases of
encyclopedicism, and '''you are the reality that matters now from this point of
view'''. [...] Encyclopedia is not dead: its spirit is not dead, the
Enlightenment spirit is not dead. -- F. Salvatori, SGI (La Società della
Geografia)
(*) the state, process, or condition of being or becoming obsolete
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[SyntaxHighlight] - This is a function that is now live on all wikis. Its
function is to display text, more programming code, in colors like it is custom
for editors used by programmers to make the code more readable.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/31108http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi -- See here how it works
[Wikiclosed] - The Kanuri Wikipedia, language spoken mostly in Northern Nigeria,
has been closed. The Low Saxon Wikiquote has also been closed.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Ka…http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Lo…
[Wikiopen] - An Italian Wikiversity has been created.
http://it.wikiversity.org/
=== Request for help ===
[Brand survey] - Erik Moeller (board) drafted a survey on Wikimedia's brands:
their perception, use,
protection, and various potential reorganization options. Edits/feedback on the
current survey questions are welcome.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17159http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_brand_survey
=== Foundation ===
[New Hire] - The WMF has hired Vishal Pattel as part-time business developer for
the WMF. Mr. Pattel was already working as an intern for the WMF. To see what
he will be doing and all the comments about it visit
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17174 -- Announcement by
Anthere (Chair WMF) - there are more postings then in this thread because it
was broken several times.
=== Awards ===
[Czech Wikipedia] - The Czech edition of Wikipedia has won the "Czech Open
Source 2007"
award in the reader's vote in the category "Project" and it has also been
declared the overall winner of the contest as the subject with the biggest
total number of reader's votes without regard for category.
The award has been organized by Root.cz, a popular Czech news server oriented on
Linux and free software in general.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/30117
[Intelligent Award] - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Wikia, Inc. founder
Angela Beesley were named as the 2007 Intelligent Community Visionaries of the
Year by the Intelligent Community Forum.
http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/associations/5315/files/2007_VisionaryA…http://tinyurl.com/28rfcs
=== Community ===
[en.wikinews] – Original reporting with prominent New Zealand blogger, David
Farrar, opens doors for an exclusive interview with the Leader of the New
Zealand Opposition, John Key.
http://gpollard.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/another-exclusive-interview-for-wi…
=== Media ===
[Jimmy] - Good quality video recording of a presentation done by Jimmy Wales
about Wikipedia and Wikia in Bayreuth, Germany. If you like to know what Jimmy
is doing while travelling around the world, this is good video to see. It is
also informative about Wikia. This is a long video.(01:17, 943mb, fast
download). If you have no time, download it now and view it later. It is not a
waste of time.
http://cms-sprachlabor.split.uni-bamberg.de/av/2007/dgpuk/Wales.avi
["Left Wikipedia"] - Wikipedia is 'politically slanted' by the left, who are 'in
control'. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/13/212015.shtml?s=lh
=== Stats ===
[Paper] - Two studies about EN Wikipedia; "Visualizing the Overlap between the
100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia" and "What is Popular on Wikipedia and
Why?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-05-14/Academ…http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/spoerri/index.htmlhttp://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/wilkinson/index.html
[en.wikibooks] - The English Wikibooks has exceeded 75,000 total pages and
25,000 non-stub book modules.
http://en.wikibooks.org/
[ca.wp] The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
http://ca.wikipedia.org
[ci.wp] The Vietnamese Wikipedia is edited for the 600,000th time as Trungda
makes changes to the article on "Mạc Ngọc Liễn", a figure from the Mạc
Dynasty of northern Vietnam.
http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BA%A1c_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Li%E1%BB%85nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BA%A1c_Dynasty
=== Other news ===
{{spoiler}} Jesus dies … False ending! He comes back! {{endspoiler}}
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/05/17/snape-kills-dumbledore/ -- A blog
posing about the template culture in Wikipedia, worthy to read.
=== Did you know ... ===
... we have a project in our family called "Wikispecies"?
Wikispecies is a Wikimedia project intended to be a directory of species. There
are currently about a dozen active editors and over 60,000 listings. It is
similar to Commons in that it is multilingual. They are working on the fine
line between being a framework of species with links to information in all of
the various Wikipedias, and containing that information there. Searching is
always challenging when working in multiple languages. Wikispecies hopes to
utilize wikidata when it becomes available to serve up the data. Check it out
at http://species.wikimedia.org/.
=== Quote ===
"Simplicity is not an end in art but we arrive at simplicity in spite of
ourselves." - Constantin Brancusi.
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=== Technical news ===
[Password security] - After several user accounts on EN Wikipedia where
cracked password security has been increased. From now on if an
incorrect password is entered you will need to pass a captcha test when
trying again. The passwords of the sysops on EN Wikipedia and Commons
has been checked against very weak passwords and some are locked. Those
users can login again by requesting a new password, at least if the
provided a valid email address in there preferences. The check could be
expanded to other wikis also and it is possible that additional security
measures will be taken. It is highly recommended to make sure you have
good password and a valid email address for your account.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/71181http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-05-07/Admins…
=== Request for help ===
[Board election] - WMF board member Jan-Bart de Vreede is looking for
candidates for the "Election Committee" that will at least prepare and
possibly also manage the upcoming board elections. Election committee
members can not run as candidates for the board and are not allowed to
vote. Applications can be send in until 13th of May. See lists posting
for more information.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/16727
=== Foundation ===
[New chapter] - A new Wikimedia chapter is founded; Wikimedia Israel.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Israel
=== Community ===
[Re-branding] - WMF boardmember Erik Moeller has posted a proposal to
change the names of the Wikimedia projects to a name starting with
"Wikipedia" because that is the strongest brand. So for example
Wikiquote would become "Wikipedia Quotes". This proposal is a personal
idea of Erik and is not a board idea. This idea does not seem to get a
lot of support.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/16813 -- Main thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/16945http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/16931
[Sponsor] - A Norwegian Wikipedian is awarded a scholarship for working
on the Nynorsk Wikipedia by an organization aiming to promote the use of
Nynorsk as a written language .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-05-07/Wikipe…
[EN Wikinews] - Get original reporting by asking someone else to do it.
http://wikinewsreports.blogspot.com/2007/04/wikinews-sends-reporter-to-prov…
=== Awards ===
[DE Wikimedia] - Wikimedia Deutschland, the german local WMF chapter,
awards a price,
the Zedler-Medaille, for an article (or the significant improvement of
an article) in the german Wikipedia. The article must be in the area of
humanities. The award is endowed with 3000 Euro and is funded by
the German magazine "Gehirn und Geist" ["Brain and Mind"] and allocated
in co-operation with the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz as
part of the german "Year of Humanities".
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Zedler-Medaillehttp://www.wikimedia.de/zedler-medaillehttp://www.abc-der-menschheit.de/coremedia/generator/wj/de/__Downloads/Pres…
=== Stats ===
[en.wikiquote] - The English Wikiquote has reached 10,000 articles. The
milestone is Langdon Smith posted by Kalki.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langdon_Smith
[ar.wp] - The Arabic Wikipedia announces that the are almost at 30,000
articles. The are now 35th largest Wikipedia. The have made a
celebration logo for the event.
http://ar.wikipedia.org
[ga.wp] - The Irish Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
http://ga.wikipedia.org
=== Other news ===
[Encyclopedia of Life] - Yet again a new encyclopedia project. But this
one has very, very serious funding so most likely this one will not fail
or at least not in the short run. There mission is ambitious; "Imagine
an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth available
everywhere by single access on command." And is exactly what the are
planing to do. The content will primary be imported from several
existing sources, authenticated by scientists and used in the
encyclopedia. The first pages are expected to be live by mid 2008. The
hope to get the work done for creating articles about every organism in
10 years. The also plan to have the encyclopedia available in several
languages. The licence the will use is not yet known. If the can make
true what the announce the Encyclopedia Of Life will be a very strong
competition for Wikipedia and Wikispecies for fauna and flora. The
Wikimedia Foundation is a partner of "Encyclopedia Of Life".
http://www.eol.org/home.html -- See the video and notice the interface
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/08/226230http://blog.valuewiki.com/2007/05/09/encyclopedia-of-life/http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/05/08/a-new-encyclopedia-of-life-announced/
-- Larry Sanger about EOL
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/16907
[kab.wp] - A new Wikipedia is born; number 251. This one is on Kabyle
language, a language the can use an encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_languagehhtp://kab.wikipedia.org
=== Did you know ... ===
No, nothing this week. Only a nice comic found by the Signpost.
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20070429/cx_nq_uc/nq20070429
=== Ferengi Rules of Acquisition ===
"Peace is good for business" - Rule 35
"More is good. All is better." - Rule 242
"After you've exploited someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way,
it's easier to exploit them next time." - Rule 299 (Unofficial Rule)
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[Cracked sysop accounts] - At least on the English language Wikipedia several user accounts of sysops have been hijacked and abused. This seems to be done by guessing the (weak) passwords of those accounts.
At present there is now a Captcha check live that asks you to enter a confirmation word if you enter an incorrect password.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
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=== Technical news ===
[Login] - Passwords that are the same as the user name can no longer
be used. Affected accounts can reset their password by e-mail to
something more secure. If you do not have an email address provided in
your account you have no access any more. The only hope to keep your
account is to go to #wikimedia-tech and convince a developer that you
are who you say you are. In general providing an email address for
your account, and the same for all accounts, is a good idea.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/29945http://www.spammotel.com -- if you do not trust Wikimedia with your
email address
http://www.spamgourmet.com
[Special] - New special page [[Special:Fewestrevisions]] . It lists
.... yes ....pages that have very few revisions, other versions.
Because it also includes redirects its usefulness is limited. The
results are cached.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Fewestrevisions
=== Request for help ===
[Wikimania2007] - Call for Participation deadline extended until May 15.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation
[ENDS] - WMF Chair Anthere is asking for comments about a draft
governance model for Wikimedia Foundation Board Policy.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/16587http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy_governance_manual
=== Policy ===
[Who Are You?] - The WMF approved a resolution making it required that
people who have access to confidential information identify themselves
to the Wikimedia Foundation. This seems only to apply to access to
information that falls under the Wikimedia Privacy policy. This does not
seem to include the private mailing lists and wikis.
People who do need to identify themselves and prove that they are at
least 18 years old (or older if the legal age is higher in your country) are:
# All stewards
# All holders of the "checkuser" and "oversight" rights
# All OTRS volunteers
# And all developers with access to any electronic records which
contains non-public information
Sysop and bureaucrats are excluded from this. All users who fall under
this category need to comply with this resolution or their user rights
can be revoked. In the resolution 60 days are given to comply but it is not
clear from what date you need to count.
Board member Kat Walsh writes in a posting to Foundation-l:
"Those affected by this resolution should contact Cary Bass, WMF
volunteer coordinator, at <cbass AT wikimedia DOT org>. We will also
attempt to contact everyone individually who will need to do this;
however, please spread this message to those in your communities."
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Access_to_nonpublic_datahttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policyhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/16598
[Closed] - A proposal has been made for a procedure to close wikis.
This is for wikis who are de facto dead.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closure_of_WMF_projectshttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/30011
=== Foundation ===
[Mission] - The WMF approved a new "Mission and Vision statement". The
Vision statement is "Imagine a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
The mission statement is a bit too long to include it. See on Meta and
Wiktionary to translate it.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Mission_and_Vision_statementhttp://en.wiktionary.org/
[Scholarship] - To come to Wikimania 2007 are still available for
people coming from Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States
(parts of the ex-USSR)
http://wm07schols.wikimedia.org/apply.php
[Sponsor] - The WMF is looking for sponsors for Wikimania 2007. This
is for large sponsors who can donate tens of thousands of dollars.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/0b/Wikimania_sponsorship…
[wiki] - The WMF advisory board has now its own wiki. It is a public wiki.
http://advisory.wikimedia.org -- nothing to see there
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board
=== Community ===
[Wild Sysop] - On EN Wikipedia an sysop has deleted several pages
including the Main Page and blocked some users and unblocked himself
after being blocked because of local policy violations. After being
de-sysopped the user was blocked again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-23/Robdur…
=== Media ===
[Virginia Tech] - The article of the EN Wikipedia about the shooting
at the university in Virginia, USA was for a few days the most popular
page of the EN Wikipedia and is praised by traditional media as a very
good source for information about this event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-23/Virgin…http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/23/america/wiki.php -- The Latest
on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia
[Citizendium] - One Month Later
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/citizendium_one.php
=== Stats ===
[fur.wp] - Friulian Wikipedia reaches 2000 articles with
[[w:fur:Laurenzi]] (the chimical element). Friulian is a language
spoken mainly in northern Italy.
http://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurenzihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friulian_language
[SuperStats] - Dynamic and recent statistics of all Wikipedias. A must
see for stats lovers.
http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php
[Study] - More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult
Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet &
American Life Project. And on a
typical day in the winter of 2007, 8% of online Americans consulted Wikipedia.
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Wikipedia07.pdf -- Sorry about the pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-30/Statis…
=== Other news ===
[Correction] - In Wikizine 67 it was reported that 0.5 CD of the
English-language Wikipedia is produced by the Wikimedia Foundation and
LinterWeb. This is not correct. The CD was not produced by the
Wikimedia Foundation, it has been produced by Linterweb.
http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/
=== Weird shit ===
According to various observers there are many parallels between
communist ideology and practices, and the economic and political
system in The Smurfs ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs_and_communism
=== Quote ===
"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In
theory, it can never work." -- Unknown attribution
=== Editorial ===
In Wikizine 68, the English and German edition and in a posting to
Foundation-l I have asked for assistance with Wikizine. The response
was less than pathetic. It was non existent.
So it looks like I will remain the only one working on Wikizine. I
have decided to give Wikimedia related things and Wikizine in
particular a lower priority in my life. Wikizine will continue but in
a even more erratic publication frequently then now. Also you can
expect reduced editions who are more basic between normal editions.
This depending of I feel like giving priority in going to the park or
so or sitting in front of the computer.
Walter Vermeir, the editor
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