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Year: 2005 Week:41 Number:-5

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An internal news bullition for the members of the Wikimedia community.

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=== Technical news ===

-[Rename user] This option is disappeared. No news why or if it will return.

-[Nuke] On the Wiki of Meta the is an new option for sysops "Mass delete" (Special:Nuke). This tool allows for mass deletions of pages recently added by a given user or IP. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Specialpages

-[Korean Wikipedia] has moved to the Yahoo-cluster in Korea. This is the first real use of this cluster. Other East Asian wikis will follow. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/19869

-[IRC-Wikimedia] the IRC-channels of the Wikimedia have moved. All #prefix.wikixxx has changed. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/24978

-[IRC-usernames] Freenode will also change policy for the usernames. Not yet active. http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#usernames

==Politics == -[Wikinews] will now be using the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Licensure_Poll

== Stats == -[Alexa] says Wikipedia is now around the 32th most popular website http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=lar...

== Other news == -[deads] French core contributor dies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-10-10/News_an...

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