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Year: 2006 Week: 49 Number: 52

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An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community

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=== Technical news ===

[Login] - The universal login, that you have one username & password for *all* wikis, is again a step closer to reality. Brion is testing the migration. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:News/2006-11-30/Unified_login_in_te...

[Sort-function] - it is now possible for tables to have the option to be sorted by date, alphabetical order or numerical order. However, it is not possible to sort numbers with a dot or comma in them. Javascript must be on to make it work. Use "class="prettytable sortable" for the table. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/Example#52 - Example

[Undo]- when viewing the diffs of page you have edited on, also as an anonymous user, there is now an extra button "undo". It is not like the rollback function, it only goes to an edit screen where you can modify that revision. The localize; MediaWiki:Editundo http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/28195/...

[New HTML-dump] - New static HTML dumps of Wikipedia have been made, except the English Wikipedia (due to technical problems). If it can be fixt the English one will also come online soon. http://static.wikipedia.org/ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/28160/...

=== Politics ===

[Censure?] - Wikipedia, and other websites, are reported to be blocked in Iran. But then later they were also reported to be again unblocked. Also, there where recently reports of a block of Wikipedia in Tunisia but a little later the block was lifted. http://tinyurl.com/y7bvqc http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_block_in_Iran

=== Foundation ===

[Fundraiser] - The Wikimedia Foundation will start a new fundraiser campain this Friday (2006-12-08), but it is possible it might be delayed for a few days. If there is translation work needing to be done then you can find it on [[meta:Translation requests]] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests

[Board] - Anthere provided feedback about a board meeting at end of November. Please read Anthere's post. Some highlights; - the board will be expanded to probably 11 members by July 2008 - 3 board members will be added by appointment before the end of the year on the board, until next elections in July 2007. (includes replacement for Tim Shell) - every year there will be board elections for the board - an audit of the WMF has been done. The result was positive and will be published soon. - the idea of an advisory board for the WMF is being implemented. Candidates are being contacted. - the board informally approved new bylaws for the WMF. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/12108

[fr.wikiquote] - end of March 2006 the French language Wikiquote was deleted and closed and by the WMF because of copyright problems. Now a new and empty wiki is again online. http://fr.wikiquote.org http://en.wikizine.org/2006/03/wikizine-number-19-extra.html

=== Awards ===

[ru.wikipedia] - The Russian Wikipedia has won the Russian national internet award in the "Science and education" category. There is no money involved in this award but they do get a very nice trophy and publicity. The award ceremony will be broadcast on the television so this can give more visibility to the Russian Wikipedia in Russia. http://tinyurl.com/yb7m5a - Machine translation http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Premia_Runeta_2006 http://www.premiaruneta.ru/

=== Media ===

[censor/bias] - the Hearld Tribune and the New York Times publicized an article about self censorship of the sensitive articles on the Chinese Wikipedia. Feedback for the Chinese Wikipedia suggests that the article is misleading. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/29/news/wiki.php http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/11/29/howard-french-on-chinese-wikipedia/ http://twofish.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/note-on-new-york-times-article-about... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/12044/focus=12044

[Non-Notable] - the Washington Post noticed that if your are non-notable then your article gets deleted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120201...

=== Stats ===

[1000000] - Commons has breached the 1 million mark of files on the 30th of November. Commons was launched on September 7, 2004. A mosaic is made for this occasion containing 1200 images forming the Wikimedia logo. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/1M http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic - Wikimedia logo made of 1200 tiny pictures

=== Other news ===

[Compare] - It happens frequently that people who are not well informed, like journalists, think that every website where you can edit the pages is "a Wikipedia". The software Wikipedia uses is, of course, MediaWiki. MediaWiki is "a wiki" but there are many others. Wikimatrix.org attempts to present all those different wikis there out there and to make it possible to compare them easily. http://www.wikimatrix.org/

[Wikia, Inc.] - has taken over Armchairgm.com for $2 US million in cash and Wikia stock. Armchairgm writes that they are "a fan-based sports community built on a customized MediaWiki (Wikipedia) engine that combines blogs, news, and voting, with the power of a sports-wiki." http://armchairgm.com/ - only works if you enable javascript

[Parody] - A not to bad parody of Wikipedia templates http://www.cracked.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article...

=== Did you know ... ===

... there is an interesting program for MacOSX to navigate Wikipedia?

It displays a graphical "network" representation of your visited article pages. A node represents an article, and a connection between two nodes means that you have gone from the first article to the second one. You can save the network you've created to disk and recover it. This way, you are able to keep track of everything: what you've looked at, how you get there, and just how it all fits together.

http://pathway.screenager.be/2006/11/25/pathway-06/

=== Quote ===

"My first sight of the office was an open door with a big (Wikipedia) poster on it. All other offices in that building have closed doors. After one walks past the poster, one gets in a corridor with the signed Wikimania banner. And it is open... Who else than us could have office doors open this way ?" -- Anthere about the WMF-office

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