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Year: 2006 Week: 34 Number: 39
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Technical news ===
[ExpandTemplates] - There is a new special page called "ExpandTemplates". With
this you are able to copy a page from a Wiki without having to copy all the
templates. In the first field you define the page you took the input from. So
if you took it from the page named "Sesame Street" you fill that in and without
{{}} arround it.
You can put the input of a template, or of a series of templates, or even the
whole page, in the second field. If you wish to enter a whole page you can
paste the source text or do it like this; {{:Sesame Street}}
The Special:ExpandTemplates will write the result you get in ordinary Wikitext
as it looked like on that specific page, and you will be able to copy and paste
that to whatever wiki you want. The only thing you have to do now, is uploading
the images. If you move a page this way you loose off course the benefit of the
templates that by changing the template you change all the pages where the
template is used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates
[Operations report] - Overview about what the status is of hardware and
software
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/26122…
[Wiki down] - It has been a wile since the last total system down. And this time
the servers where running perfectly. But there ip-addresses where temporary
invalid due to external reasons. The wikis where down for less then three
hours. See the article of EN Wikinews for more information.
Remark: when the WMF-systems are down the
Wikizine.org website and email is
still functional. Feel free to submit news about the situation or see of
Wikizine has news about it. Due to the limited core staff of Wikizine this
service can not be guaranteed.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_t…
=== Community ===
[ES.wikipedia] has decided in two polls to disallow the upload of files to the
Spanish wiki and to do it exclusively in Commons.
[ES.wp BIS] - The fifth Wikiconcurso (Wikicontest) has just finished. This
edition was about translating featured articles from en.wiki, de.wiki, fr.wiki,
it.wiki, pt.wiki, pl.wiki, nl.wiki, sv.wiki and ja.wiki. The Spanish language
Wikipedia translated about 88 articles. 17 of those will be proposed as
"Articulo destacado" (outstanding articles) on the Spanish Wikipedia.
[ZH.wp news] The Signpost brings a report about how the the Chinese language
Wikipedia is doing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-14/Interw…
=== Agenda ===
[Italia] - On September 2nd, Italian Wikipedians are going to meet in Valentano,
near Viterbo, and in the afternoon they will attend to the second Annual
Meeting for Wikimedia Italia, the Italian Chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The assembly is going to elect a new Board and the meeting is going also to
approve the budgets and to to describe the strategies for achieving a better
promotion to Wikimedia Projects in Italy.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Viterbo_2006
http://www.wikimedia.it/
[Netherlands] - Also on September 2nd, there will be a local one day Wikimedia
conference in Utrecht.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_Netherlands
=== Media ===
[it.wikipedia] -On Monday, August 14th, at 7:34 local time in the morning, one
Wikipedian found himself on air on RAI1, the national TV station of Italy. The
producers had also invited for the interview Enrico Cogno, a professor at the
University of Perugia, and Federica Lanzellotto, a student from Rome. The
subject of the interview was "Wikipedia: il sapere per tutti", with the aim of
understanding how Wikipedia is getting more and more present in every day's
life. It was only for 9 minutes and extremely early in the morning. But
nevertheless it was National television and the Italian Community is very happy
with it. The links to the video can you find on the page linked below.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Intervista_ad_Unomat…
[Anthere's Blog] A mission: providing free knowledge. Free as in ?
http://blog.anthere.org/index.php/2006/08/19/73
[Wikizine] made its first appearance in an news article (and made the visitor
stats explode)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/77032
=== Stats ===
[fr.wikt] - The French language Wiktionary has now already 200,000 definitions
in its database.
http://fr.wiktionary.org
=== Other news ===
[ERRATUM] - The webhoster and sponser of Wikizine is
Memebot.com and not
"memobot.com"
[WikiBritanica] - The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is now online in a
wiki-form. Because the conversions form print to digital text is done by
computer mistakes are made. On that wiki you can fix them. And also include
some more recent information on a separate page. This is not a WMF-project.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/
=== Editoral ===
A murderer of a 10 year old murder is arrested. A minister-president says
something in a interview about a very sensitive local topic. An ethnic group of
people continuous to be exterminated while the world does not care.
What is considered important depends highly about your personal point of view
shaped by who and where you are. In the virtual city of Wikimedia the
important topic is the board election. Why is it important? It is only for one
place on the board. And because of this is only to replace Angela's spot, it is
only for the remaining term of Angela's original term of 2 years. And that
means it will not even be for one year.
This election is important because the board is not so big. One voice can make a
difference. And it is likely that this new board will have to make decisions
about significant reforms of the organisation of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Now the candidates present there candidacy to the community. This election is
not like a real election where you only can choice between "a giant douche and
a turd sandwich", like expressed so colorful in South Park. This are all
people from our community. There are very good people between them who I know
personally and are deeply committed to do good for the projects. You can not
know everybody. Consider also the ones you do not know. This is not a "vote for
your friends" contest and also not "vote for the candidate form you local
wiki". Raise above that. Read there statements. Check there behavior in the
history. Ask them questions. Know for who you are voting. This is not a sysop
election.
I have send an offer to all candidates to write a few words to present
themselves to the readers of Wikizine. This to lower the step for the
candidates to reach the community. The first two candidates will say there
piece in an extra Wikizine send out soon after this one. Readers of the website
will find it below this edition. Depending on the number of candidates who
requested inclusion in Wikizine a second extra edition can be send out this
week.
Thanks for reading this,
Greetings,
Walter Vermeir
=== Did you know ... ===
... how to verify of a user who is contacting you off-wiki is really the user he
claims to be?
You write (email, Jabber, IRC, etc.) or say (Skype, etc) to the user to write a
specific phrase on the wiki like on his talk page.
You can also contact him or ask that user to send you an email by means of the
"E-mail this user" function of the wiki. Look at the headers, the source of the
message. It must contain "X-Mailer: MediaWiki mailer" and the name in the
"From:" field is the username of that user on that wiki. This way can be
falsified. Asking to edit is the most secure way.
=== IRC Quote ===
<frank> can you help me install GTA3?
<knightmare> first, shut down all programs you aren't using
frank has quit IRC. (Quit)
<knightmare> ...
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