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Year: 2005 Week:46 Number: 0

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

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=== Technical news ===

The [Search] function now require all given terms to match by default. You can use options like; * stuff AND (foo OR bar) * stuff "foo bar" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20327

=== Policy ===

-[CheckUser] The policy for CheckUser has gone live this week. A quote from the policy: "The tool is to be used to fight vandalism or check abuse of sockpuppets, for example when there is a suspicion of illegal voting. It must be used only to prevent damage to one or several of Wikimedia projects." http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_Policy

=== Politics ===

-[Access Denied!] after China blocking Wikipedia, next the Kurdish Wikipedia is now blocked in Iran. The other versions are not (yet) blocked. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25494 http://ku.wikipedia.org/

=== Stats ===

-Erim Zachte has released the new stats, based on the SQL-dumpfiles of Saturday, November 5 2005. The do not contain visitors stats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm

- [Wiktionary] has 100,000 articles in English. http://en.wiktionary.org

=== Other news ===

-[Physical Wiki] Semapedia.org provides a service to create tags to be put on objects in the real world. With those tags and a cellphone you can request the relevant article. http://www.semapedia.org/

=== Quote ====

"[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made" - "Who knows?", The Guardian, Tuesday, October 26, 2004

=== Editorial comment ===

So, that is it. Number 0. The experiment is over. The feedback about Wikizine was limited but enough. I can now confirm that there will be Wikizine next week. I will try to make some publicity about Wikizine. Now everbody may know about it. The first issue of Wikizine, number -5, is sent to about 40 listmembers. We now have about 55 members. What it will be for number 1 I will tell you next week. Bye!

/////////////////////////////////////// Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]] ///////////////////////////////////////

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