Re: [Wikizh-l] [Announce-l] Wikizine - number: 27

****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2006 Week: 22 and 1/2 Number: 27 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Magic words] New magic word: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Time [Tiny bits] A lot of small changes to the Wikis. See B.R.I.O.N. of the Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-29/Techno… === Request for help === [Activism Wiki] is a non-wikimedia project. But the hope to become it one day. The request help for making there content less POV. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7464 http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/User:Nabarry === New project proposals === [WikiPoll] "a wiki whose goal is to propose polls to everyone". The have a testwiki with a nice MediaWiki extension to support polls. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiPoll http://wikipoll.free.fr/mediawiki-1.6.5/index.php?title=Society [WikiBrain] - see meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiBrain === Foundation === [New employee] The Foundation decided to hire a full time employee to answer phone calls and handle emails send to Wikimedia (OTRS). http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_OTRS [RedHat] Jimbo is invited by Red Hat, the company behind Red Had and Fedora Linux distribution, to come and speak at a conference in Delhi, India. Red Hat will be paying for the air plain tickets for Jimbo and donate $3000 for the Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7424 === Community === [CA.wikinews] There is now a Catalan edition of Wikinews. http://ca.wikinews.org [logo] It seems there is a new logo for wikisource. Or is it not new? http://wikisource.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Logo_update === Media === Wikipedia second as the best "Global Web Site" in Byte Level Research Study. http://cio.tekrati.com/research/news.asp?id=7122 ////////////////////////////////////////// Number of subscribers: 412 Editor(s): Walter E-mail: ihavenews AT wikizine DOT org ////////////////////////////////////////// Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of validity. Wikizine.org is not a publication of the Wikimedia Foundation. Content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Publisher:[[meta:user:Walter]] _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe; mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=unsubscribe See http://wikizine.org for more options