From: Wikizine announce-l-owner@wikipedia.org Date: Nov 29, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: [Announce-l] Wikizine - number: 2 To: announce-l@wikipedia.org
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Year: 2005 Week:48 Number: 2
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An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community.
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=== Technical news === -[Hardware] The Wikimedia hardware was updated recently. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Hardware_and_hosting_report http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cluster_report%2C_September-November%2C_2005 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer
-[Software] In the MediaWiki software a Special:Cite page was added. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite_text
-[Wikistatus] OpenFact's replacement - Alfa http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20664
=== Politics === -[China block] Jimbo's opinion in Tunis at the World Summit on the Information Society: "Wikipedia is neither critical nor supportive of the Chinese government. We are not a site for dissidents nor for government supporters. We are neutral. NPOV is non-negotiable." http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-November/042788.html http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_block
=== Foundation === -[Cancer] The Wikimedia Foundation is supporting non-profit medical research by participating in the Folding@Home program, donating computer-time on servers when these do not have any other work to do. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=wiki... http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20563
-[Board] A meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was held on irc on November 13, 2005. Notes may be found here : http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/November_13%2C_2005
=== Media === -[Angela] , member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, gave an interview. http://tinyurl.com/97rdd
=== Other news ===
[SWMT] stands for Small Wiki Monitoring Team. The SWMT aims to create a team of dedicated Wikimedians who will monitor small and inactive Wikipedias for abusive editing. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWMT
=== Quote === "Then we tell them to fuck off." Jimmy Wales -- 24 Oct 2005 in response to what Wikimedia would do in the hypothetical situation that Answers.com tried to exert control over Wikipedia's content.
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