[WikiEN-l] [OT] Queries and questions

[shirish]

Hi all,
      I don't know whether this is the right place to send this mail or not.

I am a small time wikipedia 'volunteer' who sometimes adds some small
bits to wikipedia whenever have the time or the inclination for the
same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shirishag75

So I have number of queries which perhaps some of the learned people
could advise/help as well :-

a. Now I have also a blog https://flossexperiences.wordpress where
there is a sidebar where I would like to put up the wikipedia logo and
stuff promoting wikipedia and my relationship with wikipedia . Does
anybody know of such a button/graphic in existence?

Wordpress doesn't use iframes, so one without iframes would be nice.
Something perhaps to what last.fm gives

http://www.last.fm/widgets perhaps some kind of .png or .mng which has
the stats in-built.

What do people think?

b. I was reading the wikiwix blog via "Google translate" and this is
what it translated.

http://blog.wikiwix.com/


> Wikipedia releases new search engine
> October 24th, 2008
>
> Hello,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation has updated the version of Lucene for research on Wikipedia, it is now on version 2.1.
>
> I spent last is two hours to test and I remain good septic on the relevance as an example and comparison:

I saw the wikipedia page on Lucene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Lucene but nowhere does it
explicitly say that wikipedia uses it. Shouldn't it be saying that?

There is a hint in the reference section but that isn't enough.

c. AFAIK wikimedia (the foundation) is the brains behind wikipedia. Is
there a way to know what changes are being made to wikipedia at any
point in time, any newsletter or anything of that sort to know what's
happening under the hood.

Looking forward to know more of the same.
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         Regards,
         Shirish Agarwal
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