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Labels: answers.com, censorship, china

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 09:39

=== Technical news ===

- Wikipedia blocked in China

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25111

-[Specify Skin] You can include inside the url the skin to be used, also
for anonymous users.

Like;
useskin=cologneblue
useskin=chick
useskin=standard

Example;
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin?useskin=standard

=== Foundation ===

-[Wikimedia 2006], the conference for all users of Wikimedia projects will
be held in Boston, USA
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4652
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006

-[Answers.com] and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4627 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4722

=== Stats ===

-The Serbian Language Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with the
article Krakow.
http://sr.wikipedia.org/

-The Ilokano Language Wikipedia has reached 100 articles with the article
Taoismo.
http://ilo.wikipedia.org/

=== Other news ===

- Wikimedia in the media [Sept. 25 -- October 15 2005]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25079

- The New Student's Reference Work, 1914 (Public Domain) is now online
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student's_Reference_Work http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LA2-NSRW

Labels: answers.com, censorship, china, skin, wikimania 2006

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 09:17

Technical news

-[Static Wikipedia] is available for download

http://static.wikipedia.org/

-[edit counter] When did you made your first edit and how many edits haveyou made?http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits

-[Helpdesk-l] is an mailing list for asking questions relating to any ofthe Wikimedia projects. It is for visitors and newbies.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/helpdesk-l

=== Policy ===

-[Anthere] requests that all the languages put there version of theinformation "How to use or reuse the content of Wiki*" on one page on meta
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4613

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_use_or_reuse_our_content

=== Politics ===

-[Jimbo] has appointed [[w:en:User:Jdforrester]] as the Chief ResearchOfficer
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4595

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chief_Research_Officer

--[The Wikimedia Foundation] Danny Wool has accepted the offer of a job atthe Wikimedia Foundation to be the Executive Assistant for the foundation
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Assistant

The Wikimedia Foundation has now 3 paid employs
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_staff

=== Foundation ===

-[Jimbo says] [[w:en:Bill Gates]] and [[w:en:Jane Fonda]] are nearlyunreadable crap.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-October/030075.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-10-10/Article_quality_criticisms

=== Stats ===

-[WikipediaNL], the Dutch Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles
http://nl.wikipedia.org

=== Other news ===

-[New project] Wikiversity E-learning project - You can vote for oragainst this project until. Voting will end on 1 November 2005 at 00:00UTC
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Vote/en

Labels: Chief Research Officer, edit counter, Executive Assistant, helpdesk-l, Wikiversity

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 08:46

Labels: dead, wikinews

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 12:34

• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4071

This time only to use to announce technical changes and problems thathave an impact for the end-users of the wikis. This has received moresupport. But because of the lack of co-operation of the technical staffof Wikimedia also this did not work out.And now there is the attempt do do whit "Wikizine" something useful whitthis dead mailing list. And this "Wikizine" is using the dead list"Announce-l" for sending its message. And that is why go you aregetting this.

And what is "Wikizine"?

Basically it is an overview of news regarding the Wikimedia-communitythat the editor has discovered and thinks is important. There are manyplaces inside the Wikimedia-world where there can be found news. And itis also hidden under many other messages.The idea of "Wikizine" is to give an selection of that news whit an verysmall summary and the url where you can read about. Wikizine is not forwriting news but to collect the fragments of news and linking to them.

Who should read Wikizine?

Everybody who likes to do so may read it off cource. But the targetaudience is definitely; stewards, ambassadors, bureaucrats and sysops,members of the board of one of the wikimedia foundations.It is for the people who are doing the Wiki-management. The focus willbe on the technical aspect. News about changes in the way the wikiworks, news functions. Things that are broken. Other Wikimedia newswill also be included but the focus is technical news that has an impactfor the users and readers of the wiki.

Who is creating Wikizine?

For now I, Walter Vermeir, am creating it. I try to find out all thenews that I can find and if I find it is is important I put it inWikizine. If you new some news you may send it to my: walter at wikipedia.be

Time-line

This type of editions of Wikizine will be special. It is not the idea ofWikizine for writing this type editorials. A normal edition will be sendonce a week on Monday (more or less). The can be very short. It is notmy intention to include a lot of other things when there is not muchimportant newsWhen there is urgent news you will receive a Wikizine extra edition.Example: Some time ago I discovered that the emails whit questions fromvisitors send to the dutch language Wikipedia where not received. Therewas a problem whit the email system of Wikimedia. So for some days theemails where lost. We, the email team of the dutch wiki, did not knowthat. We where not informed. If this was the case now I would send a"Wikizine extra".For know this Wikizine-thing is an experiment. It is possible it willstop after some editions. You have received now also the first real"Wikizine". Number "-5" (minus 5). So long the have negative numbersit will only be send to you, those few current members of Announce-l.There will not be made any notice about this experiment any where.If we make it to edition "zero" it will be announced on Wikipedia-l andWikimedia-l and we will go public. But that is still some weeks fromnow. For now please do not forward Wikizine to to other mailing lists.Wikizine is still alfa. You are the testers.Also, do not respond on these messages. This list is only for thesending of Wikizine, not for discussion.

Unsubscribe

It is an mailing list. So you can unsubscribe the normal way if you arenot interested. I prefer to have 10 readers who read it then 30 who delete it.
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Labels: special edition

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 01:00