2006-05-23
Wikizine - number: 26
Technical news
- [NewTool] CommonsTicker is a tool written by [[w:de:User:Duesentrieb]] for collecting critical events regarding images on Commons and posting them tothe wikis using the respective image. So with this tool you see what is going on with the images that your wiki is using from commons.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7246
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker - [nofollow] On the English Wikipedia is the rel="nofollow" attribute now inuse on external links outside the main article namespace. By addingrel="nofollow" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination ofthat hyperlink should not be afforded any additional weight or ranking byuser agents which perform link analysis upon web pages (e.g. searchengines).
http://tinyurl.com/ng3cw - [Magic words] New magic words {{BASEPAGENAME}}, {{BASEPAGENAMEE}},{{NUMBEROFPAGES}} and {{CURRENTVERSION}} were introduced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-15/Technology_report
New project proposals
- [Wiki Activism] WikiActivism is a project for past and present socialmovements such as the Civil Rights movement, Animal Rights movement, andthe blooming Immigrant Rights movement.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_new_projects#Wiki_Activism
Foundation
- [Chapters news] Delphine (notafish) is back from Europe where she visitedvarious Wikimedia chapters. Read the interesting report of Delphine aboutWikimedia Polska, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Italia and WikimediaSerbia and Montenegro.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7300 - [de.wikimedia] Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. has decided to open a office inthe real world. The WMDE is currently searching for office space in theFrankfurt area. The hope that the office will be open from October.Initially there will be one employee for that office, a "Geschäftsführer"(director, chief clerk, manager). There where 65 candidates for thatfunction. Arne Klempert [[w:de:Akl]], member of the board of WMDE, isselected for this function.
Community
- [About Wikimania] The Wikipedia Signpost has a interesting series aboutWikimania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-04-10/Wikimania_report
Stats
- [Stats update] Project statistics updated, except for Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-22/Statistics http://stats.wikimedia.org/ - [wo] The Wolof Wikipedia passes the 100 article mark with the addition ofFrench Southern Territories (French Southern Territories), part of aseries of unencyclopedic "articles" started by Ji-Elle.
http://wo.wikipedia.org/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language
Did you know ...
... there is a Wikipedia-game?
http://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm
IRC quote
[mage] what should I give sister for unzipping?
[Kevyn] Um. Ten bucks?
[mage] no I mean like, WinZip?
[erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, itworks completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Editor(s): Shizhao, Walter
