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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 theSignpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-29/Technology_report

Request for help

• [Activism Wiki] is a non-wikimedia project. But the hope to become itone 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 havea 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 toanswer 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 andFedora Linux distribution, to come and speak at a conference in Delhi,India. Red Hat will be paying for the air plain tickets for Jimbo anddonate $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 ResearchStudy. http://cio.tekrati.com/research/news.asp?id=7122

Editor(s): Walter

# posted by Walter @ 10:36