en.Wikizine.org

• [undelete] Uploaded files which are deleted can now be undeleted. Admins can also view the deleted files without actually undeleting them. This works only with newly deleted files.
• Wikipedia-l
  

• [Translation] There are several texts waiting for translation. Some like "Travel scholarships for Wikimania" are urgent.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests#Latest_Requests

• [Wikizine] is looking for a reliable free form-post service to send emails.
  
•  Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org
  

• [GlobalNotice] The first global notice pushed to all Wikis will be placed very soon. This is to get attention for the Wikimania 2006 event, in the hope that many users will register for it. It is requested to keep the notice online for one week.
  
• Foundation-l
• http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/
  

• [Scholarship] There is a possibility to reduce your expenses if you like to come to Wikimania. You can apply for a scholarship. Requests must be entered before June 28th.
  
•  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/Scholarships
  

• [Model] Anthere makes a comparison between the organisation of the Apache Software Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation. And how Wikimedia can learn from that. Responses follow.
  
• Wikitech-l
  

• [Ombuds-wo-man] for CheckUser. On suggestion of Anthere; volunteers are welcome. The idea if to have a specific person to complain to about possible checkuser abuse. 
• Foundation-l
  

• [Medical] A proposal for a project with medical information. For once this proposal has received responses on Foundation-l. There is an older mailing list for people who are interested in this and related projects; Wikimedical-l.
  
• Foundation-l
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Medical_dictionary_wiki
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedical-l
  

• [Unused accounts] On the English Wikipedia is a proposal to delete user accounts who are never used. Around 70% of all existing accounts on the EN Wikipedia have no edits. Currently about 1,6 million accounts exist on the EN Wikipedia.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Delete_unused_username_after_90_days
  

• [New York Times] The New York Times discovers semi-protection after six months. And interprets it that; Wikipedia is changing its "everybody can edits policy". Wikipedia has pages with limited access for years. Andnow with semi-protection Wikipedia is even more open then before.
• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html - you need a login
• http://www.bugmenot.com/ - here you can get a login
• http://blog.jimmywales.com/index.php/archives/2006/06/17/ - comments of Jimbo about the NYT-article on his blog
• http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/06/18/0042209.shtml - And /. has something to say about this
• http://liberation.fr/page.php?Article=391273 - also the French media has picked it up

• [WikiCoke] "Coke gets slammed on Wikipedia" - negative publicity
• http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13269186/
  

• [Local News] The "Sint Petersburg Times interviewed local celebrity Jimmy Wales.
• http://www.sptimes.com/Wikipedia_s_creator.shtml
  

• [Age/edits] Some graphs are made about the relation of the time a useris active on the English Wikipedia and the number of edits the have done.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Days_since_first_edit

• [UploadStats] Ever wondered how big the database of Wikimedia is with all those pictures?
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload_distribution%2C_June_2006

• [MailStats] The great Erik Zachte, the king of statistics, has made some interesting stats about the posting behavior on the mailing lists. What mailing lists are used? And how is the frequency of the number of postsevolving true the years? And who are the top-posters?
• Foundation-l
  

• [WikiSymposium] An International Symposium on Wikis will be held onAugust 21-23, 2006 in Odense, Denmark. "Participants will present, discuss, and move forward the latest advances in wiki contents, sociology, and technology." This is a non-Wikimedia event. If you register today, June 19, you pay 470 EUR/594 USD. After the 19th it is 537 EUR/679 USD. Full-time students get a very large discount. Some food is included.
• http://ws2006.wikisym.org/space/start
  

• [SoftwareWiki] LiteratePrograms is a unique wiki where every article is simultaneously a document and a piece of code that you can view, download, compile, and run by simply using the "download code" tab at the top of every article
  
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook/844
• http://en.literateprograms.org
  

• [WikizineBlog] beta-version is now online. Same contents as Wikizine by email but webbased and with talk-back option. Feedback is highly welcome.
• http://wikizine.blogspot.com
  

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Rfcurl

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Technical news

• [X_FORWARD] An old problem : users who have done nothing wrong are blocked
  because the IP they are using is used by others who share the same ISP. This
  has been known as the "bug 550" problem. In some cases a solution is now
  possible : when the ISP provides an "X-Forwarded-For" [XFF] header. Users of
  those ISPs have their real local IP address included when contacting a
  webserver. The configuration of the wiki can be changed so that the IP address
  provided in the XFF header is used for the identification on the wikis and
  blocks, at least when provided from specific IP addresses. Users from these
  ISPs can then edit even when other users on the same network have been
  blocked.
  http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6161
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_project#Trusted_XFF_list
• [Hide language] On Meta and some other projects, there are very multilingual
  pages. So multilingual, that it can be annoying to look for content between all
  the different languages. There is now a work-in-progress solution to show only
  specific languages. A Java-script version is live on Meta now.
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_select
• [FireFox&GoogleToolbar] A bug has been discovered for people using FireFox and
  the GoogleToolbar and edit MediaWiki. When editing a large page, if one goes to
  another tab -> loads a page there -> goes back to the tab where originally
  editing, text from the edit window will have been cut. After deinstalling
  Google Toolbar, this bug disappears.

Requests for help

• [Wikimania] Wikimania media and writing contest : Nominations and curators are
  needed for a free content competition and artshow -- to cover video, sound,
  images, and text of many varieties from all Wikimedia projects.
  http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_awards
• [Survey] about "Wikis in Enterprises". w:de:User:Avatar is doing his diploma
  thesis about this. So if you work at - or even only know a company which uses
  wikis as collaboration tools, find some spare minutes and do the survey. You
  are helping a fellow Wikimedian with his thesis and are helping with scientific
  research about wikis. There are more useless things to do with your time then
  that.
  http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-June/044471.html
  http://wikipedistik.de/survey/

New project proposals

• [WikiScope] A project to make it easier for users to discover information on a
  topic across the many Wikimedia-projects.
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiscope
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiscope/Ancient_Egypt_-_Example

Policy

• [New Logo?] initial discussions have started about a new logo for Wiktionary and
  for the new Incubator-wiki.
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_logo_for_Wiktionary
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_for_Incubator

Foundation

• [Appointment] The WMF board has announced the appointment of Brad Patrick as the
  Foundation's new full-time Legal Counsel and Interim Executive Director.
  http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007673.html
  http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation - gmane now down
  Press release:Wikimedia Foundation Announces Interim_Executive Director
• [Foundation-l] On the mailing list is a elaborate discussion about how the
  Wikimedia Foundation works now and how it should work. And also about the
  appointment of Brad Patrick and the creations of those functions. Involved in
  the discussions are many of the WMF key-people.
  http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/thread.html

Community

• [en.wikipedia] now has over 1000 articles with "Featured Article" status. Those
  articles should be the best articles of the English Wikipedia.
  http://tinyurl.com/psc9k

Events

• [Wikimania] Registration opens for Wikimania Hacking Days, which will have
  discussions about the present and future of MediaWiki design, and Wikimedia
  tools and hardware. Requires registration for Wikimania itself.
  http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/hacker/register
  http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/
• [Wikipedia Academy] A "Wikipedia Academy" gathering and conference is to be held
  June 16 and 17 in Göttingen, Germany, supported by Wikimedia Deutschland. The
  program will include workshops and presentations, and a talk by Jimbo.
  http://wikipedia-academy.de/index.php

Media

• [Bias] The real bias in Wikipedia by Robert McHenry, the former editor-in-chief
  of Encyclopædia Britanica.
  http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-edemocracy/wikipedia_bias_3621.jsp

Stats

• [ko.wiki] The Korean Wikipedia has reached 400,000 page edits.
  http://ko.wikipedia.org/

Did you know ...

... that according to Alexa, the 3 month Traffic Rank
for wikipedia.org: 16
for wikimedia.org: 666 (*)
for wiktionary.org: 3,701
for wikibooks.org: 4,108
for wikiquote.org: 4,316
for wikinews.org: 10,605
for wikisource.org: 11,563
for wikizine.org: not in top 100,000... yet.

and the Avg. Review for wikinews.org is 5 stars?

(*) Wikispecies and Wikimedia Commons are using the wikimedia.org domain and are
included in the rank of wikimedia.org

Mac bashing Quotes

"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small
children."
- Linus Torvalds.

[ robT] Name ONE thing that your windows comp can do that my MAC cant
[ bawss] Right click.

Editor(s): Walter, Sj
Thanks to: Vipuser, Spacebirdy

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 11:32 0 comments

• [oversight] A new revision-hiding user class, "oversight", was createdrecently. Users with the function can permanently delete pagerevisions containing personal information, copyright violations, orlibelous content. This is function is only active on the Englishlanguage Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-05/Oversight
• [NewWikisource] 19 new language version-wikis of Wikisource are created
  https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log#June_2
• {{#language:}} magic word added. For example, {{#language:es}} produces Español.

Policy

• [Test] Wikipedia pages on meta are being moved to a separate wiki.
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wphttp://incubator.wikimedia.org/

Politics

• [Sitenotice-to-all] The Communications Committee is working on a wayto set the sitenotice for all wikis. Probably a bot with sysop-statuswill be used for this.
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27317

Foundation

• [CEO] The WMF has decided to hire a lawyer for legal matters and whowill also work as "Interim Executive Director".
  http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_CEO
• [New committee] The WMF has the decided to establish a Fundraising committee.
  http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Fundraising_committee
• [Foundation-l] this week there are very active treats about the roleof the board and jobs.
  http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation

Community

• [CH Wikimedia] on the 17th June the first Swiss Wikipedia-day will proceed.
  http://www.wikimedia.ch/wikipedia-day

Stats

• [EO] The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.
• [$] In the month May the WMF received 1504 donations for a total of$33,210 by means of PayPal
  

Did you know ...
... that according to Alexa, the Russian Wiktionary is the secondmost-visited Wiktionary, with half as much traffic as the Englishproject?

Quote
Fun will now commence
-- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 10:15 0 comments