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• [Captcha] - The system that means you need to enter a word displayed as an image as a anti-spam protection measure is now active on all wikis. It used to be active only on the smaller projects. This can cause problems for users from communities who are not used to Latin characters. The words displayed are two English words which together form one non-existing word. This makes it difficult for people who do not know English to read the words. If the word is unclear refresh the page then you get a new word.
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/30108
• [Special page] -  The page [[Special:Protectedpages]] does now works. It is updated live.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Protectedpages
• [Image swap bot] -  Commons, the wiki that more and more WMF-wikis are using for their images and other media, is working on expanding their service. This with a bot that comes to your local wiki and replaces the image used on a page by another image (or video). This is so that when on Commons a media file is renamed or changed to another version, the projects using the older version will be updated automatically. The people operating this bot are requesting feedback about it. The bot is not operating yet.                                      Commons already provides the "CommonsTicker" service that informs local wikis about changes to files in use on that wiki on commons. And also the "CommonsDelinker" which removes the broken links to deleted files on the wikis that were using that file.
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/14717.com
    

• [Offline Wiki] - Everybody can freely download a dump of the database and run there own local copy of there favorite Wikimedia project. But if only want to have your own local copy for reading Wikipedia (or Wikiboosk, etc) then setting up a complete local installation of MediaWiki is not very easy, fast and computer resource friendly solution.
  

• [Image-l] -  Wikimedia Commons now provides the service of a "Picture of the day" by email. Subscribers receive daily an email with a hyperlink to a selected image. The email itself does not contain the image.
  • http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-image-l
    

• [Yes, Wikipedia is Big] - In US, half of Wikipedia traffic comes from Google. This is now one of the Wikipedia-story's in the media.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-02-19/Google_again
  • http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006520355
• [No, Wikipedia wil not get banded] - A other story currently floating around is that Wikipedia will be banded from many schools and libraries in America because of a proposal of law by USA senator Ted Stevens. The proposal would ban "commercial social networking websites and chat rooms". Besides the fact this is only a proposal the current version does not affect Wikipedia because Wikipedia is not commercial but a non-profit. 
  • http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-49  -- "Son of DOPA" see section 203
  • http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4598  -- article with very misleading title  
    

• [csb.wp] - The Kashubian Wikipedia has passed 1,000 articles. The are only about 50,000 speakers of this language so 1000 articles is very nice.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian_language
  • http://csb.wikipedia.org/
• [Yo! (again)] - In Wikizine 57 was announced that the Yoruba Wikipedia had 500 articles. Now the are proud to announce the have 1000 articles. Yoruba is a language of Nigeria. The are now at the 127th place of largest Wikipedia's.
  • http://tinyurl.com/2z53ok
    

• [WikipediaWeekly] - Episode 11, the first one of 2007, of the Wikipedia news podcast is out.
  • http://wikipediaweekly.com/2007/02/19/episode-11/
    

"It's easy to characterize Stevens as little more than a buffoon. He's certainly a buffoon, but he's a dangerous one." -- Preston Gralla about Ted "tubes" Stevens and "Son of DOPA"

# posted by Walter @ 09:14