en.Wikizine.org

• [Single User Login] - also known as SUL - is again a step closer to implementation. For the newer readers; Single User Login is exactly what it sounds like; one login for all WMF wikis. Because many users have accounts on many wikis, at not always with the same username, making a system to support one login and not breaking to existing accounts is complex. This is in the works for several years now. The merge function is now live on the test-wiki in demonstration modus for testing. (demonstration -> testing = does not really work yet). Brion says that beta-testing could start in a couple of weeks.
• http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
• [pywikipediabot] - The "pywikipediabot" framework, which has been hosted at sourceforge for the last almost 4 years, has recently been moved to wikimedia servers. This means that robot users will need to go to a different server to update their version of the robot software.
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l -- New mailing list
• http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/98876 -- A message announcing the move
• [Redirects] -  The now work with URL-encoded page titles (like "#REDIRECT [[foo%20bar]]").
• [WP offline] - Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader; a user who wanted to have Wikipedia on his hard disk to take along explains how he done it. 
• http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/13/1939231
• http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
  

• [Wikimania 2008] - Suggestions are requested for locations where to organize the next Wikimania in 2008.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids
  

• [CC 3.0 licence] - Wikimedia commons, our media files project, has accepted the 3.0 Creative Commons licence after long discussion.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-08-13/CC_3.0

• [Wikimania 2007] - In Taipei Wikimania has accrued like planed. It is considered to be successful. At this time only very limited video recordings of the events are available. Photographs are present on commons and Flickr. The best way of getting the feeling of being there are the audio reports of the "Wikipedia Weekly World Service" about Wikimania.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/309 -- Refection Wikimania by Ant
• http://wikimania.tw/streaming/ -- the available video
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2007 -- images
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/wikimania2007/ -- and some more pictures 
• http://www.wikipediaweekly.org/   --- start with "Wikimania Day 1: Morning Update"
• [Wikimedia USA?] - Options are explored about creating chapters inside the USA. Until now chapters are created on the national lever of a country. For chapters inside the USA the situation is different. There is no need for an organization for tax reasons because Wikimedia Sint-Petersburg covers that already. It is considered to organize the USA chapters by city and not by state.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-08-06/US_chapter
  

• [EN Wikinews] - A wikinews reporter was able to get an exclusive interview with Tony Benn on U.K. politics.
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews:_Tony_Benn_on_U.K._politics
• [PL wiki on DVD] - In April was announced in Wikizine 68 that very soon a DVD of the Polish language Wikipedia would be on sale in shops in Poland. That "soon" is now. It is available for purchase in shops in Poland as well as online. The release contains 239 000 articles, 59 000 images and the dedicated Java software WikiMiner. The DVD costs 39 PLN (~ 10 EUR, $14). Soon the 8 GB image of the DVD will be available for download as well.
• http://tinyurl.com/33c8xs
  

• [Wikimania Awards 2007] - The Wikimania Awards where awarded. There where 7 categories in where people could nominate pictures. On the presentation of the winners only winners for 4 categories where announced.  Jury member [[User:Cspurrier]] explained that the reason was that the intended prices for the winners for the other categories did not seemed to exist. And because of that there where no winners for the other categories.
• http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Awards  --- And the winners are ...
  

• [Wikimania] -  What's Next After Wikimania 2007?
• http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/08/11/taiwan-whats-next-after-wikimania-2007/
• [Wikitracker] - See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign. About the results that you get from "Wikiscanner", a (public) database of edits done by anonymous users. And how company's and organisations edit there own articles.
• http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
• http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html
• http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
  

• [All wp] - All Wikipedias together have reached 8 million articles.
• [ja wp] -  The Japanese Wikipedia reaches 400,000 articles.
• [commons] -  The Wikimedia Commons has reached 1,750,000 files
• [ps wp] - The Pashto Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles.
  

• [Wikipedia on stage] - In New York City a small theatre company has preformed a play with the name "The Wikipedia Plays" inspired more or less on certain articles. The play was made up of 17 very small plays. The Signpost has written detailed reporting about it.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-08-06/Wikipedia_Plays
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-08-06/Wikipedia_Plays_Review
• [Wikizine about underweare??] - When Wikizine was started there was so far as could be found nobody else using or had been using the name "Wikizine" for an online activity. But that has changed. There is now a website the provides a sort of blogs that anyone can edit and those blogs are called "Wikizines". The can be about anything
• http://www.zimbio.com/
• http://www.zimbio.com/Men's+Underwear+Wikizine+by+UndiesDrawer
• [Similpedia] - This is not again yet an other wiki-project. Similpedia is a website the finds articles inside the English language Wikipedia that are related to the url or text you past inside the search box of Similpedia.
• http://similpedia.org/
  

"gott sei dank fur Wikipedia -- Anonym
"Knowledge is Fun" -- Eugene Demeter
"I don't google as I used to, it has thankfully been replaced by Wikipedia" -- Anonymous

# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 22:06 1 comments

• Day 3 Morning Update

• Interview with WikiTravel’s Evan Prodromou
  

Winners are ....




Chung-Hwa Telecom Share Award (as Golden Prize) Theme: Best photo , Sponsor: Chung-Hwa Telecom , Gift: an Apple iPod and an award cup. by Adamantios

UDN Online News Award (as Sliver Prize) Theme: News Sponsor: UDN Online Gift: Chinese-English translation machine and an award cup. by Guillaume Paumier

wikiHow Society Award , Theme: Society , Sponsor: wikiHow , Gift: an award cup. , by Allentchang

Wikimania Activity Award ; Theme: Wikimania activities Sponsor: Wikimedia Foundation Inc., USA. Gift: an award cup. by Allentchang

For more info see http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Awards



This post will be changed and updated during the day.
Last update: 2007-08-05 09:27UTC (+ new york times)

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# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 20:10 0 comments

• Audio: interview with Ward Cunningham
  
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Lightning Talk

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# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 01:12 0 comments

• Audio: WikipediaWeekly.com report form Wikimania
• Wikimania day 1: morning-update
• Bonus episode: Interview with Jimmy Wales
  

• Photos
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2007
  
• http://picasaweb.google.de/mathias.schindler/Taiwan
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/wikimania2007/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzheado
  

• News reports about Wikimania in the external press
• The Guardian Weekly Podcast: go to time index 10:00 for Wikimanina item (mp3-file)
  

• At present there is only this short touristic clip of [[w:en:Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall]]

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# posted by Walter Vermeir @ 01:16 2 comments

• [Start] - Wikimania will start now very soon. The opening ceremony with a welcome speech by Anthere and Jimbo is at 01:00 UTC upcoming (2007-08-03)
• [Wikimania online] - At present there is no information available about live streaming of the Wikimania events on the Wikimania-wiki. There are indications that there is the intend to provide some sort of online access to Wikimania by the Wikimania organization.
  Best hope to find out about it if it will exist is the Wikimania IRC channel #wikimania and the "Schedule"-page on the Wikimania-wiki.
• http://chat.wikizine.org -- webbased IRC access
• http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
• WikipediaWeekly has already some audio reports from Wikimania.
• http://wikipediaweekly.com/2007/08/01/wikipedia-weekly-21/
• http://wikipediaweekly.com/2007/08/02/wikipedia-weekly-22-wikimania-07-introduction/
• [Wikimania Awards] - submissions are open for the Wikimaina Award. Pictures, and only pictures, are welcome. There are 7 awards for 7 categories. The awards are sponsored. For example; there is the "EPSON History Award" for the best picture about "history". The other topics are; share, mother nature, news, people, society, Wikimania activities.
  
  The 7 winners wil get an award cup and a USB stick that includes a Wikipedia local database and a search software.    
  
  The winners will be announced during the closing ceremony on the 5th of August.
• http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Awards

• [FY Wikipedia] - Fryske wikipedy no oer de 5.000 siden. (The Frisian wikipedia has reached 5.000 articles
• http://fy.wikipedia.org
• [LT Wikipedia] - The Lithuanian Wikipedia reached a big milestone - 50,000 articles. The 50000th article was XXXV Europos krepšinio čempionatas - an article about upcomming basketball tournament EuroBasket 2007.
• http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXV_Europos_krep%C5%A1inio_%C4%8Dempionatas

• [WikiSearch] - Wikia,inc has announced by means of Jimbo last year that Wikia would start with a community based search engine. Now has Wikia announced that the have bought the web crawler Grub. A web crawler is software the spiders the internet and maps all websites. The websites that are discovered by a web crawler can be included in an index to create a search engine. Wikia has released Grub now as an open source project.
  
  Grub is an p2p program (like bittorent) that users need to install on there personal computer. When the client computer has nothing better to do it starts exploring the internet trying to find new websites where no webcrawel has gone before. The results will be send back to SearchWikia where volunteers will proces them and put them in the search engine index. That is at least the idea.
  
  When the new system will be online is not known yet.
• http://tinyurl.com/w6gyd -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to start wiki-based search engine (2006)
• http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia_OSCON
• http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/open-or-closed-.html -- Video of Jimmy Wales announcing it
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub_%28search_engine%29
• http://tinyurl.com/2npls3 -- Critical blogposting about it
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/30/1632251 -- /.
• http://tinyurl.com/25wtv3 --  Wikia details plans for search rival to Google

"Hopefully we will have the first stab of something that sucks up by the end of the year," he said. "And then we will start to revise, reconsider, rethink, delete, add, edit, change, until we start making something better and better over time. Will it take 2 years? 5 years? I dunno. It will take however long it takes. But it will be fun." -- Jimmy Wales about Search Wikia

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