en.Wikizine.org

• [Deletion log] - When accessing a non existing page or creating a new page, user can now see the deletion log for that page. This used to be only for sysops. Now even  anonymous user can see it.
• http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwipeer -- Example of a deleted page
• [Shared history] - Local image description pages now show image history for shared images from commons.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Beer_mug.svg  -- example
• [Block] - System message for blocked users [[MediaWiki:Blockedtext]] now shows the actual IP range target for blocks that are applied to IP range. This will explain to the users why they got blocked.
• http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=22641
• [Read-only] - Due to a power failure, several servers went offline on Monday, resulting in the need to put the sites for a few hours in to read-only mode.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/31925
  

• [wikimania] - New accomodation note is announced on Wikimania website. If your language have the page there, and you are sure multiple people from your language community will attend, your translation will be very helpful.
• http://wikimania2007.wikmedia.org/
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2007-June/000404.html

• [CC 3.0] - There is a discussion in progress about the Creative Commons 3.0 licence. Currently the 3.0 version, the most recent version of the Creative Commons  licence is not allowed to be used on Wikimedia Commons.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17437
  

• [Board] -  The board of Wikimedia Foundation held a face to face meeting on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of June 2007 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europa. Anthere posted a first report about it to the list.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17461
• [Survey] - On Meta is there currently a survey about Wikimedia's brands, their uses, and possible changes to the strategy. The survey has questions like "Would you support or oppose rebranding the projects as "Wikipedia Sources", "Wikipedia Quotes", "Wikipedia Textbooks", and so on?"
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17391
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_brand_survey
  

• [G8] - Wikinewsie Sean Heron has managed to get press accreditation for the press center of the G8 in Heiligendamm.
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/assistance#G8_question_from_Sean_Heron
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:G8
• [Weather] - EN Wikinews provides now also a global basic Weather Service. 
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:DragonFire1024/Wikinews_Weather_Service_BETA
  

• [Audio] - "Wikipedia: Blessing or Curse?" item on the American public radio
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10731811
• [Wikipedia and Beyond] - Long written interview with Jimbo about "Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision". The interview gives also a description of the home of Jimmy and the neighbourhood.
• http://reason.com/news/show/119689.html
  

• [FR Wikiquote] - The French Wikiquote has reached 500 articles with Jean de La Bruyère. Since its reopening in December 2006, nearly 2,500 quotes have been added by 1,081 registered users.
• http://fr.wikiquote.org
• [DV.wp] - The Divehi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. Divehi is a language with about 300,000 speakers from India.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divehi_language
• http://dv.wikipedia.org
• [Popular searches] - EN Wikipedia Users Searching for Anime and Occasionally Other Stuff
• http://www.appscout.com/2007/06/wikipedia_users_searching_for.php
  

• [GNU/FDL] - Dutch government provides freely licensed photos
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-06-04/Dutch_government
  

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Nl-Bert_en_Ernie-article.ogg
• http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_en_Ernie
  

"It appears many people are learning about what sex is and how to have it by referencing Wikipedia. --  Adam Tornes""

• http://blog.compete.com/2007/05/31/wikipedia-search-terms/

Labels: CC 3.0, G8, Survey

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• [SyntaxHighlight] - This is a function that is now live on all wikis. Its function is to display text, more programming code, in colors like it is custom for editors used by programmers to make the code more readable.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/31108
• http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi  -- See here how it works
• [Wikiclosed] - The Kanuri Wikipedia, language spoken mostly in Northern Nigeria, has been closed. The Low Saxon Wikiquote has also been closed.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Kanuri_Wikipedia
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Low_Saxon_Wikiquote
• [Wikiopen] - An Italian Wikiversity has been created.
• http://it.wikiversity.org/

• [Brand survey] -  Erik Moeller (board) drafted a survey on Wikimedia's brands: their perception, use,
  protection, and various potential reorganization options.  Edits/feedback on the current survey questions are welcome.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17159
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_brand_survey

• [New Hire] - The WMF has hired Vishal Pattel as part-time business developer for the WMF. Mr. Pattel was already working as an intern for the WMF. To see what he will be doing and all the comments about it visit
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17174  -- Announcement by Anthere (Chair WMF) - there are more postings then in this thread because it was broken several times.

• [Czech Wikipedia] - The Czech edition of Wikipedia has won the "Czech Open Source 2007" award in the reader's vote in the category "Project" and it has also been declared the overall winner of the contest as the subject with the biggest total number of reader's votes without regard for category.
  The award has been organized by Root.cz, a popular Czech news server oriented on Linux and free software in general.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/30117
• [Intelligent Award]  - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Wikia, Inc. founder and Angela Beesley were named as the 2007 Intelligent Community Visionaries of the Year by the Intelligent Community Forum.
• http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/associations/5315/files/2007_VisionaryAward_4-23-07.pdf
• http://tinyurl.com/28rfcs

• [en.wikinews] – Original reporting with prominent New Zealand blogger, David Farrar, opens doors for an exclusive interview with the Leader of the New Zealand Opposition, John Key.
• http://gpollard.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/another-exclusive-interview-for-wikinews/  

• [Jimmy] - Good quality video recording of a presentation done by Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia and Wikia in Bayreuth, Germany.  If you like to know what Jimmy is doing while travelling around the world, this is good video to see. It is also informative about Wikia. This is a long video.(01:17, 943mb, fast download). If you have no time, download it now and view it later. It is not a waste of time.
• http://cms-sprachlabor.split.uni-bamberg.de/av/2007/dgpuk/Wales.avi
• ["Left Wikipedia"] - Wikipedia is 'politically slanted' by the left, who are 'in control'.
• http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/13/212015.shtml?s=lh

• [Paper] - Two studies about EN Wikipedia; "Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia" and "What is Popular on Wikipedia and Why?"
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-05-14/Academic_journal_coverage
• http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/spoerri/index.html
• http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/wilkinson/index.html
• [en.wikibooks] - The English Wikibooks has exceeded 75,000 total pages and 25,000 non-stub book modules.
• http://en.wikibooks.org/
• [ca.wp] - The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• http://ca.wikipedia.org
• [ci.wp] - The Vietnamese Wikipedia is edited for the 600,000th time as Trungda makes changes to the article on "Mạc Ngọc Liễn", a figure from the Mạc Dynasty of northern Vietnam.
• http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BA%A1c_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Li%E1%BB%85n
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BA%A1c_Dynasty

• {{spoiler}} Jesus dies … False ending! He comes back! {{endspoiler}}
• http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/05/17/snape-kills-dumbledore/  -- A blog posing about the template culture in Wikipedia, worthy to read.

... we have a project in our family called "Wikispecies"?

Wikispecies is a Wikimedia project intended to be a directory of species. There are currently about a dozen active editors and over 60,000 listings. It is similar to Commons in that it is multilingual. They are working on the fine line between being a framework of species with links to information in all of the various Wikipedias, and containing that information there. Searching is always challenging when working in multiple languages. Wikispecies hopes to utilize wikidata when it becomes available to serve up the data. Check it out at http://species.wikimedia.org/ .
 

Labels: award, new hire, Survey, video interview jimbo, wikiclose, wikiopen

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