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2005-11-14
Year: 2005 Week:46 Number: 0
=== Technical news ===
The [Search] function now require all given terms to match by default.
You can use options like;
* stuff AND (foo OR bar)
* stuff "foo bar"
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20327
=== Policy ===
-[CheckUser] The policy for CheckUser has gone live this week.
A quote from the policy: "The tool is to be used to fight vandalism or
check abuse of sockpuppets,
for example when there is a suspicion of illegal voting.
It must be used only to prevent damage to one or several of Wikimedia
projects."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_Policy
=== Politics ===
-[Access Denied!] after China blocking Wikipedia, next the Kurdish
Wikipedia is now blocked in Iran.
The other versions are not (yet) blocked.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25494
http://ku.wikipedia.org/
=== Stats ===
-Erim Zachte has released the new stats, based on the SQL-dumpfiles of
Saturday, November 5 2005.
The do not contain visitors stats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm
- [Wiktionary] has 100,000 articles in English.
http://en.wiktionary.org
=== Other news ===
-[Physical Wiki] Semapedia.org provides a service to create tags to be put
on objects
in the real world. With those tags and a cellphone you can request the
relevant article.
http://www.semapedia.org/
=== Quote ====
"[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it,
but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made"
- "Who knows?", The Guardian, Tuesday, October 26, 2004
=== Editorial comment ===
So, that is it. Number 0. The experiment is over. The feedback about
Wikizine was limited but enough.
I can now confirm that there will be Wikizine next week. I will try to
make some publicity about Wikizine.
Now everbody may know about it. The first issue of Wikizine, number -5 , is
sent to about 40 listmembers.
We now have about 55 members. What it will be for number 1 I will tell you
next week. Bye!
Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]
The [Search] function now require all given terms to match by default.
You can use options like;
* stuff AND (foo OR bar)
* stuff "foo bar"
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20327
=== Policy ===
-[CheckUser] The policy for CheckUser has gone live this week.
A quote from the policy: "The tool is to be used to fight vandalism or
check abuse of sockpuppets,
for example when there is a suspicion of illegal voting.
It must be used only to prevent damage to one or several of Wikimedia
projects."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_Policy
=== Politics ===
-[Access Denied!] after China blocking Wikipedia, next the Kurdish
Wikipedia is now blocked in Iran.
The other versions are not (yet) blocked.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25494
http://ku.wikipedia.org/
=== Stats ===
-Erim Zachte has released the new stats, based on the SQL-dumpfiles of
Saturday, November 5 2005.
The do not contain visitors stats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm
- [Wiktionary] has 100,000 articles in English.
http://en.wiktionary.org
=== Other news ===
-[Physical Wiki] Semapedia.org provides a service to create tags to be put
on objects
in the real world. With those tags and a cellphone you can request the
relevant article.
http://www.semapedia.org/
=== Quote ====
"[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it,
but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made"
- "Who knows?", The Guardian, Tuesday, October 26, 2004
=== Editorial comment ===
So, that is it. Number 0. The experiment is over. The feedback about
Wikizine was limited but enough.
I can now confirm that there will be Wikizine next week. I will try to
make some publicity about Wikizine.
Now everbody may know about it. The first issue of Wikizine, number -5 , is
sent to about 40 listmembers.
We now have about 55 members. What it will be for number 1 I will tell you
next week. Bye!
Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]
Labels: censorship, checkuser, editorial, Iran
2005-11-06
Year: 2005 Week:45 Number:-1
=== Technical news ===
-[Sitemap] We now provide sitemaps for all Wikimedia wikis.
Sitemaps are XML lists of all the pages in a website.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20316
http://sitemap.wikimedia.org/sitemap/
=== Policy ===
-[CheckUser] there is a draft-policy for the use of the "CheckUser" function.
Users who have this function can look-up the ipadress of any user.
This policy will apply for all Wikimedia projects.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_CheckUser_Policy
-[Bots] the page to request bot-status is from now on separated from the
general "Requests for permissions" page.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_bot_status
=== Foundation ===
-[Print Wikipedia] many media sources are reporting that Wikipedia will be
printed and sent to Africa around mid 2006.
Userfriendly has a nice cartoon about it.
Back in the real world; since end of 2004 there is a CD-rom and also a DVD
of the German Wikipedia.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/01/wikipedia.reut/
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051102
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pressemitteilungen/Wikipedia-DVD
-[Wikimania2006] request for help for the organisation of Wikimania
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4849
-[Wikiversity] the formal vote for this new project will close very soon
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity
=== Other news ===
- [New user level] the English Wikipedia is considering to create a new
category of users. Users with "Rollback privileges".
These will be registered users who have also a "rollback" link that you
see in the RC if you are a sysop.
Mediawiki supports this function but for the moment there is not yet an
interface to set this permission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback_privileges
=== Quote ===
"To change time settings, do as Timwi instructed.
To change _time_, on the other hand, is a great deal more complex, and
I don't think anybody on this mailinglist wants to explain it." -- Mark
Williamson
=== Editorial comment ===
Wikizine has now the new section "Quote". In a ideal world this would contain
a new quote made the previous week by a member of the Wikimedia community.
But like you probably noticed already this is not an ideal world.
For this week I was lucky to find a good one on the mailing lists.
But mostly the quotes will be old ones from Wikipedians, geeks and similar.
After this Wikizine there is only one experimental issue left, number 0,
before we start with the real stuff. So if you have a comment about
Wikizine how to make it better or to help contact me.
I hope to receive at least the same response like on the Wikizine of last
week. I can now confirm there is at least one (1) reader of Wikizine.
Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]
-[Sitemap] We now provide sitemaps for all Wikimedia wikis.
Sitemaps are XML lists of all the pages in a website.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20316
http://sitemap.wikimedia.org/sitemap/
=== Policy ===
-[CheckUser] there is a draft-policy for the use of the "CheckUser" function.
Users who have this function can look-up the ipadress of any user.
This policy will apply for all Wikimedia projects.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_CheckUser_Policy
-[Bots] the page to request bot-status is from now on separated from the
general "Requests for permissions" page.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_bot_status
=== Foundation ===
-[Print Wikipedia] many media sources are reporting that Wikipedia will be
printed and sent to Africa around mid 2006.
Userfriendly has a nice cartoon about it.
Back in the real world; since end of 2004 there is a CD-rom and also a DVD
of the German Wikipedia.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/01/wikipedia.reut/
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051102
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pressemitteilungen/Wikipedia-DVD
-[Wikimania2006] request for help for the organisation of Wikimania
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4849
-[Wikiversity] the formal vote for this new project will close very soon
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity
=== Other news ===
- [New user level] the English Wikipedia is considering to create a new
category of users. Users with "Rollback privileges".
These will be registered users who have also a "rollback" link that you
see in the RC if you are a sysop.
Mediawiki supports this function but for the moment there is not yet an
interface to set this permission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback_privileges
=== Quote ===
"To change time settings, do as Timwi instructed.
To change _time_, on the other hand, is a great deal more complex, and
I don't think anybody on this mailinglist wants to explain it." -- Mark
Williamson
=== Editorial comment ===
Wikizine has now the new section "Quote". In a ideal world this would contain
a new quote made the previous week by a member of the Wikimedia community.
But like you probably noticed already this is not an ideal world.
For this week I was lucky to find a good one on the mailing lists.
But mostly the quotes will be old ones from Wikipedians, geeks and similar.
After this Wikizine there is only one experimental issue left, number 0,
before we start with the real stuff. So if you have a comment about
Wikizine how to make it better or to help contact me.
I hope to receive at least the same response like on the Wikizine of last
week. I can now confirm there is at least one (1) reader of Wikizine.
Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]
Labels: checkuser, DVD, editorial, print wikipedia, sitemap
