en.Wikizine.org

Technical news

• [SUL] - The status of "single user login" is still in progress.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/32140
  

Request for help

• [Wikimentary] - At the first Wikimania in 2005 Rory O'Connor, a documentary maker and journalist, was present to record this event. This to make a documentary about the wiki-community. Two years later they have made recordings of several other wiki-activities and will also be at Wikimania 2007, still for the documentary that started in 2005. Video and other materials are placed online on the wiki of the Wikimentary project. It is the intentions and hope of the makers of this documentary that people will come and work on this documentary like many people do to the many wiki projects that exist. Everybody who knows about the wiki world is welcome to go to globalvision.wikia.com and work on the first real "Wikimentary", a community created documentary.
• http://globalvision.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Policy

• [IRC reform] - The IRC channel #wikipedia has a new management and policy. This to try to reduce the off-topic talk in the channel. The changes are not well received by all.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_guidelines/wikipedia
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IRC_guidelines/wikipedia
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/30187
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17686
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17720
• http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2007/06/changes-to-wikipedia.html

Foundation

• [Elections] - The number of candidates for the board has increased suddenly from 4 to 17. Submissions as a candidate and the endorsement procedure will close Saturday, 2007-06-23 23:59 UTC. Currently it looks like most candidates will have enough endorsements to go to the actual election.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements/en

Community

• [Long week] - There is again a new edition of WikipediaWeekly
• http://wikipediaweekly.com/2007/06/19/wikipedia-weekly-20-return-of-the-podcast/

Media

• [China] - Many media around the world are reporting that China has unblocked Wikipedia. Most likely they are wrong about this. The WMF has Korean servers to serve users from that part of the globe. Recently the IP addresses of those servers has changed. Other IP addresses = unblocked. At least until the firewall of China is updated.
• http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=9750

Stats

• [de.wp] - The German Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles with Universität Dundee.
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universität_Dundee
• [vi-wp] - The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 20,000 articles with ".se".
• http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/.se
• [vo.wp] - The Volapük Wikipedia reaches 10,000 articles. This is a constructed language with only +/- 25-30 speakers. The most active user is SmeiraBot.
• http://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikos:Contributions/SmeiraBot

... how the Special:Random page works?

Every page has a random number assigned to it in the database. When selecting a random page, a second random number is selected, and the page whose number most closely matches the second number (actually the smallest number greater than the second number) is returned.
Basically, the page is simply picked at random, for most intents and purposes.

• http://tinyurl.com/2yo6w9 -- advanced explanation

Quote

"50 million nerds doing your homework for free." ~ Ambrose Bierce on Wikipedia [Source: uncyclopedia.org]

Number of subscribers: 665 , Unique Visitors website last week: 306 , Editor(s): Walter , Corrector(s): Gabriel Pollard
Thanks to: Simetrical , Contact: reply or http://report.wikizine.org , Website: http://www.wikizine.org , Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of accuracy, validity and especially but not limited to, correct grammar and spelling. Wikizine.org is published by [[meta:user:Walter]], and is not a publication of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikizine is a weekly publication as long as there is noteworthy news (and time) Content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Labels: china, wikimentary

Technical news

-[Hardware] The Wikimedia hardware was updated recently.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Hardware_and_hosting_report
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cluster_report,_September-November,_2005
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer


-[Software] In the MediaWiki software a Special:Cite page was added.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite_text


-[Wikistatus] OpenFact's replacement - Alfa
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20664


=== Politics ===
-[China block] Jimbo's opinion in Tunis at the World Summit on the
Information Society: "Wikipedia is neither critical nor supportive of the
Chinese government. We are not a site for dissidents nor for government
supporters. We are neutral. NPOV is non-negotiable."
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-November/042788.html
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_block

=== Foundation ===

-[Cancer] The Wikimedia Foundation is supporting non-profit medical
research by participating in the Folding at Home program, donating
computer-time on servers when these do not have any other work to do.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=wikimedia%2Eorg
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20563

-[Board] A meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was held
on irc on November 13, 2005. Notes may be found here :
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/November_13,_2005

=== Media ===

-[Angela] , member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation,
gave an interview.
http://tinyurl.com/97rdd

=== Other news ===

[SWMT] stands for Small Wiki Monitoring Team. The SWMT aims to create a
team of dedicated Wikimedians who will monitor small and inactive Wikipedias for abusive editing.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWMT

=== Quote ===

"Then we tell them to fuck off." Jimmy Wales -- 24 Oct 2005 in response to
what Wikimedia would do in the hypothetical situation that Answers.com
tried to exert control over Wikipedia's content.

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Editors: Walter, Oscar, Shizhao

Labels: board meeting, cancer, china, hardware, special page

=== Technical news ===

-[China] After the move to the Korean cluster for an short time Wikipedia was back online in China.
But it is blocked again.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25245

=== Foundation ===

-[UN & Wikipedia] The UN is holding the second of two gatherings for its "World Summit
on the Information Society" [WSIS] in a few weeks ( www.itu.int/wsis/
). Wikimedia is sending representatives to the event. Translations are needed.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25199
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WSIS


-[Answers.com] the co-operation with Wikipedia and Answers.com gives unrest in the community
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/24/167217&tid=95&tid=187
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Tools/1-Click_Answers
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4714
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4790
http://webwereld.nl/articles/37979/wikipedia

=== Stats ===

- The Frisian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 pages.

=== Feedback request ===

This is number -2 of Wikizine. In a few weeks I need to dicide of the expermiment of
Wikizine will stop or not. If you have commons about Wikizine please let my known.
wikizine at wikipedia.be

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Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]

Labels: answers.com, censorship, china

=== Technical news ===

- Wikipedia blocked in China

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25111

-[Specify Skin] You can include inside the url the skin to be used, also
for anonymous users.

Like;
useskin=cologneblue
useskin=chick
useskin=standard

Example;
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin?useskin=standard

=== Foundation ===

-[Wikimedia 2006], the conference for all users of Wikimedia projects will
be held in Boston, USA
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4652
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006

-[Answers.com] and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4627 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4722

=== Stats ===

-The Serbian Language Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with the
article Krakow.
http://sr.wikipedia.org/

-The Ilokano Language Wikipedia has reached 100 articles with the article
Taoismo.
http://ilo.wikipedia.org/

=== Other news ===

- Wikimedia in the media [Sept. 25 -- October 15 2005]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25079

- The New Student's Reference Work, 1914 (Public Domain) is now online
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student's_Reference_Work http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LA2-NSRW

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Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]

Labels: answers.com, censorship, china, skin, wikimania 2006