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2005-12-19
Year: 2005 Week:51 Number: 5
=== Technical news ===
[IRC] IRC client restarted, allowing new channels on the Browne IRC server.
irc://browne.wikimedia.org
[Q4] and the money is pouring in! If you put the code below on any
page you get the donation status bar. Hit F5 and be amazed; it is
going faster then the article counter.
Already received
[http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/]
=== Policy ===
[Semi-protection policy] is a new policy from the English Wikipedia.
When a page is "semi-protected" then newest X% of registered users and
all unregistered users can not edit that page. The technical aspect of
it does not yet work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Semi-protection_policy
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2147680/vandals-force-wikipedia-lock
=== Politics ===
[Stewards] are users who can give and remove user rights to any
Wikimedia project, among such rights are: bot, sysop and checkuser.
There is now a nomination round for new stewards. Voting will start on
20th December 2005 and it'll end on the 10th January 2006. You can
list yourself during that time, but you'll have lower chances then.
The Board will eventually choose a group of users (from 1 to 10)
who'll gain steward status.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006
=== Foundation ===
[Bravo Italia] Wikipedia wins two Awards in Italy.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goings-on&oldid=251967
=== Media ===
[Good] One week Wikipedia is "not trustworthy", the next we are
"almost as good as Encyclopedia Britannica". The result is a lot of
very good press around the world. And also Wikipedia traffic
skyrockets. We are now bigger then CCN.com (according to alexa.com).
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v438/n7070/nature-2005-12-15.mp3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/Nature_compares_Wikipedia_and_Britannica
[Nobel Prize] In a program called "Noble minds", with the nobel prize
winners of 2005 in a round table talk with the BBC reporter John
Simpson Wikipedia got merit. The medicine prize winner Barry Marshall
mentioned the Wikipedia article about their discovery (he got the
prize together with Robin Warren) and he said that they could not have
written a better article themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori
=== Proposal===
A New proposal for a Wikimusic, "A Wiki with (1) both score and text
of a free piece of music, (2) the music itself in a playable music
file (in different versions, for example one version with trumpet, one
with a whole orchestra, not MIDI), (3) the sheet music in a wiki-text
format (MIDI can be made out of it) and (4) information about the
piece of music.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimusic_II
=== Stats ===
[milestones] The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:æ°é»ç¨¿/2005å¹´12æ
[Stats, no more] wikipedia.be and wikipedia.nl are probably the oldest
national portals of Wikipedia. Since the creation of them, end of
2002, they have been counting the visitors with their own visitor
counters. This until last thursday when these where removed by the
technical staff without any notice.
In those years traffic to Wikipedia.nl started with 255 page views a
month to 194372 page views in november 2005. And wikipedia.be from 128
page views a month to 33755 in november 2005.
=== Other news ===
[meetup] 10 December 2005, Taiwan Wikipedians meetup in Taipei. about 25 people.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:èæ/2005èºåå¬èå
http://vista.tw/2005/12/10/39/
http://fancy.twbbs.org/blog/tsaiid/2005.12.10/
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/kaurjmeb&article_id=2709059
http://charlesc.ilovemeow.net/node/451?PHPSESSID=408e4d34d0606c4b1590530985460ddc
[Law] - ERRATUM: in last week's issue it was not very cleary indicated
the the website "www.wikipediaclassaction.org" is not a Wikimedia
Foundation website. They are people who say they will try to sue
Wikipedia. But some are also making fun of them because there exists
also a parody site of it: www.wikipediaclassaction.com
http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VPN#Wikipedia_Class_Action_Lawsuit
http://www.wikipediaclassaction.com
=== Quote ===
About Wikipedia;
"I call you my husband's mistress because you get his attention much
of the time..." by anonymous "
=== Editorial ===
Wikipedia was never very good in internal communication. But lately we
have seen some sad highlights. The implementation on the English
Wikipedia of the reduced edit powers came as a total surprise and we
have received the news from external news media. My first reaction
when I read about it was; what a load of bullshit! We, the
Wikipedians, would surely know about it if such change of a
fundamental aspect of Wikipedia was true?
Also the policy of "Semi-protection" only gets widely known after
articles in the traditional media about it.
And finally the removal of visitors counters after more then 3 years
of service without any word to there Wiki is also not nice. Wikipedia
has no working statistics about visitor counts. So when you try to do
it yourself you do not expect that your own system gets sabotaged. It
are not only the articles of Wikipedia that need improvement.
[[user:Walter]],
Editor-in-chief Wikizine
Editor:Walter, [[zh:user:Shizhao]], Oscar
[IRC] IRC client restarted, allowing new channels on the Browne IRC server.
irc://browne.wikimedia.org
[Q4] and the money is pouring in! If you put the code below on any
page you get the donation status bar. Hit F5 and be amazed; it is
going faster then the article counter.
[http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/
=== Policy ===
[Semi-protection policy] is a new policy from the English Wikipedia.
When a page is "semi-protected" then newest X% of registered users and
all unregistered users can not edit that page. The technical aspect of
it does not yet work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Semi-protection_policy
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2147680/vandals-force-wikipedia-lock
=== Politics ===
[Stewards] are users who can give and remove user rights to any
Wikimedia project, among such rights are: bot, sysop and checkuser.
There is now a nomination round for new stewards. Voting will start on
20th December 2005 and it'll end on the 10th January 2006. You can
list yourself during that time, but you'll have lower chances then.
The Board will eventually choose a group of users (from 1 to 10)
who'll gain steward status.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006
=== Foundation ===
[Bravo Italia] Wikipedia wins two Awards in Italy.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goings-on&oldid=251967
=== Media ===
[Good] One week Wikipedia is "not trustworthy", the next we are
"almost as good as Encyclopedia Britannica". The result is a lot of
very good press around the world. And also Wikipedia traffic
skyrockets. We are now bigger then CCN.com (according to alexa.com).
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v438/n7070/nature-2005-12-15.mp3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/Nature_compares_Wikipedia_and_Britannica
[Nobel Prize] In a program called "Noble minds", with the nobel prize
winners of 2005 in a round table talk with the BBC reporter John
Simpson Wikipedia got merit. The medicine prize winner Barry Marshall
mentioned the Wikipedia article about their discovery (he got the
prize together with Robin Warren) and he said that they could not have
written a better article themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori
=== Proposal===
A New proposal for a Wikimusic, "A Wiki with (1) both score and text
of a free piece of music, (2) the music itself in a playable music
file (in different versions, for example one version with trumpet, one
with a whole orchestra, not MIDI), (3) the sheet music in a wiki-text
format (MIDI can be made out of it) and (4) information about the
piece of music.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimusic_II
=== Stats ===
[milestones] The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:æ°é»ç¨¿/2005å¹´12æ
[Stats, no more] wikipedia.be and wikipedia.nl are probably the oldest
national portals of Wikipedia. Since the creation of them, end of
2002, they have been counting the visitors with their own visitor
counters. This until last thursday when these where removed by the
technical staff without any notice.
In those years traffic to Wikipedia.nl started with 255 page views a
month to 194372 page views in november 2005. And wikipedia.be from 128
page views a month to 33755 in november 2005.
=== Other news ===
[meetup] 10 December 2005, Taiwan Wikipedians meetup in Taipei. about 25 people.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:èæ/2005èºåå¬èå
http://vista.tw/2005/12/10/39/
http://fancy.twbbs.org/blog/tsaiid/2005.12.10/
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/kaurjmeb&article_id=2709059
http://charlesc.ilovemeow.net/node/451?PHPSESSID=408e4d34d0606c4b1590530985460ddc
[Law] - ERRATUM: in last week's issue it was not very cleary indicated
the the website "www.wikipediaclassaction.org" is not a Wikimedia
Foundation website. They are people who say they will try to sue
Wikipedia. But some are also making fun of them because there exists
also a parody site of it: www.wikipediaclassaction.com
http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VPN#Wikipedia_Class_Action_Lawsuit
http://www.wikipediaclassaction.com
=== Quote ===
About Wikipedia;
"I call you my husband's mistress because you get his attention much
of the time..." by anonymous "
=== Editorial ===
Wikipedia was never very good in internal communication. But lately we
have seen some sad highlights. The implementation on the English
Wikipedia of the reduced edit powers came as a total surprise and we
have received the news from external news media. My first reaction
when I read about it was; what a load of bullshit! We, the
Wikipedians, would surely know about it if such change of a
fundamental aspect of Wikipedia was true?
Also the policy of "Semi-protection" only gets widely known after
articles in the traditional media about it.
And finally the removal of visitors counters after more then 3 years
of service without any word to there Wiki is also not nice. Wikipedia
has no working statistics about visitor counts. So when you try to do
it yourself you do not expect that your own system gets sabotaged. It
are not only the articles of Wikipedia that need improvement.
[[user:Walter]],
Editor-in-chief Wikizine
Editor:Walter, [[zh:user:Shizhao]], Oscar
Labels: award, editorial, fund drive, good press, Semi-protection, stewards
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
