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2007-06-13
Year: 2007 Week: 24 Number: 74
Technical news
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- [Frameless] - New option for displaying an image; Frameless, like thumbnail, respects the user preferences for image width but without border and no right float. [[Image: Example.jpg|frameless]]
- [Watch this page] - When changing the access level of page sysops have now also a box to put that page directly on your watchlist.
- [New pages] - [[Special:Newpages]] now has option to display new pages from all namespace; not only from the main namespace.
- [Block email] - When blocking a user or an IP, sysops now have option to also block the user or IP to send email using [[Special:Emailuser]]. String to localize; [[MediaWiki:Ipbemailban]]
- [Translate] - Help with translations for the board elections, has been requested.
- [Elections] - Candidates are been called for the election of to the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. At least three positions will be filled from this election, with the elected members serving a two year term. Candidates have until 2007-06-23 23:59:59 UTC to become a candidate. Voting is expected to start on 2007-06-28. Wikizine will publish presentations of the candidates for so far the are interested in extra editons.
- [Update data policy] - The board approved a new version of the "Access to nonpublic data policy". In this version it is not longer explicit necessary to provide proof of being at least 18 years old but it remains possible that it will be asked. People working on the emails send to the projects (OTRS) are not longer included in this policy but fall now under non specific instructions of the WMF office staff.
- http://tinyurl.com/2mbdzg -- The new and old policy , the diff function does not work good
- http://pages.citebite.com/n1b8m5t0g7suy -- Sending proof is possible, not necessary
- [The Wikinews Bulletin] - Following the success of EN Wikipedia's SignPost, New Wikinewise Daniel Bryant, establishes a EN Wikinews community newspaper that will appear every two weeks on Monday.
- [Deleted] - The last image of Spanish Wikipedia has been erased, so it uses images from Commons only.
- [Mirror] - Wikinews has a problem. It is writing news articles but an important channel for readers of news to find it, Google News, exclude it. This because of the wiki way of making the articles. A user on EN Wikinews has made a mirror of the articles of the EN Wikinews so that Google News can present that version to the readers of there service.
- [Privacy] - Privacy International, a nonprofit organization, reports Wikipedia being among best sites regarding privacy, but needing improvement.
- [Holland Open] - Anthere gave the keynote speech in the Netherlands at the Holland Open Software Conference. One of things Anthere said was that the WMF wants to improve the software so that the visual impaired have better access to the content.
- http://tinyurl.com/2b99pq -- News report about it (Dutch)
- http://tinyurl.com/yvb49q -- Impression by [[meta:user:GerardM]]
- [Global Stats] - There are no real visitor logs of the WMF websites to calculated the number of visitors. But there is sampling of the visitors traffic. Brion has made extrapolations from those to make global total page view estimates. Brion comes out at seven thousand million (7,008,306,975) for the number of monthly page views for all WMF wikis. That does not mean that there seven thousand million visitors monthly. How many unique visitors there are is not clear. But the ceiling number is known; there are one thousand million (1,133,408,294) internet users.
- [EN Wiktionary] - The English language Wiktionary got its 400,000th entry.
- [pi.wp] - The Pali Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The is not bad considering that Pali is a dead language.
- [Carbon neutral?] - On Foundation-l the topic was raised to consider by the Wikimedia community to reduce the environmental footprint of the Wikimedia projects. This by attempting to work environmental friendly and possibly to look for ways to invest in green projects to compensate the environmental impact of the projects.
- [Citizendium] - Some technical news about it. Including the report that Citizendium had in April about 100,000 unique visitors. That is nothing compared with Wikipedia but it is no fair to compare it with Wikipedia.
- [Wikitravel] - The English language edition of Wikitravel has won the "Webby Award 2007" for best travel website. Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia Foundation project.
... there is a webbased Ogg Vorbis/Theora player?
The WMF projects use for audio and video the Ogg file format. This format is not supported out of the box so the necessary codex or a player that supports it must be installed. That is a step that some users are unable to take for whatever reason. A webbased player is the way to provide convenient access to the media to all.
[[w:en:user:Gmaxwell]] has created such a player on the toolserver. A link to play the media in that player can be added to the audio and video templates. It is not as good as like on YourTube but is a big improvement. Look at the source of the templates to find out how to use it.
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition[[w:en:user:Gmaxwell]] has created such a player on the toolserver. A link to play the media in that player can be added to the audio and video templates. It is not as good as like on YourTube but is a big improvement. Look at the source of the templates to find out how to use it.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Listen
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Video
- http://tinyurl.com/2bmvyf -- Example of a webbased played video
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"Satisfaction is not guaranteed." -- Rule 19
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Labels: carbon neutral, data policy, holland open, ogg, privacy
2005-12-05
Year: 2005 Week:49 Number: 3
=== Technical news ===
[Privacy] A new Privacy policy link added in the footer.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-November/032773.html
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/talk:Privacy_policy
=== Request for help ===
[Interwiki links] there are lots of articles in one Wikipedia which have
the same name as articles in other Wikipedias, but are not linked by an
Inter-Wiki-Link. These articles have been listed for many language
combinations by de:Benutzer:SirJective. But not all articles with
identical names are about the same subject, so human work is needed to
decide whether an Interwiki-Link can be automatically generated by a bot.
In order to make this decision easy and comfortable, there is a brilliant
tool called Interwiki-Link-Checker written by de:Benutzer:Flacus.
http://www.flacus.de/wikipedia/Interwiki-Link-Checker/index.html
[Fund drive] Please help translate messages for the next fund drive. The
drive will be held from Friday 9 December to the end of the year.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations
=== Community ===
[User boxes] A box containing information about that user placed on the
user page of user. Original used first on commons for something useful;
indication the language skills of a user. Now the "user boxes" have
mutated. There are now boxes used on some Wiki's to indicate a lot of
diverse things like; "I am using FireFox", "This user is a Java
programmer", "This user has a quad monitor configuration", "This person
does not enjoy userboxes.", "This user is an transseksuel", "This user is
a Catholic", etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes
=== Media ===
[Bad Press] A lot negative media coverage about Wikipedia. Including "USA
Today", the most read US newspaper. Problem; false information in an
article that has not being noticed for months. The subject of the article
is not pleased about that.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/0030200
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#John_Seigenthaler_Sr.
=== Other news ===
[Planet Wikimedia] map of the location and type of servers that Wikimedia
is using.
http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Image:Wikipedia_cluster_mockup_of_a_map.png
http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Image:Wikimedia_cluster.jpg
=== Quote ===
"Wikipedia knows all, and what it doesn't know, you can tell it." - Shaye
J.D. Horwitz
Editor: Shizhao, Walter
[Privacy] A new Privacy policy link added in the footer.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-November/032773.html
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/talk:Privacy_policy
=== Request for help ===
[Interwiki links] there are lots of articles in one Wikipedia which have
the same name as articles in other Wikipedias, but are not linked by an
Inter-Wiki-Link. These articles have been listed for many language
combinations by de:Benutzer:SirJective. But not all articles with
identical names are about the same subject, so human work is needed to
decide whether an Interwiki-Link can be automatically generated by a bot.
In order to make this decision easy and comfortable, there is a brilliant
tool called Interwiki-Link-Checker written by de:Benutzer:Flacus.
http://www.flacus.de/wikipedia/Interwiki-Link-Checker/index.html
[Fund drive] Please help translate messages for the next fund drive. The
drive will be held from Friday 9 December to the end of the year.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations
=== Community ===
[User boxes] A box containing information about that user placed on the
user page of user. Original used first on commons for something useful;
indication the language skills of a user. Now the "user boxes" have
mutated. There are now boxes used on some Wiki's to indicate a lot of
diverse things like; "I am using FireFox", "This user is a Java
programmer", "This user has a quad monitor configuration", "This person
does not enjoy userboxes.", "This user is an transseksuel", "This user is
a Catholic", etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes
=== Media ===
[Bad Press] A lot negative media coverage about Wikipedia. Including "USA
Today", the most read US newspaper. Problem; false information in an
article that has not being noticed for months. The subject of the article
is not pleased about that.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/0030200
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#John_Seigenthaler_Sr.
=== Other news ===
[Planet Wikimedia] map of the location and type of servers that Wikimedia
is using.
http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Image:Wikipedia_cluster_mockup_of_a_map.png
http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Image:Wikimedia_cluster.jpg
=== Quote ===
"Wikipedia knows all, and what it doesn't know, you can tell it." - Shaye
J.D. Horwitz
Editor: Shizhao, Walter
Labels: bad press, fund drive, privacy, user box
