GCS Step 1

Monday, October 31, 2005

Year: 2005 Week:44 Number:-2

=== 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





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

Monday, October 24, 2005

Year: 2005 Week:43 Number:-3

=== 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



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

Monday, October 17, 2005

Year: 2005 Week: 42 Number: -4

Technical news

-[Static Wikipedia] is available for download

http://static.wikipedia.org/


-[edit counter] When did you made your first edit and how many edits haveyou made?http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits

-[Helpdesk-l] is an mailing list for asking questions relating to any ofthe Wikimedia projects. It is for visitors and newbies.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/helpdesk-l

=== Policy ===

-[Anthere] requests that all the languages put there version of theinformation "How to use or reuse the content of Wiki*" on one page on meta
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4613

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_use_or_reuse_our_content

=== Politics ===

-[Jimbo] has appointed [[w:en:User:Jdforrester]] as the Chief ResearchOfficer
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4595

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chief_Research_Officer

--[The Wikimedia Foundation] Danny Wool has accepted the offer of a job atthe Wikimedia Foundation to be the Executive Assistant for the foundation
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Assistant

The Wikimedia Foundation has now 3 paid employs
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_staff

=== Foundation ===

-[Jimbo says] [[w:en:Bill Gates]] and [[w:en:Jane Fonda]] are nearlyunreadable crap.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-October/030075.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-10-10/Article_quality_criticisms

=== Stats ===

-[WikipediaNL], the Dutch Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles
http://nl.wikipedia.org

=== Other news ===

-[New project] Wikiversity E-learning project - You can vote for oragainst this project until. Voting will end on 1 November 2005 at 00:00UTC
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Vote/en



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

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Year: 2005 Week:41 Number:-5

Technical news

-[Rename user] This option is disappeared. No news why or if it will return.

-[Nuke] On the Wiki of Meta the is an new option for sysops "Massdelete" (Special:Nuke). This tool allows for mass deletions of pagesrecently added by a given user or IP.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Specialpages

-[Korean Wikipedia] has moved to the Yahoo-cluster in Korea. This is thefirst real use of this cluster. Other East Asian wikis will follow.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/19869

-[IRC-Wikimedia] the IRC-channels of the Wikimedia have moved. All#prefix.wikixxx has changed.http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/24978

-[IRC-usernames] Freenode will also change policy for the usernames. Notyet active.
http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#usernames

Politics

-[Wikinews] will now be using the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Licensure_Poll

Stats


-[Alexa] says Wikipedia is now around the 32th most popular website
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top

Other news


-[deads] French core contributor dies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-10-10/News_and_notes

Year: 2005 Week:41 Special edition

By [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]

Why do I get this ??

You probably do not remember it but you are an member of the mailing list "Announce-l". This list is created in November 2002. Even in that time, when Wikipedia was much and much smaller then now, it was not easy to follow everything what was going on on the mailing lists and on the Wikis.

The idea of this list "Announce-l" was that important things where announced on that list. So that the ambassadors could get feedback from there home-wiki and participated in the discussion. And also so that you do not need to read all the mailing lists posting and watch many wiki-pages to know what is going on. There was no support for this. A new attempt was done recent;


This time only to use to announce technical changes and problems that have an impact for the end-users of the wikis. This has received more support. But because of the lack of co-operation of the technical staff of Wikimedia also this did not work out. And now there is the attempt do do whit "Wikizine" something useful whit this dead mailing list. And this "Wikizine" is using the dead list"Announce-l" for sending its message. And that is why go you are getting this.

And what is "Wikizine"?

Basically it is an overview of news regarding the Wikimedia-community that the editor has discovered and thinks is important. There are many places inside the Wikimedia-world where there can be found news. And it is also hidden under many other messages. The idea of "Wikizine" is to give an selection of that news whit an very small summary and the url where you can read about. Wikizine is not for writing news but to collect the fragments of news and linking to them.

Who should read Wikizine?

Everybody who likes to do so may read it off course. But the target audience is definitely; stewards, ambassadors, bureaucrats and sysops, members of the board of one of the wikimedia foundations. It is for the people who are doing the Wiki-management. The focus will be on the technical aspect. News about changes in the way the wikiworks, news functions. Things that are broken. Other Wikimedia news will also be included but the focus is technical news that has an impact for the users and readers of the wiki.

Who is creating Wikizine?

For now I, Walter Vermeir, am creating it. I try to find out all the news that I can find and if I find it is is important I put it in Wikizine. If you know some news you may send it to my: walter at wikipedia.be

Time-line

This type of editions of Wikizine will be special. It is not the idea of Wikizine for writing this type editorials. A normal edition will be send once a week on Monday (more or less). The can be very short. It is not my intention to include a lot of other things when there is not much important news when there is urgent news you will receive a Wikizine extra edition.

Example: Some time ago I discovered that the emails whit questions from visitors send to the dutch language Wikipedia where not received. There was a problem with the email system of Wikimedia. So for some days the emails where lost. We, the email team of the dutch wiki, did not know that. We where not informed. If this was the case now I would send a "Wikizine extra". For know this Wikizine-thing is an experiment. It is possible it will stop after some editions. You have received now also the first real "Wikizine".

Number "-5" (minus 5). So long the have negative numbers it will only be send to you, those few current members of Announce-l. There will not be made any notice about this experiment any where. If we make it to edition "zero" it will be announced on Wikipedia-l and Wikimedia-l and we will go public. But that is still some weeks from now. For now please do not forward Wikizine to other mailing lists. Wikizine is still alfa. You are the testers. Also, do not respond on these messages. This list is only for the sending of Wikizine, not for discussion.

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