Wikizine - number: 28

Technical news

• [oversight] A new revision-hiding user class, "oversight", was createdrecently. Users with the function can permanently delete pagerevisions containing personal information, copyright violations, orlibelous content. This is function is only active on the Englishlanguage Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-05/Oversight
• [NewWikisource] 19 new language version-wikis of Wikisource are created
  https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log#June_2
• {{#language:}} magic word added. For example, {{#language:es}} produces Español.

Policy

• [Test] Wikipedia pages on meta are being moved to a separate wiki.
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wphttp://incubator.wikimedia.org/

Politics

• [Sitenotice-to-all] The Communications Committee is working on a wayto set the sitenotice for all wikis. Probably a bot with sysop-statuswill be used for this.
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27317

Foundation

• [CEO] The WMF has decided to hire a lawyer for legal matters and whowill also work as "Interim Executive Director".
  http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_CEO
• [New committee] The WMF has the decided to establish a Fundraising committee.
  http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Fundraising_committee
• [Foundation-l] this week there are very active treats about the roleof the board and jobs.
  http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation

Community

• [CH Wikimedia] on the 17th June the first Swiss Wikipedia-day will proceed.
  http://www.wikimedia.ch/wikipedia-day

Stats

• [EO] The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.
• [$] In the month May the WMF received 1504 donations for a total of$33,210 by means of PayPal
  

Did you know ...
... that according to Alexa, the Russian Wiktionary is the secondmost-visited Wiktionary, with half as much traffic as the Englishproject?

Quote
Fun will now commence
-- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4

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