Wikizine - number: 45

Technical news

• [username@foobar.com] - New accounts on the WMF-wikis can not longer be created if the username contains the @-symbol. Existing users who have that symbol in there username can still login but only temporary. All these users need to request for a username change. Contact a local bureaucrat to do that or ask a steward if your wiki does not have a bureaucrat.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#Username_changes
• http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6849
  

• [CategoryTree] - On the category-pages there is now a function added that lets users browse through the lower category levels from the higher category. There is an option to "expand" the category. This makes it much more easy to navigate and find the category you are looking for without the need to actually request the different layers of the category. This function works only if javascript is enabled. If not, the "+" symbol appears but does not work. Those users can still use the categories the traditional way.

Besides the implementation of this function on the category pages,  there is also a new special page [[Special:CategoryTree]] that provides this functionaly. To localize the messages for this, modify the MediaWiki-pages starting with "Categorytree".

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CategoryTree
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History - example of a categoryusing this function
  

Stats

• [Going-up] - According to comScor is the traffic to Wikipedia in Europe in August strongly increased and has Wikipedia now the 6th place of the most popular websites (in Europe).
• http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20061005/CGTH03005102006-1.html
  

Editor(s): Walter