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Monday, June 26, 2006

Wikizine - number: 31

Technical news
  • [SpecialPage] again a new one; "[[Special:Uncategorizedimages]] - to translate edit [[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages]] and[[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages-summary]]
  • [Magic word] {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} and __NOGALLERY__ added.
Request for help
New project proposals
Policy

Politics
Foundation

Media
  • [NYT wave] the effect of the article published last week in the New York Times keeps spreading across the globe. Articles about this none-event have appeared in newspapers in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and India. In Belgium on the Flemish television there was even a small item about this in a general news bulletin.
Stats

Did you know ...

... that Delphine is not a fish?

notafish : inv. n. from English "not a fish" .
From Delphine, pronounced Delfin [de], or delfín [es] = dolphin, which, as everybody knows, is not a fish but a mammal
NB : notafish does not take a capital "n". Never. Ever.

IRC Quote

<i8b4uUnderground> d-_-b
<BonyNoMore> how u make that inverted b?
<BonyNoMore> wait
<BonyNoMore> never mind

<Beeth> Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are
already taken.
<honx> well, you can stil get one from a strange country :-P

Editor(s): Walter, Shizhao
Special thanks to: Paginazero
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Wikizine - number: 31 Special edition

Wikizine announcement

With pleasure can Wikizine present to you our new website at Wikizine.org.
You can there find Wikizine in "blog-style". You can browse easy in the older editions and use the search function find what you know have read some time ago in Wikizine but can not find it anymore. Also is it now even more easy to give feedback by means of the "comments" function of the blog.

Included in the package is of course a feed of Wikizine;
Wikizine is a "zine". So the plain-text email edition stays the primary distribution channel. The blog is only an online version the email edition. Wikizine hopes so to lower the barrier by means of the blog and reach more members of the community this way. For the email readers nothing will change.

Wikizine will make this week some advertisements about itself on the mailing lists. In the more then six months that Wikizine exists many new people have joined the projects and many will not know that Wikizine exist. The purpose is not to get especially many more readers but to get people subscribed from projects and languages who are not yet reading Wikizine. And so increase the flow of information.

How you can help Wikizine

If you are from a smaller project there is a good change that you community is more isolated form the larger Wikimedia-community because to the language barrier. Please act as a bridge and inform your local community about the news that you read in Wizine.

You can make a complete translation; make a page on you wiki and translate Wikizine every week. That would be great but also a lot of work. And possibly for very few readers. Probably you can suffice by only translate certain fragments that seem to you the most relevant and put those on you local announcement page. Any way of information flow to the non-English speaking wikis is very useful to hold the community across the languages together.

You are part of the Wikimedia-community and so are the people writing Wikizine. You know things that other people may not know. That is the foundation of the Wikimedia-projects; people sharing there knowledge. So is it is also for Wikizine. You will notice the news in Wikizine frequently about Wikipedia and especially about the English language version. The reason is that it is easy find out what is going on there.

If there is interesting news to tell about some smaller project, and most of the Wikimedia projects are small, then it is not likely that Wikizine will find out about if nobody comes to tell about it.

So again, please please please if you have news about your home Wiki share it with Wikizine. You will get credit for it :-)

The existing of Wikizine is still not known by many. So you can also help to expand the reader base by telling about it or putting a banner on your userpage. Or even see of your community has not problem to include a banner on a project page like your local village pump.

If you have questions or like to help someway please contact Wikzine.

Thanks for reading this special edition and, hopefully with your co-operation, you can help Wikizine to accomplish its objective to bring the news of *all* the projects for the members of the community.

This ends this service announcement. The normal edition follows.

Editor(s): Walter

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Monday, June 19, 2006

Wikizine - number: 30

Technical news
  • [undelete] Uploaded files which are deleted can now be undeleted. Admins can also view the deleted files without actually undeleting them. This works only with newly deleted files.
Request for help
  • [Wikizine] is looking for a reliable free form-post service to send emails.
    •  Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org
Foundation
  • [GlobalNotice] The first global notice pushed to all Wikis will be placed very soon. This is to get attention for the Wikimania 2006 event, in the hope that many users will register for it. It is requested to keep the notice online for one week.
Politics
  • [Model] Anthere makes a comparison between the organisation of the Apache Software Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation. And how Wikimedia can learn from that. Responses follow.
Policy
  • [Ombuds-wo-man] for CheckUser. On suggestion of Anthere; volunteers are welcome. The idea if to have a specific person to complain to about possible checkuser abuse. 
New project proposals
 Community
Media
 Stats
  • [MailStats] The great Erik Zachte, the king of statistics, has made some interesting stats about the posting behavior on the mailing lists. What mailing lists are used? And how is the frequency of the number of postsevolving true the years? And who are the top-posters?
Other news
  • [WikiSymposium] An International Symposium on Wikis will be held onAugust 21-23, 2006 in Odense, Denmark. "Participants will present, discuss, and move forward the latest advances in wiki contents, sociology, and technology." This is a non-Wikimedia event. If you register today, June 19, you pay 470 EUR/594 USD. After the 19th it is 537 EUR/679 USD. Full-time students get a very large discount. Some food is included.
  • [WikizineBlog] beta-version is now online. Same contents as Wikizine by email but webbased and with talk-back option. Feedback is highly welcome.

Did you know ...

... that the wikis support an easy for linking to RFC's?

To use it is very simple. Let say you would like to link to RFC 1855,  the netiquette-RFC. Just write RFC 1855 on the  wiki. No brackets, only  RFC one space and the number.

To know what an "RFC" is, see;
To specify where the automatically created URL points to, modify [[MediaWiki_talk:Rfcurl]];

User quotes

It's better to learn some 'disgusting' things from wikipedia, rather
than from some porn site. --213.184.225.28 12:01, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

"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
Editor(s): Walter, Sj
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Wikizine - number: 29

Technical news

  • [X_FORWARD] An old problem : users who have done nothing wrong are blocked
    because the IP they are using is used by others who share the same ISP. This
    has been known as the "bug 550" problem. In some cases a solution is now
    possible : when the ISP provides an "X-Forwarded-For" [XFF] header. Users of
    those ISPs have their real local IP address included when contacting a
    webserver. The configuration of the wiki can be changed so that the IP address
    provided in the XFF header is used for the identification on the wikis and
    blocks, at least when provided from specific IP addresses. Users from these
    ISPs can then edit even when other users on the same network have been
    blocked.
    http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6161
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_project#Trusted_XFF_list
  • [Hide language] On Meta and some other projects, there are very multilingual
    pages. So multilingual, that it can be annoying to look for content between all
    the different languages. There is now a work-in-progress solution to show only
    specific languages. A Java-script version is live on Meta now.
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_select
  • [FireFox&GoogleToolbar] A bug has been discovered for people using FireFox and
    the GoogleToolbar and edit MediaWiki. When editing a large page, if one goes to
    another tab -> loads a page there -> goes back to the tab where originally
    editing, text from the edit window will have been cut. After deinstalling
    Google Toolbar, this bug disappears.

Requests for help

New project proposals

Policy

Foundation

Community

  • [en.wikipedia] now has over 1000 articles with "Featured Article" status. Those
    articles should be the best articles of the English Wikipedia.
    http://tinyurl.com/psc9k

Events

  • [Wikimania] Registration opens for Wikimania Hacking Days, which will have
    discussions about the present and future of MediaWiki design, and Wikimedia
    tools and hardware. Requires registration for Wikimania itself.
    http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/hacker/register
    http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/
  • [Wikipedia Academy] A "Wikipedia Academy" gathering and conference is to be held
    June 16 and 17 in Göttingen, Germany, supported by Wikimedia Deutschland. The
    program will include workshops and presentations, and a talk by Jimbo.
    http://wikipedia-academy.de/index.php

Media

Stats

Did you know ...

... that according to Alexa, the 3 month Traffic Rank
for wikipedia.org: 16
for wikimedia.org: 666 (*)
for wiktionary.org: 3,701
for wikibooks.org: 4,108
for wikiquote.org: 4,316
for wikinews.org: 10,605
for wikisource.org: 11,563
for wikizine.org: not in top 100,000... yet.

and the Avg. Review for wikinews.org is 5 stars?

(*) Wikispecies and Wikimedia Commons are using the wikimedia.org domain and are
included in the rank of wikimedia.org

Mac bashing Quotes

"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small
children."
- Linus Torvalds.
[ robT] Name ONE thing that your windows comp can do that my MAC cant
[ bawss] Right click.


Editor(s): Walter, Sj
Thanks to: Vipuser, Spacebirdy

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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Wikizine - number: 28

Technical news

Policy

Politics

Foundation

Community

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

Editor(s): Shizhao, Walter

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