en.Wikizine.org

• [Reminder Spam] - Users who have an easy username, like "Walter", frequently get a password reminder. Probably from someone trying to make an account with that name. But there are also weirdos who are using this function to spam users with reminders. There are users who receive hundreds of that type of emails a day.
  
  To stop this type of abuse the password reminder function now has limits. There is a limit of one password reminder per user per 24-hour period, and 5 password reminders per IP per hour.
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/27534/focus=27534
• [Accesskeys change] - the function of the accesskeys and tooltips will be moved soon out of the Monobook.js and and implement them
  server-side.  This may affect personal scripts that implement custom accesskeys.
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/27592/focus=27592
• [wikipedia.be] - has been offline form Friday until Sunday evening. This domain is only used for redirecting traffic to a country-portal and limited services. Indications suggest that the bill for this domain was not paid. This domain was also offline some time in 2004 for the same reason when the fee for two years was not paid. 

• [Wikizine] requests more feedback form the readers about news from there home-wikis, especially the non-English language communities.
  • http://report.wikizine.org
• [Wikimania2007] - Request for cooperation from the technical people for setting up the Wikimania 2007 Hacking Days
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/27576/focus=27576

• [WMF-board change] - The board decided to change the positions of the board members. For now on and for one year at most is this the configuration of the board; Anthere (Florence Devouard), chair of the board of trustees. Tim Shell (who announced to step down from the board) is Vice-chair, Eloquence (Erik Möller) Executive secretary, Michael Davis is the Treasurer. Jimbo remains board member and has the title of Founder and "Chairman Emeritus". Despite his new title it is not expected that Jimbo will retire.
  
  In an interview on "Wikipedia Weekly" Jimbo said that it seems likely that the board will decide in November to expand the board and this to probably 9 members. That means 5 new members.
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/11426/focus=11426
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/11430/focus=11430
  • http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emeritus
• [Report from Frankfurt] - the members of the board & officer and also representaives of the different chapters has come togther in Frankfurt. This to discuss the futhere of the Wikimedia Foundation. meta:user:Oscar, chair of Wikipedia Nederland has written a report about it.
  • http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Report_from_Frankfurt_-_October_2006
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/11402/focus=11402 - comments on Foundation-l
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/11451/focus=11451
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/11446/focus=11446
• [Sep11] - The "In Memoriam" sep11-wiki, recently closed, has been cleand-up and moved outside the Wikimedia Foundation umberella.
  • http://www.sep11memories.org/
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/11464/focus=11464

• [Mosaic] - the people on Commons are working on a Wikimedia logo made from many different pictures on commons, a mosaic. The to commemorate the one millionth uploaded file at Wikimedia Commons. The are now around 60,000 files away from that. The fun thing is that the mosaic is live. You can click on the tiny images to so them in large.
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic
• [Success] - "Wikipedia Weekly", the new project for providing Wikipedia-related news in the form of an audio recording, has taken a good start. In less then 2 weeks are already 3 editions published. Wikipedia Weekly includes interviews with Wikimedia celebrities like Notafish (episode 2) and Jimbo (episode 3). According to w:en:user:Tawker episode II and III has been downloaded arround 120 times each until now.
  • http://www.wikipediaweekly.com/
• [Summary] - From this weekend the mailing list summary of foundation-l that was started at the beginning of this month will be expanded to cover the wikipedia-l list too.
  • http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS
  • http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/28627/focus=28627 

• [Radio] - Interview of Jimbo on the National Public Radio of the USA program "Talk of the Nation", serious radio program, about Jimbo's idea about buying copyrighted works and set it free.
  • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6387888
• [Not found] - A piece by an student who discovers you can not find everything in Wikipedia
  • http://www.statepress.com/issues/2006/10/26/opinions/698470
• [Telegraph.co.uk] - Very long article in the "The Daily Telegraph", a very popular British newspaper. This article also appeared in the printed edition on several pages and illustrations.
  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/10/28/ftwiki28.xml

• [W$k$ped$a dot com] - Very recently  Google, Inc. bought the very popular video website " YouTube.com". Google paid 1.65 thousand million US dollars for this website. YouTube has a lower traffic ranking than Wikipedia and has very high operatioals costs because of the video storage and needed bandwidth. That can make you think what Wikipedia would be worth if it was commercial. Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, President and Founder of Mojo Supreme and knowledgeable of the online advertisement business has made an post on his blog about that. Going from non-profit to for profit would hurt the page ranking and traffic of Wikipedia and the number of editors but, according Mr. Karbasfrooshan assumptions, still be a very profitable move.
  
  Nevertheless Mr. Karbasfrooshan writes in a follow-up post that ads for now on Wikipedia are not a good idea. He concludes with the words; "Right now, methinks that Wikipedia is doing fine, and it has a business model: its fundraising efforts."
  • http://www.watchmojo.com/web/blog/?p=626 - Part I
  • http://www.watchmojo.com/web/blog/?p=637  - Part II
  • http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/10/larrying_wikipe.php - related other blog posting
• [Wikimedia.org ] is now the 499th most-visited website on the Internet according to Alexa.
• [Wikipedia.org] - ComScore published new numbers of the traffic of the most popular worldwide websites for the month of September. Again has Wikipedia grown. 12% since August. Wikipedia is according these stats now the 6th most popular website on the internet. That is very good news. Only 5 places to go and there is not need anymore for this type of "news".
  • http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1049

... that there is an easy way to get on IRC from anywhere?

The chat network of Freenode is used by mostly all projects and wikis for talking and running different tools like for anti-vandalism. To make use of this system you need an IRC-client. There are many clients available. Two free clients, from the many that exist, that can be used are Gaim and ChatZilla.  But you need to install these on your computer. If you can not do that for what ever reason, your are someone else his computer or your work/school has blocked IRC-access then the IRC-service of Wikizine can be useful. chat.wikizine.org provides webbased access to selected Wikimedia related channels. On request more channels can be added.

http://chat.wikizine.org
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/16/

• [Block Opera users] - It appears that some bot is posting the question on wikis and forums that the can not see images when using the browser Opera.
• http://wikiangela.com/blog/wiki-spammers/

• [Portal] - Wikimédia France has installed a portal at www.wikitheque.fr. This portal provides task-oriented directions for finding images and text content on Commons and Wikisource, with the help of Wikipedia.
• http://www.wikitheque.fr/
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-October/011101.html
  

• [LSS] - the project started by meta:user:Improv of creating summaries of the postings to the mailing list Foundation-l is still alive. It is even growing. The list summaries are also a year disposal in Frensh and Spanish.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS
• [Report] from the Portuguese Wikipedia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-09/Interwiki_report

• [Schools] - it is suggested that the visitor traffic to the English language Wikipedia is connected with students in the USA. At least one editor of a high school newspaper is very enthusiastic about Wikipedia
• http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2006/10/wikipedia_and_academic_researc.html
• http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/inside.php?sid=6806

[Conlang] - The total number of articles in planned language (or "conlang") Wikipedias and net encyclopedias has passed 80,000. There are at present 7 active Wikipedias on the main list: Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Novial, Volapük, Lojban and Interlingue]], with 79,665 articles. In addition, the Meta page notes the Wiki lexicon of Lingua Franca Nova with 573 articles, and the two former Wikipedias of Toki Pona and Klingon, with 301 articles. This gives a total of 80,539, slightly below 1.5% of all Wikipedia articles. The 7 active Wikipedias have 3,445 registered users.

The largest is the Esperanto language Wikipedia; the have reached 60,000 articles.
http://eo.wikipedia.org

• [Wikipedia 0101] - Librarian John Hubbard has created an extended Flash presentation about what Wikipedia is, or at least the English language Wikipedia, how it works and topics. Very nicely done. You need Flash 8 or above to make it work. For Linux there is a link to Flash 9 Beta, very easy to install. Read the read-me.
• http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/courses/wiki/

IMHO: In My Humble/Honest Opinion
IMO: In My Opinion
IMNSHO: In My Not So Humble Opinion.
IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer

<by> Is there anyway I can tell the world I'm an idiot?
<Seven7> Of course, just type your name, where you live and your confession
<by> Kk
<by> I am Mark Duval of Belgium, and I am an idiot
<by> ?
<by> Now what?
<Seven7> Don't worry. It's done

• [AntiSpoof] - there is a new check when creating a new account live to prevent the creation of new accounts who look like existing users. For example if there is a user named "Ellen" the creation of the account "E11en" is not allowed.
  
• [Math skills are needed] to make a new account on some of the smaller projects. To protected wikis from bots making accounts or inserting spam a captcha system is active on the smaller wikis. To save a page of make an account you need to answer a problem like 48-10=? . This is because there are problems in loading the images displaying the letters of the classic captcha-system. The math version is only temporally until the problem with the loading of the images is fixt. 
  
• [Default block settings] - the default option when a sysop blocks a user to block logged in user by default seems to make a good change to be changed to not blocking logged in users by default when blocking an ipadress. To override the default options see Wikizine number 34
  
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/27425/focus=27425
• 
  http://en.wikizine.org/2006/07/wikizine-number-34_17.html
  

• [Logo] - the last fase for the selection of new logos for Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikiversity has started. Votes are open until 31 October.
  
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo
  
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
  

• 
  [unblock Wikipedia] - Since rencently internet users of mainland China have again access to the English language after one year of blocking. The Chinese language version of Wikipedia is still blocked for many Chinese users.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-16/China_unblock
• 
  http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/10/16/chart-wikipedia-access-in-china/
  

• [Dreams:If...] - Jimbo posted a message to call for the community to enter ideas about how $100 million (hypothetical money) could be used by the WMF for paying to free copyrighted works. So that there is confusion about it; there is no $100 million. This is only a "what if...".
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-16/Copyright
• 
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_wishlist
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Copyright_wishlist (inspiration of the community about how to send $100 million)
  
• [$] - The PayPal-donation system used by the WMF can now also accepted donations in a lot more different currencies. The new are; Czech korunas, Danish krone, Hong Kong dollars, Hungarian florints, New Zealand dollars, Norwegian krone, Polish zloty, Singapore dollars, Swedish krone and Swiss francs. Please update the fundraising page of you languages projects if needed.
  
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising
• [Wikimania2007] - A new Wikimania, a new wiki. Not (yet) very interesting .
  
• http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org
  

• [Wikisource]
  - the WMF project for source texts - is doing good. Or at least the German language version. The German Wikimedia chapter has found some money to pay the digitization of some very old books and documents. The scans are from a very good quality and presented in such a way that the are very accessible. The digital version of a 16th-century handwritten mathematical schoolbook is uploaded to Commons as a DjVu-file. Commons is able to present those files in such a way that is very user friendly and fast to browse inside the book. DE Wikisource is also working on transcribing the scans to writing that is readable for the public.
  
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-September/010048.html
• 
  http://tinyurl.com/vc6no  - Example of scan of book
• http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Drei_Register_Arithmetischer_ahnfeng_zur_Practic:101
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
• [New Internal Media] - The internal news reporting community is growing. We have the Wikipedia Signpost; Wikipedia news in a more or less newspaper style, we have Wikizine; (very) sort items and url's for more reading. And now there is also the newbie; the "WikipediaWeekly" is  bringing news about Wikipedia in an audio-recoding form.
  w:en:User:Fuzheado and w:en:User:Tawker are the hosts of the pilot edition. The bring the news and background information about news and events related to Wikipedia in a very relaxed style. More like a radio talk show then a classic news bulletin. WikipediaWeekly will attempt to bring on a weekly basis a new audio-recording. The recoding is currently now available as Ogg Vorbis and Mp3, it is listed on iTunes and there is a webbased player on there website.  
  

• [Larry] - the new project, Citizendium, of Larry Sanger to write an encyclopedia of better quality then Wikipedia is now hitting the news websites. And not only in USA-media.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger_announces_Wikipedia_fork
  
• http://news.google.com/news?hl=&q=Citizendium&btnG=Search+News
• [CBC News:The hour]
  - Item about Wikipedia and the Chinese block of wp starring Jimbo on the Canadian television.
• http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos/20061013_wiki.wmv
  -- direct link to the video (windows media, 11,8Mb)
  

• [Enquiry]
  - In the Netherlands the company Multiscope has done an enquiry about what websites the people most value. The results from the enquiry to over 14,000 Dutch internet users are that Wikipedia (Dutch edition) is on the 3th place of the most valued websites.
  
• http://www.multiscope.nl/persbericht-volledig.phtml?uniek=20061017165834
  

• [Service notice] - the url of website of Wikizine has changed to en.wikizine.org This is to make it more easy to launch posible other languages versions of Wikizine in the futhere. Currently has Wikizine barely the resources to support one language version so other versions must not be exspected soon.
  

"We congratulate those in charge of Wikipedia, especially Jimmy Wales, who could have chosen to censor their own site to get official blessing. Instead they stuck to their principles and spurned self-censorship. Their determination has paid off inasmuch as Beijing has partially reversed its decision. It is an example that other Internet giants could follow." -- Reporters Without Borders

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15374

• [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.

• [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
  

• [Portal] - Wikibooks has now also its own real portal. It used to point to a page on the wiki to act as portal. The portal is in Wikipedia-style.
• http://www.wikibooks.org/

• [vanity/vandalism] - Our CEO posted a strong statement about corporate vanity/vandalism-articles. Corporates created non-encyclopedic articles and when the are removed that call the office of the WMF to complain about it. That advice of Brad is to be firm and remove that type of articles and block the users.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/10888/focus=10888

• [Logo] - the process for selection a new logo for Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikiversity is continuing. No new proposals can be submitted now anymore. The vote for these logos is not yet open but is closing in.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logoFoundation
• [Promotion] - A new committee for promotion is created. It is a subcommittee of the Communications committee. Users are invited to help out and work and submit promotion material. See the posting of Elian.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/10893
• [RFC] - On meta is there a page where users can write there comments about the organisation of the recent board election
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comments/Board_Election_2006
• [$] - In September the WMF received $36,311 on donations form PayPal. That is less then in August but in general the donations are still increasing.

• [Report] - This week it is time for the Danish Wikipedia to write there pice
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-25/Interwiki_report
• [Summary-l] - the WMF mailing lists receive many postings. Reading everything is not always possible because it takes a lot of time. User:Improv started a service to provide a summary of the threads posted on Foundation-l so you can get quickly get the general idea of the postings. Providing this service is a lot work. User:Improv seeks volunteers to help and to expand this service to other lists.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Improv/LSS/foundation-l-current
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Improv
• [Jimbo] - the ongoing mission of Jimbo to travel the world and meet Wikipedians in far away places has brought him recently to India. Where was a "unconference" with the local Wikipedians.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

• [Copyvio] - The french news agency "Agence France Presse" has used text from the article about the Amish from the DE Wikipedia in a news report. So far no problem. What is a problem is that the have not given any attribution to Wikipedia like is required by the GFDL-licence. When contacted by Wikipedian Mathias Schindler the AFP office confirmed that the text was from Wikipedia and stated that this was against "AFP policy" because "wikipedia is not a citable source". They refuse to retract or amend the story with proper attribution for Wikipedia and the license. AFP sued Google News in 2005 because in AFP's point of view, Google was violating their copyright with there "google news" service.
• http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-03-n18.html

• [en.wikt] - The English wiktionary has reached 200'000 entries
• http://en.wiktionary.org
• [en.wp] - The Bengali Wikipedia Reaches 10, 000 articles. It is the 50th language to do so, and the 2nd language from South Asia to do so.
• http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-September/010448.html

• [+20] - A new batch of 20 new Wikipedias has been created.
  Wu (wuu:), Mazandarani (mzn:),Newar / Nepal Bhasa (new:), Lak (lbe:), Emilian-Romagnol / Sammarinese (eml:), Buryat (Russia) (bxr:), Upper Sorbian (hsb:),Novial (nov:),Pangasinan (pag:),Bavarian (bar:), Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy:), Zazaki (diq:), Zealandic (zea:), Tarantino (roa-tara:), Zamboanga Chavacano (cbk-zam:), Classical Chinese (zh-classical:), Old Church Slavonic (cu:), Siberian/Nort Russian (ru-sib:), Gilaki (glk:), Min Dong (cdo:
• meta:Approved_requests_for_new_languages#Recently_created_wikis

POV: Point of View, the way how things are according the person who writes it
NPOV: Neutral point of view, core value of the WMF-projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little
consequence. The only consequence is what we do. - John Ruskin http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

• [CommonsDelinker] - one of the most annoying things of Commons is that if you use its content and host your files there that you did not knew of the where deleting the file you are using until it was done and you noticed it. Improvements has been made to solve that. There is a check of the usage of files on the wikis and there is the "CommonsTicker" to inform local wikis about changes to files that are in use on there wiki. Now there is also the "CommonsDelinker". That is bot to remove the dead links to files deleted on commons. It is a maintenance service, to remove the trash from the hundreds of wikis after a deletion on commons. There is currently an "Requests for permissions" to request to get an exemption from local bot policies to run this bot. Currently there is universal support for it. Wikis who do not want to receive the service the CommonsDelinker can request to be excluded.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions/CommonsDelinker
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CommonsDelinker
  

• [Move] - the Japanese, Korean, Malay, and Thai Wikipedias will be moved from the Korean server cluster (yaseo) back to the main servers in Florida (pmtpa) later this week.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/28276/focus=28276
  

• [Wikizine] - Currently Wikizine is basically a one person project. This is not a good model to provide weekly a timely and good edition of a consistent quality.
• Wanted: core staff member(s). You look for news and find it. You constructed Wikizine. Eventually you can write an edition on you own if needed. And this week after week, even when you have better things to do. You can be counted on to do the work.
• Wanted: freelance staff member(s). You look for news when you like to do it. You write sometimes an item for an edition of Wikizine.
  

• [Board] - Erik Möller/Eloquence has won the board election. He will continue the term of Angela. Kathleen (Kat) Walsh/Mindspillage is second and Oscar van Dillen third.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_results_2006
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-25/Board_elections
  

• [Wikimania2007] - It is now known where the next Wikimania will be; Taipei,Taiwan.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007#Taipei_chosen_to_host_Wikimania_2007
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-25/Wikimania_Taipei
  

• [Wikimania2008 & 2009] - Unofficial bids are open for locations to host Wikimania 2008 and 2009
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids
  

• [Sep11] - the "project" September 11 In Memoriam is closed. This is the first project ever that is closed. Sep11 was a very non-typical WMF-project. It was created in the early days when there where only a few wikis. This in 2001 in responds the 9/11 event. The wiki is now read-only.
• http://sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam
  

• [InterWiki-report] - this week we have the Hungarian language Wikipedia and also the Simple English Wikipedia who present there project to you.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-11/Interwiki_report
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-18/Interwiki_report
  

• [fi.wp] - The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• http://fi.wikipedia.org
  

• [pl.wp] - The Polish Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles. And this on the day that there wiki is five years old.
• http://pl.wikipedia.org
  

• [Larry Sanger] - who played an important role in the early history of Wikipedia and was the editor-in-chief of the late Nupedia, announced a fork of the English Wikipedia. This fork will have a different editorial structure.
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger_announces_Wikipedia_fork
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium
• https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/
  

SUL: Single User Login. You can use one login for all wikis.
Kudos: to praise someone for doing something.
FYI: for your info - information provided as a service to someone only to inform them about it. No need to responds to it, do with it what you wish.

There is an old Vulcan proverb — "Only Nixon could go to China." -- Mr. Spock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China_(phrase)

• [!steward] - it is now more easy to get the attention of a steward if it is urgent. In the IRC-channel #wikimedia-stewards is there now a bot guarding the channel provided by w:nl:user:webboy. If you enter the command !steward it calls for the stewards. To test it use !steward-test

• [clarification] - For the current vote for the position for the board of the WMF only users who are indefinitely banned or blocked are not allowed to vote on any project. Users blocked for a specific time period are not allowed to vote on the wiki where the are blocked during the time of there block. If that user can vote on a other wiki the are allowed to do so. See also;
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9797
  

• [New hire] - the WMF has hired Mark Bergsma to serve as Networking Coordinator for the Foundation.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9792/focus=9792
  

• [InterWiki-report] - this week the Italian language Wikipedia is writing his bit.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/Interwiki_report
  

• [De-sysop] - On the En wikpedia is a user de-sysoped. That would not be news on most wikis, but on EN it is.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/Everyking_desysopped
  

• [Guardian] Wikipedia defies China's censors
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1869075,00.html
  

• [Law.com] - interview with Brad - Wikimedia's First GC Prepares to Tread 'Legal Minefield'
• http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1157557741507
  

• The Volapük Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. This is a language with +/- 30 speakers. So 500 is very impressive.
• http://vo.wikipedia.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk
  

• [Wikizine Closed] - There will be no Wikizine for week 38. The next edition is expected for around the 27th September in week 39. Requests send to Wikizine will not be answered during this period.

The main domain name of the projects is a .org domain. And because most people do not know anything else besides .com domains like www.wiktionary.com also point to that project.

But the first domain people will try is name of the project with the TLD from there country. Check If the domain with the name of your project for your county top level domain is still free. If it is try to obtain it. Keep it private. Do not start discussions about it on your wiki or it will be squatted. Best is that the WMF would buy the domain. Contact Brad Patrick, the WMF interim executive director & lawyer <bpatrick AT wikimedia.org> to ask to buy the domain. If it is already taken try to figure out who it owns and of there intentions are honorable. Possibly it it registered by a friend of your project to prevent it been registered by someone who would exploit it by pointing it to a sexssite or something like that. Maybe the are willing to transfer the domain to the WMF. Do only reconnaissance and contact the [[meta:Trademarks committee]] when you have the basic information.

List the domain and the information you have on;

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Domains

When you have the domain then you can make a local portal. Consider doing this also even when there is one clear dominant language and other languages are of very little importance in the country. A listing on such a portal can give a project in such a small language the exposure it needs to become successful. Also makes clear that a project organized by language, not by country. Some national domains are already active and are used for portals. Others are only redirecting to the Wikipedia in the dominant language.

Examples of national domains who point to a portal;

• http://www.wikipedia.be/ - Belgium
• http://www.wikipedia.ch/ - Switzerland
  

Examples of national domains who redirect to the dominant language;

• http://www.wikipedia.at - Austria ; redirect to the German Wikipedia. Excluding the Slovene, Croatian and Hungarian language project.
• http://www.wikipedia.de - Germany; redirect to the German Wikipedia. Excluding the Danish, Frisian, Low German, Sorbian and Romany languages projects
  

If you have a dirty mind then most things look sexual. When I first saw the Wikimedia logo it looked to me like someone ripping open their shirt, therby revealing their naked torso underneath. --Dangherous 23:35, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• [WikipediaToolbar] - For some time there is a FireFox extension to add a toolbar to you browser especially designed for use on Wikipedia and for MediaWiki wikis in general. This toolbar is made by w:de:user:Bananeweizen. The current toolbar will not work with the new upcoming 2.0 version of FireFox. User:Bananeweizen does not have time anymore to work on this and is looking for someone to take the "Wikipedia Toolbar" over from him. If you are intrested contact Bananeweizen on the irc channel #mediawiki on Freenode.
• http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/
  

• [New Logos] for Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikiversity can now be submitted now. Voting is scheduled to start on September 7 for these logos.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
  

• [Wikimania2007] - The first round for the selection for the city to host Wikimania 2007 will close on September 10th. No city will be accepted after that date. Candidates may work on their bid until the 15th.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007
  

• [Election] - The vote for the new boardmember is now open. Users can vote on one wiki only using the [[Special:Boardvote]]-page. Users who had 400 edits on a wiki on August 1, 2006 and are not blocked have voting rights. A user with a block on any wiki is not allowed to vote during that time, also not on other wikis. The Board has appointed James Forrester and Jon Harald Søby as additional Assistant Election Officials.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/En
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9797/focus=9797
  

• [$] - The Wikimedia Foundation received in August 1769 donations for a total amount of $37,601.58 by PayPal

• [InterWiki-report] - it is now time for the Spanish language Wikipedia to tell the whole wide Wikimedia-world about their wiki.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-28/Interwiki_report
  

• [FAQ] - the new project Wikiversity presents a FAQ to try to explain what is exactly is.
• http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:FAQ/En
  

• [WMC 2006] - last Saturday the Dutch Wikimedia chapter held, with extensive support of Kennisnet.nl, its first own conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This was a one day event with several presentations like on Wikimania. There where 46 attendees; most from the Netherlands, but also from Switzerland, Germany, Thailand and Flanders. Some pictures and audio recordings are available. One of them is in English "Kurt Jansson: Wikimedia Chapters - Some insights from Wikimedia Germany". This event was announced with an interview on a Dutch national television broadcaster.
• http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conferentie_Nederland/verslag
  

• [RE from Jimbo] on /. The announced new functionality of MediaWiki to support stable versions has give inspirations to several media to report that Wikipedia is reducing the freedom of editing to all. A responds from Jimbo about that and the readers of /. on that responds.
• http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/2224230
  

• [Brittanica] - Wikipedia is now also included in the Encyclopædia Britannica. You can read the first 75 of 737 words about Wikipedia on the Brittanica for free.
• http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9433599
  

• [Free press] - A politician has found a way to get his name in the press by saying that he is considering to sue Wikipedia.
• http://www.thetranscript.com/localnews/ci_4260986
  

• [Whois] - a new type of stats. A listing with info about from where the people editing on a wikipedia are coming from. And also on what wikipedia are people of different wikipedias working on. These numbers can give a general idea but take in to account that there is a large possibly of errors.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin
  

• [en.wp] has now 1000 sysops. The wiki with the most sysops after the English language Wikipedia is the German with 225 sysops.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/1000_Administrators
  

The webbased Interwiki-Link-Checker is a tool for semi-automatic insertion of Interlanguage-links in all latin-encoded Wikipedias larger then 10.000 articles. Input from wikipedians fluent in at least two languages is needed to decide wether articles named the same in two different languages should be interlinked by the bot.

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~flacus/IWLC/start.php - The tool
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Checker/en - FAQ

"Small print leads to large risk." - Rule 8
"Trust is the biggest liability of all." - Rule 99
"Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit." - Rule 181

• [The Return Of The Stats] - On a wikipedia long ago, before MediaWiki and the WMF, there where webalizer visitor stats. You could see which pages where the most popular of Wikipedia. Now, many years later, this information can be again available for your wiki. [[w:de:User:LeonWeber]] has created a tool to count the requests. See the page on Meta for the information how to get it. But I can be a good idea to discuss this in your community first to avoid problems.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCharts
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27848/focus=27848
  

• [Time] - Tim Starling has written a new parser function for time and date formatting, called #time and it is live now on the projects. It gives many options for displaying the time and date. One of the possibility's is that it can give the current time +X-hours (or minus) or the same with dates.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/26416/focus=26416
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23time
  

• [Linksearch] - There is special page named [[Special:Linksearch]]. By entering there a domain name or part of a domain name you can see on wish page those external links are placed. Can be useful to clean up linkspam vandalism.
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch
  

• [Candidates] - There is still for to do in translating that statements of the candidates for the board.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_translations_2006/En#Candidates
  

• [Election] - The registration of candidates for the board election is closed. There are about 20 candidates now, some have presented thyself near the end, some have withdrawn thyself. And some will probably be excluded because the have not confirmed there candidacy like requested. The actual voting is supposed to start on September first and will close on the 21th September. Wikizine has done an attempt to present to you the candidates with the extra editions. Also the Signpost has done a special effort. A sort of written interviews with the candidates who responded to there questions. If you are interested in this elections this is a must read.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-28/Board_candidates

• [New committee] - The WMF board approved the creation of the "fundraising committee". The function of this committee is not defined in the resolution.
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_fundraising_committee/membership
  

• [CFO resigns] - Daniel Mayer resigns as Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. Daniel Mayer remains involved with the WMF finances as member of the newly created "fundraising committee". The WMF has hired a professional experienced bookkeeper who will work to start with on a part-time basis.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9689/focus=9689 - Daniel resigns as CFO
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9728/focus=9728 - New bookkeeper hired
  

• [SP-com] - The WMF Special projects committee is holding a public meeting on IRC. This on September 2 or 3 arround 20u UTC. See the meta-page for more information.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Special_projects_committee#SPC_Public_Meeting_.232
  

• [Beta] - The announced Beta Wikiversity is now live. This wiki is an incubator for Wikiversities in various new languages. And also a global platform aiming at coordinating Wikiversity projects in several languages. This coordination should deal with Wikiversity's mission and general guidelines of the project's scope. For example, about original research.
• http://beta.wikiversity.org/
  

• [Logo] - A new project (Wikiversity) so there is need for a new logo. The start is given for that process by collecting possible logos for Wikiversity.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
  

• [Verifiability] is a policy on the English Wikipedia. "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." That means that what is written must be proven by sources, the fact that it is true is not enough. Not all Wikipedias have the same policies. Local wikis are looking for policy inspiration on other projects and sometimes the adopt policies form other wikis. Currently the Russian Wikipedia is holding a vote regarding the question to adopt also the policy of verifiability for there wikipedia. Verifiability has currently on the ru.wp with 53 votes more support then "no" with 32 votes.
• http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Голосования/Проверяемость
  

• [Signpost Radio] - w:en:user:Omaryak provides now audio versions of the English language Wikipedia Signpost
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Audio
  

• [userboxes] - On userpages are sometimes loaded with boxes to inform about the most unexpeted topics. Those boxes can give controversy about them. One way of dealing with userboxes that some wikis are using is the "German solution". The Spanish comunity has decided to implement the German solution for the userboxes,
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:German_userbox_solution
  

• [Swedish Wikipedia] shows everything the are proud of from there community in the interwiki report of the Signpost
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-21/Interwiki_report
  

• [China] - News about Wikipedia/media in the Chinese press; "Wikipedia chief says no to censorship"
• http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=51805
  

• [Africa] - "African Languages Grow as a Wikipedia Presence" article about the african languages Wikis and the lack of africans working on them. Publised several newsparers including the NY Times, Herald Tribune and Slashdot.
• http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/BIZ04/608270326/1013
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/27/1757237
  

• [ku.wp] - The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles. This is the work of the 15 active users and mostly of only 5 very active users.
• http://ku.wikipedia.org
  

• [tg.wp] - The Tajik Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. And that is mostly the work of only 3 very active users of a total of 9 active users.
• http://tg.wikipedia.org/

• [Wikizine] has now 500 subscribers by email.
  

Editorial remark: Thank you. Walter

You enter [alt]+F The result is that the cursor is blinking in the search box. Type what you look and press enter. But it can even more easy. If you add some code to you [[Special:Mypage/monobook.js]] then the cursor will always be waiting by default in the search box for your request.

Include;

// Park the the cursor allways in the search box - by [[w:en:User:Splarka]]
addOnloadHook(function() {document.getElementById('searchform').elements[0].focus(); return false;;});

<Toazt> "Too few women on the internet?
<Toazt> There are lots of women on the internet,
<Toazt> only most of them are naked and in JPG-format."

• [ExpandTemplates] - There is a new special page called "ExpandTemplates". With this you are able to copy a page from a Wiki without having to copy all the templates. In the first field you define the page you took the input from. So if you took it from the page named "Sesame Street" you fill that in and without {{}} arround it.

You can put the input of a template, or of a series of templates, or even the whole page, in the second field. If you wish to enter a whole page you can paste the source text or do it like this; {{:Sesame Street}}

The Special:ExpandTemplates will write the result you get in ordinary Wikitext as it looked like on that specific page, and you will be able to copy and paste that to whatever wiki you want. The only thing you have to do now, is uploading the images. If you move a page this way you loose off course the benefit of the templates that by changing the template you change all the pages where the template is used.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates

• [Operations report] - Overview about what the status is of hardware and software
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/26122/focus=26122
  

• [Wiki down] - It has been a wile since the last total system down. And this time the servers where running perfectly. But there ip-addresses where temporary invalid due to external reasons. The wikis where down for less then three hours. See the article of EN Wikinews for more information.

Remark: when the WMF-systems are down the Wikizine.org website and email is still functional. Feel free to submit news about the situation or see of Wikizine has news about it. Due to the limited core staff of Wikizine this service can not be guaranteed.

• n:en:Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_to_network_outage

• [ES.wikipedia] has decided in two polls to disallow the upload of files to the Spanish wiki and to do it exclusively in Commons.

• [ES.wp BIS] - The fifth Wikiconcurso (Wikicontest) has just finished. This edition was about translating featured articles from en.wiki, de.wiki, fr.wiki, it.wiki, pt.wiki, pl.wiki, nl.wiki, sv.wiki and ja.wiki. The Spanish language Wikipedia translated about 88 articles. 17 of those will be proposed as "Articulo destacado" (outstanding articles) on the Spanish Wikipedia.

• [ZH.wp news] The Signpost brings a report about how the the Chinese language Wikipedia is doing
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-14/Interwiki_report
  

• [Italia] - On September 2nd, Italian Wikipedians are going to meet in Valentano, near Viterbo, and in the afternoon they will attend to the second Annual Meeting for Wikimedia Italia, the Italian Chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. The assembly is going to elect a new Board and the meeting is going also to approve the budgets and to to describe the strategies for achieving a better promotion to Wikimedia Projects in Italy.
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Viterbo_2006
• http://www.wikimedia.it/
  

• [Netherlands] - Also on September 2nd, there will be a local one day Wikimedia conference in Utrecht.
• meta:Wikimedia_Conference_Netherlands
  

• [it.wikipedia] -On Monday, August 14th, at 7:34 local time in the morning, one Wikipedian found himself on air on RAI1, the national TV station of Italy. The producers had also invited for the interview Enrico Cogno, a professor at the University of Perugia, and Federica Lanzellotto, a student from Rome. The subject of the interview was "Wikipedia: il sapere per tutti", with the aim of understanding how Wikipedia is getting more and more present in every day's life. It was only for 9 minutes and extremely early in the morning. But nevertheless it was National television and the Italian Community is very happy with it. The links to the video can you find on the page linked below.
• w:it:Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Intervista_ad_Unomattina_di_M/
  

• [Anthere's Blog] A mission: providing free knowledge. Free as in ?
• http://blog.anthere.org/index.php/2006/08/19/73
  

• [Wikizine] made its first appearance in an news article (and made the visitor stats explode)
• http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/77032
  

• [fr.wikt] - The French language Wiktionary has now already 200,000 definitions in its database.
• http://fr.wiktionary.org
  

• [ERRATUM] - The webhoster and sponser of Wikizine is Memebot.com and not "memobot.com"

• [WikiBritanica] - The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is now online in a wiki-form. Because the conversions form print to digital text is done by computer mistakes are made. On that wiki you can fix them. And also include some more recent information on a separate page. This is not a WMF-project.
• http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/
  

A murderer of a 10 year old murder is arrested. A minister-president says something in a interview about a very sensitive local topic. An ethnic group of people continuous to be exterminated while the world does not care.

What is considered important depends highly about your personal point of view shaped by who and where you are. In the virtual city of Wikimedia the important topic is the board election. Why is it important? It is only for one place on the board. And because of this is only to replace Angela's spot, it is only for the remaining term of Angela's original term of 2 years. And that means it will not even be for one year.

This election is important because the board is not so big. One voice can make a difference. And it is likely that this new board will have to make decisions about significant reforms of the organisation of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Now the candidates present there candidacy to the community. This election is not like a real election where you only can choice between "a giant douche and a turd sandwich", like expressed so colorful in South Park. This are all people from our community. There are very good people between them who I know personally and are deeply committed to do good for the projects. You can not know everybody. Consider also the ones you do not know. This is not a "vote for your friends" contest and also not "vote for the candidate form you local wiki". Raise above that. Read there statements. Check there behavior in the history. Ask them questions. Know for who you are voting. This is not a sysop election.

I have send an offer to all candidates to write a few words to present themselves to the readers of Wikizine. This to lower the step for the candidates to reach the community. The first two candidates will say there piece in an extra Wikizine send out soon after this one. Readers of the website will find it below this edition. Depending on the number of candidates who requested inclusion in Wikizine a second extra edition can be send out this week.

Thanks for reading this,
Greetings,
Walter Vermeir

You write (email, Jabber, IRC, etc.) or say (Skype, etc) to the user to write a specific phrase on the wiki like on his talk page.

You can also contact him or ask that user to send you an email by means of the "E-mail this user" function of the wiki. Look at the headers, the source of the message. It must contain "X-Mailer: MediaWiki mailer" and the name in the "From:" field is the username of that user on that wiki. This way can be falsified. Asking to edit is the most secure way.

<frank> can you help me install GTA3?
<knightmare> first, shut down all programs you aren't using
frank has quit IRC. (Quit)
<knightmare> ...

• getting as many people as possible involved in important organizational tasks and making the Foundation transparent, open and accountable- accelerating technological innovation to make projects such as Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wiktionary succeed in the same way Wikipedia has

• finding new ways to systematically improve and label the quality of Wikipedia content, without destroying the principles that have enabled our fantastic growth and that make Wikipedia fun

• developing a large network of partnerships with organizations and individuals who can help us in our ambitious goals, particularly with regard to building sustainable free knowledge communities in developing nations

• responsibly and thoughtfully dealing with legal risks and conceiving a sound legal strategy that covers all projects, all chapters, and all languages.

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/Platform_2006

• Someone who listens before he talks, talks before he acts and thinks before he either talks or acts.

• Someone not beholden to authority, or intimidated by it, but realizing that the potential of collaboration can acheive developments that individual planning might not ever be able to conceive.

• Someone who firmly believes that people will do what people will do, and the role of people in positions of responsibility in an organization such as ours is to apply the "art of the possible" rather than impose superficially ideal seeming constructs. Evolution, not "intelligent design" for WMF. Our part as trustees should be to fend off harm, not believe we can deliver some great boon. The great and wonderful things we acheive are in large part due to communities brewing "stone soup", each bringing to the pot what they can, and spicing up the broth.

1. router problem - some parts of the world can see it, some can't. Estimated uptime: Don't ask - update 17:58 UTC
2. Hosting company fucked up - 18:00 UTC
3. (20:25:52) twincest: uh, it looks like this problem might be quite serious, so don't expect an ETA any time soon 18:30UTC
4. (20:27:16) brion Cogent ate our IP space in Florida, heads to roll
5. Kyle is manhandling the hosting company right now. The hosting company is manhandling Cogent. - 18:43 UTC
6. Cogent cogent deleted ip block of wikimedia. They received an apparently improper DMCA takedown notice and deleted the ipblock of wikimedia. No ipadress = no website - 18:56UTC The ip-addresses Wikimedia was using where owned by Cogent. The where leased to the ISP of Wikimedia.
7. 18:50 brion: we've been assigned new ip space, people are trying to figure out how to attach stuff to it
8. 19:47 brion: new ips are being worked on now...
9. All wikis seems to be up again - in read only mode!
10. 19:59UTC - Wiki up. Service restored, write access enabled


Posting from Brion about this on Wikitech-l;


• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/26101/focus=26101

Article from EN Wikinews;

• n:en:wiki/Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_to_network_outage

• [CORRECTION] - in the previous edition of Wikizine about the single-user login it was reported that the email address needed to be confirmed. This is not correct. The fact of an email address is confirmed or not will make no difference regarding the migration to the single-user login. If you have different passwords for the same username on different wikis makes also no difference. If you have a different password and also a different email address you will need to login to confirm ownership.

• [White list] - Our Wikis can be abused with spam-hyperlinks. One way of preventing the insertion of spam-hyperlinks is the meta:Spam blacklist. On that list are all the domains who have been used in spam-attacks or are not welcome for some reason on the projects listed. You can not save the page on the projects if one of these domains listed on that on that page are present. Now there is a local override for this global spam blacklist. You can find it on [[Mediawiki:Spam-whitelist]] on your local wiki. See how it is done on the English language Wikipedia for the correct formatting;
• w:en:MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
  

• [Special:Imagelist] has changed. You see now more information and it is shown in a table.
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Imagelist
  

• [Meta] - the wiki that is supposed to be the neutral public wiki for all projects and languages has now email notification on. This means that you can specify in your account preferences to receive an email when you talk page or a page on you watchlist is changed.
• meta:Special:Preferences
  

• [Userbox] - some useful new userboxes on Meta; to indicate that you can translate from language X to language Y. If you put this on your userpage on Meta and something needs to be translated you can be found if needed.
• meta:Translator_in_the_following_language_combinations
  

• [djvu] - Support for rendering inline thumbnail JPEGs from DjVu images is added.
• bugzilla:6420
  

• [Bylaws] - Anthere has asked community attention for and feedback about a draft version of new bylaws for the WMF. This a very serious thing. Speak now or remain silent later.
• Foundation-l postings
  

• [The Wikistudy] project on EN Wikibooks is looking for college students who have completed Advanced Placement courses and exams to help out in writing textbooks that are directed towards specific AP syllabi and academic exams.
• b:en:Wikistudy#Wikistudy_II
  

• [Wikizine] is looking for typical wikimedia slang, abbreviations, special words and so for a new section to explain these words. ( report to Wikizine)
  

• [Wikiversity] - more information about Wikiversity is announced;
•  Wikiversity is now an offical WMF-project with "Beta-status"
• On the website "beta.wikiversity" people can start working on the translations of the guidelines and look for support the start a Wikiversity in a specific language. After 6 months there will be a review of this new project. A German and English language version already exist.
• Foundation-l postings
• http://beta.wikiversity.org/ - not yet online
• http://de.wikiversity.org/
• http://en.wikiversity.org/
  

• [Foundation-l] A posting of Anthere about the current candidates for the board and an appeal to the community for serious people from the non-English language projects to stand as candidate has evolved into discussions about, besides the board candidates, reimbursement of childcare expenses, payment in general for expenses, holding speeches for the wikimedia foundation and who must arrange this and so more is that discussion keeps growing to a very long length more or less like this sentence actually.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9073/focus=9073
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9143/focus=9143
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9157/focus=9157
• http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-August/thread.html
  

• [Board Election] - A clarification is posted by the Election Officers regarding the numbers of seats vacant to the board in the current election. This election is only to replace Angela. One spot is free. Further expansion of the board is a possibility. But if and how the will be appointed is not yet know. That can be by a new second election of by direct appointment.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9231/focus=9231
  

• [Wikimania 2007] - First round for the selection of the host city is open!
• meta:Wikimania_2007
  

• [Board] - Tim Shell, WMF board member, will step down from the board by the end of the year. So as is announced on Wikimania. The current election has no relation with this.

• [Staff] - The very recently hired person to help in the WMF office has quit. She will now be the very first ex-WMF employee. A person to replace here is already found and active.

• [FR.wp news] - The Signpost brings a report about how the the Frensh language Wikipedia is doing
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-07/Interwiki_report
  

• [Again a Wikimania report] - This time from Elain for the Kurier of the DE.wp.
• http://tinyurl.com/re8yh - machine translation
• http://tinyurl.com/kxsul - original version
  

• [Time] magazine announced its list of the "50 Coolest Websites 2006" and Wikipedia is on it. From those 50 another list was made named "25 Sites We Can't Live Without" which also includes Wikipedia.
• http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222769,00.html
  

• [Wikimania press] - I you like to read about Wikimedia/Wikimania then check out the page with links to all the press coverage of Wikimania. On Wikimania it self there where about 50 journalist present. About 78 unique news articles where created, about 1500 news sources ran articles about Wikimania. And there where short spots on 5 TV stations, including 2 on FOX news which is a very important TV-station in the USA.
• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_coverage
  

• [Fashion&Style] - when articles are been written about people about nothing besides some trivial facts about that person and not about what the person actually is doing then the have reached a new level of famous hood. It seems that Jimbo has received this dubious honer now. Or was the author only looking for an excuse to praise a specific type of flashlight?
• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/fashion/13poss.html
  

• [Alexa] - since the early days of Wikipedia there was interest of how popular Wikipedia was. Early August 2003 Daniel Mayer created the page "Wikipedia.org is more popular than...". And writes "We are also neck and neck with sex.com! Soon Wikipedia will be more popular than sex!". Now, 3 years later Wikipedia is not only more popular than sex, but more popular than almost everything. Almost. Wikipedia has raised through the rankings month after month, year after year, going higher and higher. Now Wikipedia is (according to Alexa) the 17th most popular website of the internet. But the steep climb has stopped. Wikipedia now stays stable on its spot in the rankings. Possibly, even probably, shall Wikipedia raise some more. But the flight is over. We are the top. And at the top you can not go higher anymore.
• http://tinyurl.com/o542x
  

• [yi.wp] - The Yiddish Wikipedia is proud to announce that they hit the 2000 articles mark.
• http://yi.wikipedia.org
  

• [nl.wikibooks] - The Dutch Wikibooks has reached 1,000 Wikibook modules. The Dutch Wikibooks recently won the Wikimania Award for best wikibook with their manual for MediaWiki
• b:nl:Handboek_MediaWiki
  

• [Wikizine.org], the website, exists now for some weeks. From the end of June until now there where 1286 unique visitors. The total weekly average is 322 visitors. Most visitors come from the Italian Wikipedia, followed by the English and Dutch Wikipedia. 49% of the visitors is using Firefox and 17% Linux, 4% MacOS, 73% some version of MS Windows.

• [Apple] has now also has found the wiki-way. In there new MacOS Leopard Server software. With a w:en:WYSIWYG way of editing the pages. Like is expected to come to MediaWiki also relative soon.
• http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/wikiserver.html
  

• [Mywikibiz.com] - Part 2: This is a company that is selling the service to write an article for other company's and get those in the English language Wikipedia. Jimbo has blocked access to en.wp for mywikibiz. New articles for there clients will be written on the website of mywikibiz under GNU/FDL-licence. From there can people if the wish that copy them to Wikipedia.
• http://www.mywikibiz.com/
  

• [Must hear] - many people have given their very best to make Wikimania a success. There where many interesting presentations. Go to the archive page, download them and listen to them on you mp3/Ogg-player. If you do not know where to start, start with these tree;
• http://www.wikizine.org/2006/08/wikimania-2006-online.html
  

• [Stable version] - the German language Wikipedia will soon (how soon is not known yet) enable a new function on there wiki to support "stable versions" as an experiment. This should increase the quality of the articles. And also make the wiki more open to edit because the visitor will see the version with the stable-status. So vandalism on the unstable version will not be a problem from the point of view of the visitor.

• [MediaWiki] will also be developed by full-time employees of the private organizations Wikia.com (the company of Jimbo) and Socialtext.com. This should increase strongly the development of MediaWiki. A new component to MediaWiki is expected to make "wysiwyg"-editing possible. This means that you will have an editbox that looks like the compose window of Hotmail or Gmail with options the edit a page without to see all the sourcetext with all the code. There is hope that this will lower the barrier for new people to work on the projects.
• http://wikiwyg.net/ - with a picture how it will (possibly) look like
• http://www.socialtext.com/node/90
• http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/wysiwyg_and_wik.html
  

• [Update] about single-user login. The one login for all projects is coming soon. But will probably be delayed until after the board election. When there are several users with the the same username on different wikis the user with the most edits will keep his username, the others will need to pick a new one. To identify witch accounts belong to the same user there well looked of the have same *confirmed* email address. Read the excellent Signpost article for more information.
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-07/Wikimania_tech
  

• [The Signpost] is bringing to its readers a weekly report about a Wikipedia in a "foreign language" written by users from that wiki. Wikizine includes those reports also one week later. The Signpost is looking for users from several wikipedias to present there project to the English Wikipedia audience. This is a great opportunity to show a large part of the Wikipedia-world, EN Wikipedia, how great to non-English versions also are. Contact users Kpjas or Carmelapple for this.
• w:en:User:Treebark/Table
  

• [done] - Wikimania 2006 is over. Over 400 attendees on each day where registered. No incidents are reported. This Wikimania is considered to be a success. Recordings of some of the presentations are available. Mostly audio. Expansion of the available media soon, especially video, is expected. The overview of the recordings;
• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archives
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/wikimania2006/ - picture collection of Wikimania visitors
• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog - Wikimania blog
  

• [Wikiversity] - Jimbo announced on Wikimania the start of a new Wikimedia project; Wikiversity. A center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host a range of free content materials, multilingual materials, for all ages in all languages. It'll host scholarly projects and communities to support these materials, and foster research based in part on existing resources in Wikiversity and other wikimedia projects. It will launch in three languages, in a six-month beta, within a month.
• meta:Wikiversity/Modified_project_proposal
  

• [Board election] - Candidates for the open board seat can present themselves until the end of August. The voting will start on September 1st, 2006. On Wikimania the function of the board and the election was also discussed. A compilation of those discussions are available to listen to. Interesting for board candidates or possible candidates.
• meta:Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation/En
• meta:Election_candidates_2006/En
• File:compilation_board_candidates_advice.ogg - Ogg Vorbis 11,9Mb 32min
• Play file:compilation_board_candidates_advice.ogg - Webbased Player playing the same file
  

• [New board] - The WMF will create an advisory board by the end of the year. There function will be to help with partnerships, public relations, financing, technology, administration, international affairs, ... The people who will be on the advisory board, if the can be found, will be more academic people who are also like the wiki-style and the open contend movement.

• [$100 laptop] - Jimbo announced on Wikimania that the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) association has chosen to load a snapshot of select Wikipedia articles onto the laptops it is developing. The idea is to make relative cheap laptop computers for schoolchildren for countrys where there are few computers available for children. These laptops are not yet in production. Use of Wikipedia in this way is a perfect fit whit the goal of the WMF to give every single person free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Because these laptops well able to connect to a network Jimbo hopes that by spreading those computers projects in new languages will be started or live will come in near dead wiki's.
• wikimedia:Press_releases/One_Laptop_Per_Child_Includes_Wikipedia_on_$100_Laptops
• w:en:One_Laptop_per_Child
  

• [$] - Brad Patrick stated the there is no need for a fund drive soon. The Wikimedia Foundation has a financial reserve of about $500,000. There is a stable income of donations of about $30,000 every month. The WMF will make a special effort to attract money from grants.

• [PL.wp news] The Signpost brings a report about how the the Polish language Wikipedia is doing
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-31/Interwiki_report
  

• [Censor] - A Chinese project similar to Wikipedia has shutdown after pressure of the Chinese censor.
• http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18487
  

• [MyWikiBiz.com] is small company who has found a way to make a living of writing articles on Wikipedia.
• http://www.sbwire.com/news/view.php?sid=7452
  

• [The Hive] - "How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge" by Marshall Poe
• http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia
• w:en:Marshall_Poe
  

• [Good News] - According to US television the number of elephants in Africa has tripled in the past 10 years.
• http://www.powerpage.org/archives/2006/08/stephen_colbert_v_wikipedia.html
• http://tawker.com/2006/08/01/i-blocked-stephen-colbert-on-wikipedia/
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-07/Wikiality
  

• [GFW] - The Great firewall of China has upgraded its block level for Wikipedia. The upgrade was noticed and reported as early as August 7, 2006 9:30 UTC. It seems that official Wikimedia proxies are blocked and that zh.wikipedia.org" has become a URL-level keyword for the great firewall of China. This upgrade coincided with a Beijing News (新京報) report on Wikipedia.
• gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27800/focus=27800
  

Wikimedia2006 is over. What left is are recordings who will probaly been added for several days to come. See on the archive page on the Wikimania wiki for these.

Updated: 2006-08-09 09:15 UTC-0

Wikimania program schedule - The Wikimaina2006-blog - Wikimania Signpost Series - IRC channels

See day 1 recordings - Day 2 recordings

Day 3 recordings

Selection of must see (= hear) presentations from Wikimania;

• Jimbo Wales - opening session
  Audio MP3 - webbased player - (backup; Internet Archive MP3)
  Transcripts and notes; Andy Carvin's notes
  Ross Mayfield's Weblog - Jimmy Wales Kicks off Wikimania
  Jimbo's remarks on biography quality
• Florence Devouard: Wikimedia Foundation: building in diversity
  Audio Ogg Vorbis
  Image:Wikimania2006 20060806 Florence Devouard.ogg (16,2mb) - Play with webbased player
  Transscript; Session 7 - Ames
• Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel
  Transcript thanks to metasj Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel (partly)
  Audio Ogg Vorbis Image:Wikimania2006 20060806 Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel.ogg - Play with webbased player

It is now almost so far. The main Wikimedia event of the year; Wikimania 2006.
(View countdown until Wikimania )

From this Friday until Sunday in Cambrige, Massachusetts, USA Wikimedians from
all around the world will meet. And listen and give speeches or visit
workshops.

Many Wikimadians will be there. But for all the the other people who are not
there but interested in what is going on extended online information will be
available.

The main presentations will be broadcast online by audio and/or video
live-streams, live transcriptions of the talks and even live translations for
some languages.

Every presentation has its own page on the Wikimania-wiki with information about
it and links to all media when available. (pfd's, silde shows, audio/video,
transcripts)

These pages can you find on the general schedule page.

There will also an item especially for the online participants;

• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_online

You can still enter nominations for the Wikimania Awards

• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Awards

Wikizine special

Wikizine will attempt to provide its own overview of Wikimania on the website
with the post;

• http://www.wikizine.org/2006/08/wikimania-2006-online.html

This post will be frequently updated and expanded.

The idea is to provide on one page easy access to the audio, video and other
media that are needed for attending Wikimania online. And tools for making it
more easy to use like a clock with UTC/Wikimania local time, webbased Ogg
Vorbis-player, javachat ... So that you have everything you need to follow
Wikimania online with only one page to watch.

• [More] servers are coming. The WMF board approved the purchase of 20 new servers with a value of $61440.00. There are now already 167 servers in service.
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Hardware_Purchase_Jul-06
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_server.jpg - View of the distribution of the server around the world

• ["Free"] - There is a project for creating a clear definition about what a free content licence needs to be to be called "free". Main forces behind this are Erik Möller/meta:User:Eloquence and w:en:Benjamin Mako Hill. Input is requested to work on the definition and move it to version 1.0
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7076/focus=7090 - First announcement 2006-05-01
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8935/focus=8935 - Update 2006-07-30
• http://freecontentdefinition.org/Definition/Unstable
  

• [Job] Wiki expert in Nigeria needed
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27781/focus=27781
  

• [Wikicat] a project to create an open, bibliographical catalog.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8892
  

• [Ombudsman] - A special ombudsman commission is founded to take care of complaints regarding possible privacy violations. This includes complaints about the use of the checkuser function.
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_ombudsperson_checkuser
  

• [Logo] - The name for the incubator-wiki is confirmed. It stays "Incubator". The project also now has its own logo now and is live. And even the test-wiki has now a logo.
• http://incubator.wikimedia.org/
• http://test.wikipedia.org/
  

• [Move] - The WiktionaryZ test site will be hosted by the WMF. This does not mean that WiktionaryZ has become an official Wikimedia project.
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:WiktionaryZ
• http://www.wiktionaryz.org
  

• [DE.wp news] The Signpost brings a report about how the the German language Wikipedia is doing
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-24/German_Wikipedia_report
  

• [Front page] - In Japan Wikipedia made it to the front page of one of the leading newspapers with a long and positive article
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tangotango/Asahi - Translation of the article
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27775/focus=27775 - more info
  

• [Onion] - They say parody is the greatest praise ...
• http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
  

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/

• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• http://zh.wikipedia.org/

• The English Wikibooks has reached 20,000 book modules.
• http://en.wikibooks.org/
  

• [Censor] Saudi Arabia blocks Wikipedia
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-24/Country_blocking
  

• [Private Wikipedia] - Wolf Mountain Group now offers servers for sale with Wikipedia installed (or any other project/language) on a configuration with updating software and support for this. With this setup companies and organisations can offer access to Wikipedia content yet exercise control because it allows them to remove topics they find less suitable for their audiences.
  

A very special function is machine translation of the project installed to many native American languages like Cherokee and Comanche. Support for Spanish, German and Latin are expected. These translations are also available on the website Wikigadugi.

• http://www.wolfmountaingroup.com
• http://www.wikigadugi.org/
  

• [Wikizine] - In an attempt to get more people from different project and languages exposed to Wikizine nearly all wikis will be visited with a request to support Wikizine in the coming weeks or months. Thanks to wikis who agreed to help recently will be included in the footer weekly.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POPFAQ

"Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity." - Rule 6
"Enough... is never enough." - Rule 97
"Even in the worst of times, someone turns a profit." - Rule 162

• [Z] -WikitionaryZ, the pre-alpha ultimate Wiktionary, has new functionality; new "Expressions" and "DefinedMeanings" can be added. This means that a new concept can now be translated in many languages. For more details, read the text about the DefinedMeaning on WiktionaryZ and ask on IRC ( #wiktionary) for more information if needed.
• http://wiktionaryz.org/DefinedMeaning
  

• [Ogg Vorbis] - The fact that the Wikimedia projects are using Ogg Vorbis for audio can be a problem for some users. There is a web based Ogg Player that can be used to make it more easy fore the visitors to listen to the audio. EN Wikinews is using this already. You only need to put the path to the audio file after that of the player.
• http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/player/JOrbisPlayer.php?play=http://path.to/the.ogg
• http://tinyurl.com/rvgzp -- working example
  

• [Translators] are requested to help with the translation work for the board election. Currently there is not yet anything to translate. People who are willing to help can put there name on the list with volunteers
• Meta:Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation
  

• [Election] - The election for a new member of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation will start on the first of September. Essjay and Datrio have been appointed as inspectors of the election. Aphaia will assist them as an alternate election official.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8807
  

• [WMF Nederland] - The Dutch chapter is organizing a one-day conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. And this on 2 September 2006. The working language will be Dutch. Registration fee will be around 15 euro. Registration is now open.
• http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCN
  

• [WMF 中文維基年會] - The Chinese Wikimedia Conference will be held on August 26th and 27th in Hong Kong. The working language will be Chinese. Registration is now open. Registration for it is now open.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CWMC_2006
  

• [Wikimania2006] is from 4 until 6 August in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Subscription is still possible.
• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/
  

• [Archival] - Library of Congress, Holocaust Museum negotiate with Wikimedia regarding the issue of access to archival materials
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-17/Library_of_Congress
  

• [No Consensus] was reached about the deletion nomination of the article about Angela.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Beesley
• w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-17/Self-deletion
  

• [Wikinews.ogg] - Announcing something is one thing, doing it and especially keep doing it that is something else. The English language edition of Wikinews has made already over 150 audio "news briefs". The also provide a feed of the recordings.
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews
  

• [Persian WP] - The Persian Wikipedia has decided to restrict page creation to logged in users like on the English language Wikipedia. The reason is that the have a lot of problems with anonymous users who insert copyright violations. Most of those users are from Iran. And because Iran has not signed international copyright agreement those users have problems with the concept of copyright.

• [Wikimania Awards] - For once Wikimedia is not receiving awards but giving them away. "The Wikimania Awards are a free content writing and media contest that takes place at Wikimania. The contest is for the best video, audio, image, and textual content created for use on Wikimedia projects over the past year." People are welcome do donate prices, join the jury and nominate articles or media. First price is a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet with the greetings form Nokia.
• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Awards
  

• [High profile] - The New Yorker and the LA Times has published two articles about Wikimedia worth of reading. The article of the New Yorker also mentions the existence of the projects Wikisource, Wikinews and Wikiquote. It is not common for these projects to get attentions in high profile media.
• http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact
• http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-haisch24jul24,0,4744260.story
• Wikipedia-l/2006-July/thread.html#44836 - comments on the list about this
  

• [Print] - If would like to have a decent printed version of a part of the English Wikipedia then that is now possible. Pediapress offers a very easy way to make a selection from the contends of EN Wikipedia and turn it in to a real physical book. That book is not free but the price looks fair. From the earnings of the "Featured Books" the donate 10% to the WMF.
• http://pediapress.com/
  

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Extra_edit_buttons
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkS/extraeditbuttons.js
  

"When I visited the offices in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge." -- impression of the WMF world headquarters by Stacy Schiff, journalist.

• [550] The new blocking policy has now been implemented by Tim Starling, resolving bug 550. You can control the type of block by means of two tick boxes. The default settings result in the same behavior as before the change. These default settings are;

[ ] Block anonymous users only

[X] Prevent account creation
(To localize these options, edit [[MediaWiki:Ipbanononly]] and [[MediaWiki:Ipbcreateaccount]])

So if you do not change those setting registered users will still have no access from the school or from their ISP proxy, not have the option to make an account. The default settings give the most total block possible.

Thanks to user [[w:en:User:Lupin]] there is a small Javascript that you can include in your monobook.js so that the default settings are for the "softest" block: only blocking anonymous users, account creation allowed. Or if there is local community approval for it you can include it in the [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]-page so it is active for all users.

• Here is the javascript code

• [Update] - The translations of the "Board of Trustees" page need to be updated
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2006-July/000173.html
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees
  

• [Awareness Project] This is a WikiProject that aims to spread awareness of Wikipedia and the ability to edit it freely around real-life communities in order to try and attract more contributors from a variety of ages. We hope to gather and catalogue promotional material for members to make use of, and to provide a central point for meetings of this type. The are looking for people to help.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Awareness
  

• [Wikiversity] A new push to launch a separate wikiversity project is underway. See the discussion at
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Modified_project_proposal

• [rm Angela Beesly] - The wp-article of board member Angela is listed for deletion on here request. The article in some other languages is already deleted. And also the the article of Anthere, the well known french wikipedian is removed from the french language Wikipedia. Jimbo's article is still there.
• http://wikiangela.com/blog/delete-me/
  

• [Sitenotice] It was brought to the attention of the Wikimedia Foundation on Foundation-l that the Urdu language Wikipedia was using the site notice function to display a verse from the Koran above every page to each visitor. This is considered a breach of the NPOV principle of Wikipedia and an incorrect use of the Sitenotice function. The Koran verse is reluctantly removed by the local community.
• Tread on Foundation-l
• http://tinyurl.com/qkuj6 - Discussion about the sitenotice on the Urdu Wikipedia
• The POV of the Urdu Wikipedia about Israël
  

• [Wikimania Awards] Media and Writing awards will be handed out at Wikimania in August; nominations for great writing and media are requested on the conference site.
• http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Awards
  

• [Essay] "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past" by professor of history and new Media Roy Rosenzweig. This article was originally published in the Journal of American History (Volume 93, Number 1 (June, 2006): 117-46), and was reprinted on the web at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. This is a long but very interesting article. It also includes a comparison of historical articles from the English language Wikipedia with other encyclopedias.
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42
  

• [ERRATUM] The report of last week that Wiktionary has reached the 1,000,000 definitions milestone is not confirmed. It is likely that Wiktionary is close to the one million mark but not yet there.

• [fur.wiki] The Friulian Wikipedia have reached 1000 articles. Friulian is a language spoken by about 600.000 people mainly in North-East Italy
• http://fur.wikipedia.org
  

• [ja.wikinews] now exist for one year. Aphaia made an overview of one year ja.wikinews
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2006-July/000497.html
  

• [Wikia] has taken over the Uncyclopedia domain name and trademark. Uncyclopedia is a parody of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikia has been hosting Uncyclopedia since May 2005. Now the Wikimedia projects and the parody Uncyclopedia fall under the wings of Jimbo and Angela. Wikia/Uncyclopedia and Wikipedia/Wikimedia are legally totally separate. The news of the transfer is not well received by some of the Uncyclopedia community.
• Announcement: Wikia & Uncyclopedia
• UnNews:Uncyclopedia bought by Wikia for 2 Wooden Nickels - This source is not very trustworthy
  

• [Torrent] a CD-ROM containing a selection of articles from the English language is available for download via bittorrent.
• w:en:Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Torrent_Project
  

• [<poem>] On the Wikisource project a new tag is now live especially for poems
• Wikitech-l

• [Bug550] will be fixed soon, block options will change
• Wikipedia-l

• [localization] - BetaWiki is a project to centralize the translations and updates for the MediaWiki system messages. This way all MediaWiki installations can have a recent and nearly complete translation. When implementing the new translation care must be taken not to insult projects that are using their own translation version by overwriting those with the new version without consulting them first about it. Like was done on the Dutch language Wikipedia.
• http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Etusivu - BetaWiki
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27664- explanation by GerardM about BetaWiki
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27644/focus=27644 - Protest
  

• [PLURAL] there is a magic word "plural" that can be used to change the spelling of the user interface depending of the number of items involved. For some languages there are multiple conjugations depending on the number, PLURAL allows for that

One example of the syntax for English is:
{{PLURAL:$1one articleare $1 articles}}

This can be used on MediaWiki-pages the contain text used on dynamic changing pages.

Example:
[[MediaWiki:Categoryarticlecount]] contains the text used on category-pages to say how many items there are in that category. But a category can contain one item and then the correct description would be that there is "one article". If there are more then the phrase should use "articles", the plural form.

You can see this in practice on the Afrikaanse Wikipedia;

There you see how the magic word it used;

• http://af.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Categoryarticlecount&action=edit

• http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Amerika

• http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kaapstad

More about this at;

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Project-dependent_word_conversions
• http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5805
  

• [Wikibooks] project is 3 years old now on the 10th of July 2006. Congratulations! This page gives an overview of the "State of the Project";
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:State_of_the_Project/2006
  

• [Staff] The Wikimedia Foundation has hired a new full-time staff member. She will be working in the function of administrative assistant in the Florida office. This person will be answering the phones for the WMF office and emails send to Wikimedia and the English language Wikipedia queue. The WMF has now 5 people in service and 1 contractor.
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_staff
  

• [Angela] posted an explanation about her resignation from the Board. The Board accepts her resignation and confirms that there will be a election for a new Board member starting on 1 September 2006. Until that time Angela stays on the Board.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8337/focus=8337
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Board_election
  

• [Incubator] A vote is proceeding about a logo for the "incubator". This is a wiki where new projects can start and maybe move later to their own wiki if they succeed. There is now a vote about a logo for this wiki and about maybe a new name for it.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Incubator/logo#Voting
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Incubator/name
  

• [interview] with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko about "How and Why Wikipedia Works"
• http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/10/0353220
  

• [No News] - When someone dies it is always a rush to change their article as fast as possible on Wikipedia. So also with the article about[[w:en:Kenneth Lay]]. Reuters has published an article about the short time from when the article was changed from alive to dead, and about the initial confusion about the cause of death in some versions in the first hour after the announcement of the death of Kenneth Lay. Funny is that Reuters has slightly changed their own article about the Wikipedia article because that had made a mistake. Because it came from Reuters many others have covered it like CNN.
• http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/07/05/wikipedias-ken-lay-problem/
• Reuters: Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
• http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/05/lay.wikipedia.reut/index.html
  

• [Wiktionary], the dictionary project of the WMF has reached the 1,000,000 definitions milestone. Wiktionary, started on 12 December 2002, is the oldest WMF project after Wikipedia. The number of people actively working on the Wiktionaries is, compared with Wikipedia, very few. This means that one person can make a difference - a big difference. [[User:GerardM]] has managed to make an astonishing 13,000 pronunciation audio recordings for Wiktionary, with his bot 200,000 edits on the English Wiktionary and 600,000 on all Wiktionaries.
• meta:Wikimedia_press_releases/Wiktionary_reaches_milestone
• http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2006/07/dubious-record.html
  

• [Edits] - the total number of edits in all Wikimedia projects surpassed 150 million.

• [ko.wiki] The Korean Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• http://ko.wikipedia.org
  

• [Campaigns] - On Wikia a new Wiki is created: "Campaigns". It launched on the American Independence Day the 4th of July. It is a new non-Wikimedia project strongly supported by Jimbo. It is a project about increasing the intelligence of politics in the USA. This new project has received a lot of attention by the media.
• http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_Statement - Open letter by Jimbo about this project
• http://wikiangela.com/blog/wanted-structure-and-ideas-for-the-campaigns-wikia/
• http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6091839.html
• http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6091151.html
  

• http://www.skype.com/
• http://skypecasts.skype.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Instant_Messaging_Wikipedians
  

"People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do, every plan we make, is kind of a lie. We're closing our eyes and pretending that the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans. Hope is the biggest lie there is, and it is the best. We have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn't keep going at all." -- Character Allie Keys / science fiction miniserie "Taken"

!!!-***Bug 550 is going to be fixed soon***-!!!

Tim Starling announced on the mailing list that very soon, probably within 24
hours, the way the block function works will change.

Most important changes;

• Allow blocks on anonymous users only (bug 550) ; this means that registered users who are using that ip address still can edit, like users who on the network of a school or need to use the proxy of there ISP
• Allow or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses on a per-block basis

Here you can see a screenshot form the new interface;

For more information read the posting by Tim Starling;

• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc

And even more reading;

• http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550

Lets rejoice ourselves, spread the news to all sysops on all +600 Wikis and celebrated this wonderful day!

• [Board] member of the Wikimedia Foundation and vice-president of Wikia, Angela Beesley, has resigned from the Board of the WMF. Angela emphasizes that her reason for resignation is not another board member's fault. She is only leaving the Board, and will continue to stay involved with Wikipedia and with the Australian Chapter and Wikia. An election to replace the position of Angela on the board is expected.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Beesley
• Update: Statement from Angela about there resignation on Foundation-l
  

• [Newsletter] - The Promotion & Translation Subcommittee of the Communications Committee has sent the first issue of their new newsletter out. This newsletter is about the translations effort. What still needs to be translated, what is done and news translation related.
  
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/008141.html

• [$] The WMF received in the month of June 2006 $32,969 in donations by means of PayPal. This is a similar amount as in May and April.

• [Export/Import] Improvements have been made on the import and export functionality of MediaWiki. All wikis can already now export pages with [[Special:Export]]. The import function is off but can be enabled on request by Brion. (make a BugZilla ticket for it). This function can be used to move pages cleanly with full history between wikis. Like for transwikiïng an article from Wikipedia to Wikibooks.
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-June/thread.html#36689
• http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
  

• [WikiSource-l] , the mailing list for the Wikisource-project is now also accessible through gmane.org, meaning you can now read and post to this list like as if it were a usenet newsgroup or use the web-based interface.
• http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikisource
  

• [?..Announce-l] seems to be also on gmane.org since February. Announce-l is the mailing list used by Wikizine. It would have been polite to inform Wikizine about this stranger, ignoring that only the listadmin is supposed to be able to add a list to gmane.
• http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce
  

• [£$€] Daniel Mayer, aka Mav, the Chief Financial Officer, is looking for people with professional fundraising experience to help with the Fundraising Committee.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27394
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_committee
  

• [Idea] An idea to require a confirmed email address in order to upload images gets support. But it causes also a lengthy discussion about freedom on Wikipida.
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-June/thread.html#44555
• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-July/thread.html
  

• [Fußball] It seems that the World championship football is more interesting then Wikipedia, at least to some.
• http://tinyurl.com/ot4wg (machine translation)

• [???] "Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia that now contains nearly 40 million articles" - at least that's what British newspaper ''The Indepent'' writes.
• http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article1096343.ece
  

• [Interwiki] A page is made that provides an overview of the pages from the English Wikipedia from where there are the most interwiki-links, and the number of links. And also a list of the largest Wikipedia that has no link to use articles. See explanation by Andre Engels for the details.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27576/focus=27576
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Common_Interwiki_links
  

• [UR.wiki] The Urdu Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. There are 104 million speakers, so there is a lot of potential for growth.
• http://ur.wikipedia.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu
  

• [Trolls-Everywhere] Not only the large Wikipedias have their trolls. However, trolls can also have a positive effect. Sabine Cretella explains ...
• http://sabinecretella.blogspot.com/2006/06/trolly-trolls-and-marketing.html
  

• [SpecialPage] again a new one; "[[Special:Uncategorizedimages]] - to translate edit [[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages]] and[[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages-summary]]

• [Magic word] {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} and __NOGALLERY__ added.

• "[OpenID] will likely be supported later this year. - Brion" OpenID is a system to be used for identification for website who are supporting the system. The benefit is that you only need one account that can be used to log on to all participating websites.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8281
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
  

• [Translation] request for the new privacy policy.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests

• [Simple Spanish] "Would it be an idea to start a "simple Spanish" wiki:sencillo.wikipedia.org?" - There is some support but like it looks now not enough.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8010/focus=8226
• http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sencillo - Embryo of the project
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Simple_Spanish_Wikipedia
  

• [Privacy policy] the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy has been updated. The most current version is the version "June 2006". The changes between the versions are modest.
• http://tinyurl.com/re9vx - current version
• http://tinyurl.com/pkjyg - the changes between the versions
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8241/focus=8241

• [NewLogos] Discussions are ongoing with logo proposals on Meta regarding the redesign of logos on Wiktionary and Wikibooks, as well as on a logo for Wikimedia Incubator. Currently the incubator logo proposals look the most original.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_logo_for_Wiktionary
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_for_Incubator
  

• [Board expansion?] Jimbo considers to expand the board with a famous person. There is support for the idea but not to add them to the board but to a "advisory board".
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8122/focus=8122
  

• [Wikimedia Italia] was present at the "FestAmbiente 2006", held in Vicenza, Italy, from June 22nd to 25th. This is an event that attracts the general public and has many visitors. Many pictures and some details are available.
  
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Vicenza_2006
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Raduno_di_Vicenza_2006
  

• [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.
• http://blog.jimmywales.com/index.php/archives/2006/06/19/ - new postingfrom Jimbo regarding this

• [:-(] "The Six Sins of the Wikipedia" - Not everbody loves Wikipedia
• http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1911&cid;=1&sid=19

• [TorontoStar] article about Wikipedia and the Britannica with no obvious errors
• http://tinyurl.com/kotw8
  

• [Spotlight] - Now that Brad Patrick is the new Interim Executive Director and legal counsel of the WMF the press has found him. Jimbo seems to get competition.
• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=6432
  

• [GoogleStats] Wikipedia is extremely popular. That is no news. But how do get people end up at Wikipedia? For a very large part by google. And google is putting statistics online of the evolution of the search requests of the those words. So you can see the rise of Wikipedia by Google (TM)
• http://www.google.com/trends?q=Wikipedia&ctab=2&geo;=all&date=all - Wikipedia
• http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikimedia&ctab=1&geo;=all&date=all -Wikimedia
• http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiktionary&ctab=1&geo;=all&date=all -Wiktionary
• http://www.google.com/trends?q=Wikiquote&ctab=1&geo;=all&date=all - Wikiquote
  

• [100] There are now 100 Wikipedias with 1000 articles or more. In total there are 229 Wikipedias. There are estimated 7300 languages.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
  

• [PT.wiki] The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles with Çondilleri.
• http://tr.wikipedia.org
  

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Notafish - Chapter co-ordinator,board member of Wikimédia France

• http://www.wikizine.org

• http://www.wikizine.org/atom.xml