Wikizine/2005-42

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Year: 2005  Week: 42  Number: -4       

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An internal news bulletin for the 
members of the Wikimedia community.

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=== Technical news ===

-[Static Wikipedia] is available for download
http://static.wikipedia.org/

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

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

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

=== Politics ===
-[Jimbo] has appointed [[w:en:User:Jdforrester]] as the Chief Research Officer
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4595
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chief_Research_Officer

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

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

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

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

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

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