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Year: 2006  Week:2   Number:8        

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

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=== Technical news ===

[[Special:Disambiguations]] works again on all Florida-cluster wikis. You just
have to make sure that the template being used to flag disambiguation pages is
correctly set in: [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]

It must be part of the template:namespace ( aka template:<something> ).

Example: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage

[[Special:Unwatchedpages]], the page where you can see the pages that are not on
someone's watchlist. If you are sysop you can find it in the "Restricted special
pages"-section. It lists just the first 1000 pages (not 5000) and is only
periodically updated.

[Wikitravel] The interwiki-links to Wikitravel are now functional to more than
only the English language Wikitravel. You can now link the normal way to
Wikitravel pages for all languages. [[wikitravel:xx:Name of the page]]
Wikitravel exist in EN, FR, RO, DE, SV, JA, NL. To be clear about this;
Wikitravel is not a wikimedia project. You can use interwiki-links to many wikis
outside the Wikimedia family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Walter/tmp&oldid=34402022
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4479
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map

=== Technical non-news ===

[Old search database] the database used for the search function is still not
updated. Articles created from at least December first 2004 can not be found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Billy+Reed&fulltext=Search

=== Request for help ===

[Wikipedia Day] Sunday the 15th will once again be Wikipedia Day. 5 years of
Wikipedia! If people are interested to do something to celebrate this, it is now
high time to prepare.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/26214
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day

=== Policy ===

[Wikimedia (TM)] The Wikimedia Foundation publicized "visual identity
guidelines". You may not copy them out of the Foundation website but only
provide a link to the page.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/5832

=== Politics ===

[Stewards elections 2006] The election ends 10th of January 2006. If you have
voted already: some late new candidates have arrived who may deserve your
attention... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006

=== Foundation ===

[Q4] the fund drive is now officially closed. The goal to raise at least
US$500,000 was not attained. The grand total at the end of the fund drive day is
$349.184,42 or 288.964,26 EUR. A bit more is to be expected however, since some
donations have not yet been received, and also because since the start of the
fund drive, the donations on the Belgian Dexia bank account have not been
counted, because the balance is unknown. For reasons beyond comprehension the
Wikimedia Foundation has been unable to have online access to that account.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_21
http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Daniel_Mayer&oldid=12853#Dexia

=== Community ===

[WikiStandards] A new project proposal by GerardM, the Ultimate Wiktionary
evangelist, deserves looking into.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/5835
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikistandards

=== Media ===

[Not on CNN for once] between December 24th and January 1st, the Italian
Wikipedia and Wikipedia in general appeared three times on Italian TV: a
15-minutes special with interviews during the news on RAI3 (public national
network), an interview with Frieda in "Futura City", a program on RAI2 (public
national network) and another interview with Frieda in "NetCafé", a program on
TeleLombardia (a regional TV station in Milan area).

http://www.tg3.rai.it/SITOTG/TG3_pagina_es/0,9480,3567-id_rubrica-A,00.html
http://www.futuracity.rai.it/FY3_puntata/0,11065,244-7332,00.html

[JOHO] Why the media can't get Wikipedia right: Stuck in its old model, the
media get the story backwards.

http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-dec29-05.html#wikipedia

=== Stats ===

[Milestones] The English Wikipedia reaches 900,000 articles, at 20:43, 4 January
2006 (UTC). The German Wikipedia comes on the second place whit 338,000
articles.

=== Did you know ... ===

... that you do not need to use the web-based upload form of your wiki to upload
files?

There are several solutions for bulk upload. The Commonist is an easy to use
application that works for all OS so long you have java-support for your OS. So
it works for Win/Mac/Linux.

http://djini.de/software/commonist/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commonist_screenshot.png - on Linux the
Gui does not look so nice :(

You can easy upload many files to commons or the other wikis. You can define
default upload information or specific for every file. It creates automatically
a gallery of the uploaded files in [[user:MyUsername/gallery]].

You can add more license templates (example);

edit script/commonist.bsh and add "{{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.0-be}}", to the
LICENSES array.

Other options are;

A upload bot, written in Perl. For the command line lovers. Unix, Unix-like,
Linux or Mac OS X.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_upload_service/Script Wikimedia
Commonplace - Windows only; you need Microsoft .NET Framework - possibly does
not work (yet)

http://tiredbrain.com/wikimedia/commonplace/

=== Q4 fund drive Quote ===

"Wikipedia has the potential for being an extraordinary resource, akin to the
Encyclopedia Galactica. But just as 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty',
we all need to get personally involved!" by anonymous "Thank you for showing us
that the Internet isn't all about banner ads or how many pages a search engine
can index, but about presenting accessible and relevant information in the
languages that we speak." by anonymous "Wikipedia is the most important
development to human knowledge and understanding since the printing press. Thank
you to everyone that contributes and improves it." by Charlie Wiederhold "May
the force be with Wikimedia. Greetings from India." by Chandan Haldar "My own
finances aren't too good at the moment, but Wikipedia is one of the things that
make life worth living." by anonymous "Wikipedia got me through school!" by
anonymous

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