Wikizine/2006-10

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Year: 2006  Week:10   Number: 16        

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

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=== Technical news ===

[E-mail] Wikipedia e-mail confirmation has been enabled. To receive Wikipedia e-mail, you must go to Special:Confirmemail, request a code, and follow the link in the e-mail. The reason is that Wikimedias mailserver is blacklisted by SpamCop, allegedly for sending mail to spamtrap addresses. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Confirmemail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Confirmemail_text
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Mail_server_blacklisted_by_SpamCop

[Conversion] sr WP now start Cyrillic alphabet ←→ Latin alphabet automatic conversion.
http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_traditional_Chinese
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-March/043799.html

=== Policy ===

[OFFICE] New authority level on the EN Wikipedia; "Office actions". The Wikimedia Foundations receives frequently emails or phone calls with complaints about articles on the EN Wikipedia. Some complaint's need swift action on the wiki as a responds to those complaints. To able to do this to "Office" is created. "Office" members can take actions that override all other policies. Reverting actions done by the office is not allowed. Currently all office actions need personal permission of Jimbo. But this can change. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Office_Actions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-02-27/Office_actions

=== Community ===

[Close] The Moldovan Wikipedia votes to close its doors and instead use the Romanian Wikipedia.
http://mo.wikipedia.org/
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-March/043799.html

=== Media ===

[Yahoo!] adds more Wikipedia links, new functionality has been added to Yahoo searches which return Wikipedia articles in the results.
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000255.html

=== Stats ===

[1 million] The English language Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 articles. Jordanhill railway station has been certified as the milestone article. The deleted "One million articles" article nearly made it but instead came in at number 999,999.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station

=== Other news ===

[iPod] Wikipedia is now available for the iPod. Currently only EN (753 MB), DE (321 MB) and IT (71 MB). Other languages can be created upon request. For Win, Linux and Mac. *Use this software at your own risk. It might damage your iPod, void your warranty or blow up your golden hamster.*
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/26639
http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net

[MMN] Abid Ullah Jan - Wikipedia: A tool for expediting the clash of religions.
"Wikipedia needs to do away with its controversial, biased and hate-inciting material taken out of the work of hate-mongers. Otherwise, the only way left for those in search of truth and those working for peace among people of different faiths is to avoid Wikipedia, particularly its articles on social and religious matters."
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/27261

[Firefox] It seems the the Mozilla Corporation decides against adding Wikipedia to Firefox search box.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269198

=== Wikizine ===

[Announce-l] The digest function of this list is broken. The digests where not send out automatically. Because of this digest subscribers of Wikizine have not received Wikizine like it should be. There has come no responds on the BugZilla ticket about this problem. Because of this the list settings are now changed. Announce-l does not support the digest option anymore. All digest subscribers are changed to regular subscribers.

[Licence] The licence of Wikizine is the GNU Free Documentation License because Wikizine is constructed on Meta and Meta falls under that licence. GNU/FDL covers all previous editions of Wikizine.

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

... that your computer can do also something for "the good cause" when your are Wikifying?

We are all volunteers working to the WMF-projects working for whatever reason, but not for making money. This is not eBay. But when you working on the wikis is  for your computer not really a challenge. You can donate your CPU-power to be used for something possibly not completely utterly useless. The BBC Climate prediction project. 

A project to do scientific study by using many computers to run simulations of the evolution of the climate. You need a client for Windows or linux.

Join this project and the Wikimedia-team;
http://bbc.cpdn.org/create_account_form.php?teamid=420 

=== MediaZilla-IRC Quotes ===

- "NPOV is not just our secret sauce, it's a shield. (It's a dessert wax *and* a floor topping.)" - David Gerard on wikien-l (Feb)
- It was a bad idea. The users made me do it. -- Tim Starling in wikitech-l 
- The parser is a little dirty... OK maybe more than a little. 
- Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
- [Brion Vibber] A captcha of course is that annoying little thing that makes you type in a word or code to continue, to prove that you're probably not an abusive bot. (Or a blind person. Whoops!)

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