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Year: 2006  Week: 22 and 1/2  Number: 27        

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=== Technical news ===

[Magic words] New magic word: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Time

[Tiny bits] A lot of small changes to the Wikis.  See B.R.I.O.N. of the Signpost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-29/Technology_report

=== Request for help ===

[Activism Wiki] is a non-wikimedia project. But the hope to become it one day. The request help for making there content less POV.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7464
http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/User:Nabarry 

=== New project proposals ===

[WikiPoll] "a wiki whose goal is to propose polls to everyone". The have a testwiki with a nice MediaWiki extension to support polls.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiPoll
http://wikipoll.free.fr/mediawiki-1.6.5/index.php?title=Society

[WikiBrain] - see meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiBrain

=== Foundation ===

[New employee] The Foundation decided to hire a full time employee to answer phone calls and handle emails send to Wikimedia (OTRS).
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_OTRS

[RedHat] Jimbo is invited by Red Hat, the company behind Red Had and Fedora Linux distribution, to come and speak at a conference in Delhi, India. Red Hat will be paying for the air plain tickets for Jimbo and donate $3000 for the Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006. 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7424

=== Community ===

[CA.wikinews] There is now a Catalan edition of Wikinews.
http://ca.wikinews.org

[logo] It seems there is a new logo for wikisource. Or is it not new?
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Logo_update

=== Media ===

Wikipedia second as the best "Global Web Site" in Byte Level Research Study.  
http://cio.tekrati.com/research/news.asp?id=7122

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