http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/185 <pre>************************************************************ __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ \(_)| | __(_) ____(_) _ __ ___ \ \/ \/ /| || |/ /| ||_ /| || '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / | || &lt; | | / / | || | | || __/ \/ \/ |_||_|\_\|_|/___||_||_| |_| \___| .org Year: 2012 Week: 4 Number: 132 ************************************************************ An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// === The EN Wikipedia goes offline for 24 hours === The community of the English language Wikipedia has decided to "blackout" the English Wikipedia for 24 hours. A sort of strike thus. The blackout goes in to effect from 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18. The blackout is a protest against the proposed law of the United States of America "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA). The p</pre> EN Wikizine 2012-01-17T20:26:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/184 <pre>************************************************************ __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ \(_)| | __(_) ____(_) _ __ ___ \ \/ \/ /| || |/ /| ||_ /| || '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / | || &lt; | | / / | || | | || __/ \/ \/ |_||_|\_\|_|/___||_||_| |_| \___| .org Anno Domini MMXII Week II Number CXXXI ************************************************************ An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// === Foundation === [Terms Of Use] - On websites the "Terms of Use" are what most of us frequently indicate to agree with but never reed. Also Wikipedia has a "Terms of Use". A "Terms of use" for Wikipedia came only to existence years after its founding and remained very basic. Until now. In original Wikimedia style a new Terms Of use have been written by the comm</pre> EN Wikizine 2012-01-07T17:52:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/184 <pre>************************************************************ __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ \(_)| | __(_) ____(_) _ __ ___ \ \/ \/ /| || |/ /| ||_ /| || '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / | || &lt; | | / / | || | | || __/ \/ \/ |_||_|\_\|_|/___||_||_| |_| \___| .org Anno Domini MMXII Week II Number CXXXI ************************************************************ An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// === Foundation === [Terms Of Use] - On websites the "Terms of Use" are what most of us frequently indicate to agree with but never reed. Also Wikipedia has a "Terms of Use". A "Terms of use" for Wikipedia came only to existence years after its founding and remained very basic. Until now. In original Wikimedia style a new Terms Of use have been written by the comm</pre> EN Wikizine 2012-01-07T17:52:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/184 <pre>************************************************************ __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ \(_)| | __(_) ____(_) _ __ ___ \ \/ \/ /| || |/ /| ||_ /| || '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / | || &lt; | | / / | || | | || __/ \/ \/ |_||_|\_\|_|/___||_||_| |_| \___| .org Anno Domini MMXII Week II Number CXXXI ************************************************************ An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// === Foundation === [Terms Of Use] - On websites the "Terms of Use" are what most of us frequently indicate to agree with but never reed. Also Wikipedia has a "Terms of Use". A "Terms of use" for Wikipedia came only to existence years after its founding and remained very basic. Until now. In original Wikimedia style a new Terms Of use have been written by the comm</pre> EN Wikizine 2012-01-07T17:52:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/183 <pre>************************************************************ Wikizine.org's __ /\ \ \ ___ __ __ ___ / \/ // _ \\ \ /\ / // __| / /\ /| __/ \ V V / \__ \ \_\ \/ \___| \_/\_/ |___/ EDITION Year: 2011 Week: 39 Number: 129 ************************************************************ An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Babel on all Wikis] - There are a great deal of templates and signs that one can put on there user page. One of the most useful are the Babel-templates that indicate the knowledge of different languages. Now is there an extension active on all wikis for that. No need to manually setup all those templates on all wikis. The structure is easy; see the excellent blog posting of Mister Internation</pre> EN Wikizine 2011-09-21T23:53:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/182 <pre>****************************************** Wikizine.org's ___ _ _ /___\ _ __ (_) _ __ (_) ___ _ __ // //| '_ \ | || '_ \ | | / _ \ | '_ \ / \_// | |_) || || | | || || (_) || | | | \___/ | .__/ |_||_| |_||_| \___/ |_| |_| |_| Year: 2011 Week: 38 Number: 128 BIS ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Wikizine needs YOU! === Wikipedia has already changed the world. Wikimedia movement is at the beginning of that task. To push the movement into that direction, Wikizine needs your '''bold''' ideas and personal perspectives! Send your ideas to us or simply add them into the appropriate section. What YOU think can change the world! [Name] - Working title of this edition is "Wikizine Talk Edition" because we didn't have better idea. Send us suggestions for the name! === Contents === Editorial Personal perspective In the news F</pre> EN Wikizine 2011-09-16T19:41:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/181 <pre>****************************************** Wikizine.org's __ /\ \ \_____ _____ / \/ / _ \ \ /\ / / __| / /\ / __/\ V V /\__ \ \_\ \/ \___| \_/\_/ |___/ Year: 2011 Week: 38 Number: 128 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Wikizine === [Your reports] - Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on Meta or in our Google form. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-129 http://tinyurl.com/5rpahqt === Movement === [Wikinews fork] - The Open Globe, a Wikinews fork, has been announced. The fork produced much discussion on Foundation-l about the causes of the fork, Wikimedia Foundation support for projects other than Wikipedia, and the nature of Wikinews. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/068277.html http://theopenglobe.org/ [Wiki Loves Monuments] - 15,000 images</pre> EN Wikizine 2011-09-15T10:29:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/180 <pre>****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2011 Week: 37 Number: 127 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Wikizine === [Editorial] - As Walter said in the previous edition, I took initiative and there are some changes in the Wikizine concept. But, more about them on Friday, in Talk Edition of Wikizine! Milos. [Your reports] - Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on Meta or in our Google form. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-128 http://tinyurl.com/3w8wg5j === Request for Comments === [ISO 639-1 =&gt; ISO 639-3] - User:とある白い猫 has started discussion about moving Wikimedia projects with ISO 639-1 code </pre> EN Wikizine 2011-09-07T21:42:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/179 <pre>****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2011 Week: 36 Number: 126 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Wikizine === [Wikizine] - you may have have noticed changes to Wikizine in the most recent editions. This is under the impulse of user Millosh who has taken the lead in relaunching Wikizine. We love to hear your ideas and feedback about this. http://report.wikizine.org [Your reports] - Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on Meta or in our Google form. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-127 http://tinyurl.com/3pjq9yg === Technical news === [Wikipedia for Android 1.0] - A non-free software called "Wikipedi</pre> EN Wikizine 2011-09-02T18:53:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/178 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2006 Week:5 Number:11 *************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Captcha] For anti-spam reasons you have to enter the code displayed as a graphic to sign-up for an account on the smaller wikis. There is not yet a solution for visually limited users. http://fy.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&amp;type=signup [Anti-spam] Tim Starling has made spam-removing scripts. I your wiki is infested with url-spam, Tim can wipe it clean. Ask at #wikimedia-tech. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/21785 [New Dump] of the database of all projects is</pre> Wikizine 2006-01-30T14:42:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/177 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2006 Week:4 Number:10 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Anonnotice] - The MediaWiki-page [[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]] for putting a notice on top of every page of the wiki and used for things like the fund drives, is now divided. The notice put on [[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]] is only displayed to logged-on users. The new MediaWiki-page [[Mediawiki:Anonnotice]] is for showing a notice only to anonymous users. So if you need to display a notice to all users you need to modify "[[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]]" and "[[Mediawiki:Anonnotice]]". If you put {{:MediaWiki:Sitenotice}} inside [[Mediawiki:Anonnotice]] then everything</pre> Wikizine 2006-01-23T15:44:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/176 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2006 Week:3 Number:9 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [+] plus signs are now allowed in titles. example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++ [Test] test wiki runs from the current NFS copy of MediaWiki. Changes to the code will generally appear here a few minutes before they appear on the rest of the Wikimedia wikis. http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page === Foundation === [Steward] the board approved 9 new stewards. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/5874 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards [post-Q4 fund drive] Officially the fund drive is over. But there is still the "Wikipedia </pre> Wikizine 2006-01-15T23:22:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/175 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2006 Week:2 Number:8 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === 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:&lt;something&gt; ). 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</pre> Wikizine 2006-01-08T23:55:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/174 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Anno Domini MMVI Week I Number VII *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Berlin roundup] Brion has gone to Berlin for a conference and to meet some people like Magnus and JeLuf and posted a report about that on Meta. Very interesting. Like that it seems that the mythical Universal Login will become reality soon. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brion_VIBBER/Berlin_roundup [New Specialpage] Filepath that allows user agents to get the full path of a file from its name. Active on all wikis, for all users http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filepath [Cite] Cite.php is a Cite extension that adds two parser hooks to MediaWi</pre> Wikizine 2006-01-01T23:31:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/173 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| Year: 2005 Week:52 Number: 6 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [[Special:Unwatchedpages]] this new special page gives a listing of the first 5000 pages that are not on someones watchlist. It is a static list updated regularly (hopefully). This is only for "users with protect permission". Sysops have access. Seems to be live on all wikis. This special page is not listed on the [[Special:Specialpages]] page so put it somewhere. [Semi-protection] is now live on the English Wikipedia. See [[w:en:George W. Bush]] for an example of a semi-protected page. Only registered users with accounts older than 4 days can edit that type of page. About getting this funct</pre> Walter Vermeir 2005-12-25T22:18:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/172 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| Year: 2005 Week:51 Number: 5 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [IRC] IRC client restarted, allowing new channels on the Browne IRC server. irc://browne.wikimedia.org [Q4] and the money is pouring in! If you put the code below on any page you get the donation status bar. Hit F5 and be amazed; it is going faster then the article counter. &lt;center class=plainlinks&gt;Already received [http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/ &lt;fundraising/&gt;]&lt;/center&gt; === Policy === [Semi-protection policy] is a new policy from the English Wikipedia. When a page is "semi-protected" then newest X% of registered users and all unregistered users can not edit that page. The technical</pre> Wikizine 2005-12-19T12:18:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/171 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| Year: 2005 Week:50 Number: 4 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Kate's Tool] to check the number of edits of a user is down. But there is a backup option; http://faleg.org/cgi-bin/wannabe_kate [Gollum] A special browser for Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum_browser === Request for help === [Fund drive] the next will start on 16 December. See of the translation in your language is ready. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations Many use the service of PayPal to donate to Wikimedia. PayPal is a very expensive way of payment, specially for small amounts. If you give 1 euro to Wikimedia then 39% of it gets lost t</pre> Wikizine 2005-12-12T15:33:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/170 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| Year: 2005 Week:49 Number: 3 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Privacy] A new Privacy policy link added in the footer. http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-November/032773.html http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/talk:Privacy_policy === Request for help === [Interwiki links] there are lots of articles in one Wikipedia which have the same name as articles in other Wikipedias, but are not linked by an Inter-Wiki-Link. These articles have been listed for many language combinations by de:Benutzer:SirJective. But not all articles with identical names are</pre> Wikizine 2005-12-05T10:00:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/169 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| Year: 2005 Week:48 Number: 2 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === -[Hardware] The Wikimedia hardware was updated recently. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Hardware_and_hosting_report http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cluster_report%2C_September-November%2C_2005 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer -[Software] In the MediaWiki software a Special:Cite page was added. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite_text -[Wikistatus] OpenFact's replacement - Alfa http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20664 === Politics === -[China</pre> Wikizine 2005-11-28T20:02:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/168 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| Year: 2005 Week:47 Number: 1 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === -[Rename User] the special page to rename users has come back the same way as it disappeared; unexpected. Bureaucrats should now again have the option to rename a user-account to another name, given that the name of the new user-account does not yet exist (see special pages). It also looks like the original limit, stating that only users with less then 6800 edits can be renamed, is still valid. Using Kate's tool, users can check themselves their number of edits doesn't exceed this limit. If your wiki does not have a formal policy for renaming users, please make sure at least that all users req</pre> Wikizine 2005-11-21T12:28:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/167 <pre>*************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | &lt;| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| Year: 2005 Week:46 Number: 0 *************************************** An internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community. /////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === The [Search] function now require all given terms to match by default. You can use options like; * stuff AND (foo OR bar) * stuff "foo bar" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/20327 === Policy === -[CheckUser] The policy for CheckUser has gone live this week. A quote from the policy: "The tool is to be used to fight vandalism or check abuse of sockpuppets, for example when there is a suspicion of illegal voting. It must be used only to prevent damage to one or several of Wikimedia projects." http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_Policy === Politics === </pre> Wikizine 2005-11-14T13:01:14 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.announce