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/116 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 45 Number: 101 Tech flash ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// As you all noticed the most visual form of the fundraiser has shown up on the wikis in the form of a very large banner. The banner is the main way to get people to donate. This fundraiser is the banner exceptional huge and not universally appreciated. Erik Möller, the Deputy Director, has posted a statement about this topic; http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/34123 All projects must do there part to help with the fundraiser by displaying the banner to all there users by default. But that does not mean that on a personal l EN Wikizine 2008-11-07T09:22:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/115 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 45 Number: 101 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Image: => File:] - Brion announced that he will be fulfilling a long-time wish: renaming the "Image:" namespace to "File:" due to the fact that it contains much more than just images. He will be making this change soon, so please update any scripts that rely on it *when* it is live. "Image" will remain as an alias. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/39998 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44 [Ubuntu] - The Wikimedia Foundation tech team decided to simplify things by mo EN Wikizine 2008-11-05T00:01:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/114 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 40 Number: 100 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Global blocking] - Stewards are now able to block an IP address or range from editing on all Wikimedia projects (except Meta). This option is intended to be used with restraint and for a short time frame. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking [Robots.txt] - this is file that exists to control what pages are allowed to be indexed by a search engine. Basically you can use it to keep stuff out of Google. A recent added magic word __NOINDEX__ gives the same result on a specific page. Until now only the develope EN Wikizine 2008-10-02T13:34:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/113 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 37 Number: 99 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [API] - Brion has disabled the old BotQuery interface and enabled the MediaWiki’s machine-readable query API. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.api/668 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API === Foundation === [Job offer] - The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Chief Program Officer. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Chief_Program_Officer === Community === [AR wp] - small groups of Wikipedians in Egypt organize a "regional Wikipedia Day" to try to boost the low number of articles in there wiki com EN Wikizine 2008-09-10T10:33:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/112 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 33 Number: 98 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [New and useful] - it is now possible to insert the magic word __NOINDEX__ into a page. The result of this is that when a search engine spider comes by, it gets the instruction not to index that page. This way, it should for example be possible to keep certain pages out of the search results of google. This only works on pages that are not in the content namespace; for example, on Wikipedia it will not work in an article like [[Michael Shmerkin]]. Note that anyone who can edit a page can insert this magic word in a page. There is a Wikizine 2008-08-12T12:19:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/111 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 30 Number: 97 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// Notice from the editor: this edition does not includes all relevant news for the time frame between the previous Wikizine and this one. I decided that getting something out is more important then more delays. Walter === Foundation === [New board chair] - The board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has a new chair. All board members where in favour to appoint Michael Snow for the job. Michael, who is a board member since February 2008, is best known as the founder of the Wikipedia Signpost. The former chair, Anthere (Florence Devo EN Wikizine 2008-07-24T21:42:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/110 Dear reader of Wikizine in English, The next edition of Wikizine is delayed. At this time it is still the intention to provide you with this edition. If you would like to help out with the creation of EN Wikizine please contact me at <walter< at >wikizine.org> Greetings, Walter Walter Vermeir 2008-07-15T14:47:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/109 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 25 Number: 96 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Upload] - When you upload an image that is already online with another name you get a warning about it. It works by calculating the hash of the file and compares it with the already online files. [Move] - sysops have now the option to rename all sub-pages in one move when moving the parent page. [Global user groups] - a WMF-global user group can now be created that has a much or as little user rights as desired. Users can then be added to that group. Global user members then have the user rights assigned to that g EN Wikizine 2008-06-16T23:31:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/108 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 22 Tech flash ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// Single User Login (SUL), the system that you have one user account for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis is now live for all users. Until now it was only for sysops. Please read first the documentation before about it before using it. Stewards can undo the merge of an account be try to avoid the need for it. If you wish to unsurp an account on some wiki do that before you merge your account. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount #wikimedia-tech #wikimedia-stewards http://chat.wik EN Wikizine 2008-05-27T21:48:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/107 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 21 Number: 95 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Sighted revisions] - a system to hide edits made by certain groups of users from visitors as long as the edit is not approved by a user who has the user rights to approve the edit - This is now active on the German language Wikipedia. "Surveyor" is the title of a user who has approval rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-05-12/Sighted_revisions [Special:GlobalUsers] - on this special page you can see who has a global account. Works on all wikis, not only Meta. http://meta.wikimedia.o EN Wikizine 2008-05-21T22:17:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/106 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 17 Number: 94 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Suggestions] - A function has been enabled on the projects that gives a drop-down menu with search suggestions. http://leuksman.com/log/2008/04/21/suggestion-search-drop-down/ [New search tests] - Testing is underway of a new search system to replace the current wiki-search function. The new system is supposed to give a more "google-like" search experience. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/37611 http://ls2.wikimedia.org/ - location of experimental search system [Global blocking?] - A MediaWiki Wikizine 2008-04-24T07:41:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/105 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 14 Number: 93 Extra ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Foundation === [Wikimania 2009] - on March 28, after a long wait since February 28, the jury that would determine the location of Wikimania 2009 chose Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is the first time that a Spanish-speaking country will harbor the largest gathering of Wikimedians. Other bids for Wikimania 2009 were from the cities of Toronto (Canada), Brisbane (Australia), and Karlsruhe (Germany). This is the first occasion that the convention will be done in two languages (English and Spanish) and will be carried out in the s EN Wikizine 2008-04-03T20:37:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/104 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 13 Number: 93 ****************************************** Wikizine ... not yet dead ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === === Single User Login === SUL. Single User Login. Bug 57. Unified login. One login for all wikis. The mythical uberlogin has migrated to The Real World. The migration function is enabled currently for sysops only. The options to migrate can be found on the first page of the account preferences page on the projects were you're a sysop. From there you can follow the instructions to claim all you accounts on all wikis that have the same username. After the migration you can log on all these wikis with the same password. For the migration to work you need to have the same email address o Wikizine 2008-03-26T15:51:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/103 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 10 Number: 92 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [__HIDDENCAT__] - there is a new magic word __HIDDENCAT__ When used on a "Category:Foobar"-page it is not listed among the other categories at the bottom of an article in the category. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/36831 [New dump!] - There is a new database dump of the English language Wikipedia. The full dump of EN Wikipedia, all articles, full history is 130gb (compressed). http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20080103/ -- EN Wikipedia dump http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html - Wikizine 2008-03-07T10:59:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/102 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 7 Number: 91 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Deletion limit and abuse] - Some pages have an exceptional large amount of saved versions. Like a main page or a "Village pump". Because the deletion of those pages resulted in very high load of the servers and slowing down of the website the deletion of pages that have more then 5000 versions in the history is not longer possible. And it has been abused directly by bots who make fake edits to get to 5000 versions so the article can not be deleted anymore. Also a result of this is that need for users who have "oversight" status beco Wikizine 2008-02-14T21:24:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/101 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2008 Week: 3 Number: 90 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [User rights] - it is now possible for the developers to selectively assign groups permissions to grant/revoke other groups, either to themselves or to all other users. An implementation is don on some wikis, including English language Wikipedia, by creating the new group 'rollbacks' with right 'rollback', and giving sysops the ability to grant/revoke this group to any user. Wikis who also wish to have that option need to get consensus about it and make a bugzilla ticket for it. The page Special:Userrights is now also EN Wikizine 2008-01-16T23:53:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/100 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Anno Domini MMVIII Week I Number LXXXIX ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Page protection] - It is now possible to protect unborn articles and deleted pages, with the normal protection levels: only sysops or semi-protection. Also, auto-expire of the protection is available. To protect a non-existent page (as sysop), you only need to request the page and hit the "protect" button. [Title blacklist] - A new extension is live on the wikis. The Title Blacklist extension allows wiki administrators to block the creation, movement and upload of pages whose title matches any among a list EN Wikizine 2008-01-01T19:30:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/99 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2007 Week: 52 Number: 88 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [No pictures?] - If users complain that the can not see any pictures on the wiki the it can be the "upload.wikimedia.org" it being blocked by adblock software. Possibly in an attempt to hide the fundraiser banner. === Foundation === [Board resignations] - Michael Davis, Board member since the founding of the WMF, has resigned as announced per December 1, 2007. Erik Möller, elected Community representative since summer 2006 and re-elected in July, also resigned in december. Anthere, Board Chair, announced an appointment fo EN Wikizine 2007-12-24T00:52:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/98 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2007 Week: 51 Number: 87 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Printing] - As we all probably know, the layout for printing Wiki pages is not the best. The Wikimedia Foundation announced a cooperation with the Open Society Institute and the Commonwealth of Learning to make an extension that will enable nice printing options. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable [AMS-IX] - The Wikimedia Foundation received a Gigabit internet connection at no cost from Amsterdam Internet Exchange (one of the largest internet hubs world wide), for the "good of the internet". http:/ EN Wikizine 2007-12-16T23:51:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/97 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2007 Week: 50 Number: 86 ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Technical news === [Inspector Gadget] - Our wikis support the function that you can put in a subpage of your useraccount your own javascript. That is usually /monobook.js This way you can change the behavior of the wiki or include specific functionality. In the years several users have written there own javascript modification. But to use them you need to tinker a bit, create that subpage, copy the code and so. Not exactly userfriendly for the no so technical Wikimadians. Now there is the "Gadget" function. When this function is acti EN Wikizine 2007-12-10T10:17:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.announce/96 ****************************************** __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___ \ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/ \/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___| .org Year: 2007 Week: 48 Number: 85 Extra ****************************************** An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community ////////////////////////////////////////// === Policy === Most projects of the Wikimedia family, like Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikispecies and Wikiversity, are using the GNU Free Documentation License. The GNU Free Documentation License was originally chosen because that was the available license when the first project, Wikipedia, started. The GNU FDL is not the most practical licence to use mainly because it is not designed for what the WMF projects are using it for. An alternative for the GNU Free Documentation License are the Creative Commons licens Wikizine 2007-12-01T19:07:52 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.announce