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Year: 2005  Week:41   Number:-5        

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An internal news bullition for the 
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=== Technical news ===
 
-[Rename user] This option is disappeared. No news why or if it will return.

-[Nuke] On the Wiki of Meta the is an new option for sysops "Mass delete" (Special:Nuke). This tool allows for mass deletions of pages recently added by a given user or IP. 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Specialpages

-[Korean Wikipedia] has moved to the Yahoo-cluster in Korea. This is the first real use of this cluster. Other East Asian wikis will follow.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/19869

-[IRC-Wikimedia] the IRC-channels of the Wikimedia have moved. All #prefix.wikixxx has changed. 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/24978

-[IRC-usernames] Freenode will also change policy for the usernames. Not yet active.
http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#usernames


==Politics ==
-[Wikinews] will now be using the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Licensure_Poll

== Stats ==
-[Alexa] says Wikipedia is now around the 32th most popular website
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top

== Other news ==
-[deads] French core contributor dies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-10-10/News_and_notes



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