Wikizine/2005-43

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Year: 2005  Week:43   Number:-3        

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

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=== Technical news ===
- Wikipedia blocked in China
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25111

-[Specify Skin] You can include inside the url the skin to be used, also for anonymous users.

Like;
useskin=cologneblue
useskin=chick
useskin=standard

Example;
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin?useskin=standard

=== Foundation ===
-[Wikimedia 2006], the conference for all users of Wikimedia projects will be held in Boston, USA
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4652
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006

-[Answers.com] and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4627
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/4722

=== Stats ===
-The Serbian Language Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with the article Krakow. 
http://sr.wikipedia.org/
-The Ilokano Language Wikipedia has reached 100 articles with the article Taoismo. 
http://ilo.wikipedia.org/
=== Other news ===
- Wikimedia in the media [Sept. 25 -- October 15 2005]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25079

- The New Student's Reference Work, 1914 (Public Domain) is now online
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LA2-NSRW

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Editor: [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]]
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