Wikizine/2006-20

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Year: 2006  Week: 20  Number: 25       

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=== Technical news ===

[Bad Image] - there is now the page [[MediaWiki:Bad image list]]. Images listed there can not be displayed in that Wiki. 
Example; If you put on that page [[:Image:George-W-Bush.jpeg]] then the image will be changed to a link to that pictures description page. 
Why; some users where vandalizing articles by including to them images. Especially images from a very explicit sexual nature are popular for this. Even when the only remain on it for a couple of minutes it can give a very bad impression. Also on the article where the image is supposed to be used the image is not displayed, only a link to the description page. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list

[Magic word] New magic word __NEWSECTIONLINK__ was introduced, which allows users to add a "new section" link (shown as a tab in Monobook) to pages which aren't talk pages.

[New tools] Especially useful is "Commonshelper", which semi-automates moving images to Commons with a correct history summary. 
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commonshelper.php

=== Request for help ===

[Web design] Wikimania is looking for a web designer.  	 
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteering

=== Foundation ===

[Tron] Some time ago there where legal problems for the German Wikipedia about the article of the deceased hacker Tron. His parents did not liked it that the article contains the real name of Tron, Boris Floricic. And the sued Wikimedia about this. The lost but appealed that discussion. Now the have also lost the appeal. Further appeal is not possible. It is allowed to include the full name of Tron in the article. 
http://www.wikimedia.de/2006/05/landgericht-berlin-weist-berufung-in-sachen-tron-zuruck/

[New chapter] The Swiss Wikimedia chapter has been officially established on 14th of May 2006. 
http://www.wikimedia.ch/

[pl.wikimedia] Polish Wikimedia Meeting 2006 took place on 29 April-1 May in w:en:Wrocław. There was 42 participants including 5 from abroad. 10 lectures were delivered and many discussions took place among participants. 
During the meeting General Member Assembly 2006 I was organized. 17 Association's members and several guests accepted Realization of Board plans for 2006 and Interim Budget. There was discussion about Wikicontest and several other issues.

[Jimbo Time100] Like reported before Jimbo made the Time Magazine top 100 of the most influential people of 2006. And there is also a party for those 100.  Amanda Congdon of rocketboom.com made a video report about this. 
http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/ 
http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2006/05/rb_06_may_09.html -Jimbo watching (and some other people)

=== Community ===

[*!*Soviet Alert*!*] The licence template PD-Soviet in its current form will very probably be deprecated on Commons, and replaced by something that is more accurate. The reason, as put forth by [[commons:user:Lupo]], is that images published in the Soviet before 1973 are, simply put, not necessarily public domain as the template currently claims.
Images with the template will not necessarily be deleted, but many probably will. So do not be surprised if some images disappear.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:PD-Soviet

[$] Money offers for an Admin-account... Maybe a new way to get funding for Wikimedia?
http:// tinyurl.com/mlt4e

=== Awards ===

[Ja.wikipedia] Japanese Wikipedia won `AllAboutスーパーおすすめサイト大賞ビジネス・キャリアチャネル賞'. Some sort of Award. No more information is available.
http://allabout.co.jp/super/2006/page_win_career.htm

=== Media ===

[Baidu Baike], the "free" encyclopedia, Chinese style. The Chinese search website Baidu launched an encyclopedia inspired by Wikipedia. You need to register, all edits must be approved by anonymous back-office editors, state censorship is applied, searching for inappropriate subjects like "democracy" get you blocked. Also the seem to violate the CC and GFDL licence besides the human rights.  
http://jonathan.rawle.org/2006/04/26/chinese-censorship-in-action/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_mainland_China

=== Stats ===

[Poll] The Dutch newspaper [[w:en:NRC Handelsblad]] had this poll on there website for one day;
"Websites like wikipedia, where everybody can edit the contents, are unreliable."
agree 24.27 %, disagree  46.6 %, neutral 29.13 %; Total votes: 206
Remark; all visitors to there website could vote on this poll without registration.

[nrm.wikipedia] The Norman Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. The number of speakers is unknown, but it is a very small language so 500 is very nice.
http://nrm.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_language

=== Other news ===

[Sickipedia] Like all things created by men it can be used for good and also for very questionable purposes. So also for MediaWiki. There is a new (non-wikimedia) project to collect sick jokes. Racism, Paedophile, Old people, Dead babies ... if there is a topic where it is highly inappropriate to joke about you can find jokes about it there. This is a project of an author who has made a book full of sick jokes. 
Editorial remark: very few of those "jokes" are actually funny. 
http://www.sickipedia.org
http://www.robertmanuel.com/category/sick-joke-book/

[Commercial] Being listed in Wikipedia is important for companies. "How to Place a Company in the Wikipedia?"
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003782.html

=== Did you know ...  ===

... you can use the gmail-spell function without gmail?

Put this url on your user page; http://orangoo.com/spell/

And when you are working on your wiki when you are not at home you can use that easy to use spellchecker that is actually using the spellcheck function of gmail.

=== Ferengi Rules of Acquisition ===

"Once you have their money, you never give it back." - Rule 1 
"Ask not what your profits can do for you, but what you can do for your profits." - Rule 89
"There's nothing wrong with charity... as long as it winds up in your pocket." - Rule 144

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