Wikizine/2006-21

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Year: 2006  Week: 21  Number: 26        

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An independent internal news bulletin 
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=== Technical news ===

[NewTool] CommonsTicker is a tool written by [[w:de:User:Duesentrieb]] for collecting critical events regarding images on Commons and posting them to the wikis using the respective image. So with this tool you see what is going on with the images that your wiki is using from commons. 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7246
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker

[nofollow] On the English Wikipedia is the rel="nofollow" attribute now in use on external links outside the main article namespace. By adding rel="nofollow" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink should not be afforded any additional weight or ranking by user agents which perform link analysis upon web pages (e.g. search engines). 
http:// tinyurl.com/ng3cw

[Magic words] New magic words {{BASEPAGENAME}}, {{BASEPAGENAMEE}}, {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} and {{CURRENTVERSION}} were introduced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-15/Technology_report

=== New project proposals ===

[Wiki Activism] WikiActivism is a project for past and present social movements such as the Civil Rights movement, Animal Rights movement, and the blooming Immigrant Rights movement.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_new_projects#Wiki_Activism

=== Foundation ===

[Chapters news] Delphine (notafish) is back from Europe where she visited various Wikimedia chapters. Read the interesting report of Delphine about Wikimedia Polska, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7300

[de.wikimedia] Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. has decided to open a office in the real world. The WMDE is currently searching for office space in the Frankfurt area. The hope that the office will be open from October. Initially there will be one employee for that office, a "Geschäftsführer" (director, chief clerk, manager). There where 65 candidates for that function. Arne Klempert [[w:de:Akl]], member of the board of WMDE, is selected for this function.

=== Community ===

[About Wikimania] The Wikipedia Signpost has a interesting series about Wikimania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-04-10/Wikimania_report

=== Stats ===

[Stats update] Project statistics updated, except for Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-22/Statistics
http://stats.wikimedia.org/

[wo] The Wolof Wikipedia passes the 100 article mark with the addition of French Southern Territories (French Southern Territories), part of a series of unencyclopedic "articles" started by Ji-Elle. 
http://wo.wikipedia.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language

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

... there is a Wikipedia-game?

http://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm

=== IRC quote ===

<mage> what should I give sister for unzipping?
<Kevyn> Um. Ten bucks?
<mage> no I mean like, WinZip?

<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

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