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Year: 2006  Week: 26  Number: 31        

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=== Technical news ===

[SpecialPage] again a new one; "[[Special:Uncategorizedimages]] - to translate edit [[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages]] and [[MediaWiki:Uncategorizedimages-summary]]

[Magic word] {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} and __NOGALLERY__ added.

"[OpenID] will likely be supported later this year. - Brion"  OpenID is a system to be used for identification for website who are supporting the system. The benefit is that you only need one account that can be used to log on to all participating websites.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8281
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID

=== Request for help ===

[Translation] request for the new privacy policy. 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests

=== New project proposals ===

[Simple Spanish] "Would it be an idea to start a "simple 
Spanish" wiki: sencillo.wikipedia.org?" - There is some support but like it looks now not enough. 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8010/focus=8226
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sencillo  - Embryo of the project
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Simple_Spanish_Wikipedia

=== Policy ===

[Privacy policy] the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy has been updated. The most current version is the version "June 2006". The changes between the versions are modest. 
http:// tinyurl.com/re9vx - current version
http:// tinyurl.com/pkjyg  - the changes between the versions 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8241/focus=8241

[NewLogos] Discussions are ongoing with logo proposals on Meta regarding the redesign of logos on Wiktionary and Wikibooks, as well as on a logo for Wikimedia Incubator. Currently the incubator logo proposals look the most original.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_logo_for_Wiktionary
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_for_Incubator

=== Politics ===

[Board expansion?] Jimbo considers to expand the board with a famous person. There is support for the idea but not to  add them to the board but to a "advisory board".
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/8122/focus=8122

=== Foundation ===

[Wikimedia Italia] was present at the "FestAmbiente 2006", held in Vicenza, Italy, from June 22nd to 25th. This is an  event that attracts the general public and has many visitors. Many pictures and some details are available.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Vicenza_2006
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Raduno_di_Vicenza_2006

=== Media ===

[NYT wave] the effect of the article published last week in the New York Times keeps spreading across the globe. Articles about this none-event have appeared in newspapers in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and India. In Belgium on the Flemish television there was even a small item about this in a general news bulletin.
http://blog.jimmywales.com/index.php/archives/2006/06/19/  - new posting from Jimbo regarding this

[:-(] "The Six Sins of the Wikipedia" - Not everbody loves Wikipedia
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1911&cid=1&sid=19

[TorontoStar] article about Wikipedia and the Britannica with no obvious errors
http:// tinyurl.com/kotw8

[Spotlight] - Now that Brad Patrick is the new Interim Executive Director and legal counsel of the WMF the press has found him. Jimbo seems to get competition.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=6432

=== Stats ===

[GoogleStats] Wikipedia is extremely popular. That is no news. But how do get people end up at Wikipedia? For a very large part by google. And google is putting statistics online of the evolution of the search requests of the those words. So you can see the rise of Wikipedia by Google (TM)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Wikipedia&ctab=2&geo=all&date=all  - Wikipedia
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikimedia&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all  - Wikimedia
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiktionary&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all - Wiktionary
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Wikiquote&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all - Wikiquote

[100] There are now 100 Wikipedias with 1000 articles or more. In total there are 229 Wikipedias. There are estimated 7300 languages.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

[PT.wiki] The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles with Çon dilleri. 
http://pt.wikipedia.org

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

... that Delphine is not a fish?

notafish : inv. n. from English "not a fish" .
From Delphine, pronounced Delfin [de], or delfín [es] = dolphin, which, as everybody knows, is not a fish but a mammal
NB : notafish does not take a capital "n". Never. Ever.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Notafish  - Chapter co-ordinator, board member of Wikimédia France

=== IRC Quote ===

<i8b4uUnderground> d-_-b
<BonyNoMore> how u make that inverted b?
<BonyNoMore> wait
<BonyNoMore> never mind

<Beeth> Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken.
<honx> well, you can stil get one from a strange country :-P

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