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Year: 2006  Week: 36   Number: 41        

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Request for help from a programmer
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[WikipediaToolbar] - For some time there is a FireFox extension to add a toolbar to you browser especially designed for use on Wikipedia and for MediaWiki wikis in general. This toolbar is made by w:de:user:Bananeweizen. The current toolbar will not work with the new upcoming 2.0 version of FireFox. User:Bananeweizen does not have time anymore to work on this and is looking for someone to take the "Wikipedia Toolbar" over from him. If you are intrested contact Bananeweizen on the irc channel #mediawiki on Freenode.
http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/

Policy
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[New Logos] for Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikiversity can now be submitted. Voting is scheduled to start on September 7 for each set of logos.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/logo
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo

Foundation
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[Wikimania2007] - The first round of city nomination for the city to host Wikimania 2007 will close on September 10th. No city will be accepted after that date. Candidates may work on their bid until the 15th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007

[Election] - The vote for the new boardmember is now open. Users can vote on one wiki only using the Special:Boardvote-page. Users who had 400 edits on a wiki on August 1, 2006 and are not blocked have voting rights. A user with a block on any wiki is not allowed to vote during that time, also not on other wikis. The Board has appointed James Forrester and Jon Harald Søby as additional Assistant Election Officials.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/En
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/9797/focus=9797

[$] - In August, the Wikimedia Foundation received 1769 donations by PayPal, for a total amount of $37,601.58 

Community
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[InterWiki-report] - This week, it is time for the Spanish language Wikipedia to tell the whole wide Wikimedia-world about their wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-28/Interwiki_report

[FAQ] - the new project Wikiversity presents a FAQ to try to explain what is exactly is.
http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:FAQ/En

[WMC 2006] - last Saturday the Dutch Wikimedia chapter held its first conference, with extensive support of Kennisnet.nl, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This was a one day event with several presentations as during Wikimania. There where 46 attendees; most from the Netherlands, but also from Switzerland, Germany, Thailand and Flanders. Some pictures and audio recordings are available. One of them is in English -- Kurt Jansson's  "Wikimedia Chapters - Some insights from Wikimedia Germany". This event was announced with an interview on a Dutch national television broadcaster.
http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conferentie_Nederland/verslag

Media
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[RE from Jimbo] on /.  The announced new functionality of MediaWiki to support stable versions has give inspirations to several media to report that Wikipedia is reducing the freedom of editing to all. A responds from Jimbo about that and the readers of /. on that responds.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/2224230

[Brittanica] - Wikipedia is now also included in the Encyclopædia Britannica. You can read the first 75 of 737 words about Wikipedia on the Brittanica for free. 
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9433599

[Free press] - A politician has found a way to get his name in the press by saying that he is considering to sue Wikipedia.
http://www.thetranscript.com/localnews/ci_4260986

Stats
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[Whois] - a new type of stats. A listing with info about from where the people editing on a wikipedia are coming from. And also on what wikipedia are people of different wikipedias working on. These numbers can give a general idea but take in to account that there is a large possibly of errors.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin

[en.wp] has now 1000 sysops. The wiki with the most sysops after the English language Wikipedia is the German with 225 sysops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/1000_Administrators

Did you know ...
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... that there is a easy way for adding inter-wikilinks to the articles?

The webbased Interwiki-Link-Checker is a tool for semi-automatic insertion of Interlanguage-links in all latin-encoded Wikipedias larger then 10.000 articles. Input from Wikipedians fluent in at least two languages is needed to decide wether articles named the same in two different languages should be interlinked by the bot. 

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~flacus/IWLC/start.php  - The tool
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Checker/en  - FAQ

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
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"Small print leads to large risk." - Rule 8
"Trust is the biggest liability of all." -  Rule 99
"Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit." - Rule 181

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