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Anno Domini MMX  Week III  Number CXXI         

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

[Flagged revisions] - status information about flagged revisions and how the English Wikipedia is going to use it.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/flagged-revisions-your-questions-answered/

[10gbit/sec] - on the 11th of January Wikimedia's world-wide five-minute-average transmission rate crossed 10gbit/sec. This peak rate was achieved while serving roughly 91,725 requests per second.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/46655

[Wikipedia and Google] - A custom Google skin for Wikipedia is created. It provides advanced Google/Wikipedia search options.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/26/google-experiments-with-new-ways-to-search-wikipedia/

=== Foundation ===

[Stewards] - Candidate submissions are open for the function of Steward. A steward is a user who has the administrative user rights to grant and revoke all existing user levels on all Wikimedia Foundation projects. It can be compared with a super-bureaucrat.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010/Guidelines#Candidates -- until 28th January

[WMF fundraiser] - it has come and is gone again. The Wikimedia Foundation was able to raise just over $8 million USD. In Euro it 5,5 million. In any case it was the most successful fundraiser to date.  
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/2009_Fundraiser_Closing_Release

[WMF move] - The Wikimedia Foundation started in Saint-Petersburg, Florida. And moved in early 2008 to San Francisco, California. A couple of months ago the WMF moved again to a larger office in the neighborhood of the old office.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/

=== Community ===

[Commons] - Post of Erik about how the contend imported on Commons from partnerships have been used on the projects. 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/43645

[Wiki jobs] - If you work on a WMF project and do your best, maybe, just maybe, you will be offered a job. That was the case with [[user:Mike Halterman]]  from EN Wikinews. His work on Wikinews attracted the attention of a new magazine starting up in Tampa, Florida, USA, This user did had a journalistic background but this online work at Wikinews was the ticket. Nine months after being hired as a writer, Mike Halterman is now lead editor of OMG! Magazine.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Mike_Halterman
http://omgmag.com

=== Awards ===

[PL Wiki] - Polish Wikipedia has been awarded a "Jan Łukasiewicz special award for social innovation in the application of IT" by the Polish IT Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne). The award has been received by Paweł Jochym, a co-founder of pl.wiki, and Prof. Janusz "Ency" Dorożyński, an active Polish Wikimedian and a member of the Society.

=== Media ===

[A editor story] - A nice article about one of the many people working on the wiki
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204715.html

=== Other news ===

[Wikitravel] - has changed there license to "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0". This is the same license as the Wikimedia Foundation is using for most projects.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:License_upgrade

[Upcoming holiday] - 25th of January Magnus Manske Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day

=== Editorial notice ===

So, this was the first Wikizine of 2010 (and it was not even a good one). It has been a couple of months since the previous Wikizine. There was a short revival of Wikizine in the period of August, September and October. And now this edition in January. I can not make any promises for a next edition. Maybe until Wikizine 121,

Greetings, 
User:Walter

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