Wikizine/2006-24

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Year: 2006  Week: 24  Number: 29        

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An independent internal news bulletin 
for the members of the Wikimedia community

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=== Technical news ===

[X_FORWARD] An old problem : users who have done nothing wrong are blocked because the IP they are using is used by others who share the same ISP.  This has been known as the "bug 550" problem.  In some cases a solution is now possible : when the ISP provides an "X-Forwarded-For" [XFF] header. Users of those ISPs have their real local IP address included when contacting a webserver.  The configuration of the wiki can be changed so that the IP address provided in the XFF header is used for the identification on the wikis and blocks, at least when provided from specific IP addresses.  Users from these ISPs can then edit even when other users on the same network have been blocked.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6161
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_project#Trusted_XFF_list

[Hide language] On Meta and some other projects, there are very multilingual pages. So multilingual, that it can be annoying to look for content between all the different languages.  There is now a work-in-progress solution to show only specific languages. A Java-script version is live on Meta now.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_select

[FireFox&GoogleToolbar] A bug has been discovered for people using FireFox and the GoogleToolbar and edit MediaWiki. When editing a large page, if one goes to another tab -> loads a page there -> goes back to the tab where originally editing, text from the edit window will have been cut.  After deinstalling Google Toolbar, this bug disappears. 

=== Requests for help ===

[Wikimania] Wikimania media and writing contest : Nominations and curators are needed for a free content competition and artshow -- to cover video, sound, images, and text of many varieties from all Wikimedia projects.  
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_awards

[Survey] about "Wikis in Enterprises". [[w:de:User:Avatar]] is doing his diploma thesis about this. So if you work at - or even only know a company which uses wikis as collaboration tools, find some spare minutes and do the survey. You are helping a fellow Wikimedian with his thesis and are helping with scientific research about wikis. There are more useless things to do with your time then that. 
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-June/044471.html
http://wikipedistik.de/survey/

=== New project proposals ===

[WikiScope] A project to make it easier for users to discover information on a topic across the many Wikimedia-projects.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiscope
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiscope/Ancient_Egypt - Example

=== Policy ===

[New Logo?] initial discussions have started about a new logo for Wiktionary and for the new Incubator-wiki.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_logo_for_Wiktionary
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_for_Incubator

=== Foundation ===

[Appointment] The WMF board has announced the appointment of Brad Patrick as the Foundation's new full-time Legal Counsel and Interim Executive Director.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007673.html
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation  - gmane now down
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Announces_Interim_Executive_Director

[Foundation-l] On the mailing list is a elaborate discussion about how the Wikimedia Foundation works now and how it should work. And also about the appointment of Brad Patrick and the creations of those functions. Involved in the discussions are many of the WMF key-people.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/thread.html

=== Community ===

[en.wikipedia] now has over 1000 articles with "Featured Article" status. Those articles should be the best articles of the English Wikipedia.
http:// tinyurl.com/psc9k

=== Events ===

[Wikimania] Registration opens for Wikimania Hacking Days, which will have discussions about the present and future of MediaWiki design, and Wikimedia tools and hardware.  Requires registration for Wikimania itself. 
http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/hacker/register
http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/

[Wikipedia Academy] A "Wikipedia Academy" gathering and conference is to be held June 16 and 17 in Göttingen, Germany, supported by Wikimedia Deutschland.  The program will include workshops and presentations, and a talk by Jimbo. 
http://wikipedia-academy.de/index.php

=== Media ===

[bias] The real bias in Wikipedia by Robert McHenry, the former editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britanica.  
http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-edemocracy/wikipedia_bias_3621.jsp

=== Stats ===

[ko.wiki] The Korean Wikipedia has reached 400,000 page edits. 
http://ko.wikipedia.org/

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

... that according to Alexa, the 3 month Traffic Rank
for wikipedia.org:  16
for wikimedia.org:  666 (*)
for wiktionary.org:  3,701
for wikibooks.org:  4,108
for wikiquote.org:  4,316
for wikinews.org:  10,605
for wikisource.org:  11,563
for wikizine.org: not in top 100,000... yet.

and the Avg. Review for wikinews.org is 5 stars. 

(*) Wikispecies and Wikimedia Commons are using the wikimedia.org domain and are included in the rank of wikimedia.org

=== Mac bashing Quotes ===

"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."    — Linus Torvalds.

< robT> Name ONE thing that your windows comp can do that my MAC cant
< bawss> Right click.

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