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Year: 2007  Week: 25  Number: 75

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

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=== Technical news ===

[SUL]  - The status of "single user login" is still in progress.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/32140

=== Request for help ===

[Wikimentary] - At the first Wikimania in 2005 Rory O’Connor, a documentary
maker and journalist, was present to record this event. This to make a
documentary about the wiki-community. Two years later they have made recordings
of several other wiki-activities and will also be at Wikimania 2007, still for
the documentary that started in 2005. Video and other materials are placed
online on the wiki of the Wikimentary project. It is the intentions and hope of
the makers of this documentary that people will come and work on this
documentary like many people do to the many wiki projects that exist.
Everybody who knows about the wiki world is welcome to go to
globalvision.wikia.com and work on the first real "Wikimentary", a community
created documentary.
http://globalvision.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

=== Policy ===

[IRC reform] - The IRC channel #wikipedia has a new management and policy. This
to try to reduce the off-topic talk in the channel. The changes are not well
received by all.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_guidelines/wikipedia
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IRC_guidelines/wikipedia
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/30187
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17686
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17720
http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2007/06/changes-to-wikipedia.html

=== Foundation ===

[Elections] - The number of candidates for the board has increased suddenly from
4 to 17. Submissions as a candidate and the endorsement procedure will close
Friday, 200-06-23 23:59 UTC. Currently it looks like most candidates will have
enough endorsements to go to the actual election.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements/en

=== Community ===

[Long week] - There is again a new edition of WikipediaWeekly
http://wikipediaweekly.com/2007/06/19/wikipedia-weekly-20-return-of-the-podcast/

=== Media ===

[China] - Many media around the world are reporting that China has unblocked
Wikipedia. Most likely they are wrong about this. The WMF has Korean servers to
serve users from that part of the globe. Recently the IP addresses of those
servers has changed. Other IP addresses = unblocked. At least until the
firewall of China is updated.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=9750

=== Stats ===

[de.wp] - The German Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles with Universität
Dundee.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4t_Dundee

[vi-wp]  - The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 20,000 articles with ".se".
http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/.se

[vo.wp] - The Volapük Wikipedia reaches 10,000 articles.  This is a constructed
language with only +/-  25-30 speakers. The most active user is SmeiraBot.
http://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikos:Contributions/SmeiraBot

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

... how the Special:Random page works?

Every page has a random number assigned to it in the database.  When selecting a
random page, a second random number is selected, and the page whose number most
closely matches the second number (actually the smallest number greater than
the second number) is returned.
Basically, the page is simply picked at random, for most intents and purposes.

http://tinyurl.com/2yo6w9  -- advanced explanation

=== Quote ===

“50 million nerds doing your homework for free.” ~ Ambrose Bierce on
Wikipedia

[Source: uncyclopedia.org]

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