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Within Wikimedia projects, a '''bureaucrat''' is a user who has the technical ability to give other users adminship, on any wiki. Due to its interwiki nature, bureaucrat access will be coordinated from meta.
[[Nachrichten des Tages]] | [[Noticias]] | [[Actualités]] | '''Wikimedia News''' | [[Wikipedia nieuws]] | [[Wikipedia宣告]]
| [[Wiadomości Wikipedii]] __NOTOC__


To make sysops, go to [[Special:Makesysop]].
==Wikimedia Announcements==
If you have an announcement that concerns a whole project or Wikimedia in general, then please post it here and if you can translate it, then please also post it to the correct language above.


===November 12, 2003===
==Bureaucrat policy==
*[http://nl.wikipedia.org/ Dutch Wikipedia] reaches 15,000 articles.
*[http://fr.wikipedia.org/ French Wikipedia] reaches 19,000 articles.
*[http://oc.wikipedia.org/ Occitan Wikipedia] reaches 100 articles.


Bureaucrats must respect the sysopping policy of the wiki on which they are granting admin status. This usually means a consensus achieved by public discussion. On wikis so small that such a discussion is impractical, any active contributor may be sysopped, at their own request or that of another active contributor.
===November 11, 2003===
*The french wikipedia ban its first user.


Bureacrats may also make other bureaucrats, if they fulfil the two requirements set out below. ''the mediawiki text doesn't make clear the syntax to do that''
===November 10, 2003===
*The new database server is scheduled to arrive on Monday November 17. [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-November/006845.html] It should be installed and running later that week if everything goes smoothly.
*[http://co.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi Corsu Wikipedia] runs in localised interface


A breach of this policy will lead to immediate loss of bureaucrat status.
===November 8, 2003===
*[http://fy.wikipedia.org/ Frisian Wikipedia] reaches 100 articles. (See 22 oktober.)
*[http://oc.wikipedia.org/ Occitan Wikipedia] switch to [[MediaWiki]].


===November 7, 2003===
==List of bureaucrats==
*[http://sv.wikipedia.org/ Swedish Wikipedia] reaches 16,000 articles.
*[http://sl.wikipedia.org/ Slovene Wikipedia] runs in localized interface.


# [[User:Bmills|Bmills]]
===November 5, 2003===
* [http://wiktionary.org/ Wiktionary] has reached 20,000 articles.


==Requests for bureaucrat status==
===November 4, 2003===
* The [http://es.wikipedia.org/ Spanish Wikipedia] has reached 10,000 articles.


Two criteria must be met for bureaucrat status. The applicant must:
===October 26, 2003===
* The [http://ro.wikipedia.org/ Romanian Wikipedia] reaches 1,000 articles. Now we have Wikipedias in 20 languages that have over 1,000 articles! 8 of these have over 10,000 articles. (See [[en:Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics|Multilingual statistics]])


# Be a sysop on a Wikimedia wiki with more than one sysop
===October 25, 2003===
# Agree to the above policy
*[http://he.wikipedia.org/ Hebrew Wikipedia] reaches 1,000 articles.


Please place requests below. Include an explicit agreement, and name the largest wiki where you currently have administrator access.
===October 22, 2003===
* [http://fy.wikipedia.org/ Frisian Wikipedia] has been switched from phase 1 to phase 3 software. The method used for the switch is incomplete and requires some corrections afterward. Because of this, it is currently only suitable for small Wikipedias.


[[User:Bmills|Bmills]]. I'm a sysop on the en Wikipedia. I agree to the policy as stated above and am keen to help out where I can. [[User:Bmills|Bmills]] 14:23, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
===October 21, 2003===
*[http://wiktionary.org Wiktionary] has reached 15,000 articles.


:Welcome, Bmills. -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 14:32, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
===October 20, 2003===
[[User:Dante Alighieri|Dante Alighieri]] - Oh heck, I'll do it. It's not like I've got anything better to do... like work. :) I hereby agree to the above policy. Oh yeah, I'm a sysop on the EN. --[[User:Dante Alighieri|Dante Alighieri]] 16:35, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
*[http://sv.wikipedia.org/ Swedish Wikipedia] reaches 15,000 articles.
*[http://cs.wikipedia.org/ Czech Wikipedia] reaches 1,000 articles.
*According to [http://www.alexa.com Alexa.com]; Wikipedia.org is now within the 800 most popular websites (daily rank). Wikipedia's userbase has increased 119% (since July); and, the average user views 22% more pages.
*Thanks to the donations of Wikipedians to the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], a [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-October/006542.html new database server has been ordered]. This will free up processor power and memory on the web servers and should allow for reenabling search and other features which had been disabled for speed. Installation of the new box and final upgrades to "larousse", the slower of the two web servers, are projected to happen on or about 31 October.


[[User:Pakaran|Pakaran]] I'll do it when a need arises, probably only on en and on tiny wikis, since I know only English and Spanish. Also, I reserve the right to step down if holding off on doing it is causing me get flamed - I intend to wait for a '''blatent''' consensus before doing it on en. This isn't going to be something I do often in any event. [[User:Pakaran|Pakaran]] 17:22, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
=== October 14, 2003 ===

* The database/mail/web server, "pliny", has been upgraded with a new motherboard and faster CPUs. This hopefully will solve the crashes that have plagued the machine for months and especially the last week.
* The web server for the English Wikipedia, "larousse", is back online with its old slower CPU. It should be upgraded as well soon.
* A portion of traffic to "www.wikipedia.org" will be diverted to "en2.wikipedia.org", while most of it will go to "en.wikipedia.org", where all logins will be directed. Until the server configuration is more stable and transparent load-sharing is set up, this should help share some of the traffic without burdening the other wikis too greatly.

=== October 14, 2003 ===

* The separate web server for the English Wikipedia, "larousse", is back online, which should lighten the load on the other wikis significantly. Expect some more downtime for hardware work in the next day or so, however.

===October 11, 2003===

*For the first time in its history there are now fewer articles in the English Wikipedia than in all other language Wikipedias combined.

:Even if one does not count the very tiniest Wikipedias into the mix, there are '''164 128''' articles when non English wikipedias are summed up. In the English Wikipedia there are "only" '''163 904''' articles.

:For more language specific statistics, see [[w:en:Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics|Multilingual statistics]].


===October 10 ===
*Wikmedia now has over US$7,000 in its PayPal account! ''A big "thank you" goes out to those people who were able to donate money''. [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-October/012518.html] This money is going to be used to buy a new database server that may be installed as early as late next week. Early next week our two current servers should be upgraded and functioning (only one of our servers is working right now - see below). [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-October/006427.html] [http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising Donations] are still most welcome.

=== October 5/6, 2003 ===

* Software problems caused the database server to be unavailable for much of the day. As a result, pages could not be edited and some pages (those of which no cached copies existed) could not be viewed. The current situation is that our two servers are both having problems.

: [[Pliny]], our main server which hosts the webserver for the non-English Wikipedia and all the databases, crashes irregularly; the causes of these crashes are unknown (likely a hardware problem). During upgrades, Pliny was left in a state where a post-crash reboot would not bring up the database server again, which caused today's downtime.

: Our second server, [[Larousse]], has recently been upgraded but is currently completely unavailable -- for all we know, the server might have caught fire. Jason from Bomis will drive to the server location to verify the server's state.

: The good news is that once both our servers are up and running reliably again, things should get significantly faster. So please bear with us as we address these problems, and be sure to make a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation if you haven't already so that we can keep up with ever-increasing traffic. (see [http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising], and also [http://leuksman.com/misc/donate Brion's notebook fund]. Brion Vibber spends much of his time administering Wikipedia's servers with no direct compensation from Wikimedia or Bomis.)

=== October 4, 2003 ===

* The upgraded web server has crashed and we haven't been able to get it back online yet. Have switched the database server to cover www.wikipedia.org until it's back up.

=== October 3, 2003 ===

* The web server for www.wikipedia.org has been upgraded from a Pentium III 866MHz to a dual Athlon MP 2800 system. Some more upgrades (memory, CPUs for the database/other web server too) will follow over the next few days.
* Note to those who have been using en2.wikipedia.org: new uploads have been switched back to www.wikipedia.org, and logins are no longer forced to redirect to en2.


===October 4, 2003===
:[http://wiktionary.org/ Wiktionary] has reached 10,000 articles.

===October 1, 2003===
*We now have over 300,000 articles in our [[MediaWiki]] [[Wikipedia]] versions (over 320,000 including the [[Wikipedia_software_upgrade_status#Languages still using UseMod software|UseMod Wikipedias]]). This is a truly remarkable milestone given where most of the growth has occurred - outside of the English version. In fact, including the UseMod wikis, there are now as many articles in all other languages combined as there are in English! Soon Wikipedia will not have any one language with a majority of the articles. Official distribution of [[Wikimedia's first press release]], however, is being delayed until much needed server upgrades can be performed.

===September 24, 2003===
*[[Wikimedia]]'s donation page is now live at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising

=== September 21, 2003 ===
:The [http://zh.wikipedia.org Chinese Wikipedia] has reached 2,000 articles.

=== September 17, 2003 ===
*The [http://pl.wikipedia.org/ Polish Wikipedia] has reached 15000 articles.

=== September 15, 2003 ===
* 2. round of ''International logo vote'' started. See [[m:international logo vote|vote]]

=== September 13, 2003 ===
:The server hosting some of the language Wikipedias on the older software on *.wikipedia.com has recently died. They have been transferred to *.wikipedia.org and are up and running at that address. .com addresses will become redirects to the new locations at some point, but at the moment are dead-ends.

=== September 11, 2003 ===
:[http://wiktionary.org/ Wiktionary] has reached 5,000 articles.

=== September 10, 2003 ===
:http://www.wikipedia.org is slow, but it ''is'' working. Have patience. :)

=== September 8, 2003 ===

*[http://ja.wikipedia.org/ Japanese Wikipedia] has reached 10,000 articles.

=== August 23, 2003 ===

* Please donate to the Wikimedia Foundation and help us buy a new server. We accept PayPal (major credit cards), or you could mail us a cheque (or check). See [[w:Wikipedia:Donations]] for details.

=== August 17th, 2003===
*New [http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikipedia statistics] available, designed by [[User:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]]

=== August 12th, 2003 ===

*[[en:Time magazine|Time magazine]] features Wikipedia in a sidebar article in the "Your Time: Technology" section of the August 18 issue, released today. An online version can be [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030818-474591,00.html found at time.com].


=== August 10th, 2003 ===

*A second hard drive has been installed in the database server. Spreading disk access over two disks may help with performance. Even if it doesn't, it sure beats running out of disk space!

===August 5th, 2003 ===
*[http://fr.wikipedia.org Wikipedia in French] has reached 15,000 articles.

===August 4th, 2003 ===
*[[Wikimedia's first press release]] is being worked on right now and will be released as soon as the whole project (all language versions) hit the 300,000 article milestone.

===August 3rd, 2003===

*[http://nl.wikipedia.org Wikipedia in Dutch] has reached 10,000 articles.

===July 25th, 2003===
*[http://es.wikipedia.org Wikipedia in Spanish] has reached 5,000 articles.

===July 21st, 2003===
:[[National Public Radio]] in the United States has run a [http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1344426 story] on how [[Wiki]]s are being used on the Internet and within corporations to collaboratively create documents. There is a very prominent mention of Wikipedia in this story (in fact about half the segment is about Wikipedia). Please email this link to your boss and co-workers!

==July 20th 2003==
: We are trying to come up with a new, better logo that will be used by all interested Wikipedias. Please see '''[[International logo contest]]''' for details.

:Vastly improved custom [[en:Wikipedia:software|software]] was installed on the English version of Wikipedia one year ago today. Since that time there have been over 55 million page views, over 1.2 million page edits and well over 100,000 new articles added. That comes out to an average of 150,000 views, 3,300 edits and 275 articles a day. And that is just for the English version!

==July 18th, 2003==
:[http://fr.wikipedia.org French Wikipedia] has reached 14 000 articles.

===July 17th, 2003===
:I realised that this ''news'' exist so I mention that about ''8th July'' the [http://hu.wikipedia.org/ Hungarian] Wikipedia was re-started on the newsest shiniest software, and its localisation was mainly finished since then. Its article count recently reached the mind-boggling amount of 2^3.

===July 16th, 2003===
:[http://wiktionary.org Wiktionary] has reached 4 000 entries.

=== July 12th, 2003 ===
:[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2003-July/001757.html Article counters recalculated] to correct old errors and move to new, more general count system.

:[http://hi.wikipedia.org/ Hindi], [http://ro.wikipedia.org/ Romanian], [http://cy.wikipedia.org/ Welsh] moved to new software. [http://he.wikipedia.org/ Hebrew] localization [[LanguageHe.php|significantly underway]].

===July 10th, 2003===
:Wikipedia Textbook now has its own site: http://textbook.wikipedia.org and [[Wikiquote]] (whose name may change later) now has its own site: http://quote.wikipedia.org

:Upgraded wikis have also recently been made available for several languages: [http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Arabic], [http://he.wikipedia.org Hebrew], [http://hu.wikipedia.org Hungarian], and [http://sl.wikipedia.org/ Slovene]. More should follow shortly as the process is streamlined. (Edit histories of any existing pages on the old wikis can be preserved and reattached once the conversion script is complete.)

:[http://fr.Wikipedia.org French Wikipedia] reached 13 000 articles.

===July 8th, 2003 ===
: The English Wikipedia reached 140,000 articles, and [http://sv.wikipedia.org/ the Swedish Wikipedia] reached 10,000 articles!

===July 7th, 2003 ===
:Wikipedia recieves its highest ever traffic peak, ranking 1,441 on alexa.com's daily traffic rank rating, prompted by [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/psz-05.07.03-001/ recent publicity for the German Wikipedia] ([http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http%3A//www.heise.de/newsticker/data/psz-05.07.03-001/ English auto-translation)].

===July 4th, 2003 ===
:The German Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org has reached an article count of 20.000 this night.

===June 20, 2003 ===
:The existence of the [[Wikimedia]] Foundation has been officially announced by [[Jimbo Wales]]. [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-June/004698.html] This is a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, United States which is now the parent organization of [[Wikipedia]], [[Wiktionary]], the Sep11wiki, and the soon to be created (and yet unnamed) TextbookWiki project (see [[Talk:Science Hypertextbook project]] and [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-June/004426.html]. It will, however, be some time before the Foundation will be fully operational and able to accept donations and grants.

===June 15, 2003===
:For those who like to edit articles offline with a text editor, a new syntax highlighting file has been released for the popular open-source editor [[w:Vim|Vim]]. See [[w:Wikipedia:Syntax highlighting]].


:The [http://ja.wikipedia.org/ Japanese language Wikipedia] reached 10,000 pages!

===June 10, 2003===
:[[Sun Microsystems]] starts [http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javapedia/WebHome Javapedia], a wiki encyclopedia on Java, stating:
::"Inspiration: the Wikipedia
::Our model is the Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia being constructed online by volunteers". [http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/06/10/javapedia.html]
:The concept of wikipedia is spreading into the corporate world ...

=== June 7 ===
:A front-page has been translated for the Irish Wikipedia, Vicipéid, at http://ga.wikipedia.com , and an editing staff is currently being amassed.

=== May 29 ===
:Alexa.com shows another major Wikipedia traffic spike, in the highest traffic rank yet recorded by Alexa for Wikipedia, with Wikipedia momentarily almost touching the top 2000 rank. Wikipedia.org has now for several days achieved a higher traffic rank than Britannica.com, so it looks like we succeeded in one aspect of our goal of "beating Britannica"!

=== April 30 ===
:A Low Saxon Wikipedia has been erected at http://za.wikipedia.com It should be moved to http://pd.wikipedia.com since that is the right place, but currently unavailable.

::Correction; the Low Saxon Wikipedia will use the domain http://nds.wikipedia.org (redirect now)

:A new database server for Wikipedia will be set up on Friday/Saturday, May 2/3, which should reduce general sluggishness and allow for nice things like search to work again. Expect downtime while things are reconfigured...

=== April 18 ===
:Wikipedia [[meetup|meetups]] are planned for Monday, May 12, at 7pm. They take place in many cities around the world. You can sign up at http://wikipedia.meetup.com

=== April 17 ===
:[[user:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]] has prepared versions of the English, German and Dutch Wikipedias in [[TomeRaider]] format for offline browsing on handheld devices (Pocket PC, Palm, EPOC) or Windows PC. See [[en:Wikipedia:TomeRaider database]].

=== April 14 ===
:According to the [[Special:Statistics|Statistics page]], the English version of [[Wikipedia]] features over 200,000 pages in the database including talk pages, user pages, help pages etc (200,034 to be exact), vs. around 114,744 "legitimate articles". This gives us a page to article ratio of approx. 57.36%.

=== March 7, 2003 ===

A crude estimate shows that the English-language Wikipedia now has approximately approximately 72,000 non-gazetteer articles. Using the earlier estimated article average of 332 words, the English-language Wikipedia's size can be estimated as approximately 23.9 million words, roughly half the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica's 2002 edition. ''Can anyone give a more accurate size estimate?''

=== February 12, 2003 ===

Japanese wikipedia [[ja:Main Page]] reached 1000th page. They include, approximately, 350 of manga artists (cartoonists), 50 prefectures, and 80 - 100 project related documents (in Wikipedia: Namespace).

Article count is still less than 100, probably due to the numerous stubs and that a text without a comma is not counted as an article.

The announcement of the accomplishment caused slashdotting and now (45 hours later) the page count is close to 1500. The number of registered users tripled (to over 100). It took around a week to come to 1000 from 500.

=== January 24, 2003 ===

The [http://de.wikipedia.org German language Wikipedia] reached 10,000 articles! Please help distribute our [[de:Wikipedia:Pressemitteilung|press release]]!

=== January 22, 2003 ===
Well we asked for it and it is here yet again: Wikipedia is being [[en:Slashdot effect|Slashdoted]]. See [http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/22/0258226.shtml?tid=149] Call out the the [[en:Wikipedia:Volunteer Fire Department|Wikipedia:Volunteer Fire Department]] - you know the drill.

Since January 10, when we had 1 million pages views, it has increased by 10% in 12 days!

=== January 21, 2003 ===
The English language Wikipedia reached 100,000 articles! Please help distribute our [[en:Wikipedia:2003 Press Release|2003 Press Release]].

=== January 16, 2003 ===
A press release is being prepared for publication when the English Wikipedia hits the 100,000 article milestone. Please help us finish this before it is submitted to news organizations. See: [[en:Wikipedia:2003 Press Release|Wikipedia:2003 Press Release]].


=== January 15, 2003 ===
With well over 130,000 articles spread across 28 languages, [[en:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], the free encyclopedia, turns 2 years old today. Several Wikipedia contributors (''Wikipedians''), in the collaborative spirit which has brought us so far, have created a new [[en:Main Page|Main Page]] for the English Wikipedia in celebration of Wikipedia's birthday.

During the first year of its existence, Wikipedia went from zero to 20,000 articles in the English version and that was considered to be an impressive growth rate. The second year of Wikipedia saw the addition of nearly 80,000 more articles in the English version alone, making it the world's largest Wiki and the world's largest [[en:free content|free content]] encyclopedia. With edits being made 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by hundreds of bright and enthusiastic volunteers from around the world, who knows where we will be one year from today!

Our original goal was to make 100,000 articles, and at the time we speculated that this might take us five or more years. We now know that the 100,000 article milestone is just the tip of the iceberg. The power of the collaborative [[en:WikiWiki|WikiWiki]] editing model, the freedom that the [[en:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] gives us, and our strong nonbias policy (the [[en:Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|''neutral point of view'']]), combined with our goal of creating the world's largest encyclopedia will ensure the continued growth and success of our project.

Many people have told us that we would fail. "What?" they said, "You let anyone edit anytime they wish? It is preposterous to think that anything of any value could be created that way. You are destined to fail!" It is, however, becoming more and more apparent with each passing day that they are wrong. Let's celebrate [[en:Wikipedia Day|Wikipedia Day]] by continuing to build the world's best encyclopedia!

A press release is being prepared for publication when the English version of Wikipedia (the oldest one) hits the 100,000 article milestone.

=== January 10, 2003 ===
Sometime early Friday morning the Main Page of the English Wikipedia registered one million page views. The counter was started on August 25.

=== January 9, 2003 ===
[http://www.firstmonday.org First Monday] mentions Wikipedia in their article ''[http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_1/schweik/index.html The Institutional Design of Open Source Programming]''
as an example of OpenSource-like non-programming cases.

[[user:LA2|Lars Aronsson]] presented [http://aronsson.se/wikipaper.html a paper about his Wiki susning.nu] at a conference on electronic publishing. The article also contains an introduction to the [[Wiki]] concept and describes Wikipedia as a prominent example.

=== January 6, 2003 ===

Inline [[TeX]] math formulas are now supported. By default, simple formulas are turned into plain HTML, while complex ones are rendered as images (logged-in users can tweak the math rendering settings in their [[Special:preferences|preferences]]). See [[Wikipedia:TeX markup]] for more.

=== December 26, 2002 ===
Wiktionary now has its own url and has moved to [http://wiktionary.org/ wiktionary.org].

=== December 12, 2002 ===
[[Wiktionary]], a companion project aiming to be a multilingual dictionary and thesaurus linked to Wikipedia's encyclopedia articles, is starting up at http://wiktionary.wikipedia.org/.

=== December 7, 2002 ===
An interlanguage WikiProject aimed at translating the already created en.wiki country tables is now underway at [[Countries of the world tables]].

=== December 6, 2002 ===

A few changes to interwiki/interlanguage linking:
* [[en:Wikipedia:Interlanguage links|Interlanguage links]] in talk pages now appear as inline links instead of magic article links, making it easier to cite existing pages in discussion.
* Unicode-numbered character references can now be used in interlanguage links; depending on your browser, you may be able to paste non-Latin1 text directly into links on the Latin1-based wikis (English, German, etc). (Also the 8-bit capitalization bug that broke some links to East Asian languages has been fixed.)
* Interwiki links to other non-Wikipedia wikis (as per the [[MeatBall:InterMap]]) can now be used. This is primarily intended for citing discussions, but they can be handy for references as well.

Also note that there's a [http://tr.wikipedia.org/ Turkish Wikipedia stub]. Contributors and would-be interface translators are welcome to stop by!

=== December 2, 2002 ===
The [http://sv.wikipedia.org/ Swedish Wikipedia] is now running on the new server with a fully localized user interface. Also, a stub has been set up for [http://el.wikipedia.org/ Greek]; the user interface is not yet localized, but it's set up for Unicode and should work for inputting Greek text.

=== November 26, 2002 ===
'''Performance tweaks:''' Until table locking problems are sorted out, the following slow special pages have been disabled on the English-language Wikipedia during high-access times to keep the rest of the site moving: [[en:Special:Lonelypages|Orphaned articles]], [[en:Special:Longpages|Long articles]] and [[en:Special:Shortpages|Short articles]], [[en:Special:Popularpages|Popular articles]], [[en:Special:Wantedpages|Most wanted articles]], and the [[en:Special:Maintenance|Maintenance page]]. They will still be accessible between 02:00 and 14:00 UTC (9 pm to 9 am EST); sorry for the inconvenience.

Also, the [[Special:Watchlist|watchlist]] is undergoing some reconstruction; it is now limited similarly to the [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] list so users with long watchlists don't have to wait and wait and wait quite so long. This will be added to the other-language wikis once a few minor bugs are worked out.

=== November 25, 2002 ===
New discussion pages have been created to explore the possibility of adding a [[Wiktionary|dictionary project]] and [[Wikiteer|gazetteer project]] alongside the Wikipedia project. Please let me know if you think this is a good idea.

=== November 23, 2002 ===
[http://pl.wikipedia.org/ Polish Wikipedia] is now upgraded to the new software, and searching works properly on the various non-Latin1-encoded languages such as [http://eo.wikipedia.org/ Esperanto], [http://zh.wikipedia.org/ Chinese], [http://ru.wikipedia.org/ Russian], and [http://ja.wikipedia.org/ Japanese].

=== November 22, 2002 ===
User contributions lists should no longer be atrociously slow.

=== November 21, 2002 ===
We've recently made some tweaks to the database configuration which should be making site response a bit snappier during peak hours. (yay!)

=== November 15, 2002 ===
The [http://eo.wikipedia.org/ Esperanto Wikipedia] is one year old today, and has been moved over to the new server and upgraded to the new wiki software.

===November 14, 2002===
Two new mailing lists have been set-up in an attempt to reduce the almost overwhelming number of posts made to the [[Wikipedia-L]] mailing list; [http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l WikiEN-L@Wikipedia.org] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l Announce-L@Wikipedia.org]. WikiEN-L will be used to discuss matters that only concern the English Wikipedia. Announce-L will be a place to post general announcements that pertain to the whole project. Wikipedia-L will now be reserved for policy and other discussion that pertains the whole project -- all languages.

A Polish language mailing list has also been set up. You can subscribe at [http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipl-l WikiPL-L].

Revision as of 17:22, 6 February 2004

Within Wikimedia projects, a bureaucrat is a user who has the technical ability to give other users adminship, on any wiki. Due to its interwiki nature, bureaucrat access will be coordinated from meta.

To make sysops, go to Special:Makesysop.

Bureaucrat policy

Bureaucrats must respect the sysopping policy of the wiki on which they are granting admin status. This usually means a consensus achieved by public discussion. On wikis so small that such a discussion is impractical, any active contributor may be sysopped, at their own request or that of another active contributor.

Bureacrats may also make other bureaucrats, if they fulfil the two requirements set out below. the mediawiki text doesn't make clear the syntax to do that

A breach of this policy will lead to immediate loss of bureaucrat status.

List of bureaucrats

  1. Bmills

Requests for bureaucrat status

Two criteria must be met for bureaucrat status. The applicant must:

  1. Be a sysop on a Wikimedia wiki with more than one sysop
  2. Agree to the above policy

Please place requests below. Include an explicit agreement, and name the largest wiki where you currently have administrator access.

Bmills. I'm a sysop on the en Wikipedia. I agree to the policy as stated above and am keen to help out where I can. Bmills 14:23, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Welcome, Bmills. -- Tim Starling 14:32, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Dante Alighieri - Oh heck, I'll do it. It's not like I've got anything better to do... like work. :) I hereby agree to the above policy. Oh yeah, I'm a sysop on the EN. --Dante Alighieri 16:35, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Pakaran I'll do it when a need arises, probably only on en and on tiny wikis, since I know only English and Spanish. Also, I reserve the right to step down if holding off on doing it is causing me get flamed - I intend to wait for a blatent consensus before doing it on en. This isn't going to be something I do often in any event. Pakaran 17:22, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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