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This is a draft of the upcoming Wikipedia newsletter.
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''Old drafts'' : [[WQ/1/Draft|#1 (Sep 2004)]]
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''Old skeleton'': [[WQ/1]]
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''Current skeleton'' : [[WQ/2]]

==Reports==
===Founder & Board===

Status : missing founder letter and part of board report

===Chapters===
====Creation of the French chapter====

Status : completed : Was added to WQ

====German chapter====
Status : completed : transfered to Quarto

===BBC job===
Report from Ang and JW about the prelude, the event, the experience, the aftermath.
:I've emailed a start of this to Jimbo to add to. [[User:Angela|Angela]] 22:57, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

===Project statistics===
''status'' : this part still needs to be updated in Quarto

*Wikipedia:
*Wiktionary:
*Wikibooks:
*Wikiquote: 25 languages, 6,680 articles
*Wikimedia commons:  4846 articles, 16414 images, ? sound file, 1489 users
*Wikisource: 6748 sources and texts, 1473 users,
**Hebrew Wikisources: 194 sources and texts, 29 users
*Wikispecies: 1752 entries,  192 users

===Technical developments===

Status : transfered to Quarto

Note : Anthere would like to add something

==Community==
===Meetups===
''Status'' : needs to be updated.

Japan meetup: draft on [[:ja:User:Aphaia/Sandbox2]]; image mailed to sj and villy. --[[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]] 23:47, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Rotterdam (the Netherlands) meetup.<br>
Could Gerard or Oscar makes us a nice report about this ? Anthere
:actually i did this tonight :-) you will find it [[nl:Wikipedia:Symposium/Najaar_2004#Report_from_Rotterdam|here]]. [[User:Oscar|oscar]] 12:46, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
::neat. Good. Ant
:::[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Symposium/Najaar_2004 images available]

Berlin meetup (bei Berlinux) and other meetup in deutschsprachigen Orten. 1 or 2 paragrah (Berlinux is already refered to Elian's German Chapter report, fyi). Also ''Stammtisch'' ... es ist fremd fuer meisten Auslaendern ...
:cf. [[de:Wikipedia Diskussion:Treffen der Wikipedianer/Berlin]]

Bolzano meetup (it and de)
[[it:Wikipedia:Incontro di Bolzano--27 novembre 2004#resume for wikimedia]] by [[it:Utente:M7|M/]]

New York meetup<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC1]

Taipei Meetup: draft is [[User_talk:Mountain#Taipei_Meetup|here]].

Beijing Meetup: I will translate it soon.--[[User:Mountain|Mountain]] 08:58, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

===New year's greetings project===
''Buon Natale e felice Anno Nuovo!''

[[wikt:it:Buon Natale e felice Anno Nuovo!]] is a project to have as many translations and pronunciations as possible by Christmas. This project can be extended by any project that wants to do something Christmassy. Important is that both Wiktionary and Commons are benefactors of this project. [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] 08:42, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[[Buon Natale-Quarto article]]

===Wikimania===

''Status'' : needs reading by authors as two texts were merged. Was put in international section with introduction in section 3.

==Research==
===Summary of Vala Thesis===
''Status'' : transfered to Quarto. We need to add a link to her user page.

==Projects==
===Wikijunior===
''Status'' : transfered to Quarto. Needs proofreading and probably some links to the project. To do as well, mention in the grant area the more detailed part in project.


It would be nice that Danny or anyone involved in this project makes us a report both on the funds offered to us, and on what we are currently trying to do with these funds. Anthere
: If Danny doesn't mind, I'd like to try my hand at the article.  --  [[user:zanimum]]
* compare with other print projects
** Do we have other print projects. -- [[user:zanimum]]
*** Not wikimedia print project (for kids) or WikiReader - it's a shame we couldn't make it sure before Ant departed. Aphaia.
*[[user:zanimum]] asked by Sj and myself to write something here by the week-end. [[User:Notafish|notafish]] [[User Talk:Notafish| }<';>]] 16:46, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi all. This article is 393 words as it stands, feel free to edit it down as you like. I'm sure despite proofing it, my sleepy eyes have missed some grammar errors and awkward sentences. Anyway, if there's anything you need me for, I'll be back on Wikipedia/Meta more now than I was earlier this weekend. -- [[user:zanimum]]
:Great, thank you :-) [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]

===Wikibooks===
... and other topic including ''Wikiversity'' 
*arne can report Wikiversity?
:'''Spanish Wikiversity'''
:Right now, the Spanish Wikiversity is growing quite faster than "Wikilibros" (Spanish Wikibooks). It seems that the foundations of this project are getting stronger as we already have Schools with active members in Chemistry, Physics, Computing Science, Philosophy and Linguistics. Especially active at the moment are the School of Computing Science ([http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversidad:Escuela_de_Ingenier%C3%ADa_Inform%C3%A1tica Escuela de Ingeniería Informática]), with 7 members, 8 departments and 1 university course outlined; the Physics Department and the Chemistry Department have also very active members and the Department of Linguistics have a recently created Area of Synology. In the "Claustro" we discuss how the organization of the Wikiversity should be. 
:One of the topics being discussed is if we should propose to Wikimedia community that the Wikiversity should be an independent project from Wikibooks, with or without another "dominio" (for example .wikiversity.org). Actually, eventhough Wikiversity may/should use Wikibooks to create didactic material, different departments may be involved in other Wikimedia projects. For example, the "Area de Sinología" is going to begin the Chinese-Spanish and Spanish-Chinese section of the Wiktionary and also the article "Literatura de China" from the Wikipedia. So, the vision of the Wikiversity is quite wider than Wikibooks. It involves and tends to get profit and participate in all the projects from Wikimedia. I encourage you to have a look and to participate :P. What? don't you have a Wikiversity in your language, and what are you waiting for creating it ;-)?[[User:Javier Carro]], a Sysop of Spanish Wikibooks and also user in [http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversidad:Portada Spanish Wikiversity]
*... and/or [[b:de:User:Philipendula|de:User:Philipendula]] on [[b:de|dewikibooks]]? Aphaia

===Wikinews===

''Status'' : transfered to Quarto.


* Erik and Lyellin should write a bit about this.
* Compare with other news-related projects

You can use my editorial at [[n:User:Eloquence/State_of_the_Wiki]].--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 07:56, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

: That Editorial is a great summation- use that ;). [[User:Lyellin|Lyellin]] 04:08, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
::It's too big. Two or three paragraphs will be readable in the newsletter as a part of project report. --[[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]] 05:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

* Okay, since nobody was doing it, and I happened to be around when the production team was looking for help, I wrote a short piece. Wikinews participants' help to improve this is very much appreciated. [[User:Tomos|Tomos]] 17:03, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I've copyedited Tomos' article a bit.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 13:21, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

===[[Translation of the week]]===
*Asked [[User:Shizhao|Shizhao]] to write something, since has been pretty active on the project. If can't I'll do something. [[User:Notafish|notafish]] [[User Talk:Notafish| }<';>]] 16:29, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
**[[User:Shizhao|Shizhao]] will be with his family at weekend, and will not be online. As I know, he learned Russian in university, not English; so he can only understand English, but may not write a good English articals. Bad news.--[[User:Mountain|Mountain]] 19:34, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
***yes, sorry. --[[User:Shizhao|Shizhao]] 14:12, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
*Danny has no interest. How about [[User:Ronline|Ronline]]? S/he is also active. --[[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]] 21:13, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Started by [[User:Danny|Danny]] at the end of October as little less than a challenge, after the success encountered with the translation of [[:en:Gangnihessou]] into various languages, the [[Translation of the week]], a project designed to translate an article across the different language wikipedias has picked up very well, and counts 10 translations to this day. The idea behind the translation of the week is to choose an article in one of the wikipedias and present it as cadidate for a cross-wiki translation. Articles that reach a majority of supporters are then put up as ''Translation of the week'' and set to be translated in as many languages as possible. After 10 weeks, the project counts 64 declared participants, and surely that many more across the different wikipedias. Although the record established by [[:en:Gangnihessou]], translated into 39 languages, has yet to be matched, no article has been translated into less than 16 languages. [[User:Notafish|notafish]] [[User Talk:Notafish| }<';>]] 09:33, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

== Other project reports==
====Wikispecies====
* compare with related projects

====Wikicommons====

====Wikisource====

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====Wiktionary====
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====Local projects====
Ar, De, En, Es, Fr, Hi, It, Ja, Nl, Pl, Pt, Sw, Zh ...

:'''One line notes with 20-30 words'''; see also previous reports on the ''Project'' page on [[Wikimedia:Wikimedia Quarto/1/En-4]].

'''News from Ar''': A lot of effort is put into improving the existing articles, with some new additions everyday. No special projects are currently going on. 

'''News from Es''': A very successful project called [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:País_de_la_semana País de la Semana] (''Country of the Week'') encourages contributors to enhance the article of the country chosen for that week.  Countries with little to no information are prioritized.

'''News from Ja''': [http://www.mlit.go.jp/english/index.html Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation] (MLIT) clarified that their aerial photos are available under GFDL. This is a big good news for us, because fair-use images are not accepted for legal reasons on Japanese Wikipedia. Our big thanks go to the effort of [[ja:User:っ|User:っ]] and the magnanimity of MLIT. [[User:Electric goat|e-Goat]]

'''News from Zh''': The long-requested feature - Traditional/Simplified Chinese automated conversion - are coming with MediaWiki 1.4, which will attract more traditional Chinese users to Mediawiki projects and reshape the community. We owe [[zh:User:Zhengzhu|Zhengzhu]] a lot for this wonderful work.

==Content==
===Images===
Featured images, with thumbnail blurb and backstory, from each of ten projects

*Osezaki Lighthouse  - see [[:ja:User:Aphaia/Sandbox2]] --[[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]] 00:48, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

===Articles===
3-5 Featured articles, linked-to by four-sentence excerpts, in the newsletter's language.

I have no idea about the editorial policy, but Aphaea suggested me to pick [[en:Joshua A. Norton]], which is not free from controversy, but well-written (perhaps both in en & de), and an interesting read for sure. Feel free to use it or ignore it. [[User:Tomos|Tomos]] 08:11, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
:Joshua A. Norton lived in the 19th Century San Francisco, and he is best known for his self-proclaimed Emperor status. "His Imperial Majesty Norton I, by the Grace of God, Emperor of the United States, and Protector of Mexico," surprisingly , was treated respectfully by some local citizens, business, media, and even government. He reigned until his death, and issued decrees, including the one dissolving the United States Congress, disbanding the Democratic and Republican Parties. Read more on his life, his deeds, and the public's reception on Wikipedia in English, German, or other languages.

===Art & poetry===
Something for the end-pages: original art, poetry, music, animation, funny stories from project members.

Like this?
*[http://miya-len.hp.infoseek.co.jp/cpa/C07.html "Wizardpedia Academy"] by [[ja:User:Lenji]] Disclaimers: its characters have no relation to any existing users nor an existing project of WMF :p
*[[Commons:ArdvarkTheAardvark|ArdvarkTheAardvark]] This is quite cool :) [[User:Notafish|notafish]] [[User Talk:Notafish| }<';>]] 18:32, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
**How cute! Both the character and the project are worthy to be introduced on Quarto :) --[[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]] 04:18, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

==Grants/awards/contests==
===Pirelli contests===
Someone should mention this, at least the March relativity contest.

===Other grants===
NEH?  OSI?  Other?

==In the media==
===Radio 4 interview===
I've emailed Sj a report on this. [[User:Angela|Angela]] 22:59, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)