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Year: 2006 Week:2 Number:8
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An internal news bulletin for the
members of the Wikimedia community.
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=== Technical news ===
[[Special:Unwatchedpages]], the page where you can see the pages that are not on someones watchlist. If you are sysop you can find it from in the "Restricted special pages"-sections. It list only the first 1000 pages (not 5000) and is only updated periodical.
=== Technical non-news ===
[Old search database] the database used for the search function is still not updated. Articles created from at least December first can not be found.
=== Request for help ===
=== Policy ===
=== Politics ===
[Stewards elections 2006] The election ends 10th of January 2006. If you have voted already; there is a new candidate since 6th of January.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006
=== Foundation ===
[Q4] the fund drive is officially closed. The aim to raise at least US$500,000 did not succeed. The grand total at the end of the fund drive day is $349.184,42 or 288.964,26 EUR.
There will be an increase because there will be still some donations. And also since the start of the fund drive the donations done to the Belgian Dexia bank account are not counted because the balance is unknown. For reasons beyond comprehension the Wikimedia Foundation has no online access to that account.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_21
http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Daniel_Mayer&oldid=12853#Dexia
=== Community ===
=== Media ===
[Not on CNN for once] between December 24th and January 1st, the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia in
general appeared three times on Italian TV: a 15-minutes special with interviews during the news on RAI3 (public national network), an interview with Frieda in "Futura City", a program on RAI2 (public national network) and another interview with Frieda in "NetCafé", a program on TeleLombardia (a regional TV station in Milan area).
http://www.tg3.rai.it/SITOTG/TG3_pagina_es/0,9480,3567-id_rubrica-A,00.html
http://www.futuracity.rai.it/FY3_puntata/0,11065,244-7332,00.html
=== Stats ===
=== Other news ===
=== Did you know ... ===
... that you do not need to use the web based upload form of your wiki to upload files?
There are several solutions for bulk upload. The Commonist is an easy to use application that works for all OS so long you have java-support for your OS. So it works for Win/Mac/Linux.
http://djini.de/software/commonist/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commonist_screenshot.png - on Linux the Gui does not look so nice :(
You can easy upload many files to commons or the other wikis. You can define default upload information or specific for every file. It creates automatically a gallery of the uploaded files in [[user:MyUsername/gallery]].
You can add more license templates (example);
edit
script/commonist.bsh
and add
"{{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.0-be}}",
to the LICENSES array.
Other options are;
A upload bot, written in Perl. For the command line lovers. Unix, Unix-like, Linux or Mac OS X.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_upload_service/Script
Wikimedia Commonplace - Windows only; you need Microsoft .NET Framework - possibly does not work (yet)
http://tiredbrain.com/wikimedia/commonplace/
=== Q4 fund drive Quote ===
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Editor(s): Walter
Special thanks: w:it:Utente:Frieda
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