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This edition will be send out Tuesday evening UTC because of all the wikimania work and news--Walter 22:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
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Year: 2006 Week: 32 Number: 37
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Technical news ===
[MediaWiki] will also be developed by full-time employees of the private organizations Wikia.com (the company of Jimbo) and Socialtext.com. This should increase strongly the development of MediaWiki. A new component to MediaWiki is expected to make "wysiwyg"-editing possible. This means that you will have an editbox that looks like the compose window of Hotmail or Gmail with options the edit a page without to see all the sourcetext with all the code. There is hope that this will lower the barrier for new people to work on the projects.
http://wikiwyg.net/ - with a picture how it will (possibly) look like
http://www.socialtext.com/node/90
=== Request for help ===
=== New project proposals ===
=== Policy ===
=== Politics ===
=== Foundation ===
[Wikiversity] - Jimbo announced on Wikimania the start of a new Wikimedia project; Wikiversity. A center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host a range of free content materials, multilingual materials, for all ages in all languages. It'll host scholarly projects and communities to support these materials, and foster research baed in part on existing resources in Wikiversity and other wikimedia projects. It will launch in three languages, in a six-month beta, within a month.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Modified_project_proposal
[Board election] - Candidates for the open board seat can present themself until the end of Agust. The voting will start on September 1st, 2006.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%2C_2006/En
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/En
[$100 laptop] - Jimbo announced on Wikimania that the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) association has chosen to load a snapshot of select Wikipedia articles onto the laptops it is developing. The idea is to make relatieve cheap laptop computers for schoolchilderen.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/One_Laptop_Per_Child_Includes_Wikipedia_on_%24100_Laptops
=== Wikimania 2006 ====
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/jimmy_wales_kic.html
=== Community ===
[PL.wp news] The Signpost brings a report about how the the Polish language Wikipedia is doing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-31/Interwiki_report
=== Awards ===
=== Media ===
=== Stats ===
=== Other news ===
=== Did you know ... ===
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