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For Wikizine: Russian Wikipedia has won award

The Russian Wikipedia has won Russian national internet award ([1]) in the "Science and education" category. news release (in Russian), photos

Thanks, will use it. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 16:50, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikizine - license why not {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} ?

Hi Walter, thanks for publishing Wikizine and giving us regulary information about the "Wikimedia World". There is one thing I would like to propse: Please do not publish the content only under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Reason: The license GFDL is rather impractical for print media, because it requires the full text of the GFDL to be printed along with the text. Dual licensing with a license which allows the text to be used more easily, like a Creative Commons license (please see licenses at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/) proposal: cc-by-sa-2.5 and the GNU Free Documentation License or direct Public Domain is much better and we reader can use your information on other places. -- gildemax 16:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I used to use this wiki here for the construction of wikizine. So it was automaticly under the GNU/FDL. I use now my own wiki for it. Almost all of the text is written by me, some re-written by the correctors. But so long it is under the GNU/FDL I can take fragments of text from one of the wikis and use it in wikizine. I do not do that a lot but it happens.

Is this really a problem? People read wikizine by email, RSS, website, sometimes the copy a fragment and translate it. Wikimedia projects is GNU/FDL, wikizine is for and about the WMF projects. In what situations would the current license be a problem? Greetings, --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 01:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

As per the terms of the GFDL if I use parts of your Wikizine or if I translate it, I have to publish the full text of the GFDL with this work. The GFDL is in my eyes, as I have written, not pratical for print media and imagems. The WIKINEWS e.g. are all under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. The foundations has learned that now exists other more appropriate licenses. This is only a request to think about a dual licensing. Gretings -- gildemax 10:09, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

There's no benefit to using cc-by-sa since it's not compatible with the GFDL. cc-by is a much easier to use license and compatible with all Wikimedia projects (including Wikinews which is not GFDL). Angela 12:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

That problem I think there is that I want to be able to copy text fragments form one of the wikis, that is mostly meta, EN wikipedia or foundation and use that text like it is. Those wikis are all GNU/FDL. I do not think it is allowed to re-release text under a different licences if it contains text from a GNU/FDL-only license source. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 12:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I think thats a pretty good argument for keeping gfdl. As for wikinews compatibility, If there is news that affects us, I'm proablly not going to directly copy it out of wikizine, I'm proablly going to condense/re-write it as n:template:wn news is more suited to one liners (although I don't know what other lang do). In the end it doesn't matter very much for a wikizine type of publication, as really its not redistributed and re-edited that much. user:Bawolff (not looged in) 01:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I have no plans to republish Wikizine, but since you asked for reader feedback:

• I definitely agree with Gildemax that the GNU FDL is impractical. Indeed, the world would be a better place if Wikimeda had been CC-by-sa from the start! (Unfortunately, there was no such thing in 2001.)
• Generally, you should be able to dual licence Wikizine. Your contributors would be willing to go along, right? This allows Wikizine to be copied directly into Wikimedia wikis.
• When you copy from Wikimedia wikis into Wikizine, isn't this usually to talk about that writing? If so, then this falls under fair use and commentary. You could do that even if Wikizine were proprietary!
• The recent extra edition that repeated a request from Anthere would be an exception. That edition could be released under GNU FDL only, even if the regular editions are dual licensed. (If you had time to ask, I'm sure that Anthere would give permission for CC-by-sa dual licencing, since she wants her message spread widely. But when there is not enough time, exceptions are possible.)

--Toby Bartels 22:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Romanian Wikipedia

The Romanian Wikipedia had it's 25000th registered user in the person of User TheLiv. -Romihaitza 19:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank for reporting this. However, I do not find that the fact that there are X-number of accounts created on any wiki is news. Please do no make this stop you from submitting anything in the future. Greetings, --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 23:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

...but, if you wish it I will include it if that makes you happy. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 01:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Re site notice IT

Thanks for the reminder. All it.family updated. Daag. --Paginazero - Ø 11:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Sitenotice

I've changed bpywiki Sitenotice, which wasn't related to the fundraising

(ফারাক) (ইতিহাসহান) . . MediaWiki:Sitenotice‎; ১১:০৫ . . (+১৭৮) . . M7 (য়্যারী | অবদান | থেপ কর) (Changed sitenotice (as per WMF Board of Trustees decision) - Change back after fundraising end.)
Do you know if a global query is possible that can tell if some local wiki has a local sitenotice "older" than xx days? Thank you, M/ 11:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Maybe a developer can do that. But actualy it will be easy; most wikis will no be updated. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 11:29, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

The most wikis with a wrong sitenotice appear to be the wiki's with a different script. They have a sitenotice stating where to download that script. So if we have a list of all wiki's with a non-latin or standard script, it would be great already. Effeietsanders 13:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm working on a list of wikis that use a non standard sitenotice. Please note the information from the toolserver is ~6 days old; it may not reflect the most recent changes. Not all wiki's are available on the toolserver, but at least it gives some information. Valhallasw 17:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

nl:Gebruiker:Valhallasw/Sitenotice contains the list of wikis known to the toolserver and with edited (non-original) contents. nl:Gebruiker:Valhallasw/Sitenotice-ok contains the list of wikis known to the toolserver and with the original contents. Wiki's with deleted contents (and no current pages) are not listed. Have fun. Valhallasw 19:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

narod.ru

Hello;
you've blacklisted that domain today due to spamming in the English Wikipedia. Can you please take a look at this discussion? I found 1194 links to *.narod.ru on en.wiki and 5538 on ru.wiki; I tried to restrict the regex but I haven't found the subdomain spammed. Thanks. --.anaconda 20:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

The 2nd edition of the Romanian Wikipedia Prizes

ro:Wikipedia:Premiile Wikipediei în limba română 2006. If you need anything in English, just tell me. --Romihaitza 11:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, yes. It seems to be a wikipedia article writing competition. Can you tell me something about it or write a draft for Wikizine? --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 11:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

It is not a writing competition. This is the second edition for the prizes offered by some of the administrators (as seen in the jury) to the users who were present during the whole year in the project and were the best in their field of work. --Romihaitza 16:27, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

ok, useed in wikizine LVI --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 19:52, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Indische koloniale geschiedenis

Politie in Nederlands Indie

De geschiedenis van de Nederlandsch Indische (koloniale) politie kent een belangrijk omslagmoment wanneer voor het eerst "landskinderen"( zij die geboren zijn in het land zelf, in tegenstelling tot "Europese ambtenaren) benoembaar worden gesteld voor commandorangen ( commissaris en hoger). De Politieschool levert in 1926 een aantal adspirant commissarissen af die in de kolonie zelf geboren zijn. Zeer prominent daarin is '''George Jean de Ceuninck van Capelle''', geboren 1902 te Garoet, Java. Deze wordt op 28 jarige leeftijd de eerste en jongste Commissaris en wordt 8 jaar later de eerste "indische" hoofdcommissaris. Voor zover kan worden nagegaan is dit een "record" in de Nederlandse politiegeschiedenis.

83.84.123.1 21:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)Wordt vervolgd en uitgebreid

...wat is hiervan de bedoeling??? --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 22:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The Romanian Wikipedia organizes New Year-s Eve online

ro:Wikipedia:Pagina wikipediştilor care fac revelionul 2007 la Wikipedia is the place where any wikipedia user can put himself on the list of participants. The participants have some small tasks (like modify the EU and Romania pages with mention of the Romania-s apartenence to EU from January 1st both rowiki and enwiki). The first edit in 2007 (After Romania timezome) will get a prize as well as the first registered user in 2007. --Romihaitza 20:01, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

ok, used in wikizine LVI --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 19:52, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Short newses LVII

--Romihaitza 09:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Milestones:

• Catalan Wikipedia has reached 50,000 in January 4th, 2006
• Romanian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 in January 5th, 2006

used --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 22:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Info:

• The Romanian Wikipedia started talking about a desysop policy. After the discution there will be held a poll to gain consensous.
• The Dutch Wikipedia is voting on a proposal for founding an arbcom.

Not used --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 22:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

www.wikispecies.org

Hi, why doesn't the above domain forward to WS? Did you get the story behind that? 172.142.194.193 16:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

See Bugzilla:7495. That is all I know about. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 18:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine news

en.wikinew's Latest News RSS has seen dramatic growth recently. At the start of December it had just over 5,000 daily subscribers. That increased to 20,000 by December 12 and reached 36,000 on December 20! It has dropped slightly since then, with now just over 30,000 subscribers reading the latest news from Wikinews every day. Dan100 16:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

How do you count those subscribers? Is the the number of times the file is requested? When I see my stats of Wikizine then I see for RRS 1873 times accessed in one month and for Atom 8174 times accessed. But taken that is a number of readers is ridiculous. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 17:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, should have said, I use Feedburner. To quote their explanation: "FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period. Subscribers is inferred from an analysis of the many different feed readers and aggregators that retrieve this feed daily. Subscribers is not computed for browsers and bots that access your feed.

Subscribers is calculated by matching IP address and feed reader combinations, and then using our detailed understanding of the multitude of readers and aggregators and bots on the market to make additional inferences."

HTH Dan100 12:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

used --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 22:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Romanian Wikipedia reaches 50.000 articles

The article with the number 50.000 was about Petre Jurca and was created on the January 5th 2007 by the user Roamata. —SCriBu ^msg 14:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

In fact the article was Peştera Urşilor wirtten by the same mentioned user. --Romihaitza 10:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Used --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 22:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Naughty comments

Walter, this is the second time you make a naughty comment regardin Romanian Wikipedia. Please bring proofs on the numbers of articles in January 7. A tip: use purge when checking!!! --Romihaitza 12:43, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

When I visited the wiki the counter was well below 50,000. I agree that is must be that it was the cache and not deletion of articles. It have been that. But I wrongly assumed it was that. I have added a correction to the online version and will put a correction in the next edition. The end result was the same. A visitor would have seen a lower counter the announced. The advice is to flush the cache when your wiki hits a mile stone.

About "Naughty comments"; some of the items are not very interesting by nature. I try to find a way to fraze it in a way it is not boring. It is not naughty. If I wanted to write something negative about RO wikipedia then I could have reported that the RO wikipedia is not helping with the fundraiser. I see no donation notice. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 23:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Walt, the official press release said the campaign runs througout January 6, the notice was only removed then. I can't see anywhere on any official site in any official note any notice about some more days. -Romihaitza 16:24, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I understand the opening for confusion about it. The orignal end date of the fundraiser was the 6th but it was extended to the 15th, Wikipedia-day. See this posting by Anthere --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 20:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Joris_%28heilige%29

Daar staat het woord 'bewerk' niet waar het moet staan. Ik kon het niet veranderen.

Permanent Translation

Sorry, i mean to getting the latest file from http://svn.wikimedia.org and then editing it and uploading into the bugzilla to be imported as default file for MZN wiki --Ali 10:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Is it possible, since i saw the notice: END USERS: DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY! But translation from Allmessages section is very very hard, and waisting my time --Ali 11:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

quantitative analysis

A quantitative analysis by User:GlimmerPhoenix : Wikipedia:WikiXRay

Sounds good for wikizine! It got posted in research-l : http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2007-January/000256.html

used in wikzine 61 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 20:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Onebox technology

http://googlified.com/2007wikipedia-oneboxed/ -- 172.178.80.210 00:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

used in wikizine 61 - thanks --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 14:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hungarian Wikipedia hitting 50 000

On February the 7th the Hungarian language Wikipedia hit the 50 000 mark. To celebrate the event, the logo (hu:Image:Wiki.png) was changed to a celebratory one, featuring the Hungarian Tricolor (the logo was a winner of a vote [2][3] (#3), where the three runner ups had a similar design (1 through 1bb), and together had more votes than the winner, but lost due to the [[en:Spoiler effect). There was a bit of controversy over deciding which was the 50 000th article, as there were three candidates, all being created or moved into article namespace in a 1 minute period, later one of the 3 articles was deleted, and thus made it quite impossible to determine which was the "first" 50 000th article, and which two are "celebratory articles for achieving 50 000" (at last count the deleted article is considered the 50 000th, but there are pages on Wikipedia which mention one of the other two...).

On this occasion a press release was issued, generating mild publicity[4] for Wikipedia, on pages with comment turned on, the feedback was all positive.

I wrote this to you, so the fact that we reached 50 000 on Huwiki would be mentioned, and the rest to make the event less "boring". Please don't mention my name in Wikizine, but please do contact me if you have any questions to ask. Best regards, and keep up the good work, --Dami 15:50, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

The article has been eventually determined to be Kettős kockázat, a page about a Stargate episode. --Tgr 17:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

used in wikizine 61 , thanks --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 14:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcoming templates

Recently there was some talk on the mailing lists (I don't know if you followed) about welcoming templates, and as a result Cross-project comparisons/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation and Template:Welcome comparisons page was created here on Meta. Maybe the readers will have some useful input (apart from collecting actual data, experiences could be shared). Regards--Dami 21:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Used in zine 61, thanks --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 14:03, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

wikEd, an in-browser MediaWiki editor

Hi Walter,

wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to MediaWiki edit pages. It is a JavaScript monobook.js program. Features include:

• Regular expression search and replace
• Wikicode syntax highlighting
• Fullscreen editing mode
• Server-independent local Show preview and Show changes
• Pasting formatted text, e.g. from MS-Word (including tables)
• Conversion of formatted text to wikicode
• Single-click fixing of common mistakes (including Unicode fixing)
• History for summary, search, and replace fields
• Translations into several different languages

Maybe you could add this to the next Wikizine release. Currently, wikEd works only for Firefox and other Mozilla browsers and I am also desperately looking for people who can help to make the script work under Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9.

Cacycle 20:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Reads good. I will look at it. Thanks.--Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 09:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Now also available in Chinese (see en:User:Cacycle/wikEd international) and with a brand-new jump-to-heading function. I am still looking for help to make the script work under IE7. Do you have any plans to publish this soon? Cacycle 23:34, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :-) Cacycle 01:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Commons picture of the Year

By the time Wikizine 64 is published, the commons:Commons:Picture of the Year/2006 will be ended and the winner announced. Bryan 19:51, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

The winner is known. commons:Commons:Picture of the Year/2006 Bryan 10:55, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Nog geen reactie. Ik zal het even doorgeven als ik iets te horen krijg. Bryan 20:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

blok otrs

Dag Walter, je schreef bij marjon iets over otrs wat is dat precies ik heb ondertussen henk gedeblokkeerd.

Gewoon een geblokkeerde die bij Wikimedia was komen vragen voor een de-blokkering op Wikikids.nl, niets meer. Groet, --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 12:23, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: wikiblogplanet

Hi Walter, Excellent question! - I've written up the answer here - basically the non-open one has now been set to redirect to the open one, so problem solved! -- All the best, Nickj, 02:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

wikizine: change email address

Walt,

This is Bentong Isles, one of your subscribers of the wikizine. Please change my delivery email from bentong_isles at yahoo dot com to bentong dot isles at gmail dot com. Thanks! --Bentong Isles 11:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

ok --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 11:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Community event in Japan

Hi, Walter. I am Shun "Yukichi" Fukuzawa , a Japanese Wikipedian. I want to for you to insert belowe article on next Wikizine.

Japanese Wikipedians have held a public interveiw with Jimbo Wales who is staying in Japan at 3/18. We made 20 quiestions to Jimbo on a special page of ja-wp that all of the Wikipedians could edit. Then, we sent those quiestions to Jimbo before the event and Jimbo answered quiestions at the event. There were about 60 audience in the event floor. Jimbo also answered new questions from the audience.

Detial at here (in Japanese)

If you have questions, send mail to yukichi@gmail.com.

Thanks.

--Yukichi99 06:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

used in wikizine 66 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 11:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Typo in Wikizine

There is a typo in the Wikizine front page now:

• Community * [South Asia] - Interview with two users about the Bengali and Indonesian Wikipedia's http://wikipediaweekly.com/2007/03/14/wikipedia-weekly-15/

Actually, it should be "Indian" in stead of "Indonesian". Thanks. --Ragib 06:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC) en:User:Ragib

Thanks. It is not first and it will not be the last I am afraid. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 08:14, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject on Vandalism studies just finished Study 1

The WikiProject on Vandalism studies recently finished its first study and has published its conclusions (a full and detailed copy can be found here).

The first study analyzed a randomly sampled pool of 100 random articles. Within these 100 articles there were a total of 668 edits during the months of November 2004, 2005, and 2006. Of those 668 edits, 31 (or 4.64%) were a vandalism of some type. The study's salient findings suggest that in a given month approximately 5% of edits are vandalism and 97% of that vandalism is done by anonymous editors. Obvious vandalism is the vast majority of vandalism used. From the data gathered within this study it is also found that roughly 25% of vandalism reverting is done by anonymous editors and roughly 75% is done by wikipedians with user accounts. The mean average time vandalism reverting is 758.35 minutes (12.63 hours), a figure that may be skewed by outliers. The median time vandalism reverting is 14 minutes.

Cheers. JoeSmack 03:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Will be used in Wikizine 67 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 13:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

For Wikizine

Was updated list of pages with many interwiki links but NOT to a certain language. These might constitute some kind of 'missing pages' for these Wikipedias, or just pages that are not linked to. See Common_Interwiki_links. --ajvol 10:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, used in wikizine 67 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 13:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetups in Australia with Jimmy Wales

Something which may be worth inclusion on WikiZine is three upcomming breakfast wikimeets in Australia during the month of April 07. Jimmy Wales has confirmed his attendance in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Perth breakfasts. To register your attendance or for more information can be obtained from the following links: Adelaide, Perth, or Melbourne.

Regards, Thewinchester

Ok, used in wikizine 67 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 15:00, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine 67

Thanks for mentioning the Commons RSS feed! :) --pfctdayelise 08:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

If I find out about something I report it. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 09:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikibooks NL

Wikibooks NL has as of april 15th the double license GFDL/CC-BY-SA as standard. All pages with old edits have been marked as being GFDL only. Fyi. Effeietsanders 12:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Reeds voldoende vermelding hierover in wikizine 66 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 21:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

NP :) Enige nieuws is idd de feitelijke implementatie. Nuja, fyi :) Effeietsanders 21:10, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine: Exalead

Exalead developed a search engine for Wikipedia. See for example [5]. It searches through 6 Wikipedias for now. Explanation on their blog (in French). Kipmaster 18:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm being wrongfully blocked for trying to start a mediation

by admin Sandstein, please intervene as i would like to get this resolved. Thanks Liaishard 22:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

There is no block in effect for your account on Meta. I suspect you have a problem on EN Wikipedia and contact me because I am a steward. Complaints about blockes must be dealt with on the local wiki. On EN Wikipedia are there more then 1000 admins who could de-block you. Use local procedure for your block to be lifted. As steward I have not authority on EN Wikipedia. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 22:51, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Friulian Wikipedia reaches 2000 articles

Hi, I just want to report that Friulian wiki has reached 2000 articles with fur:Laurenzi (the chimical element). Friulian is a language spoken mainly in northern Italy. Thanks and keep up your great job with Wikizine--Klenje 17:35, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

ok, wikizine 69 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 14:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

You have received a vandalism: [6] --Fabexplosive 15:24, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine

Hi Walter, how are you?.

Did you remember me? I'm Leandro (loco085), we're team-mate in the Com-proj. Sandy asked to me for create an Spanish version of Wikizine and I was looking for people in the spanish Wikipedia that can helps. Now I need your help, hehe... What we can do for starting our WikiZine in spanish? Can you tell me the first steps?. For answer me, please use my spanish talk page. Regards, Loco085 01:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

ok --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 14:30, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Walter

Hey Walter,

Unfortunately due to time constraints I am leaving the project. Can you delete my user page and talk page here on Meta for me?

Thanks, – Lantoka (talk) 03:05, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Done --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 09:45, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

some shell updates for wiki sites

Posted on wikitech

Hello,

I made some update to our various sites.

There were some issues with the following bugs and some pages have been automatically renamed with a suffix '/broken'. The list of pages is provided as a comment and can be fixed manually by any user:

• Bug 9782: Set sitename for Belarusian Wikipedia
• Bug 9232: Set project namespace for Thai Wikipedia
• Bug 8005: Project namespace prefix in the Greek Wikiquote
• Bug 8964: Set sitename for Occitan Wiktionary
• Bug 8631: Set sitename and project ns name for Catalan Wikiquote
• Bug 9561: Set sitename and project ns name for Catalan Wiktionary
• Bug 9707: Change of Armenian project names

Other fixes:

• Bug 9788: Created Appendix namespace on Icelandic Wiktionary
• Bug 9728: Disabled uploads for Spanish Wikiquote
• Bug 9725: Created Portal namespace on Greek Wikipedia
• Bug 9800: Changed the Searched Default for de.wikiversity
• Bug 9573: Additional namespaces on French Wikiversity
• Bug 9732: Created namespaces for Farsi Wikipedia
• Bug 9586: Subpage activation for template namespace in kkwiki
• Bug 9523: Added a Portal namespace to Hebrew Wikinews
• Bug 8528: Created Portal namespace on Malayalam Wikipedia
• Bug 9283: Created Wikijunior namespace on English Wikibooks
• Bug 9170: Updated logo and timezone on slovene Wikiquote
• Bug 8614: Changed $wgSitename for Chuvash Wikipedia
• Bug 7976: Set project name for Old Church Slavonic Wikipedia
• Bug 8546: Enable Special:Import for Polish Wikibooks
• Bug 6595: Set sitenames for Urdu projects
• Bug 8135: Japanese wikinews requests a new namespace
• Bug 6119: Run site stats update script on Ripuarian Wikipedia
• Bug 8879: Set site name for Latin Wikibooks
• Bug 9569: Add a Portal (Gátt) namespace to Icelandic Wikipedia

Ashar Voultoiz 16:31, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for informing me. So far I can judge none of these changes are important enough to be used. Maybe next time. Greetings, --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 21:34, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

hiii Walter please i want to tell u that arabic wikipedia reaches 30000 articles, please write this in the news --Mmustafa 13:10, 8 May 2007 (UTC)--Mmustafa 13:10, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Will do --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 00:12, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Kabyle Wikipedia

Hi Walter, hope this worth mentioning in Wikizine:

"The Kabyle language (Taqbaylit in local language) edition of Wikipedia was launched on 6 May 2007. According to Special:SiteMatrix, it is the 251st language of active Wikipedia. See http://kab.wikipedia.org/"

-- IvanLanin ♫ 17:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

That is surely good for Wikizine. A new Wikipedia; that has been a while. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 18:34, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Recently created the Tamil Wikisource (ta.wikisource) too. --.anaconda 19:00, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

It does not look like there is a TA Wikisource, http://ta.wikisource.org/ --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 21:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

For the help on en-wikiquote - I shall be more accurate next time. I am new to IRC if not vandals! --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:13, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

arabic wikizone

hello Walter i want to translate wikizone to Arabic,wat is the steps and how can i begin --Mmustafa 19:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Mmustafa, that would be fantastic. If you want to try it please send me an email. <walter AT wikizine DOT org> And also go to this page, enter a username and password and send me the output. This so that I can give you access to the wiki of wikizine. Greetings, --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 00:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikibooks milestones for Wikizine

English Wikibooks passed a number of milestones this month. See this message. --Hagindaz 03:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I will try to use some of it --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi

Hi Walter, this is a bit technical, I don't know whether it's worth mentioning in Wikizine or not. The SyntaxHighlight GeSHi extension has been activated in Wikimedia projects. I don't think there was a "formal" announcement regarding this addition so I don't have any clue when this has been done. The only thing we know was, on April 6 Tim Starling announced that the extension has been activated on testwiki. -- IvanLanin ♫ 02:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

thanks, will use it. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Kanuri Wikipedia closed while Italian Wiktionary created

Hi Walter, I thought these information might be useful for Wikizine. The Kanuri Wikipedia [1] (Kanuri language is spoken mostly in Northern Nigeria) has been closed (see ref [2] and [3]) on May 19 while on May 18 Italian Wikiversity [4] has been created (see ref [4]). -- IvanLanin ♫ 04:40, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Refs:

1. http://kr.wikipedia.org/
2. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-May/031377.html
3. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Kanuri_Wikipedia
4. http://it.wikiversity.org/
5. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-May/031375.html

Ok, thanks. used for wikizine 71 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 21:56, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Did you know - Wikispecies

Just an FYI regarding the 2007 Week: 21 Number: 71 Wikizine issue's "Did You Know" section: Wikispecies, just this weekend, surpassed 100,000 articles (wikispecies:Special:Statistics), well beyond the "over 60,000 listings" stated[7] --Georgeryp 05:48, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

One other thing - at http://en.wikizine.org/ on the left hand column, under "The Wikimedia family", the URL for Wikispecies is incorrect (or at least leads to a domain parking page). The URL should be http://species.wikimedia.org/ The Wikimedia Foundation apparently owns the other, simpler URL, but the bug (mediazilla:7495) to get it to redirect to Wikispecies's active site has yet to be resolved. --Georgeryp 21:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Fixt. I know about that, I have made that bugzilla ticket. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 21:41, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Raiding Userboxes

Don't mind mine me, just raiding your userboxes. Hangon for a bit if you feel I copy something off your profile that isn't appropriate. Mathiastck 14:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I do not get it. What are you trying to communicate? --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 15:31, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

It.wiki meet SGI

On Friday May 18, some members of it.wiki met Franco Salvatori, president of Società Geografica Italiana. SGI is one of the 100 Italian eccellencies[8], and one of the most important and respected geographical institutes of the world.

SGI recently celebrated its 140 years of activity. Founded in 1867, the Society owns thousands of precious historic volumes, maps and a huge archive of photos related to colonialism and the XX century's explorations: those materials are stored in Rome, in the XVI century house of Villa Celimontana.

Wikimedia Italia is working on an agreement to obtain part of the image archive of SGI, featuring historic photos of the short colonial experience of the Italian Empire and lot of other documents.

The meeting resulted in an exclusive interview for it.wikinews, stating:

Encyclopedias are now suffering obsolescence, evolving from traditional publishing to a new form - I don't know what this form is [...] but we sure have a new horizon in front of us, related to the very bases of encyclopedicism, and you are the reality that matters now from this point of view. [...] Encyclopedia is not dead: its spirit is not dead, the Enlightenment spirit is not dead.

We would like to thank it:utente:Gianfranco, it:utente:LP and WMI president it:utente:Frieda for the great work done.

--Jollyroger 09:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I can not include all of the text in Wikizine but some of it will be in wikizine 72 --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 20:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Current draft;

[Wikimedia IT] - Wikimedia Italia is working on an agreement to obtain part of the image archive of Società Geografica Italiana. SGI is one of the most important and respected geographical institutes of the world. Founded in 1867, the Society owns thousands of precious historic volumes, maps and a huge archive of photos related to colonialism and the XX century's explorations. On Friday May 18, some members of it.wiki met Franco Salvatori, president of Società Geografica Italiana. The meeting resulted in an exclusive interview for IT Wikinews. http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/La_Societ%C3%A0_della_Geografia

Hakka Wikipedia

[Wikiopen] The Hakka Wikipedia, a spoken variation of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group has been created.

• http://hak.wikipedia.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_language
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-May/031470.html

--ivanlanin ♫ 03:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

ok, thanks --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 20:38, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Your reporter from it.wikipedia

Sir, I have been assigned to your unit as correspondent from it.wikipedia. My duty will be to report all news from the italian front. (ok... to be true i just thought "let's help the good guy") Here is a couple of good news for you, after the SGI one just above:

---

On May 28, Wikipedia was granted one of the nine Special Prizes of the Grand Prix di Pubblicità Italia (Advertising Grand Prix of Italy), for succeeding in exploiting the Internet potential at its best, directly involving users for a widespread growth of culture.
Wikimedia Italia board member and WMI webmaster Ivan Vighetto attended the gala, and withdrew the prize. The event had great resonance on italian media.
Other than Wikipedia, big names of italian business world were awarded a prize. Between them: Mondadori Group, FIAT, SKY Italia and Ferruccio De Bortoli, editor of Il Sole 24 Ore.
This is a hard-earned success, that follows the two prestigious WWW Awards gained on december 14 2005 for being the new reference mark in online knowledge management and for being a constantly evolving information source, overtaking the immobility of traditional encyclopedias.

ref: [9]

and withdrew the prize

You mean he was the one to accept the prize in the name of IT Wikipedia? What is the price. A cup? Piece or art, check? --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 22:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

He was the one who phisically attended the gala, representing it.wiki. I think it was plaque, now I ask him and report it back to you. --Jollyroger 07:54, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Confirmed, it was a plaque (i mean sth like this... is "plaque" the right name?).

I think so. I wil use it. Maybe a corrector will change it. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 10:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

---

it.wikipedia reached 300.000 articles on may 21. Article n. 300k was it:Castor Oyl.

--Jollyroger 21:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Kieskompas

Dag Walter,

Effeietsanders liet op de mailingslijst al vallen dat er veel kandidaten zijn en dat het dus moeilijk is voor de stemgerechtigden om alle informatie te lezen... zou het niet cool zijn om een soort Kieskompas te hebben, zoals met de voorbije verkiezingen hier in België? 30 vragen over hoe Wikimedia verder moet, over zusterprojecten, meertaligheid, fair use enzovoort, en dan een overzicht hoeveel procent uw mening overeenkomt met de kandidaten? Gij met uw connecties moet toch gemakkelijk iemand vinden die dat kan maken, en Wikizine is toch een beetje De Standaard van Wikimedia . Aan zoiets is echt nood denk ik en keiveel mensen zouden dat gebruiken om te kijken of hun eigen idee wel klopt.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Dit zou wel leuk en nuttig zijn maar dat is niet iets wat ik kan doen. Het enigste wat ik eventueel zou kunnen doen is reclame maken voor dat kieskompas en hosting voorzien voor dat kieskompas. Het maken van zoiets lijkt mij vrij complex. Goede vragen hebben, medewerking krijgen van de kandidaten, zo'n webbased systeem maken, reclame maken ervoor. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 14:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Verkiezingen ArbCom

Beste Walter. Op dit moment zijn er zes leden, na het opstappen van André Engels. Nu zou er een verkiezing uitgeschreven moeten worden voor een nieuw, zevende Arbitragecommissielid, conform de reglementen van de Arbitragecommissie. Bij deze wil ik je vragen deze uit te schrijven. Ik heb dit eerder Oscar ook verzocht, maar deze heeft het te druk. Met vriendelijke groet, Mig de Jong 22:53, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

I have news...

Hi Walter. We're doing it again. it:Wikipedia:Raduni/Vicenza 2007.
From June 20th to June 25th Wikimedia Italia has a stand within Festambiente in Vicenza, Italy. Thanks to the local Linux User Group who provided us with connectivity, a group of wikipedians/wikimedians is showing people how WMF projects work.
Bye. --Paginazero - Ø 16:06, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if this would be appropriate for Wikizine, but...

This seems like a very exciting development. Don't have it up and running on my system yet, though. -- Visviva 16:45, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Meta-l

It appears you started this list. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have Wikimedia host it directly from lists.wikimedia.org, instead of moving it to an entirely separate area from all other mailing lists? Ral315 (talk) 05:04, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

See Meta:Babel#Meta-l --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:02, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Ivan Lanin

Hi Walter, sorry to trouble you. I really like to create a username in Meta under my real name, User:Ivan Lanin (with space) and will redirect it to my current username. Only sysops can do that. Thank you. •• ivanlanin ♫ 05:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

The password for "Ivan Lanin" has been sent to ivanlanin AT gmail.com. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 08:37, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much Walter. •• ivanlanin ♫ 14:19, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Fryske wikipedy no oer de 5.000 siden.

Hello Walter,

The Frisian wikipedia has finally reached 5.000 articles. We have released a press notice which got us at least at the news section of the website of Omrop Fryslan.

Greetings Theun

Ok, in wikizine 78 extra --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 10:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Lithuanian Wikipedia news

Hi, As I understand you are creating a Wikizine, so I would like to share some news. Lithuanian Wikipedia just today (1 August 2007) reached a big milestone - 50,000 articles, so I think it is worth mentioning in a Wikizine. 50000th article was XXXV Europos krepšinio čempionatas - an article about upcomming basketball tournament EuroBasket 2007. Knutux 04:48, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, will be in wikizine 78 extra --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 10:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin

Wikinews has started an internal news bulletin, the Bulletin. We're based on the Signpost from Wikipedia. Not sure if this is Wikizine-worthy, but either way, good to get the word out =] Thunderhead 03:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

This was reported in Wikizine 74. But thanks for informing me in case I did not yet knew it. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

mail

Hello, I sent you mail. Thank you, Rotemdan 17:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Rename

Hi! Can you please rename me in tr.wikipedia from Viele-baeren to ABF for single login? Thanks, — ^ABF — 14:40, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

use the procedure, on the request page, confirm it on your local talk page and put the link to it on the request there on meta. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 14:47, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I confirmed at your talk page in tr. i hope that it is so okay. — ^ABF — 16:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

== Thanks for renaming. -- tr:Kullanıcı:Çağatay

Thanks

Thank u for renaming me @ tr.wiki. -- tr:Kullanıcı:Serkan Çetinkaya

zimbio.om

FYI, Zimbio.com's been a spam problem on en.wikipedia; here's a summary:

• en:User talk:Tony1973

I thought your readers might be interested in this a s a follow-up to your note this week.

I appreciate your Wikizine!
--A. B. ^(talk) 17:16, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Mazandarani Wikipedia

Dear Walter, Could you change the interwiki link name of mazandarani wikipedia from that complex arabic script to this one below; I am sysop there and i was the proposer of this language
تپوری گيلکی /Giləki

I can not do that. Best you make a Mediazilla: ticket for that.--Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 08:03, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, i also put the verify link in username change page --Ali 13:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

pl Wikinews

Hi, pl Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles. Could you write something in Wikizine? ;) with regards Przykuta 08:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I will it include it in the next one. I think that will be next week --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:20, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:20, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

tr Wikipedia

Hello, i think you are a new bureaucrat on tr wikipedia :). Could you control the bot requests page, please. Thanks.--Mach 07:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello again; interwikibots need generality, example 5 votes-3 support, it is ok on tr wikipedia.Thanks.--Mach 06:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hi. I am Kullanıcı:Saglamci from Turkish Viki.I made my request on Viki username changing page.I dont know how to change my user name.Could you please help me?I saw you changed Dr. Ecco's username.Thank you.85.107.16.116 21:40, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Please provide a direct link to the place where that request on the viki wiki can be found. Make it clear like "old name" ==> "new name" + sig --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:19, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Username changing page "Kullanıcı:Saglamci" ==> "Kullanıcı:Sağlamcı".I ve just noticed that i don't have username changing right.Altough i meet "over 150 edits" requirement, i dont meet "being 2 months-old user" requirement.I guess i have to wait for a month.Anyway, this is my discussion page.Could you inform me using this page?Thank you.85.100.186.65 08:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello again.I currently created an account on meta-wiki.Sincerely.Sağlamcı^message 10:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

When you are ready for the username change put a request on Requests for username changes with a link to the local confirmation.

Why does TR wikipedia does not have a bureaucrat? --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 11:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

btw; It is not normaly so bu a user can be bureaucrat and not be a sysop. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 11:46, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for changing my user name on tr. wikipedia. Happy editing, --Bahar (yine ben! / it's me again! / yenə mən!) ✍ 12:41, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't know.Honestly I wonder too.Is it too hard to be a bureaucrat?We have really hardworking sysops.I wonder if they do not want to be a bureaucrat.Somebody does this.Anyway.Thank you.I will disturb you when i m ready.See you. :)))Sağlamcı^message 15:11, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Nederlandse OTRS boilerplate templates

Hoi Walter, ik heb wat nieuwe templates aangemaakt voor de info-nl que, n.l. deze. Zou jij die in OTRS kunnen toevoegen? Alvast bedankt, Husky 17:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Ik kan dat niet. Daarvoor moet je een OTRS-admin vastkrijgen. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

New wikimedia.it board

On 1 and 2 September 2007 the annual italian chapter meeting was held in Rome, featuring a wide presence of wikimedians and journalists from press and TV. The news was given by all the main national newspapers. The new board includes:

• Paginazero (61 votes, 91%) - president (former vice president, confirmed)
• Gvf (48 votes, 71,6) - vice president and treasury (new member)
• Xaura (42 votes, 62,7%) - secretary (new member)
• Sbisolo (29 votes, 43,3%) - webmaster (confirmed)
• Nick1915 (29 votes, 43,3%) (confirmed)

(this news may be updated when Frieda Brioschi, former president and WMF board member, will accept or decline the honorary board membership granted) --Jollyroger 11:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

ok, thanks, used in wikizine 81 --Walter 20:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

en.wn 10,000

Not yet, but almost! Thunderhead 22:52, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

And now. Thunderhead 20:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

You have new message

Hi Walter, could you please look at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Walter. Thanks --S^[1] 19:20, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

New admin - tr.wiki

• Hello,

We concluded an adminship election at tr.wiki: [10]. User, who got the right, needs to be given adminship; however as you know we still don't have a bureaucrat... so, it will be appreciated if you could help us out ^_^ Thanks in advance, have a nice day! - Nous 10:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

User was already admin. Do not contact me directly for this type of stuff. Use the page for steward requests. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 11:13, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikiquote

• A bit late, Wikiquote in total reached 70,000 article this August.
• English Wikiquote began its WQ:PROD trial. The community will decide if proposed deletion is officially adopted in three months. The policy draft is largely based on its English Wikipedia version but simplified adjusting to a small project with 13,500 articles. Feedback are welcome at q:Wikiquote talk:Proposed deletion.

So as I said somewhere else, life is quiet there. No news is good news ... --Aphaia 11:57, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks, used in wikizine 81 --Walter 20:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Saglamci @tr.wiki ===> Sağlamcı

Hello Walter it's me again.I said I wanted to change my username.But i didnt meet requirements.Now i do meet the requirements.Could you please change my username?I did my request here.Thanks in advance.Sincerely.Sağlamcı^message 07:29, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

This is stupid. Just elect an bureaucrat. TR wiki can not continue like this. --Walter 18:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Free Media Seminar

(Hallo Walter, wellicht is het onderstaande iets voor Wikizine? Fruggo 16:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC))

On 20 September, the Dutch chapter held a seminar about free media (vrije media). Goal of the workshop was to inform organisations about the possibilities of placing their media-collections under a free license. Wikimedia Nederland organised the seminar in cooperation with Creative Commons, and was supported by Kennisnet Ict op school. The organisations that were invited are mostly organisations that are (partly) financed by the Dutch national government (university musea, regional archives, etc). Although the attendence was not very big, the seminar was a succes, because of the enthousiasm of the attending organisations. The following months, Wikimedia Nederland will further advise those (and other) organisations about using free licenses.

included in wikizine 82 . Thanks. --Walter 10:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

It.wiki and italian government

hi Walter, a special report from it.wiki for Wikizine. We are proud of these successes, really outstanding for an association with only 100 members. Usually, politics in Italy is quite far from people requests... (p.s. of course I am willing to help with wikizine, just let me know what I can do)--Jollyroger 08:19, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Recently, Wikimedia Italia had some interesting involvements with italian government institutions.

• it:Utente:Frieda (WMF board member, former WMI president and wikimedia evangelist) was invited by the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, to help starting a project to improve the diffusion of Wikimedia projects in italian schools and to involve more teacher and students to edit and to produce free knowledge.
• After discussion involving some wikipedians, the Italian parliamentarian Franco Grillini, member of the Camera dei Deputati, proposed to introduce freedom of panorama in the italian copyright law.
• it:Utente:Senpai had contacts with the head of Soprintendenza dei beni culturali of Firenze (the agency legally owning the rights of reproduction of paintings and arts in the Florence museums) that resulted in a chance of being authorized to use art related images on WM projects. Not much time ago, the Soprintendenza asked firmly to remove all the images taken in those museums (this apply only to photos made by italians and subject to italian law).
• After a long debate that involved WMI, a group of parliamentarians proposed a law amendment to allow fair use in Italy, "for encyclopedic use". Proposal is still being evaluated, but had positive opinions from the Commissione Cultura and other institutions.

Used in wikizine 82, thank you --Walter 12:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

WIkimedia Sweden founded.

Hello. Yesterday Wikimedia Sweden was founded in Stockholm, Sweden. Our presscontact Lennart Guldbrandsson was elected Chair. For the board several members of communty was elected as well as persons from the free kniowledge movement of Sweden, one of them being Lars Aronsson en:susning.nu (once the next largets wiki in the world before it was closed) founder. �Joakim Larsson 10:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

thanks, in wikizine 83 --Walter 12:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles?

[Milestone] "The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles". This is incorrect. The vi.wikipedia have 25.502 articles until 00:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC). Borgx 00:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

thanks, will run correction in wikizine 83 --Walter 12:50, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

huwiki 75k

Hi! The Hungarian Wikipedia just reached 75.000 articles. --Tgr 00:55, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

ok, thanks. in wikizine 83 --Walter 12:49, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Extensions

Walter, you don't think extensions can be part of the Wikizine? Extensions on one hand are not Wikimedia (therefor: no), as most of them are not considered for the core of MediaWiki, but on the other hand: there is no report at all on extensions, and some of them are or might be useful if only for a few projects. For instance the Quiz extension is only used on Wikiversity. To retrieve this information has cost me about one hour, a shame it was lost. Londenp 12:30, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Peter, ik heb dat onderdeel eruit genomen omdat het niet past in Wikizine. Dat gaat over mogelijkheden die men aan een MediaWiki-installatie kan toevoegen. Wikizine is geen nieuwsbrief over MediaWiki maar over de wikimedia-projecten. Berichten over MediaWiki horen thuis in Wikizine voor zover die relevant zijn voor Wikimedia-projecten. Een nieuwe speciale pagina, een nieuwe extensie die actief is geworden op de WMF-wikis of een bepaalde wiki dat is iets om te vermelden. Maar niet over potentiële functionaliteiten.

Dit gezegd zijnde, ik kan mij niet veroorloven uw bijdragen aan Wikizine te verliezen. Als het moet kan ik het wel opnemen voor deze keer. Groet, --Walter 13:14, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Walter, zeker niet. Ik zie in dat je gelijk hebt. Een meningsverschil is er om uitgesproken te worden en daarna hopelijk dezelfde mening te hebben. Dus: extensies vermelden wanneer het deel uitmaakt van een Wikimedia-project: dat is de grens (niet de potentiële dus). Daar kan ik het mee eens zijn. Groeten Londenp 15:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

1(0)000 FP

Hi Walter, we celebrated the 1000th featured picture on Commons, not the 10,000. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 22:44, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template/nl

Hi Walter, could you please be a bit more cautious when editing widely-used interface pages? You accidentally added a <pre> tag when you created this page, and it subsequently broke the message on many wikis defaulting to the nl template. AmiDaniel 10:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

? That was a non-existing page I created. The idea was to make a translation of the new banner now live on EN Wikipedia as Brion suggested. But I can not find the strings in it that need to be translated. So far I know that page MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template/nl is not used. --Walter 10:23, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

When a page for the particular language does not yet exist, all wikis of that language default to the template MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template. When you create one, like MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template/nl, all Dutch-language wikis then use that template instead. The messages that needed translation were pages like MediaWiki:Centralnotice-counter/nl, etc. (I believe they've all been translated now). Anyway, I'm sorry for the confusion, but thank you for your help. AmiDaniel 02:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

donatieoproep/NL/van de voorzitter

Hej Walter. Ik volgde in de Nederlandstalige donatieoproep op de wiki's de link naar het woordje van de voorzitter op de site van de foundation. Leuk stukje, maar de eerste zin is wat gedateerd. Maar ik mag geen aanpassingen doen, dus zou jij voor mij even op edit willen drukken en van "zal aan 2007 beginnen" iets maken als "is aan 2007 begonnen"? Want 2007 is al bijna voorbij... Alvast dank en hartelijke groet, MigGroningen 11:47, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Toen dat geschreven is was het begin 2007. De nieuwe versie is niet beschikbaar in het Nederlands, heb dat er dan ook zo bijgeschreven. --Walter 12:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

P.S.: Kun jij toevallig ook gebruikers toevoegen op de WikimediaFoundation? Ik zou wel interesse hebben. Of zit er nog een procedure aan?

Neen, ik kan veel maar dat niet. Of juister; mag dat niet doen. Verzoeken voor een login is op Request for an account on the Foundation wiki --Walter 12:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

ComCom and Wikinews

Hi Walter, Cary has just asked if I was interested in joining ComCom, and has put my "yes" to the rest of the committee. In looking through the members I picked you out as a name I recognised as a fellow Belgian resident. What I'm interested in is getting the generally newsworthy stuff out of your Wikizine and onto Wikinews. That's things like projects reaching article count milestones and such, perhaps having a "Wikinews on Wikis, what's happening locally" article every month or so covering the same as you do, but for the general public - not just wiki editors who subscribe.

Thoughts? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 19:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Brain, If you can use Wikizine for something then that would be great. If you are interested in project milestones then the page you have to watch is Wikimedia News. I personally do not like project milestones and only report a very limited of those.

If I can help or you see a way to work together I am interested. Greetings, --Walter 12:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for blocking anonymous vandal at Volapük Wikipedia. Malafaya 21:02, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I have a news...

Hi Walter,

the Italian edition of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Italia have been awarded the "Premio Aretê 2007 - forum per la Comunicazione Responsabile" (Aretê prize - forum for the responsible communication) for the "internet" section with the following motivation

"for the commitment in favour of the diffusion of the universal knowledge, in a free, collaborative and constructive way, in the real spirit of the original ideals of the Net."

The prize has been consigned by the minister of the Communications (on. Paolo Gentiloni), president of the jury, in Rome on last November 5th.

Details will follow shorty on-line at http://www.premioarete.it/forum07.php.

Thank you for your attention. And thank you for taking care of Wikizine. Bye. --Paginazero - Ø 17:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank ende you. I can not use the word "consigned", that is to difficult. I will use "The prize has been presented by the ..." --Walter 15:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Request for removal of access processed

Hello Walter. Your request for removal of access has been granted and archived (see "Rob Hooft @ nl wiki"). —{admin} Pathoschild 05:13:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

thanks --Walter 21:07, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

For Wikizine: Pywikipediabot

Plans are currently being made for a major overhaul of the code of the Pywikipediabot framework. The main goals are to start using the MediaWiki API and to unify the coding style.

Voor wikizine 84, bedankt --Walter 21:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

For Wikizine: New DVD

Tomorrow is the scheduled release date of the new Wikipedia DVD in german language. This time it will be available either as a basic edition that contains thumbnail images only (10 €) or a premium edition that will include higher quality pictures as well as a bonus disc with 1900s encyclopedia Meyers (25 €, total 4 DVDs). An image of the DVD will be available for downloading. See de:Wikipedia:DVD (I did not find an english language source). --Wikifitz 21:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

fantastic --Walter 11:28, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine: Request for help

German Wikipedia OTRS helpdesk and press relations group are still looking for someone who can support the development and implementation of an asterisk software solution featuring LRU call management, forced log-off and a web frontend to display status information. Queue size dimensioning would be nice, as well as a web/sms frontend for the press people to configure call diversions. Anyone able to help please contact w:de:User:-jha- or, if you can read german, go to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS/Asterisk-Projekt

--Wikifitz 08:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

IN wikizine 85 --Walter 16:45, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine News byte

At 593 000 articles, the French Wiktionary is now larger in number than English Wiktionary (592 000 articles. I believe this is the first time a non-English version project has passed the English version in terms of size. Cary Bass ^demandez 18:12, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

in wikizine 85, thanks. --Walter 16:49, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the French Wiktionnaire has done this before, both times by tremendous bot-operator effort. The English Wiktionary needs this sort of kick in the pants occasionally.  :-) But if last time was any indication, it won't remain ahead for very long. --Connel MacKenzie 17:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Stats in latest wikizine

Hi, I just wanted to point out that, contrary to what was written in Wikizine nr. 85, there have been at least one earlier occasion where a non-English project passed the corresponding English in size. The occasion I'm thinking of was also due to the French Wiktionary passing the English. This was the case, according to Erik Zachte's statistics [11], between January 2006 and August 2006. (see also [12]).

Regards, \Mike(z) 09:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. I do not this important enough to include a correction in the next edition but will put a not on the blog about it. --Walter 16:59, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

--Walter 17:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine: A nice one maybe for the press section

In a test initiated by the german weekly newsmag "Stern", the german language version of Wikipedia was compared to the publisher Brockhaus' new online version of its 15-volume encyclopedia classic, which is paid subscription only. Experts at a cologne research institution judged 50 random articles from all fields for correctness, completeness, comprehensibility and up-to-dateness (Brockhaus claims to have its online encyclopedia updated all the time). On a scale from 1 (good) to 6 (bad), Wikipedia received an overall of 1.7, while Brockhaus only was given an average of 2.7. In 43 cases the Wikipedia article was declared winner over its Brockhaus equivalent. Brockhaus was criticised for not having entered the information of Luciano Pavarotti's death or Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize in literature even by December 2nd, on the other hand Wikipedia was said to be hard to understand for non-experts and too discursive at times (But we all knew that already, didn't we?). Links: http://www.presseportal.de/pm/6329/1096919/gruner_jahr_stern (stern story), http://www.brockhaus.de/nachschlagen/ (brockhaus online) --Wikifitz 11:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

in wikizine 86 --Walter 17:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Gadgets

I didn't think it was so important when i noticed, but since several people have asked me about it, i thought I tell you: the first place where the Gadgets extension went live (Nov. 14.) was the German Wikipedia. Only after it was evaluated there, and a few bugs fixed, was it enabled on frwiki and commons, and later enwiki. I guess people at dewiki are proud of their guneap pig status and like to see it mentioned :)

Regards -- Duesentrieb 12:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Although a thing very much alike is available for ages in en.wiktionary wikt:Wiktionary:Preferences. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 12:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

If I knew that I would have included that aspect. For the future; when there are experiments like this the DE community is welcome to inform me about it. Note that there is also a DE version of Wikizine. http://de.wikizine.org --Walter 17:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

That of Wiktionary I did not knew. Not sure of and how I can use it. --Walter 17:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

The Wiktionary preferences allow anonymous IPs to use the various Wiktionary-specific preferences (such as navigation popups, chat.wikizine.org links, etc.) Since the Wiktionary-specific preferences are browser based, they can be different for each different browser you use and don't require registering an account. Special customizations for Wiktionary format differences are built-in there, as well. (Just using the Wikipedia navigation popups doesn't work quite as well.) --Connel MacKenzie 17:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Report: Indonesian Wikipedia seminar

On 20-21 November 2007, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Republic of Indonesia, invited Indonesian Wikipedians to give two-days seminar about "Writing in the Internet" taking a place at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC). These seminars were in an agenda of the government's "Indonesian Information and Communication Technology Awards (INAICTA) 2007". Indonesian Vice President, Mr Jusuf Kalla, with the Minister, Mr Mohammad Nuh, attended the opening ceremonials.

Indonesian Wikipedia users Meursault2004, IvanLanin, Rex, and Serenity were sent to lead the seminars. In two days, over 80 people registered for the seminar, and most of them were new to edit Wikipedia. Since Indonesian Wikipedia has only about 30-40 active contributors, the number 80 newly interested users is a surprising point.

INAICTA agenda: http://www.ina-ictawards.web.id/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37

~Rex^{••talk••} 09:29, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

OTRS Multichill

Hoi Walter,

Ik ben bezig om een hoop afbeeldingen over te zetten vanaf de nl wikipedia naar commons. Daarbij kom ik regelmatig otrs tickets tegen. Ik zou graag toegang willen hebben zodat ik deze kan checken. Multichill 17:51, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Dag Multichill, bericht ontvangen. Is er geen bewaar om uw echte naam kenbaar te maken en ook uw geboortedatum aan de WMF? --Walter 16:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Als het daarbij blijft vind ik het prima. Ik heb je een mailtje gestuurd. Multichill 21:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hoi Walter, ik heb eigenlijk niets meer van je gehoord. Heb je m'n mailtje gekregen? Multichill 00:25, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Dag Multichill. Ik heb dit opgenomen met het huidige OTRS-team voor de NL-projecten en er is een negatief advies. Niet dat we iets tegen u hebben, enkel dat we u niet goed genoeg kennen en dat u nog niet zo lang bij Wikipedia betrokken bent als moderator. Groet, --Walter 08:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikizine: Google's "knol"

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html --Wikifitz

Wikipedia Weekly and the announce-l Mailing list

Would you mind if Wikipedia Weekly shared the same mailing list as Wikizine? --The Placebo Effect 01:48, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I would mind. I am in contact with Andrew about that. --Walter 09:14, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

confirmation mail

Hi Walter, I can't send You the confirmation mail because I get the mail returned with the error: mailbox is full. :(

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 21:19, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Strange. I have got the emails. And my mailbox is not full. In any case authorization is accepted and you are on the list. Greetings, --Walter 21:46, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Walter I got a bounce too, can you add me please? much appreciated. ++Lar: t/c 23:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews a reliable source for Wikipedia?

Interessante discussie op w:en:Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Wikinews:_Please_post_definite_answer. Seg Walter, waarom heeft Wikizine geen eigen Wiki, of ten minste een plaats ergens op Meta ofzo waar je stukjes kan helpen schrijven? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:35, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Bedankt. Wikizine heeft een eigen (private) wiki. En sinds een poosje is de constructie van wikizine terug op meta; Wikizine. Daar helpen schrijven is welkom. Maar gewoon nieuws melden is ook goed hoor. --Walter 22:52, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Item for Wikizine: en:User:BOTijo/Images for biographies/1

Hi, this is an interesting thing created by commons:User:Emijrp. It was announced at Commons at commons:Commons:Village_pump#Help_the_smallest_Wikipedias_to_improve. It provides a really quick easy way to add an image to a person's biography article in various language Wikipedias. It is easy, fun, quick and useful, so good for Wikizine I think. cheers --pfctdayelise 11:44, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, in wikizine LXXXIX --Walter 10:42, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Foutje

Het is al te laat, maar in de laatste Wikizine (Number LXXXIX) stond er "On January 15, Wikipedia will be 8 years old" maar Wikipedia is dan 7 jaar oud. SPQRobin 10:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Bedankt. --Walter 19:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat right

Hi, I notice you made yourself a bureaucrat on Meta here. Since Meta now has more than 5 elected bureaucrats, would you mind removing the right? Thanks. Majorly (talk) 17:13, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I have removed my bureaucrat and check user status on meta. I was not aware that I had those. Greetings, --Walter 19:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Commons:Picture of the Year/2007

Hi Walter, it would be much appreciated if you could report about the Commons Picture of the Year competition in the next Wikizine. The images are 514 images that were made Featured Picture during 2007. Any Wikimedian with > 200 edits in a single project is eligible to vote. There are two rounds. Round 1 is from 10-17 January and voting is "approval": you can vote for as few or as many as you like. (The images are arranged in categories for viewing, but the categories are not used in calculating votes.) The top 28 images by number of votes will go through to the final. The final runs from 20-24 January and voting for that is single vote. Voting is conducted on custom software created by User:Bryan and runs on the toolserver. People can request voting tokens at Commons:Picture of the Year/2007/Voting (you need email enabled, then you get an email which has the voting link). We also have complete translations and committee members for 12 languages besides English. :) thanks, pfctdayelise 05:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Walter, I don't know what's happened to this week's Wikizine, I miss it! I hope things are OK with you. Since the date is quite late now it may be better to mention the final for POTY. 20-24 January 2008. Candidates are the top 28 from Round 1 by number of votes (ignoring categories). Single vote + optional write-in comment. thanks, pfctdayelise 00:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

thanks, komt in Wikizine 90 --Walter 15:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Picture of the Year

Hoi Walter,

hierbij wat nieuws voor Wikizine.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Picture_of_the_Year .

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

bedankt, komt in Wikizine 90 --Walter 15:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Two Wikisource & Commons related news

• oldwikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium#Copyright_clarifications_from_Mike_Godwin
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikisource-l/2008-January/000363.html

555 22:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

thanks --Walter 17:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, I am new on meta, could you give me any beginner advice? It would be appreciated, thanks, I am a user on wikipedia with the same username, so I am not a beginner editor, thanks again, cheers. Earthbendingmaster 01:15, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

No, I can not. --Walter 15:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

en.wikizine.org makes my browser die :(

Hey Walter,

I don't know whatever Blogger script you have on that page, but it totally freezes my browser. I miss Wikizine :( Please come back soon... --pfctdayelise 11:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Pfctdayelise, I have hoster problems. It was down for a week and now up but not working very well so am at a back-up location. en.wikzine.org is up and I have disabled scripts that can not run at my current host. I hope it works now. I will send out Wikizine 91 now very soon. --Walter 22:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikimania Call for Participation

Hi Walter,

could you please bring attention again to the Wikimania 2008 Call for Participation on http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation ? Submissions are open until 16 March. Submissions are warmly welcomed. Effeietsanders 18:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

ok, bedankt. --Walter 22:42, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikizine in Polish?

Hey. A couple of people have just started out a translation team for pl-en-pl. We're just organising ourselves, but ultimately one of the things we want to do is Wikizine. If we manage to get things under control, can we make it a regular language with an appropriate section on the Wikizine website? And if possible, is there a chance to get some materials in advance in order to prepare the Polish edition as soon as possible? Regards, Wojciech Pędzich Talk 23:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, in principle I would welcome very much a polish version of Wikizine. But I would like you to think about this good. There is also Wikizine en Español, Wikizine auf Deutsch and Wikizine bahasa Indonesia. All those editions have a very difficult history. People volunteers to do it, and then after a couple editions at best the are gone. And then I need to send out several emails begging people to help out. Something then someone new start again to do it and then the are gone again. All those editions have a history of people try to do it but the do not keep doing it. The result is that only an irregular number editions get translated.

I do not like to have yet an other version of Wikizine where I have only problems with.

So I ask you; are you committed to really to do this? Now, next week, next month, next year? If so then I would welcome PL Wikizine to the club. But I am not looking to start yet an other disappointment. To proceed please send me an email. --Walter 16:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I know that a start-up team might be difficult to work with. I asked this question rather in a prospective manner and I'm glad with your willingness for us to join the club.

I would like to see how the team works out and whether they (or we - I also translate) are capable of producing an issue a week. Then, allow me the liberty of getting back to you with a more specified cooperation question. Regards, Wojciech Pędzich Talk 20:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikizine

Hi Walter: I get Wikizine by email, and really think you do a good service for the community. I noticed that your English translation today had some unusual sentence structure and grammar, particularly on the interview. I'm sure that's because of the Babel translation. While I can't offer to translate for you, I can offer to edit for clarity on the English version if that's something you think would be helpful. Just let me know if you'd like that at some point. Thanks for your service to the community. Philippe 20:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Philippe, thanks for the feedback. If you like to help with Wikizine please subscribe to this list for the editors/staff/people who like to help out. Requests for help are posted there. Greetings, --Walter 21:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

"In The News" reform

Hi Walter,

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate announcement for Wikizine, but I'll suggest it anyway. There is a proposal to reform the "In The News" section on the w:en:main page. Whereas all of the other sections, like Featured Articles, get updated every day, ITN gets two or three new news items a week. For example, the same picture of w:en:Fernando Lugo has been on ITN since April 20, almost two weeks. In addition, deaths like w:en:Arthur C. Clarke don't make it to the main page, nor items of "local" interest like the London mayoral election. I think a lot of editors would support something more open and dynamic. If you would like to help in this reform proposal, please see w:en:Wikipedia:In The News 2.0. Thanks. 66.140.45.123 07:53, 4 May 2008 (UTC) (Lovelac7)

1. Subscription, 2. Wikizine titleline

Hi Walter,

• I have recently asked you to stop delivering Wikizine to me as I had no time to read it. Now I'd like to ask you to put me back onto the list of readership.
• I hope you don't find this offensive: I would like to ask you if it was possible to give the titleline a bit more of a professional look, (any Wiki print would be better) which would give it better legibility, as the current one is difficult to read.

LouisBB 07:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I am not sure what you mean. I have not received or processed any manual request for unsubscribtion from EN Wikizine. Normally you do that yourself. If you wish to subscribe to wikizine go to http://www.wikizine.org and do so.

Regarding your titleline comment; I do not understand what you mean.

--Walter 13:29, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Walter,

een tekst verwijderen is wel heel simpel. Wat is reclame en wat niet; een uitleg van een service is toch geen reclame?

Ik kan niet zeggen dat het mij duidelijk is waarover u het heeft. Zonder meer informatie en context kan ik geen reactie geven. --Walter 07:07, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

usurp in tr tr.wikipedia.org

I want to usurp tr:user:orion(a few contribution)for SUL.I'm a active editor of zh:user:orion,Can you rename the account in tr.wiki? Thank You.

You need to request that not here but on the steward request page for that. Steward requests/SUL requests --Walter 11:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikizine: Discussion on Meta

Dear Walter, please could You maybe add a note to this discussion to the next edition of Wikizine.
Many thanks in advance, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:49, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. I will not use it. More news is very welcome. --Walter 21:56, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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Geen autoriteit meer aanwezig op nl:Wikipedia

Beste Walter,

Je zult het vermoedelijk al hebben gezien, maar ik meld toch maar even dat op nl:Wikipedia de Arbcom al enige tijd haar werkzaamheden heeft opgeschort. Er staan verzoeken open vanaf april, waar niets mee wordt gedaan. Gebruikers die bijvoorbeeld langdurig worden geblokkeerd kunnen nu nergens terecht.[13] Het ernstigst is de situatie voor Castruccio, die tot 'ingelogde vandaal' is bestempeld en voor onbepaalde tijd is geblokkeerd, terwijl hij slechts schuldig is aan het op fatsoenlijke wijze uiten van kritiek. Zelf ben ik al voor 4 weken geblokkeerd geweest omdat ik op een andere dag van de maand archiveerde dan een moderator Oscar wenste en momenteel voor 3 maanden omdat ik 'niet zou meewerken' (geen idee wat daarmee wordt bedoeld, of het moet slaan op een email van dezelfde moderator waarin hij mij op onbeleefde toon verzocht om mee te werken aan een ontmoeting IRL, waar ik bepaald geen trek in had en dus niet op ben ingegaan).

Is het mogelijk dat deze verzoeken door een Steward worden afgehandeld als de Arbcom niet spoedig haar werkzaamheden hervat? Guido den Broeder 09:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Bedankt om dit te laten weten aangaande voor wikizine. Ik wist dit niet.

Als steward kan ik zeggen dat met zoiets een steward zich totaal niet mag mee bemoeien. Stewards zijn geen wiki-rechters ofzo. Dit is puur een interne zaak van wikipedia NL. --Walter 13:58, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: Sinds gisteren lukt het mij niet meer om de chatfunctie van Wikizine te gebruiken. Guido den Broeder 09:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Ik zal er naar zien maar ik kan er eigenlijk niet niets aan doen. Ik heb een host nodig die IRC via cgi wil toelaten en buiten memobot die ik gebruik (gratis) heb ik geen hosting beschikbaar daarvoor. --Walter 13:58, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Het is me zojuist weer gelukt om op de chat te komen. Groetjes, Guido den Broeder 14:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)