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[Wikizine] - Year: 2012 Week: 4 Number: 132

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=== The EN Wikipedia goes offline for 24 hours ===

The community of the English language Wikipedia has decided to  
"blackout" the English Wikipedia for 24 hours. A sort of strike thus.  
The blackout goes in to effect from 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January  
18. The blackout is a protest against the proposed law of the United  
States of America "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA).

The protest is there because the proposed law is could harm the  
operation of community driven website like Wikipedia.

The decision of the Community of the English language Wikipedia is  
supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. This in the first time the  
English Wikipedia - the oldest and most popular of all Wikipedias -  
does something like this. The Italian language Wikipedia did this a
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EN Wikizine | 7 Jan 18:52
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[Wikizine] - Anno Domini MMXII Week II Number CXXXI

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=== Foundation ===

[Terms Of Use] - On websites the "Terms of Use" are what most of us  
frequently indicate to agree with but never reed. Also Wikipedia has a  
"Terms of Use". A "Terms of use" for Wikipedia came only to existence  
years after its founding and remained very basic. Until now. In  
original Wikimedia style a new Terms Of use have been written by the  
community at Meta. It is more extensive then the current but it  
remains, for a "Terms of Use", relative short and very readable. The  
WMF board still needs to approve it before it can replaces the current  
"Terms of Use".     http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/terms-of-use/
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use -- New "Terms of Use"  
(final community draft)

[The Annual Fundraiser] - Despite the economic problems of the world -
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Wikizine News - Year: 2011 Week: 39 Number: 129

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=== Technical news ===

[Babel on all Wikis] - There are a great deal of templates and signs  
that one can put on there user page. One of the most useful are the  
Babel-templates that indicate the knowledge of different languages.  
Now is there an extension active on all wikis for that. No need to  
manually setup all those templates on all wikis. The structure is  
easy; see the excellent blog posting of Mister Internationalisation  
himself - Gerard Meijssen.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/21/babel-extension-live-on-the-wmf-projects/

[New mobile gateway] - There is a new mobile gateway active for the  
Wikipedias. The the other projects will follow. This is provided by  
new extension of MediaWiki 1.17, the software our wikis are using.  
This replaces the old mobile gateway.
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Wikizine Opinion - Year: 2011 Week: 38 Number: 128 BIS

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=== Wikizine needs YOU! ===

Wikipedia has already changed the world. Wikimedia movement is at the  
beginning of that task. To push the movement into that direction,  
Wikizine needs your '''bold''' ideas and personal perspectives! Send  
your ideas to us or simply add them into the appropriate section. What  
YOU think can change the world!

[Name] - Working title of this edition is "Wikizine Talk Edition"  
because we didn't have better idea. Send us suggestions for the name!

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Wikizine News - Year: 2011 Week: 38 Number: 128

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=== Wikizine ===

[Your reports] - Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on  
Meta or in our Google form.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-129
http://tinyurl.com/5rpahqt

=== Movement ===

[Wikinews fork] - The Open Globe, a Wikinews fork, has been announced.  
The fork produced much discussion on Foundation-l about the causes of  
the fork, Wikimedia Foundation support for projects other than  
Wikipedia, and the nature of Wikinews.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/068277.html
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EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 37 Number: 127

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=== Wikizine ===

[Editorial] - As Walter said in the previous edition, I took  
initiative and there are some changes in the Wikizine concept. But,  
more about them on Friday, in Talk Edition of Wikizine! Milos.

[Your reports] - Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on  
Meta or in our Google form.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-128
http://tinyurl.com/3w8wg5j

=== Request for Comments ===
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EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 36 Number: 126

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=== Wikizine ===

[Wikizine] - you may have have noticed changes to Wikizine in the most  
recent editions. This is under the impulse of user Millosh who has  
taken the lead in relaunching Wikizine. We love to hear your ideas and  
feedback about this.
http://report.wikizine.org

[Your reports] - Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on  
Meta or in our Google form.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-127
http://tinyurl.com/3pjq9yg
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Wikizine - number:11

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=== Technical news ===

[Captcha] For anti-spam reasons you have to enter the code displayed as a
graphic to sign-up for an account on the smaller wikis. There is not yet a
solution for visually limited users. 
http://fy.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup

[Anti-spam] Tim Starling has made spam-removing scripts. I your wiki is infested
with url-spam, Tim can wipe it clean. Ask at #wikimedia-tech.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/21785

[New Dump] of the database of all projects is running.
http://download.wikimedia.org/
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Wikizine - number: 10

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=== Technical news ===

[Anonnotice] - The MediaWiki-page [[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]] for putting a
notice on top of every page of the wiki and used for things like the fund
drives, is now divided. The notice put on [[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]] is only
displayed to logged-on users. The new MediaWiki-page
[[Mediawiki:Anonnotice]] is for showing a notice only to anonymous users.
So if you need to display a notice to all users you need to modify
"[[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]]" and "[[Mediawiki:Anonnotice]]".

If you put {{:MediaWiki:Sitenotice}} inside [[Mediawiki:Anonnotice]] then
everything will behave as before.

[Stewards] can now again set rigths for the wikis hosted on the
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Wikizine - number: 9

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[+] plus signs are now allowed in titles.
example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++

[Test] test wiki runs from the current NFS copy of MediaWiki. Changes to
the code will generally appear here a few minutes before they appear on
the rest of the Wikimedia wikis.
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

=== Foundation ===

[Steward] the board approved 9 new stewards.
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Wikizine - number: 8

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=== Technical news ===

[[Special:Disambiguations]] works again on all Florida-cluster wikis.
You just have to make sure that the template being used to flag
disambiguation pages is correctly set in:  [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]

It must be part of the template:namespace ( aka template:<something> ).

Example:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage

[[Special:Unwatchedpages]], the page where you can see the pages that
are not on someone's watchlist. If you are sysop you can find it in the
"Restricted special pages"-section. It lists just the first 1000 pages
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