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Wikizine | 6 Mar 2006 21:09
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Wikizine - number: 16

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Year: 2006  Week:10   Number: 16

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=== Technical news ===

[E-mail] Wikipedia e-mail confirmation has been enabled. To receive
Wikipedia e-mail, you must go to Special:Confirmemail, request a code,
and follow the link in the e-mail. The reason is that Wikimedias
mailserver is blacklisted by SpamCop, allegedly for sending mail to
spamtrap addresses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Confirmemail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Confirmemail_text
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Mail_server_blacklisted_by_SpamCop

[Conversion] sr WP now start Cyrillic alphabet ←→ Latin alphabet
automatic conversion.
http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0
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Wikizine | 13 Mar 2006 01:42
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Wikizine - number: 17

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Year: 2006  Week: 11  Number: 17

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=== Technical news ===

[More anti-spam] On the smaller wikis you need from now on to enter a
word displayed as a image (captcha) if you are an anonymous user and you
are adding a URL to that page.

[Special Page] New option the find the edits done by newbies. use
[[Special:Contributions/newbies]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/newbies

=== Politics ===

[zh.wikinews?] It seems that the Chinese Wikinews finally will be
created soon.
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Wikizine | 21 Mar 2006 00:07
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Wikizine - number: 18

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Year: 2006  Week: 12  Number: 18

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[Move page] Normal users can now move back a moved page. Seems to work
on all WMF wikis.

Example; [[user:Tom]] moves page [[Tom's page]] to [[Tom's moved page]].
 [[Tom's page]] is a redirect to [[Tom's moved page]].

Any user (non-sysop) can now move [[Tom's moved page]] back to [[Tom's
page]]. [[Tom's moved page]] is a redirect then. This only works if the
redirected page is not edited. If so you need to delete it first.

A sysop has a option to delete the target page directly when moving that
page.
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Wikizine | 26 Mar 2006 22:23
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Wikizine - number: 19

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=== Community ===

[WP] Fourteen new wikipedias have been created: Dutch Low Sakson, West
Flamish, Ligurian, Kalmyk, Tetum, Papiamentu, Romany, Samogitian,
Ripuarian, Pennsylvania German, Franco-Provençal/Arpitan, Cantonese,
Banyumasan, and Norman.

The new Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 26 articles. According
to  Mark Williamson, the new Cantonese is very active in its first two days.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages#Recently_created_wikis
http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/26968

=== (Very) old technical news ===
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Wikizine | 30 Mar 2006 01:47
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Wikizine - number: 19 Extra

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=== The WMF is closing the French Wikiquote ===

The French language Wikiquote is closed by the foundation.

This notice is placed on the main page of the locked wiki;

<quote>
After analyzing the data contained in the fr.wikiquote site, the Wikimedia Foundation has determined
that the material stored in the fr.wikiquote database does not provide the basic assurance of legal
soundness necessary to the permanence of the project. Therefore, the site will be entirely taken down to
be erased and relaunched. A policy requiring greater traceability of quotations will be put in place on
fr.wikiquote version II. This action has been taken for the benefit of all Wikimedia Foundation projects.
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