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EN Wikizine | 22 May 2008 00:17
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EN Wikizine - Year: 2008 Week: 21 Number: 95

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Year: 2008  Week: 21  Number: 95

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=== Technical news ===

[Sighted revisions] - a system to hide edits made by certain groups of  
users from visitors as long as the edit is not approved by a user who  
has the user rights to approve the edit - This is now active on the  
German language Wikipedia. "Surveyor" is the title of a user who has  
approval rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-05-12/Sighted_revisions

[Special:GlobalUsers] - on this special page you can see who has a  
global account. Works on all wikis, not only Meta.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers
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EN Wikizine | 27 May 2008 23:48
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EN Wikizine - Year: 2008 Week: 22 Tech flash

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Year: 2008  Week: 22  Tech flash

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Single User Login (SUL), the system that you have one user account for  
all Wikimedia Foundation wikis is now live for all users. Until now it  
was only for sysops.

Please read first the documentation before about it before using it.  
Stewards can undo the merge of an account be try to avoid the need for  
it. If you wish to unsurp an account on some wiki do that before you  
merge your account.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount

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