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EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 38 Number: 119

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Year: 2009  Week: 38  Number:  119

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=== Technical news ===

[Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet] - Brion Vibber, the Chief  
Technical Officer, announced that he's leaving the Wikimedia  
Foundation after four years.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/announce-brion-moving-to-statusnet/
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/055358.html

[Labs: FlaggedRevs] - due to some miscommunications, a lot of people  
didn't realize that the FlaggedRevs labs test wiki has been active and  
waiting for people to poke at it for a month.  The developers need  
interested people to be set up as local administrators to try out the  
the per-page stabilization settings (accessed via the "protect" tab);
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EN Wikizine | 24 Oct 2009 03:16
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EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 41-42 Number: 120

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Year: 2009    Week: 41-42    Number: 120

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=== Technical news ===

[Wikimedia data sets] - Wikimedia XML data sets have been released on  
Amazon Public Data Sets.  This should help Wikimedians who do analysis  
on project data.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/wikimedia-xml-data-sets-released-on-amazon-public-data-sets/

[Media Features Gadget] - there is a "New Media Features" gadget on  
Commons.  When it is enabled, you can test out the new media  
developments from the Kaltura sponsorship.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/new-media-features-gadget/
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/23/kaltura-sponsors-michael-dale-open-source-video-developer/
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