Gumagamit:WikimediaNotifier/notifications
]Wikimedia notification system
2008-11-12
This is a global notification system for all Wikimedia wikis!
If it should be necessary to inform many wikis about something important, a global notification can be requested at meta:Global notifications/requests. It is possible to have wiki and/or language dependent text within every message. All Meta notifications are synchronized automatically, either on all wikis or just on specific, selected ones.
- Now it is possible to reach all wiki communities easily and entirely, not just those active users that regularly visit our Meta wiki or read the Wikizine for example.
To have a common access point, the messages are updated at Gumagamit:WikimediaNotifier/notifications (mirrored, any changes to this page will be overwritten; use a separate page for translation); you can include this page(s) like a template wherever you want, let's say your village pump, giving a description in your language!
Have a look on the Frequently Asked Questions to see how it can fit your needs!
- With SynchCrosswiki there furthermore is an easy way to create or synchronize pages like user scripts on all wikis!
… it's for spreading information; and for a better cross-wiki communication & collaboration!
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Wikipedia globe logo
2008-11-13
A dedicated project aims on fixing errors on the globe of Wikipedia's logo as well as deciding another characters to complement the globe in its missing parts! This will not just improve Wikipedia's logo, it will for example also allow to produce three-dimensional Wikipedia globes.
Go and take part at meta:Wikipedia/Logo!
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Translation of the Week
2008-11-10
This week's article for the translation of the week is:
1999 East Timorese crisis
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Fundraising 2008
2008-11-04
Wikimedia is starting with the 2008 fundraiser. It is being turned on gradually and will finally run until the middle of January 2009.
The goal is to get 6 million US$ donated.
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GNU Free Documentation License 1.3
2008-11-03
The GNU Free Documentation License has been released in version 1.3 by its responsible Free Software Foundation.
This is not least a result of a request by our Board of Trustees in December 2007, trying to offer us a possibility to also license and share our wiki contents under the easier to use Creative Commons CC-BY-SA (Attribution + ShareAlike) license.
The Wikimedia Foundation will soon organize a community wide referendum to decide whether our GNU FDL licensed wikis should be made availabe under the terms of this free and common CC-BY-SA license too, see dual-licensing.
See also a detailed summary for further reading.(source)
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External Wikipedia Survey
2008-11-02
There is a Wikipedia survey, developed by UNU-MERIT (United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Center) together with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia. It already has been translated into different languages by Wikimedia volunteers.
The Collaborative Creativity Group investigates the socio-economics of collaboration across all domains such as free content and innovation in collaborative communities. UNU-Merit's research interests are purely scientific in nature.
The survey will allow the Wikimedia community to understand who our readers and contributors are, why they come to Wikipedia, what they think about it, and how they use it. The survey will help WMF to find the best ways to engage new and existing contributors.
Just take part in the survey: survey.wikipediastudy.org
See Wikipedia:Survey 2008 for more information.
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Namespace: Image => File
2008-11-02
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As there are not just images located in the "Image:" namespace, this will soon (RSN since October) become a general "File:" namespace!
When live, the actual namespace prefix in titles and URLs will be different, according to your language. " [[File:]] instead of [[Image:]]! |
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Interlanguage links
2008-11-02
Beside the ongoing discussion about introducing an interlanguage extension on Wikimedia projects to improve and centralize interwiki linking, an attempt to centralize the discussion about interlanguage link conflicts has been set up.
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Global bots
2008-11-01
On Meta, a bot account now can get a bot flag for all wikis that allow global bots!
To be able to run also on your Wikipedia, the community has to explicitly permit global bots by local policy, see list.
To qualify for global bot access, the following requirements must be met by a bot:
- it must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects
- it must already be active on several wikis, with long-term contributions to back up its trustworthiness
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Software localization
2008-11-01
The localization of Wikipedia's software (MediaWiki) and its extensions is an ongoing task!
Thus, there are statistics about how much of the core messages and system messages in total have been translated so far.
Please help translating our software at Betawiki (=TranslateWiki); have a look on the recent localization activity for your language [Cebuano].
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Earlier goings-on
2008-10-31
Most earlier global goings-on are listed at meta:Goings-on!
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