Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-04-26/News and notes
Wikimedia announcements, Wikipedia advertising, and more!
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Wikimedia announcements list formed
An announcements-only mailing list has been formed for the Wikimedia Foundation, as a mechanism for those who want to keep up with major Wikimedia and project news but don't want the traffic of Foundation-l in their inboxes.
The new list is called wikimediaannounce-l, and can be subscribed to here. To date there have been no postings beyond initial testing. The list in future will include press releases and major announcements from the Foundation, Wikimedia Chapters, and the community.
The types of posts to be accepted are detailed in the list guidelines on Meta, which were initially developed by Wikimedia Foundation Head of Communications Jay Walsh based on community ideas. This is the first announcements-only list for the Wikimedia community, although the general idea of an announcements list has been proposed several times in the past; the idea was brought up again last November during the discussions about moderating and improving Foundation-l, the open discussion list for the WMF (see previous story).
The announcements list is fully moderated; Walsh is the initial moderator. Replies sent to the list will go directly to Foundation-l, which is open participation. Everyone interested in Wikimedia news is encouraged to subscribe to the new list.
Wikipedia on transit
Advertisements featuring Wikipedia and Wikimedia began appearing on Berlin subways last week, in a project run by Wikimedia Deutschland (Germany). According to Catrin Schoneville, press contact for Wikimedia Deutschland, the ads were produced by TV production company Berliner Fenster GmbH, who were contacted by Wikimedia volunteer Juliana da Costa.
The ads feature short "did you know" clips and information about Wikimedia. There spots are showing on 3768 double screens in 1106 wagons, approximately 8 spots per hour, with an average of 1.5 million viewers per day. The advertisements are worth approximately 150.000 €/month. Wikimedia Deutschland hopes to expand the program to more cities' subways as well.
Some more pictures of the ads can be found on Commons.
WMF hiring leadership
A Head of Office Administration job has been added to the list of current job openings at the Wikimedia Foundation; this job closes 1 May. In addition to the office administration position, which will manage "the administrative services support team" and functions related to the physical office, several core leadership and management positions are currently open at the Foundation. These including Chief Human Resources Officer (will manage issues related to HR), Chief Global Program Officer (will manage the Programs department, including outreach and communication), and Chief Development Officer (manages the fundraising plan), all of which are "open until filled." The Chief Human Resources and Chief Development officer positions are newly created positions.
News from other Wikipedias
In late March, the Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia opened its doors. At the same time, after being closed and its database locked some time ago, the Tokipona Wikipedia was completely removed.
The Esperanto Wikipedia declared April to be the "Month of Wikipedia" ("Monato de Vikipedio"), featuring a community-supported contest with prizes to expand articles in the list of 1000 articles.
News from Wikinews
Wikinews will be holding a writing contest from 1 May to 22 May. All are invited to compete; winners will receive barnstars.
Furthermore, the Audio Wikinews project has been revived. Help is needed in recording two to five minute newscast summaries of each day's top stories on Wikinews. Those who are interested may post a message on the project talk page.
Milestones
The following project milestones were reached in March and April:
- The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 13,000 entries.
- The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles with Karoha.
- The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
- The Thai Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
- The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 2,000,000 edits.
- The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
- Wikimedia reached 1,000,000,000 edits.
- The Greek Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
- The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles with Список країн за видобутком вугілля.
- The Catalan Wikibooks has reached 1,000 pages.
- The Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
- The Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
- The Polish Wikisources has reached 15,000 text units.
- The Hebrew Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
- The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 500,000 articles.
- The Gan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles with 2001年邁阿密大師賽.
- The Catalan Wikipedia overtakes the Finnish Wikipedia.
- The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 25,000 articles.
- The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 17,000 entries.
- The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with Lugit.
- The Italian Wikiquote has reached 10,000 articles with Fazio degli Uberti.
- The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
- The French Wikiversity has reached 1,000 lessons.
- The Korean Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles.
- The Welsh Wiktionary has reached 1000 entries.
Discuss this story
- I think they're free (if I understand Google's translation correctly). 160.39.221.164 (talk) 06:44, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It should be noted that there was apparently only a test run of the Wikipedia subway "ads", and the project hasn't progressed further since April, according to this recent posting on the mailing list of the German chapter. Regards, HaeB (talk) 20:55, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]