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This is Wikipedia Weekly, Episode 1 for the week of October 16, 2006.

  1. Introduction of the panel
  2. Introduction to news sources
    • Signpost, started by Michael Snow
    • Wikizine, by walter (http://www.wikizine.org/)
      • [username@foobar.com] - New accounts on the WMF-wikis can not longer be created if the username contains the @-symbol. Existing users who have that symbol in there username can still login but only temporary. All these users need to request for a username change. Contact a local bureaucrat to do that or ask a steward if your wiki does not have a bureaucrat.
      • http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#Username_changes


  1. Latest news
    • No more @ signs in usernames, because of spamming, breaks stuff
    • Bot commons delinker
  1. Listener feedback
    • Leave on WP:WWPC
  1. Stats/numbers
  2. Closing theme
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