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**** Wikimania 2009 ****
 
(12 ndezigharị n'etiti na aka onye ọrụ ọzọ ezighị)
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<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small>2009-02-24</small></span>
<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_26">2009-04-20</small></span>
This week's article for the [[meta:Translation_of_the_week|translation of the week]]:&nbsp; <span style="position: absolute; top: -33px;">[[File:TOTW.png|54px|link=m:Translation_of_the_week]]</span><span style="position: relative; left: 54px;">&nbsp; '''[[:en:William_Wilson_(aquatics)|William Wilson (aquatics)]]'''</span>
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'''Wikimania 2009''', this year's global event devoted to [[foundation:|Wikimedia]] projects around the globe, is accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, [[wm2009:Call_for_Participation#Types_of_Submissions|panels]], posters, [[w:en:Open_Space_Technology|open space]] [[w:en:Open-space_meeting|discussions]], and even artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects or free content topics in general. The conference will be held from '''August 26''' to '''28''' in [[w:en:Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]], [[w:en:Argentina|Argentina]]!<br />For more information, check the official '''[[wm2009:Call for Participation|Call for Participation]]'''.
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<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_18">2009-02-23</small></span>
<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_1">2009-04-19</small></span>
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This week's article for the [[meta:Translation_of_the_week|translation of the week]]:&nbsp; <span style="position: absolute; top: -33px;">[[File:TOTW.png|54px|link=m:Translation_of_the_week]]</span><span style="position: relative; left: 54px;">&nbsp; '''[[:en:History of golf|History of golf]]'''</span>
The third annual '''[[m:commons:Project:Picture of the Year/2008/Voting|Picture of the Year Award]]''' on [[m:commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia Commons]] goes into its second (<u>final</u>) round!
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Have a look on the '''[[m:commons:Project:Picture of the Year/2008/Finalists|finalists]]''' and select your favourite featured picture of 2008.}}
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topic = GNU Free Documentation License 1.3
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<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_1">2009-02-20</small></span>
<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_5">2009-04-12</small></span>
<div style="float: left; margin-right: 15px;">[[File:Wikinews-logo-en.png|50px|link=http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Picture_of_the_Year_2008]]</div>
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The [[meta:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] has been released in [[w:en:GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Timeline|version 1.3]] by its responsible [[w:en:Free Software Foundation|Free Software Foundation]].<br />This is not least a result of a request by our [[wikimedia:Resolution:License_update|Board of Trustees]] in December 2007, trying to offer us a possibility to <u>also</u> license and share our wiki contents under the easier to use [[w:en:Creative_Commons_licenses#Original_licenses|Creative Commons CC-BY-SA]] (Attribution + ShareAlike) license.
Round 2 of the English [[m:n:Wikinews:Picture of the Year 2008|Wikinews Picture of the Year 2008]] vote is now open.<br />There are 11 semi-finalists, and all legitimate Wikimedians with more than 50 edits are '''[[m:n:Wikinews:Picture of the Year 2008|invited to vote]]'''!


The [[meta:Wikimedia Foundation|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 [[w:en:Dual-licensing|dual-licensing]].
''<u>This will be the final round</u>, unless there is a tie, in which case there will be a tie-breaking third round.''
<div style="float: right;">[[File:CC-logo.svg|75px|link=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0]]</div>

See also a [[mailarchive:foundation-l/2008-November/046996.html|detailed summary]] for further reading.<sup class="plainlinks">([http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/11/04/gnu-free-documentation-license-13-released/ source])</sup>

On [[meta:Licensing update|Meta]] you can find [[meta:Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers|further information (FAQ)]] and can [[meta:Licensing update|discuss]] the licensing update process of our wikis.
{{:User:WikimediaNotifier/updated|'''A vote on [[meta:Licensing update|Meta]] is taking place from [[meta:Licensing update/Timeline|April 12, 2009]] to [[meta:Licensing update/Timeline|May 3, 2009]].'''}}
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<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_1">2009-02-19</small></span>
<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_3">2009-03-25</small></span>
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<table><tr><td style="padding-right: 15px;" valign="top">[[File:Namespace MediaWiki.1.svg|100px|link=Special:Version]]<div style="font-size: smaller; text-align: center;">[http://techblog.wikimedia.org/ Technical Blog]</div></td>
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* ''2009-02-18:'' <span class="plainlinks">The [[Special:Version|MediaWiki software]] with its [[Special:Version|extensions]] has been [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Code/MediaWiki/releasenotes&startrev=46424&endrev=47457&path=/trunk/phase3 updated] to SVN revision '''[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Code/MediaWiki/releasenotes&startrev=46424&endrev=47457&path=/trunk/phase3 47457]''' ([http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?r1=46424&r2=47457 release notes]).</span><!--[[:mw:This week's updates]]-->
* ''2009-03-25:'' <span class="plainlinks">The [[Special:Version|MediaWiki software]] with its [[Special:Version|extensions]] has been [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Code/MediaWiki/releasenotes&startrev=47458&endrev=48811&path=/trunk/phase3 updated] to SVN revision '''[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Code/MediaWiki/releasenotes&startrev=47458&endrev=48811&path=/trunk/phase3 48811]''' ([http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?r1=47457&r2=48811 release notes]).</span><!--[[:mw:This week's updates]]-->
** ''Major new features:'' [[BugZilla:3311|Category redirects]], [[MediaWiki:Timezone-utc|translatable timezone abbreviations]] for signatures, [[BugZilla:14468|alternating classes]] for recent changes/watchlists.
* ''2009-01-28:'' There is a new [[:mw:Help:Magic_words|magic word]]: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[meta:Help:Magic_words#Other_2|GENDER]]:<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> &ndash; you can specify your gender at [[Special:Preferences]] and can even misuse that feature to show your ''(for IPs cached)'' [[bugzilla:17218|online status]], see [[betawiki:Gender|future uses]]<!--e.g. user namespace adaptation-->.
** ''Major new features:'' New [[:mw:Help:Magic_words|magic word]] <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[:mw:Help:Magic_words#Technical_metadata|REVISIONUSER]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>, new special page [[Special:GlobalGroupPermissions]] for [[Special:GlobalUsers|global users]]; [[:rev:48801|etc]].}}
* <span style="position: relative; margin-left: -20px; z-index: 9;">[[File:Stop bad orthography nuvola.svg|17px|link=w:en:Special:AbuseFilter]]</span> ''2009-03-17:'' The '''[[w:en:Special:AbuseFilter|AbuseFilter]]''' has also been activated for the English Wikipedia ''(Meta/dewiki: 2009-02-25)'' &ndash; the [[:mw:Extension:AbuseFilter|tool]] allows to automatically detect and/or prevent plain vandalism, spam and other pattern based changes.
* ''2009-01-27:'' [[:mw:Extension:Collection|Collections]] will [[meta:Book tool/Schedule|soon]] be activated for all Wikimedia projects where they make sense, like currently for [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/27/wiki-to-print-feature-in-testing-in-the-german-wikipedia/ Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia] ''(2009-02-19: fr, pl, nl, pt, es, simple)'' &ndash; the extension lets your readers create PDF books to possibly order printed books. Use '''[http://pediapress.com/collection/ www.pediapress.com/collection]''' to create cross-wiki article collections of almost all wikis out there.
* ''2009-03-16:'' [[BugZilla:17714|TIFF support]] on Commons, [[BugZilla:15842|file/image renaming]] available for SysOps (through the [{{:MediaWiki:Move}}] tab).
* ''2009-01-26:'' The [[:mw:Extension:AbuseFilter|AbuseFilter]] is ready for [http://leuksman.com/log/2009/01/26/testing-abusefilter-extension/ testing] &ndash; this extension will allow you to automatically detect spam, vandalism etc.
* ''2009-01-27:'' [[:mw:Extension:Collection|Collections]] will [[meta:Book tool/Schedule|soon]] be activated for all Wikimedia projects where they make sense, like currently for [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/27/wiki-to-print-feature-in-testing-in-the-german-wikipedia/ Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia] ''(2009-02-19: fr, pl, nl, pt, es, simple; en)'' &ndash; the extension lets your readers create PDF books to possibly order printed books. Use '''[http://pediapress.com/collection/ www.pediapress.com/collection]''' to create cross-wiki article collections of almost all wikis out there.
* ''2009-01-26:'' Wikimedia will [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/26/mozilla-and-wikimedia-join-forces-to-support-open-video/ improve Ogg Theora/Vorbis support] with the help of the Mozilla Foundation.
* ''2009-01-26:'' Wikimedia will [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/26/mozilla-and-wikimedia-join-forces-to-support-open-video/ improve Ogg Theora/Vorbis support] with the help of the Mozilla Foundation.
* ''2009-01-16:'' [[:mw:Extension:Drafts|Drafts]] are ready for [http://leuksman.com/log/2009/01/16/drafts-extension-enabled-on-test-wikipedia/ testing] &ndash; the extension makes backups of your unsaved edit sessions.
* ''2009-01-16:'' [[:mw:Extension:Drafts|Drafts]] are ready for [http://leuksman.com/log/2009/01/16/drafts-extension-enabled-on-test-wikipedia/ testing] &ndash; the extension makes backups of your unsaved edit sessions.
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<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small>2009-02-12</small></span>
<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small>2009-02-24</small></span>
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<div style="float: left; margin-right: 15px;">[[File:Wikimania.svg|50px|link=wm2009:Call_for_Participation]]</div>
'''Wikimania 2009''', this year's global event devoted to [[foundation:|Wikimedia]] projects around the globe, is accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, [[wm2009:Call_for_Participation#Types_of_Submissions|panels]], posters, [[w:en:Open_Space_Technology|open space]] [[w:en:Open-space_meeting|discussions]], and even artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects or free content topics in general. The conference will be held from '''August 26''' to '''28''' in [[w:en:Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]], [[w:en:Argentina|Argentina]]!<br />For more information, check the official '''[[wm2009:Call for Participation|Call for Participation]]'''.
The third annual '''[[m:commons:Project:Picture of the Year/2008/Voting|Picture of the Year Award]]''' on [[m:commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia Commons]] has started!<br />The first voting round will run from ''February 12th'' to February 26th (23:59 UTC).<br />''Take part and help translating the voting instructions into your language.''

Go through the beautiful [[m:commons:Project:Picture of the Year/2008/Galleries|galleries]] and select your favourite featured pictures of 2008.
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<div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;">[[Image:Bouncywikilogo.gif|60px|link=m:Wikipedia/Logo]]</div>
A dedicated [[meta:Wikipedia/Logo|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.<br />Go and take part at '''[[meta:Wikipedia/Logo]]'''!
A dedicated [[meta:Wikipedia/Logo|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.<br />Go and take part at '''[[meta:Wikipedia/Logo]]'''!
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<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small class="GN-update_1">2009-02-22</small></span>
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The [[meta:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] has been released in [[w:en:GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Timeline|version 1.3]] by its responsible [[w:en:Free Software Foundation|Free Software Foundation]].<br />This is not least a result of a request by our [[wikimedia:Resolution:License_update|Board of Trustees]] in December 2007, trying to offer us a possibility to <u>also</u> license and share our wiki contents under the easier to use [[w:en:Creative_Commons_licenses#Original_licenses|Creative Commons CC-BY-SA]] (Attribution + ShareAlike) license.

The [[meta:Wikimedia Foundation|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 [[w:en:Dual-licensing|dual-licensing]].
<div style="float: right;">[[File:CC-logo.svg|75px|link=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0]]</div>

See also a [[mailarchive:foundation-l/2008-November/046996.html|detailed summary]] for further reading.<sup class="plainlinks">([http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/11/04/gnu-free-documentation-license-13-released/ source])</sup>

On [[meta:Licensing update|Meta]] you can find [[meta:Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers|further information (FAQ)]] and can [[meta:Licensing update|discuss]] the licensing update process of our wikis.<br />A vote on [[meta:Licensing update|Meta]] is scheduled to take place in March, [[meta:Talk:Licensing_update#What's_going_on_with_this_proposal_on_the_listserv?|before]] the next Board of Trustees meeting in early April, running for up to four weeks.
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<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small>2008-11-02</small></span>
<span style="position: absolute; top: -38px; right: 42px; color: #BCBCBC;"><small>2008-11-02</small></span>
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Beside the ongoing discussion about introducing an [[meta:A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link|interlanguage extension]] on Wikimedia projects to improve and centralize interwiki linking, an attempt to centralize the discussion about [[meta:Interwiki_synchronization|interlanguage link conflicts]] has been set up.
Beside the ongoing discussion about introducing an [[meta:A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link|interlanguage extension]] on Wikimedia projects to improve and centralize interwiki linking, an attempt to centralize the discussion about [[meta:Interwiki_synchronization|interlanguage link conflicts]] has been set up.
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Wikimedia notification system

This is a global notification system for all Wikimedia wikis!


If it is necessary to inform many/all 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.

To have a common access point, the messages are updated at Ọbanife: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, with 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!

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Translation of the Week

2009-04-20 This week's article for the translation of the week  William Wilson (aquatics)

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Commons: Picture of the Year 2008

2009-04-19

The third annual Picture of the Year Award on Wikimedia Commons goes into its second (final) round!

The final voting round is running from April 19th to April 30th (23:59 UTC).

Have a look on the finalists and select your favourite featured picture of 2008.

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

GNU Free Documentation License 1.3

2009-04-12

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)

On Meta you can find further information (FAQ) and can discuss the licensing update process of our wikis.

A vote on Meta is taking place from April 12, 2009 to May 3, 2009.
… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Software news in brief

2009-03-25

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Wikimania 2009

2009-02-24

Wikimania 2009, this year's global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe, is accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open space discussions, and even artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects or free content topics in general. The conference will be held from August 26 to 28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina!
For more information, check the official Call for Participation.

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Quality illustrations

2009-01-26

Beside an elder project for the creation and improvement of illustrations, there is a new project to grow our encyclopedic image restoration community. It's to provide media restorers with the technical resources they need, and to reach out to all the archives in the world.

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Software localization

2009-01-01

The localization of Wikipedia's software (MediaWiki) and its extensions is an ongoing task, and you can help!

There are statistics about how much of the core messages and system messages in total have been translated so far.


Apply, and help translating our software externally at TranslateWiki.net (=Betawiki, no Wikimedia project so far); have a look on the recent localization activity for your language [Igbo].

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Central Wikimedia help

2008-12-24 There is a proposal to share Wikimedia's help pages by centralizing and localizing them on Meta or a dedicated wiki.

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

FlaggedRevs review feature

2008-11-28

Beside the elder Patroller extension for patrolling recent changes and new pages, there is a highly configurable MediaWiki extension, called FlaggedRevs.

FlaggedRevs – being already enabled on several Wikimedia wikis – is a toolset for transparent and ensured article patrolling and/or for reliable quality assurance by specifying certain accurate article revisions that are shown to the public by default. Those stable article versions are identified in a release process by a trustable editorial staff and/or get approved by a reviewing expert staff. It is even possible to mark (tag) revisions of selected articles for different purposes, let's say for an article validation aiming on a print edition. Furthermore, there is the possibility to let your readers give you evaluative feedbacks.

FlaggedRevs will make your wiki more reliable and thus more reputable over the time!

Have a look on Meta's description, the technical description and the guidance for requesting FlaggedRevs!

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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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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:

  1. it must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects
  2. it must already be active on several wikis, with long-term contributions to back up its trustworthiness
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