Wikizine Opinion – Year: 2011 Week: 39 Number: 129 BIS

Wikizine needs YOU! Wikipedia has already changed the world. Wikimedia movement is at the beginning of that task. To push the movement into that direction, Wikizine needs your bold ideas and personal perspectives! Send your ideas to us or simply add them into the appropriate section. What YOU think can change the world! Send us […]

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Year: 2011 Week: 37 Number: 127

Wikizine [Editorial] – As Walter said in the previous edition, I took initiative and there are some changes in the Wikizine concept. But, more about them on Friday, in Talk Edition of Wikizine! Milos. [Your reports] – Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on Meta or in our Google form. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-128 http://tinyurl.com/3w8wg5j […]

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Year:2011 Week: 34 Number:124

Foundation [Image filter referendum] – Voting has started and it will last up to August 30th. You can discuss it as well. It is about providing the reader the opt-in option to hide certain types of images that reader does not like to see. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/en http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/en Chapters  [Wikimedia Hungary] – Wikimedia Hungary published reports for […]

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Year: 2009 Week: 41-42 Number: 120

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 […]

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Year: 2009 Week: 41 Number: 119

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 […]

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Year: 2009 Week: 37 Number: 118

Technical news [Image renaming re-enabled] – Image renaming has been re-enabled for administrators on all Wikimedia projects. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15842 http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ [LocalisationUpdate deployment delayed] – The deployment of LocalisationUpdate, an extension meant to keep the localized messages as up to date as possible, was delayed after it killed the entire site.  You don’t have to be a […]

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