Goings-on/2005
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This is the archive of Meta-Wiki Goings-on in 2005. See also the full archives.
Goings-on in December 2005
31: | J.Wales adds a personal appeal for the fundraising campaign. please translate in your language. [1] | |
28: | The Romanian Wikipedia organised the first edition of Romanian Wikipedia Prizes for 2005. 12 prizes categories and 1 big prize were won by the most active editors. | |
25: | The history page of deleted edits is hidden again [2] | |
25: | A new special page, Special:Filepath, installed on Wikimedia | |
25: | The Cite.php extension from the Cite package installed on Wikimedia | |
25: | The Special:Unwatchedpages special page enabled on Wikimedia for sysops | |
14: | The Italian Wikipedia has won two awards at the "Premio WWW" (Trophy page) | |
5: | News.com, quoting Jimmy Wales, reports that Wikipedia will soon ban anonymous users from creating articles. |
Goings-on in November 2005
21: | New Special:Cite page added to Wikipedia | |
21: | Wikizine has gone live, subscriptions at announce-l | |
21: | Summary of the China block | |
17: | A Wikilists is proposed. Please make suggestions as you see fit. | |
4: | Please comment on the "more-photos" proposal and featured photo proposal for Wikinews. How can we get more photos for the Wikinews main page? | |
8: | The CheckUser Policy went live and is official now. |
Goings-on in October 2005
- Projects wide vote about hosting or not the Wikimedia Logos on Commons. Please participate in the discussion here.
- 31 October 2005: Please help translate: Louvre forbids taking photographs for WMF site
- 31 October 2005: Please comment on proposed CheckUser Policy, to become live very very very soon....
- 31 October 2005: Meta administrator : please give your opinion on current meta administrators on Meta:Administrators/confirm
- 31 October 2005: Please help create How to use or reuse our content, to be put on Wikimedia Foundation later on
- 29 October 2005: Please give your opinion about a new steward election.
- 27 October 2005:Projects wide vote about hosting or not the Wikimedia Logos on Commons. Please participate in the discussion here.
- 22 October 2005: Boston chosen as host city for Wikimania 2006.
- 22 October 2005: A survey about reading, writing and speaking Vlax Romany can be completed here.
- 2 October 2005: The two shortlisted cities for Wikimania 2006 are Boston and Toronto.
Goings-on in September 2005
- New project proposal: Wikigrammar. Free source for grammar informations in many languages about many languages.
- Multilingual error messages will soon become a reality, but now need translation into several languages.
- w:Wikipedia:Easy navigation - a recently started topic, the importance of which probably transcends the level of a local "how-to" guideline.
- You are invited to join Wikinews/Licensure Poll. Voting is now closed. Results
- New project proposal for America Sign Language Wikipedia
- New proposal regarding the IRC channels and the Wikipedia default error message.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
- 25 September 2005: The Wikimedia Board of Trustees has decided to change the licensing of Wikinews from public domain to the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5.
- 25 September 2005: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is interviewed on C-SPAN's Q&A; a transcript of the interview is available online.
- 22 September 2005: Two days left on the two week final vote for Wikijunior project name.
- 15 September 2005: Voting begins today for the Wikiversity new project proposal. Please cast your vote for approval or opposition. Voting goes through November 1st.
Goings-on in August 2005
- 29 August 2005: You may now participate to writing Wikimedia Quarto edition 4, on Working edition of Quarto
- 27 August 2005: Swedish Wikipedia reaches 100 000 articles (press release)
- 23 August 2005 : Notes of the last two board meetings are available at Wikimedia:Meetings/August 14, 2005 (finances meetup for the new budget) and at Wikimedia:Meetings/August 18, 2005 (board, officers and chapters). Next meeting planned today (see board agenda).
- 4-8 August 2005: Wikimania 2005 in Frankfurt am Main; and now plan of 2006 is undergoing ...
- Wikipedia in murcian proposal. http://mu.wikipedia.org
- All-new pages for Zorgin-Hmorgin televison shows.-->
- Subdomains for 16 languages were created for Wikisource.
- Translators that are willing to co-operate - help translating Wikiversity/Vote, Fundraising drive Q3, WMF budget Q2-3 & WMF news.
- You can help planning Fundraising drive Q3, which starts on August 19.
- New project proposal: Wikiversity: An adult education center of learning using Wikimedia projects content as course material.
- A Vote for Deletion discussion is happening on en.wikibooks regarding Wikiversity. This affects users here due to discussion about moving content to Meta, and has a "meta-discussion" about how Wikibooks should be used for hosting new project proposals.
- New project proposal: WikiMusic: A place to put music notes, guitar tabs, lyrics, discussion on Artists, and Albums, and anything else music related.
- Semantic MediaWiki: Following inspiring discussions at Wikimania, a new portal has been created to unite the current attempts to make Wikipedia more machine-readable. Have a look and contribute to the discussion!
Goings-on in July 2005
- 26 July 2005: Discussion of Kiki character designs requested for Wikijunior project.
- 21 July 2005, 01:00 GMT: Wiktionarians: Erin McKean, editor of the New Oxford American dictionary took part in a moderated discussion, talking about dictionary making. See http://wordsmith.org/chat/mckean.html
- Meta administrator : please give your opinion on current meta administrators on Meta:Administrators/confirm
- Translators that are willing to co-operate - help translating Wikimania
- Proposal for Sinitic linguistic policy by Mark
- Calendar - A non event. Calendar is terribly non updated. Please adopt a calendar !
- Slavopedia - a new project and an unprecedented effort to make inter-Wikipedia cooperation a reality. First contacts between Slavic Wikipedians are promising and they have resulted in numerous improvements to Wikipedia articles and starting of a new wikibook (Slovio). As a matter of fact Slovio is envisioned as a communication means of the project. If Slovio proves successful it might spark new developments in its use reaching far beyond Wikimedia projects.
- New project proposal: wikicurrency: A place for community currency directories, discussions and information.
- MessedRocker proposes hiring professional writers for Wikimedia projects.
- There seems to be very little interest in Wikibooks. This is such a good idea (especially for sciences etc). Can we raise awareness of the project in schools, research institutions and so on?
- Everybody interested in new localized Wikimedia chapters is invited to join us at Wikimedia Nederland i.o.
- Election notice has been changed. Update of translations is needed both meta and on local projects. Candidates are being accepted on Election candidates 2005 until June 27, 23:59.
Goings-on in June 2005
- New project proposal: Faith Wiki: A collection of unbiased information about faith, religions, and cultural beliefs.
- New project proposal: Wikitution - A Free European Constitution: The citizens of France and The Netherlands did not accept the proposed european constitution in two national polls. Europe is facing a serious crisis. It needs a free and democratic constitution, to which everybody can contribute and which will be accepted by the great majority of all citizens in Europe.
- Wikimedia Quarto Vol.3 is coming soon. Translators are needed. Check our translation platform.
- Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, 2005 begins now. Candidates will be accepted on Election candidates 2005 or its subpage(s) from 0:00 June 7 (UTC). You can help it as translators or posting announcement to your favorite projects.
- Messedrocker proposes a new Wikimedia project where people can give reviews on anything - Wikireview
May 2005
- New Project Proposal: Wikiproofs - A project to create a place where mathematicians and researchers who use mathematics can share, review, correct and reference results and proofs. Articles would include the result(s), usually several proofs with links to results used in the proofs (varying by level of audience, assumptions made, etc.) a meaningful title, references to the literature, and brief expository information. For more information see Wikiproofs.
- "Ryan524" is requesting discussion about his project proposal Wikinac; proposed in January, it is under development on his own server.
Weekly translations for May
April 2005
- Wikijunior has begun a name candidate elimination process, in order to come to a reasonably-sized list of possibilities. See Wikijunior project name.
- 501(c)(3) status granted to Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikimedia:Deductibility of donations for details.
- Dot-Org Boom is an international event in Helsinki, Finland. One event, a day-long seminarium, will take place at the Finnish Embassy in Stockholm, and our own Anthere will be speaking in both cities. More details at Dot Org Boom
- Another international meetup is proposed in the Pacific area. Join the discussion about Wikimedia meetup Eastern Asia and Oceania.
- Wikimania 2005 is now accepting registrations! Register early to reserve a spot in the Haus der Jugend.
- The Wikimedia Quarto is being prepared for distribution via html mail. A brief note about its mail publishing will be translated into several languages: see the draft and add your favourite language translation.
- The English documentation is in the process of being reorganized into one namespace. So if there are problems with links or if documents are moved, this should only be temporary.
Weekly translations for April
March 2005
- Wikimania official site is now preparing for its opening. Registration form is need to translate into Fr, and if possible, Es and Eo. The communication team calls for translators of German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Polish and esperanto.
- New Project Proposal: Wikicode - A project to create a place where programmers can share, review and correct each other's source code. Articles would include the source code, a meaningful title, a description and compilation instructions. For more information see Wikicode.
- The Wikimedia Foundation Board makes open questions. Give a look and feel free to add your questions, comments and suggestions.
- Initial version of the gis Wikimedia extension for handling of geographical coordinates and linking to map resources as well as maintaining neighborhood information. See also en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates.
- New Project Proposal: Wikirec - A substantial project to create a custom wiki for outdoor recreation activities and locations. Each page would have associated GPS coordinates and various activities that would allow for a powerful search capability within Wikirec.
- 14 Mar 2005: 173 Wikipedians in 37 groups worldwide convene for March Wikipedia Meetup Day.
- The w:Unification Church is reviving its Encyclopedia Project. Preliminary discussions have taken place between w:Andy Wilson and w:user:Ed Poor about possibly merging the church's article database with Wikipedia. Dr. Wilson has expressed interest in acquiring MediaWiki software and setting up an independent server, although Ed Poor is concerned about avoiding a fork. Deadline for print version is 2008.
- Wikimedia Quarto Vol.2 is coming soon. Translators are needed. Check our translation platform. Vol.3 is waiting for your contribution. Submission: WQ/3/Draft
- Stewards/elections 2005
- Fundraising drive ended on March 1. We exceeded our goal by 26%. Thank you for whom all donates!
- A new project, currently named WikiProject_Translation has begun. We hope to improve the process by which information is exchanged between the various language Wikipedias. Open to all volunteers multi-lingual or not. Suggestings and ideas are also very welcome. Nsh 13:30, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Weekly translations for March
February 2005
- New project proposal: Wikiopinions - collecting the anectodal experiences and opinions of users on the concepts or objects described in Wikipedia articles.
- Language skill templates were introduced from Commons to meta. They indicate which languages you can speak in a certain level.
- 20 Feb 2005: MediaWiki 1.4rc1 and 1.3.11 have been released with some security fixes.
- End-user suppression of potentially offensive content - Recently, in various forums throughout Wikimedia, there has been much discussion about the appropriateness of certain content on Wikipedia, particularly sexually and medically explicit photos. There has been some agreement that, rather than participate in self-censorship, this problem could be dealt with at a technical level by allowing downstream users of Wikimedia projects to control for themselves if such content is removed, hidden (linked) or shown by default. You can contribute to this idea at End-user content suppression
- Fundraising translation requests: Wikimedia needs your help - Fund drive notice
- Needed by Friday 18 February 2005 so soon thereafter.
- A run-off poll to choose the new logo of Wikinews is ongoing at Wikinews logo contest voting/Runoff.
- A collection of meetings is planned
- Grants: join #wikimedia, Feb 13, 16:00 UTC
- Mediation: 20:00, Feb 11 #en.medcom
- Open Board meeting: 21:00, Feb 15 (UTC)
- Wikimania: Feb 16, 20:00 UTC, #wikimania
- New project proposal: Wikibate - a project to collect, catalogue, and develop arguments on all significant issues. A demo site is available at http://forum.for-pgh.org/wiki.
- New project proposal: Wikistandards - a project to share free and open standards documentation, provide a forum to colaborate on new standards, and to reference existing standard documentation on the internet.
- 3 Feb 2005: A voting/poll has started to ask wikians whether wikimedia projects should implement special Music Markup.
Weekly translations for February
Software for February
- MediaWiki 20 Feb 2005: 1.4rc1 and 1.3.11 have been released with some security fixes.
- MediaWiki 4 Feb 2005: v1.4beta6 and v1.3.10 were released and installed on all Wikimedia sites. They included security fixes.
January 2005
- New project proposal: Trade Standard – a project to stimulate international development that can lead the Wikipedia model to the level of global civil governance.
- New multilingual portal design being tested at Www.wikipedia.org portal/Catherine—comments from all language & browser users sought. A poll has been started about replacing the current version.
- WQ/2, Wikimedia Quarto is now done, please help its ongoing translation on Translation requests/WQ/2.
- meta:nofollow: THIS DISCUSSION IS IMPORTANT AND MORE PEOPLE SHOULD CONTRIBUTE. WP has implemented "nofollow" already, which some people regard as a technical decision and others regard as a public admission of the failure of the WP experiment: that the WP community could reasonably control content to high quality. Have your say now
- New discussion going on at Lilypond implementation- a new way to add music in its original form to any Wikimedia project.
- New project proposal: Wikibuilder - a knowledge base covering the design and construction of the built environment.