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Wikimedia notification system

This is a global notification system for all Wikimedia wikis!

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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 Wikireporter: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!

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… it's for spreading information; and for a better cross-wiki communication & collaboration!

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Commons: Picture of the Year 2008

2009-02-12

The third annual Picture of the Year Award on Wikimedia Commons has started!
The first voting round will run from February 12th to February 26th.
Take part and help translating the voting instructions into your language.

Go through the beautiful galleries and select your favourite featured pictures of 2008.

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2009 Stewards election

2009-02-01

The Stewards election 2009 has begun on February 1, 2009 and will end on February 22, 2009.

Stewards perform technical tasks on all Wikimedia wikis, based on community consensus: modifying user access, viewing user information in cases of abuse, and so on (see details). While new Stewards are elected, current Stewards are to be confirmed. The Board of Trustees will select new Stewards from the applicants in this election.

Help translating our CentralNotice for this Stewards election and vote now!

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Software news in brief

2009-01-28

2009-01-28: There is a new magic word: {{GENDER:}} – you can specify your gender at Special:Preferences and can even misuse that feature to show your (for IPs cached) online status, see future uses. 2009-01-28: The MediaWiki software with its extensions has been updated to SVN revision 46424. 2009-01-27: Collections will soon be activated for all Wikimedia projects where they make sense, like currently for Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia – the extension lets your readers create PDF books to possibly order printed books. Use www.pediapress.com/collection to create cross-wiki article collections of almost all wikis out there. 2009-01-26: The AbuseFilter is ready for testing – this extension will allow you to automatically detect spam, vandalism etc. 2009-01-26: Wikimedia will improve Ogg Theora/Vorbis support with the help of the Mozilla Foundation. 2009-01-16: Drafts are ready for testing – the extension makes backups of your unsaved edit sessions. 2009-01-01: Some great new features are to be enabled this year :-) 2008-12-22: Our servers now throw out a 404 HTTP status code for nonexistent pages. 2008-12-17: Some major Wikipedias now have enhanced search functionalities (example), all other wikis have to wait for better hardware. 2008-12-03: Wikipedia will become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers (current info); see Wikipedia Usability Initiative.

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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.

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Wikinews image of the Year 2008

2009-01-24

Round 1 of the Wikinews Picture of the Year 2008 vote is now open.
All Wikimedians are invited to vote!

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New Wikibooks logo

2009-01-16

With its basic design, color & style, used font and localizable slogan being ultimately elected,
Wikibooks now has a new logo and an appendant favicon, chosen by community!

Beside the English original, there is a version without slogan and a textless logo, all useful for localizing.

See also meta:Wikibooks/Logo and /Update for help!

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Software localization

2009-01-01

The localization of Wikinews'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.

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

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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.

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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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GNU Free Documentation License 1.3

2009-01-17

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 scheduled to begin on February 9, 2009 and will last until March 9, 2009.

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Interlanguage links

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 Wikinews, 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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