Wikipedia:Goings-on/March 14, 2004

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday March 14 2004

 * A little goodie for people using section editing: edit summary is now prefilled with the section title. Feedback and bug reports: User talk:Eloquence See also Edit summary and Edit summary prefill poll.
 * Thumbnailed images - A poll on thumbnail formatting takes place.
 * Quickpolls - A proposed method of quickly dealing with problem users is discussed and voted upon.
 * Minor edits letter - The M for minor edits on Recent Changes is made a lower case m in order to improve readability. (Mar 15, 2004)
 * Timwi is bold and updates the stub, disambig, vfd, and delete MediaWiki messages. The stub message is reverted to the old version and a poll begins at Template talk:stub to judge community consensus on a preferred format.
 * New pages patrol -- Seth Ilys proposes a way of helping to see that new articles are quickly wikified.
 * Sidebar poll closes.
 * Merovingian, Alex S, Flockmeal, Fabiform, Gaz and Seth Ilys become admins. Congratulations!

Arbitration committee

 * Arbitration committee cases continuing this week: Irismeister
 * Wik's case is completed, the arbitrators decide on three findings of fact and place Wik on a three month probation, during which he may be banned for 24 hours if he reverts the same page more than three times in one day. Users RickK, Hephaestos, and Ed Poor are reminded to follow the blocking policy.
 * the matter of Anthony DiPierro remains pending


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Articles featured on the Main Page


 * Howard Phillips Lovecraft (March 14)
 * Villain (March 15)
 * Prisoner's dilemma (March 16)
 * End times (March 17)
 * Geyser (March 18)
 * Hutton Inquiry (March 19)
 * Rainbow (March 20)


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Articles that gained "featured" status
 * Yellowstone National Park (March 14)
 * Paul Morphy (March 14)
 * Carl Sagan (March 18)

Pictures that gained "featured" status

(none this week)


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On the mailing lists this week
Wikipedia-l, Wiken-l, Intlwiki-l, Wikitech-l and Wikilegal-l, 14-20 March.

News

 * Jimbo announces the upcoming election for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. Danny and Imran volunteer to be the election administrators.
 * MediaWiki 1.2.0rc4 release candidate
 * Spider crawl delay reduced to 1 second following a request from the Dutch search engine Ilse
 * sannse's mediation with Bird ended without reaching agreement
 * Protection policy changes to include a bias against edit warriors
 * Jason is working on the Yahoo XML feed.
 * BBC TV coverage
 * March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks article was in the news
 * Protection deemed inappropriate for edit wars caused by people in, or recently out of, arbitration.

International

 * Andreas Kasenides suggests more admins are needed on el:
 * "&OElig;" can not be used in article titles
 * Creating a multilanguage wiki: mixing different language wikis in one database won't work well at present
 * Yiddish Wikipedia now active: request for RTL text
 * Flauto Dolce requests adminship on Yi:
 * The interface of fr2 was in English
 * Timo Jyrinki requested that the Finnish logo be uploaded
 * Request for the creation of an Ido Wikipedia at (io:)
 * uk:user:Gutsul requested adminship on the Ukrainian Wikipedia
 * Changes requested to de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning

Adverts/announcements/polls etc

 * Wikipedia for Journalists article
 * WYSIWYG editor
 * PyWikipediaBot now handles spaces and multiple image uploads
 * Quickpolls
 * i18n-prog on Yahoo groups suggested as a resource for UTF-8 issues
 * de:Wikipedia:WikiReader exists for PDF formatted "books" or mini encyclopedias
 * Edit summary prefill poll

Issues

 * 3-revert rules
 * "Less rules, more trust" v. "clearer rules and clearer means of enforcement"
 * Arbitration and mediation: All nonsense? Detailed ideas for improvement welcomed.
 * Creative Commons License: not relicensable under the GFDL?
 * Patent issues with the King James Bible at Wikisource
 * XML v. wiki markup
 * URLs and spaces
 * Anthere/Eloquence/mediation board issues. Sannse's the new board admin. Should this be on WikiEN-l?
 * New Haven, Connecticut and advertising
 * Wikimedia bylaws: who are Tim Shell and Michael Davis?
 * Wikimedia bylaws: Clarifications sought and opinions given
 * McFly and "malicious users"
 * Jesus Chirst has returned as Plato
 * What is Geoffrin's status?
 * Mr-Natural-Health and Alternative medicine
 * Power structures

Proposals

 * Giving the Mediation Committee power to make binding referrals to the Arbitration Committee (see also Wikipedia talk:Arbitration policy comments)
 * Banning proposal where sysops go to arbitration if one person disagrees with a ban they made
 * Force user to choose a license when uploading data (see fr:Special:Upload, fr:MediaWiki:Affirmation) (or only allow GFDL?)
 * Force users to fill in a "source" field when uploading images.
 * link (something) to be expanded to link as the link is rendered, not pre-save
 * Prefixing MySQL table names
 * Erik Moeller makes suggestions for the new mediawiki installer
 * Anthere suggests keeping a page protected for Wik only but open for others.
 * Separate edit war policies for problematic users and normal users
 * Wik articles to be unprotected
 * Remote caching of images to make third party downloads easier
 * Patch dump to include only articles that changed since the last dump
 * Allow a "don't know" option on image uploads
 * Wiki-to-PDF to include links
 * Change the title of the Main Page to 'Main Page - Wikipedia free encyclopedia'' to improve hits for "free encyclopedia"
 * Extended version of the XML export page
 * Using spam filtering software to spot vandalism
 * Wikimedia Commons: repository for images, public domain texts, otherwise freely licensed documents, music and artistic works.
 * Templates + parameters = metadata
 * How to delete images

Bugs/feature requests

 * Image upload issues - try Ctrl + F5
 * Interlanguage links on non-wikimedia wikis can be loaded from maintenance/wikipedia-interwiki.sql.
 * Squid is messing up spaces
 * Suda ran out of disk space for a while on the 15th. Solved by moving/compressing some logs
 * Underscores and spaces in images work, but maybe not for bot uploads
 * Orphaned Articles and section editing bugs
 * Requests for French and Polish Wiktionaries
 * Various suggestions for the 'old table'
 * Setup error on Mediawiki installation
 * "log out" link should not be right above search

Misc

 * House of Braganza not a copyvio (later deleted for being nonsense)
 * Off-topic: Punch cards
 * Similarity between Sedna and Nibiru
 * Strange pages, possibly by Michael
 * No-cache headers
 * Using Gnutella, BitTorrent etc for Wikipedia
 * Patenting of vandalism solutions
 * Output from the wiki is gzipped if the user-agent claims to support it
 * A request for "information about Act of political party"
 * Question about installing Mediawiki on Win2K
 * Assigning classes to anchors


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