Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-06-22/News and notes

Wikizine
A large new edition of Wikizine is out: "Year: 2009 Week: 29 Number: 108". It includes news about the LiquidThreads extension, various Wikimedia Foundation announcements and goings-on, privacy issues with traffic analysis services that were installed on two Wikipedias, a Wikimedia Canada meeting and Wiki-Conference New York, and more.

Video editing coming soon?
According to an article in MIT's Technology Review, "Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade", Wikipedia will see dramatic improvements in video capabilities rolled out within the next few months.

On the Commons-l mailing list, Casey Brown described the article: "They just put together all of the mini-updates about Michael Dale/Kaltura's work that we've been getting for months now.


 * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Collaborative_Video
 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/23/kaltura-sponsors-michael-dale-open-source-video-developer/
 * http://metavid.org/blog/2009/03/27/add-media-wizard-and-firefogg-on-test-wikimediaorg/
 * http://techblog.wikimedia.org/author/mdale/
 * public svn
 * lots of wikitech-l/commons-l/foundation-l notes

The article just put all the snippets together into a solid update for people outside our community. :-)"



Milestones

 * The Russian Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles (Страсти по Матфею (Бах)) (St Matthew Passion).
 * The Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography) Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with page be-x-old:Казімер Нарбут.
 * The Turkmen Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
 * The Occitan Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
 * The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.