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Goings-on

Welcome to Wikimedia's goings-on, a central point for community-wide members to collect information about the project in many languages and report recent goings-on. This page is not for discussion; only to inform the various sub-communities of community-wide issues. See also: Wikimedia News

Goings-on in July 2004

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Goings-on on the projects
July 20 Copyeditors and proofreaders are needed for Wikimedia projects. Interested parties should list themselves on this page, along with their native languages. July 18 Domain names please, add to this page information about domain names ownership for all projects. July 4 : Meeting in Paris including Jimbo and many fr: wikipedians. First meeting of Angela, Anthere, and Jimbo. Topics of discussion included the and an initial Board meeting. See Wikimedia Board meetings/4 July 2004 July 1 : Wikipedia meets Brockhaus: On July 1, 2004, five German Wikipedians met w/ the 'new media' business unit of , Germany's largest and best-known producer of encyclopedias... the first contact between Wiki(p|m)edia and a traditional encyclopedia publisher. Wikipedia's Prix Ars Electronica award for Digital Communities accepted by in . It is a beautiful golden statue of Nike. For more, see Golden Nica Awards 2004. En Wiktionary case-sensitivity vote — should the English Wiktionary switch to case-sensitivity? Local Wikimedia chapters: *The german chapter was founded on the 13th of june 2004 *The french wikipedia has started brainstorming again on topics of Association again. See - - edit - history -

Goings-on on meta itself

31 of july. A poll for developers has startet at Developer payment poll. Please, participate :-) * Current translation requests: *# A new Image-upload interface (work needed in Da, Eo, Es, It, Ja, Pl, Zh) *# The text of Translation itself (needed in all langs) * How to keep two GFDL-wikis synchronized? cf. the medical wiki Flexicon (German page, English abstract in the first URL, needs translation & update) * It is time to think about Wikimedia's third press release, especially to define the goal of the third press release. * A discussion of a mobile subdomain for smartphones/PDA has begun * A discussion has started about validation : See Article validation * Wikipedia language overviews (list of all language Wikipedias, their popular pages, and overviews of their size, growth, and active users); see also the vote on artificial languages equal rights. * Trophy box (list of awards and key press clippings; links to "In the Press" pages on monolanguage wikis.) * First grant effort: NEH Reference materials grant application. - - edit - history -

Goings-on on Wikimedia Foundation topics

24 july : ratification of Membership fees *24 july : an IRC meeting was held to discuss Wikimedia website issues : Foundation website meeting, July 2004 * Notes from the first meeting are published. *Visibility of the Foundation : Wikimedia website - refactoring of the current wikimediafoundation website. *Membership fees : discuss please *Official position : who can help and how ? *Board of Trustees : The voting was closed, and announced on the Main Page that and were elected as the board members. See also for the distribution of voters by language. * A Grants department was formed and is currently looking for Project ideas and Cooperations * A discussion about our Corporate sponsorship policy has begun. - - edit - history -

Software

24th of july : Bounty : check reward systems for developers * $wgSysopUserBans has been moved out of InitialiseSettings.php and into CommonSettings.php; defaulting to true. To change this setting for your project wiki, leave a request on non-dev tasks for devs, or talk to . Update to MediaWiki version 1.3 beta is complete. Please report bugs or discuss them here. * Release notes: [1] * Download: download * Wikimedia hardware status start to announce about wikimedia hardware news. See MediaWiki roadmap anytime, to know what is cooking for the new MediaWiki version. Comments on software changes can be made at , on the page of feature requests, on #mediawiki, or on the Mailing lists. - - edit - history -

On the mailing lists this month
misc, technical, foundation, complete list - - edit - history -

Archived goings-on

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