- Parser MediaWiki - Akan terdapat percobaan lagi untuk menulis kembali parser pengolah tekswiki. Sebuah milis baru telah dibuat untuk mendiskusikan tentang apa saja yang bisa dikerjakan.
- Praprosesor baru - Praprosesor MediaWiki (yang memproses tampilan templat dan fungsi-fungsi parser) telah ditulis ulang oleh Tim Starling. Perubahan termasuk pembuatan dokumen DOM, caching template expansion and skipping unused cases. The pre-expand include size limit has been changed into a "preprocessor node count". This changes the rules for uncovered syntax, so having "<ta" on one template and "ble>" on another will create a table. However, such uses are discouraged. It's not live on wikimedia project yet.
- Wikibooks technical - For a quick grant related to the production of Wikibooks in Agriculture Florence Devouard (Anthere) is asking for input regarding wished for technical improvements for Wikibooks.
- Asterisk - German Wikipedia OTRS helpdesk and press relations group are still looking for someone who can support the development and implementation of an asterisk software solution featuring LRU call management, forced log-off and a web frontend to display status information. Queue size dimensioning would be nice, as well as a web/sms front end for the press people to configure call diversions. Anyone able to help please contact w:de:User:-jha- or, if you can read German, go to
- Logo - Wikibooks dan Wikijunior sedang mempertimbangkan sebuah logo baru.
- Perubahan lisensi GFDL - Sedang berlangsung pembicaraan penting di milis Foundation-l mengenai Lisensi Dokumentasi Bebas GNU yang digunakan oleh hampir seluruh proyek dan kemungkinan migrasi ke lisensi baru. Mike Godwin, penasihat hukum WMF, juga ikut andil dalam pembicaraan tersebut.
- ED - Wikimedia Foundation telah mengangkat Sue Gardner sebagai Direktur Eksekutif. Sebelumnya ia adalah Konsultan Manajemen Wikimedia Foundation.
- Ombudsman - Anthere mengumumkan bahwa komite ombudsman baru telah diangkat. Komite ini terdiri atas pengguna enwiki Mackensen dan Rebecca, serta pengguna dewiki Hei_ber.
- Blog Penggalangan Dana - Sebuah blog telah dibuat oleh Cary Bass (Bastique) untuk menarik para donatur potensial. Isi blog tersebut menjelaskan jawaban bagi "Mengapa menyumbang Wikimedia". Isi blog ini bukan merupakan pernyataan resmi Wikimedia Foundation. Pengguna didorong memuat pendapat mereka sendiri, moderator akan memilih kontribusi terbaik dan menampilkannya dalam blog. Blog ini sedang dalam uji coba, dan jika ternyata membantu meningkatkan donasi, maka akan dibuat juga dalam berbagai bahasa.
- Stewards - Pemilihan Steward telah dimulai dengan 20 orang kandidat. Seluruh pengguna aktif proyek Wikimedia dapat memberikan suara.
- Stewards II - Steward yang ada saat ini juga sedang melalui proses konfirmasi. Anda dapat memberi pendapat mengenai kinerja mereka, setelah itu semua Steward akan memutuskan siapa saja yang akan dipertahankan. 27 Steward sedang menunggu konfirmasi.
- EWW - 3-8 Desember akan berlangsung Pekan Menyunting Wikipedia untuk pertama kali. Pengguna didorong untuk ekstra menyunting Wikipedia dalam sepekan itu.
- Little China - The Dutch press reports on the Dutch ministry of legal affairs blocking the website Wikipedia.org . Now it is also for judges impossible to watch what's on Wikipedia. In total 30.000 civil servants have been cut off from Wikipedia. The sysops of Dutch language Wikipedia where not contacted about this by ministry of legal affairs.
- Burn Wiki, burn! - Or at least I would be if Wikipedia was in print. In the USA several schools are uniting in banning wikipedia from the school. Not everybody agrees with that.
- Main stream - A (English) Wikipedia search tool by default included in the webbrowser FireFox for some time now. Recently several new computer products are launched the give prominent attention for Wikipedia in there default setup.
Amazon presented there own e-book reader. In there description of there readers Amazon explicitly writes; "Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org." Viewing other websites on the device in not free of charge. Wikipedia is here used as a sales argument because when you get this reader you have free wireless access to Wikipedia (inside the USA). A large supermarket in the USA is selling a budget computer. On the taskbar of the desktop there is large Wikipedia-globe icon to query Wikipedia. Also a new micro laptop of Asus, the Eee PC, includes a prominent icon for Wikipedia.
- Total penggalangan dana - Setelah kira-kira satu bulan, Wikimedia Foundation telah mencapai USD 835.334 pada 24 November 2007.
- Wiktionary FR - Pada 26 November 2007, KamusWiki bahasa Perancis mencapai 593.000 halaman, lebih banyak dari versi bahasa Inggrisnya (592.000 halaman). Ini adalah pertama kalinya sebuah edisi non-bahasa Inggris melampaui edisi bahasa Inggrisnya dalam hal jumlah.
- Permintaan HTTP - Pada 26 November 2007, untuk kali pertama server Wikimedia mendapat 50.000 (limapuluh ribu!) permintaan HTTP *per detik* pada seluruh proyek WMF selama waktu sibuk, lima kali lebih banyak ketimbang pada bulan Mei 2006.
- Bebas - Ada banyak definisi untuk bebas. Karena bahasa bukanlah sebuah alat yang sempurna, orang sering mencampurbaurkan pengertian kata itu. Bebas dapat berarti "gratis" dan dapat juga memiliki arti seperti di Wikipedia dan Linux - di mana Anda dapat bebas menggunakan suatu isi, mengubahnya, dan menyebarkan versi pengembangannya, bahkan secara komersial.
- Not for profit - That the Wikimedia Foundation is a not for profit organization? And that the WMF is dependent on mainly small donations from individuals like you? This results in a shoestring budget, especially if the targets are not being reached.
"Harnessing a universe of brainpower to make knowledge accessible" -- Pengguna anonim
"Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax ..." -- William Sherman
"Stone by stone we can build the house, says an arabic proverb. I hope that my humble donation will help to build a free Wikipedia." -- Hicham ben Hassine
"Who would have thought this would work?" -- Pengguna anonim
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- MediaWiki Parser - There will be (another) attempt on rewriting the parser which handles the wikitext. A new mailing list has been created for discussion of what can be done.
- New Preprocessor - Mediawiki's preprocessor (which expands templates and does parserfunctions) has been rewritten by Tim Starling. The changes include creating a DOM document, caching template expansion and skipping unused cases. The pre-expand include size limit has been changed into a "preprocessor node count". This changes the rules for uncovered syntax, so having "<ta" on one template and "ble>" on another will create a table. However, such uses are discouraged. It's not live on wikimedia project yet.
- Wikibooks technical - For a quick grant related to the production of Wikibooks in Agriculture Florence Devouard (Anthere) is asking for input regarding wished for technical improvements for Wikibooks.
- Asterisk - German Wikipedia OTRS helpdesk and press relations group are still looking for someone who can support the development and implementation of an asterisk software solution featuring LRU call management, forced log-off and a web frontend to display status information. Queue size dimensioning would be nice, as well as a web/sms front end for the press people to configure call diversions. Anyone able to help please contact w:de:User:-jha- or, if you can read German, go to
- Logo - Wikibooks and Wikijunior are considering a new logo.
- GFDL re-licensing - On Foundation-l there is a big discussion going on about the GNU Free Documentation License that most projects are using and the possible migration to a new license for those projects. Mike Godwin, the WMF legal counsel, is involved in the discussion.
- ED - The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed Sue Gardner as Executive Director. She was the Management Consultant of the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Ombuds(wo)men) - Anthere announced that a new ombuds(wo)man committee has been appointed. It consists of the enwiki users Mackensen and Rebecca and dewiki user Hei_ber .
- Fundraiser blog - A blog has been started by Cary Bass (Bastique) to mobilize potential donators. It is all about answers to the question "Why give to Wikimedia". The posts on the blog are not official Wikimedia Foundation statements. Users are encouraged to add their own reasons, moderators are choosing the best contributions and post them on the blog. This is a test run for now. Should the blog help in increasing donations, it will be started in languages other than English, too.
- Stewards - The stewards nominations (elections) have started. There are currently 20 candidates. Users active on all Wikimedia projects can vote.
- Stewards II - Also the current stewards are going through confirmation. You can make remarks on their functioning, and afterwards all stewards together will decide which stewards will be confirmed. 27 stewards are up for confirmation.
- EWW - December 3 - 8, there will be the first Edit Wikipedia Week. People are extra encouraged to edit Wikipedia in this week.
- Little China - The Dutch press reports on the Dutch ministry of legal affairs blocking the website Wikipedia.org . Now it is also for judges impossible to watch what's on Wikipedia. In total 30.000 civil servants have been cut off from Wikipedia. The sysops of Dutch language Wikipedia where not contacted about this by ministry of legal affairs.
- Burn Wiki, burn! - Or at least I would be if Wikipedia was in print. In the USA several schools are uniting in banning wikipedia from the school. Not everybody agrees with that.
- Main stream - A (English) Wikipedia search tool by default included in the webbrowser FireFox for some time now. Recently several new computer products are launched the give prominent attention for Wikipedia in there default setup.
Amazon presented there own e-book reader. In there description of there readers Amazon explicitly writes; "Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org." Viewing other websites on the device in not free of charge. Wikipedia is here used as a sales argument because when you get this reader you have free wireless access to Wikipedia (inside the USA). A large supermarket in the USA is selling a budget computer. On the taskbar of the desktop there is large Wikipedia-globe icon to query Wikipedia. Also a new micro laptop of Asus, the Eee PC, includes a prominent icon for Wikipedia.
- Fundraising totals - After roughly a month of fundraising, USD 835,334 has been raised by the Wikimedia Foundation on November 24.
- FR Wiktionary - On November 26th, the French language Wiktionary reached 593,000 pages and was therefore larger than the English language version (592,000). This is as far as we know the first time that an EN project has been passed by a non-English version in terms of size.
- HTTP Requests - Also November 26th the Wikimedia servers for the first time counted a total of 50,000 (fifty thousand!) HTTP requests *per second* on all WMF projects during peak time. This a five times higher peak of page requests per second than in May 2006.
- Free - There are many definitions of free. Because language is not a perfect tool, people often confuse different meanings of the word. There is a difference between "for free" as in beer and "free" as in Wikipedia and Linux. The latter also means you can re-use the content, change it and spread the improved version even further, even commercially.
- Not for profit - That the Wikimedia Foundation is a not for profit organization? And that the WMF is dependent on mainly small donations from individuals like you? This results in a shoestring budget, especially if the targets are not being reached.
"Harnessing a universe of brainpower to make knowledge accessible" -- Anonymous
"Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax ..." -- William Sherman
"Stone by stone we can build the house, says an arabic proverb. I hope that my humble donation will help to build a free Wikipedia." -- Hicham ben Hassine
"Who would have thought this would work?" -- Anonymous
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