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

===Arbitration committee===

*'''[[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|Arbitration committee]]''' cases continuing this week: [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irismeister|Irismeister]]
*[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wik|Wik's case]] is completed, the arbitrators [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wik#Decision|decide]] on three findings of fact and place [[User:Wik|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 [[User:RickK|RickK]], [[User:Hephaestos|Hephaestos]], and [[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] are reminded to follow the [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocking policy]].
*the matter of [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Anthony DiPierro|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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'''[[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Articles]] that gained "featured" status'''
* [[Yellowstone National Park]] (March 14)
* [[Paul Morphy]] (March 14)
* [[Carl Sagan]] (March 18)

'''[[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|Pictures]] that gained "featured" status'''

''(none this week)''

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===On the mailing lists this week===
[http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/ Wikipedia-l], [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-March/ Wiken-l], [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2004-March/ Intlwiki-l], [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-March/ Wikitech-l] and [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilegal-l/2004-March/ Wikilegal-l], 14-20 March.

====News====
*Jimbo [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014809.html announces] the upcoming [[Wikipedia:Elections|election]] for the [[Wikimedia]] Board of Trustees. [[User:Danny|Danny]] and [[User:Imran|Imran]] volunteer to be the election administrators.
*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-March/009093.html MediaWiki 1.2.0rc4 release candidate]
*Spider crawl delay reduced to 1 second following a request from the Dutch search engine [http://www.ilse.nl/ Ilse]
*[[user:sannse|sannse]]'s mediation with [[User:Bird|Bird]] ended without reaching agreement
*Protection policy changes to include a bias against edit warriors
*[[User:Jasonr|Jason]] is working on the [[Wikipedia:Co-operation with Yahoo!|Yahoo XML feed]].
*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014827.html BBC TV coverage]
*[[March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks]] article was [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/18/1079199302793 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
*[[:Yi:|Yiddish Wikipedia]] now active: request for RTL text
*Flauto Dolce requests adminship on [[:Yi:]]
*The interface of [http://fr2.wikipedia.org fr2] was in English
*Timo Jyrinki requested that the [[m:Wikipedia_in_other_languages#Finnish_(fi)|Finnish logo]] be uploaded
*Request for the creation of an [[Ido]] Wikipedia at ([[:io:]])
*[[:uk:user:Gutsul]] requested adminship on the [[:uk:|Ukrainian Wikipedia]]
*Changes requested to [[:de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]]

====Adverts/announcements/polls etc====
*[http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126 Wikipedia for Journalists article]
*[[m:WYSIWYG editor|WYSIWYG editor]]
*[[m:PyWikipediaBot|PyWikipediaBot]] now handles spaces and multiple image uploads
*[[Wikipedia:Quickpolls]]
*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/i18n-prog/ i18n-prog on Yahoo groups] suggested as a resource for UTF-8 issues
*[[:de:Wikipedia:WikiReader]] exists for PDF formatted "books" or mini encyclopedias
*[[m:Edit summary prefill poll|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 [http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Testament_(King_James_Version) King James Bible] at Wikisource
*[[XML]] v. [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|wiki markup]]
*URLs and spaces
*[[User:Anthere|Anthere]]/[[user:Eloquence|Eloquence]]/[http://boards.wikimedia.org/viewforum.php?f=1 mediation board] issues. Sannse's the new board admin. Should this be on WikiEN-l?
*[[New Haven, Connecticut]] and advertising
*[http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/bylaws.pdf Wikimedia bylaws]: who are [[User:Tim Shell|Tim Shell]] and Michael Davis?
*[http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/bylaws.pdf Wikimedia bylaws]: Clarifications sought and opinions given
*[[McFly]] and "malicious users"
*[[User:Jesus Chirst|Jesus Chirst]] has returned as [[User:Plato|Plato]]
*What is Geoffrin's status?
*[[User:Mr-Natural-Health|Mr-Natural-Health]] and [[Alternative medicine]]
*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014834.html Power structures]

====Proposals====
*Giving the [[Wikipedia:Mediation Committee|Mediation Committee]] power to make binding referrals to the [[Wikipedia: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 [[Special:Upload|uploading images]]. 
*<nowiki>[[link (something)|]] to be expanded to [[link (something)|link]]</nowiki> as the link is rendered, not pre-save
*Prefixing MySQL table names
*[[User:Eloquence|Erik Moeller]] makes suggestions for the new mediawiki installer
*[[User:Anthere|Anthere]] suggests keeping a page protected for [[User:Wik|Wik]] only but open for others.
*Separate edit war policies for problematic users and normal users
*[[User:Wik|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
*[http://sf.net/projects/wikipdf/ 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 [[Special:Export|XML export page]]
*Using [http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ spam filtering software] to spot vandalism
*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014826.html Wikimedia Commons]: repository for images, public domain texts, otherwise freely licensed documents, music and artistic works. 
*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-March/009172.html Templates + parameters = metadata]
*How to [[Wikipedia:Images for deletion|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
*[[m:Wikimedia servers|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
*[[Wikipedia: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 card]]s
*Similarity between Sedna and Nibiru
*[http://www.bestandworst.com/pages/vote/vote-23922.html Strange pages], possibly by [[User:Michael|Michael]]
*No-cache headers
*Using [[m:Gnutella|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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