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• [Hosting move] - the servers located in Amsterdam, Europe, are on the move to a new data center. At the old data center where around 40 servers located mostly for caching pages and images requested by European users. According to an unconfirmed source has Kennisnet ended its sponsoring of this cluster. Since May 2005 has Kennisnet paid all expenses for the cluster in Amsterdam.
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/35389
• [404] -If you follow a link to a page that doesn't exist (to the actual page, not including the edit pages), the servers now give a 404 (not found error code) where before they gave the 200 (ok) error code. This may help some automated programs, is more inline with what you are "supposed" to do, but most people will not notice as the page returned is still the same.
• http://leuksman.com/log/2008/12/22/fixing-404-for-wiki-pages
• [MediaWiki messages] - revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete, redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text rather than raw HTML markup. Some wikis will need to fix their customized messages.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16026
• http://leuksman.com/log/2008/12/23/wikimedia-sites-updated-to-r44990/
  

• [Licence discussion] - the new version of the GNU Free Documentation License contains a section that gives the projects now using the GNU Free Documentation License the option to change the licence of those projects. The option to migrate to an other license expires on August 1, 2009.  Discussion about this is requested.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update
  

• [Jimbo's appeal] - The post of a message from Jimmy Wales to ask for money that is announced exceptionally prominent at the sites has resulted in a temporary increase of donations of 892%.
• http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/12/24/a-great-day-for-our-fundraiser/
  

• [Wikimedia NL wins] -  Wikimedia Nederland wins a preliminary injunction. Not a big surprise because the wrong Wikimedia was sued, but nevertheless good news.
• http://tinyurl.com/7l4zc2
  

• [Photo-print service] - a partnership has been established between the French language Wikipedia community and a photo printer service. it is now possible to order a print of an image on the wiki with the menu "Get a poster of this image".  For every order is 1,5 EUR donated to Wikimedia. At present a 1000 EUR is donated this way. You see only the option if the site language is French. So logout or change your setting.
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Impression/en
• http://www.wikiposter.fr/
• [Everyone Bureaucrat] - the community of the Italian Wikiquote has decided that all sysops also will be a bureaucrat. On IT Wikiquote are only 6 sysops, so now also 6 bureaucrats. That have found inspiration from the Spanish language Wikipedia. There are nearly all sysops also bureaucrats, all 126.                                                                                                                              How to become a bureaucrat differs strongly from wiki to wiki. For example; on the English language Wikipedia you need to be elected in a extremely difficult bureaucratic process. And on the Dutch language Wikipedia all sysops active for at least one year can become bureaucrat by simple request.
• [EN Wikinews] - the main page is decorated for the holidays. It has a tree , menorah, Kwanzaas and snowman.  This unusual. Normally the do not do this, but (strangely) no one complained. 
• http://en.wikinews.org
• http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Main_page_header&oldid=744606
• [New planet] - At the location "planet.wikimedia.org" are several language based websites who collect the posts of many different blogs with postings who are supposed to be related to WMF-projects. For example Wikizine is also listed there on the English language version. There is now a new planet; the "North Germanic languages". Normally it is for one language only but because the amount of posts would be to few the languages Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and  Faroese form one planet.
• http://gmq.planet.wikimedia.org/
  

• [Picture of the year] - Wikinews is gearing up for end of year. The 2008 picture of the year will be voted on shortly . You must be active somewhere in wikimedia to vote, but that does not necessarily have to be wikinews.
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Picture_of_the_Year_2008
  

• [Wiki first] - A scientific journal "RNA Biology" has requested their contributors create wikipedia articles on their research subject before publishing a paper. Although some people have expressed concerns that a research paper is not that same as a good article.
  
• http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Info/Press/2008/081217.shtml
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/RNA_journal_submits_articles_to_Wikipedia
  

• [SV wp] - Swedish Wikipedia passed 300 000 articles and have send out a press release.
• http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediadiskussion:300K
  

• [Betawiki bounty] - If you translate 500 mediawiki messages before the end of the year, you can get a 1000 euro prize!.
• http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/12/betawiki-end-of-year-price.html
• http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Betawiki:News/Newsletter_2008-12-2
  

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• [Wiki rename] - the first letters of the url of our projects indicate the language of that project. For some of them those will change to other ones. Effected languages are; Aromanian, Low German, Moldovan and Belarusian.  Redirects will be created.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/34563
• [WikimediaNotifier] - A system has setup to create a message on Meta that then is copied automatically to all the wikis. The purpose is to improve the internal distribution of important news to the community. The messages are posted in namespace of the bot [[user:WikimediaNotifier]] but wikis can request to post them somewhere else like in there village pump if the wish it so.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_notifications
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_notifications/how-to
• [MediaWiki extension Testing] - Many of the extensions written for MediaWiki are used outside of the Wikimedia Foundation. Installing is not always easy because they do not come with a guarantee that they will work.  ExtentionTesting provides a testing environment where these extensions can be tested against the stable releases of MediaWiki. This way it is easier and more predictable to use extensions with the MediaWiki software.
• http://extensiontesting.wikiation.nl/Main_Page
• [Interwiki map] - the interwiki map is updated. The means that the many changes done to it are now live. For example you can now link to an OTRS-ticket with the interwiki [[Ticket:]]. The old prefix [[OTRS:]] was broken and no support was found to repair it.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map
• [Turnkey MediaWiki] - A Ubuntu-based distro created for one purpose; running MediaWiki. Ideal to try out MediaWiki on your own computer.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TurnKey_MediaWiki

• [Web Designer/geek] - Wikizine.org seeks the help of a volunteer who can realize an idea the involves building a website that is intended to besides being useful also create revenue to support Wikizine.org Contact [[user:Walter]]
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Walter

• [Wikimedia Foundation] - The Stanton Foundation donates US$ 890,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to develop an easier way to write and change articles. The goal is to increase usability so that more people can edit articels, which have less technical knowledge.
• http://tinyurl.com/64zmen -- WMF press release
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/StantonGrantQA
• [WMF Audited financial statements] - the new ones for the period 2007-2008 are published. If you like the know the official financial numbers then this is what you need to read.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/34390

• [Wikimedia Deutschland] - The German chapter Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. are hosting a website (www.wikipedia.de), where the German wikipedia can be searched. A German court enacted a temporary restraining order that this website must not link to the German wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org). The reason is a lawsuit between Wikimedia Deutschland and Lutz Heilmann, a member of the German Parliament (Bundestag), about some statements in the article about him. He also sued three Wikipedia users because of their work on this article. The restraining order was abolished after 2.5 days. Because of the news coverage the donations for the Wikimedia Deutschland was increasing signifcant.
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Heilmann
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Heilmann
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_deutschland_website_16_november_2008.gif
• [European Copyright] - A working group of the Dutch Wikimedia, German Wikimedia, Hungarian and Italian Wikimedia Chapter has issued a reaction on the EU Green paper Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.
• http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Groep_Groenboek/en
• http://tinyurl.com/6djgwy  -- The text of the green paper
• [WM Netherlands] - a request for an preliminary injunction is issued by Bob Sijthoff against the Dutch Chapter to obtain the identity of particular user and the removal a specific article. The position of WM Netherlands is that the are not legally or technical capable of doing that. Ruling is expected by the 10th of December.

• [WM Serbia Conference] - The Regional Conference of Wikimedia Serbia will be held at 19th, 20th and 21st December in Belgrade, in the Belgrade Youth Home.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/34612
• http://tinyurl.com/6hx9vo  -- WM Serbia conference

• [Commons: Bundesarchiv Project] - The German Federal Archive has about 170.000 digital photos since 2007. Using this photos was not free of charge. After long discussions with the Wikimedia Deutschland almost 100.000 photos are now licenced by the cc-by-sa 3.0 DE. Currently the photos are uploaded to Commons.
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive
• [New Wikibooks logo] - The selection process of new logo for the Wikibooks project is coming to a close. Only the colors of the new logo still need to be decided.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks/Logo

• [Censor] - British internet service providers have been blocking a Wikipedia article and so also causing problems for there users to edit Wikipedia. The blocked article was flagged as child-pornographic in nature. Interestedly also Chinese media are reporting the blocking of Wikipedia in the UK.
• http://tinyurl.com/5eo9s7  -- Wikinews article about it
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008
• [Winkler Prins] - in the Dutch language is the Winkler Prins, founded in 1870, the last surviving encyclopedia. Winkler Prins announced that there 10th edition will no longer be published in paper from. Reasons are lack of interest in a encyclopedia on paper and huge work to get the information that can fill 50 book down to 26 books. The 10th edition be published online subscription based.
• http://www.deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie/cultuur%2Ben%2Bmedia/1.419229

• [EN wp] - out of frustration of lack of good statistics on the number of active editors on the EN wp [[User:Dragons flight]] has made some.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/96575
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
• [NL Wikipedia] - the Dutch language Wikipedia passed the 500,000 article mark
• [Fundraiser] - while the funding is coming in some stats are available about the success rate of the different banners.
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/34559
• http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/11/25/wikimedias-fundraiser-which-banners-click/
• http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/11/14/2008-fundraiser-update/

• [Wikipedia Loves Art] - is a free content photography contest coordinated with the Brooklyn Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and possibly other museums worldwide, and aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles. The event is planned to run for the whole month of February 2009, and the name is a play off of Valentine's Day.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/
• [WikiVoices] - The podcast "Not The Wikipedia Weekly" changes its name to WikiVoices.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiVoices

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