Wikipedia:Goings-on/March 14, 2004

Goings-on in the week starting Sunday March 14 2004

A little goodie for people using section editing: edit summary is now prefilled with the section title. Feedback and bug reports: User talk:Eloquence See also 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.
Minor edits letter - The M for minor edits on Recent Changes is made a lower case m in order to improve readability. (Mar 15, 2004)
Timwi is bold and updates the stub, disambig, vfd, and delete MediaWiki messages. The 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 -- Seth Ilys proposes a way of helping to see that new articles are quickly wikified.
Sidebar poll closes.
Merovingian, Alex S, Flockmeal, Fabiform, Gaz and Seth Ilys become admins. Congratulations!

Arbitration committee cases continuing this week: Irismeister
Wik's case is completed, the arbitrators decide on three findings of fact and place 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 RickK, Hephaestos, and Ed Poor are reminded to follow the blocking policy.
the matter of Anthony DiPierro remains pending

Articles featured on the Main Page

Articles that gained "featured" status

Pictures that gained "featured" status

(none this week)

Jimbo announces the upcoming election for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. Danny and Imran volunteer to be the election administrators.
MediaWiki 1.2.0rc4 release candidate
Spider crawl delay reduced to 1 second following a request from the Dutch search engine Ilse
sannse's mediation with Bird ended without reaching agreement
Protection policy changes to include a bias against edit warriors
Jason is working on the Yahoo XML feed.
BBC TV coverage
March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks article was in the news
Protection deemed inappropriate for edit wars caused by people in, or recently out of, arbitration.

Andreas Kasenides suggests more admins are needed on el:
"Œ" can not be used in article titles
Creating a multilanguage wiki: mixing different language wikis in one database won't work well at present
Yiddish Wikipedia now active: request for RTL text
Flauto Dolce requests adminship on Yi:
The interface of fr2 was in English
Timo Jyrinki requested that the Finnish logo be uploaded
Request for the creation of an Ido Wikipedia at (io:)
uk:user:Gutsul requested adminship on the Ukrainian Wikipedia
Changes requested to de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning

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 King James Bible at Wikisource
XML v. wiki markup
URLs and spaces
Anthere/Eloquence/mediation board issues. Sannse's the new board admin. Should this be on WikiEN-l?
New Haven, Connecticut and advertising
Wikimedia bylaws: who are Tim Shell and Michael Davis?
Wikimedia bylaws: Clarifications sought and opinions given
McFly and "malicious users"
Jesus Chirst has returned as Plato
What is Geoffrin's status?
Mr-Natural-Health and Alternative medicine
Power structures

Giving the 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 uploading images.
[[link (something)|]] to be expanded to [[link (something)|link]] as the link is rendered, not pre-save
Prefixing MySQL table names
Erik Moeller makes suggestions for the new mediawiki installer
Anthere suggests keeping a page protected for Wik only but open for others.
Separate edit war policies for problematic users and normal users
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
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 XML export page
Using spam filtering software to spot vandalism
Wikimedia Commons: repository for images, public domain texts, otherwise freely licensed documents, music and artistic works.
Templates + parameters = metadata
How to delete images

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
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