Goings-on in the week starting Sunday March 14 2004

Arbitration committee


Articles featured on the Main Page

Articles that gained "featured" status

Pictures that gained "featured" status

(none this week)

On the mailing lists this week

Wikipedia-l, Wiken-l, Intlwiki-l, Wikitech-l and Wikilegal-l, 14-20 March.

News

International

  • 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

Adverts/announcements/polls etc

Issues

Proposals

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
  • 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 cards
  • Similarity between Sedna and Nibiru
  • Strange pages, possibly by Michael
  • No-cache headers
  • Using 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