Goings-on in the week starting Sunday April 18 2004

Arbitration committee

  • Arbitration committee matters continuing this week: Wik2 and Anthony DiPierro (regarding his behaviour on VfD).
  • Three new cases are accepted this week: Mav v. 168 (which had previously seemed too old an issue to arbitrate on), JRR Trollkien, to determine if sysops currently have the right to ban obvious trolls, and Paul Vogel, an anonymous user who apparently has continued to edit while banned.
  • Anthony DiPierro's case is nearing completion, with arbitrators voting on their findings of fact and decree.


Articles featured on the Main Page

Articles that gained "featured" status

Pictures that gained "featured" status

On the mailing lists this week

Wikipedia-l, Wiken-l, Foundation-l, Wikitech-l, 18-24 April.

News, proposals and miscellaneous

International

  • "The free, accessible and gratuitous encyclopedia" - dodgy babelfish translations
  • New blocking policy on fr: and requests for selective page protection against specific users.
  • Bot requests (see m:requests for permissions). hu:MediaWiki:Showhideminor to be include $1 minor edits | $2 bots | $3 logged in users
  • German, Hungarian and Romanian Wiktionaries requested. Tim promises to make them for every language!

Issues

Technical

  • Preparing for MediaWiki 1.3. To-do lists and translations discussed. Various new features and bugs
  • Python Wikipediabot release
  • Unicode problems with an install of MediaWiki 1.2.4
  • "Category" becomes a real namespace, and is in CVS. Various bugs discussed
  • New option in MediaWiki for an automatic list of contributors to be appended to an article
  • cvs2cl tool for generating ChangeLog files
  • DNS needs to be switched to zwinger
  • Is it ok to reload a watchlist every 5 minutes?
  • dvipng suggested for generating math markup
  • MathML is now supported when $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml is set in localsettings.
  • Wikihero taken out of the phase3
  • The 'magic' parameter for bypassing miser mode is disabled after the disablement of miser mode on de.wikipedia.org caused overload on suda
  • New code for a multilingual interface available
  • PHP debugging and profiling tools suggested to improve the debugging experience
  • Developers are reminded to be careful when applying patches as diffs may be generated from older versions
  • More HTML tags allowed including del and ins
  • Choosing an OS
  • Upload log causes problems while importing cur dump. See m:Useless Perl Scripts for a progress meter.
  • Database downtime while curly is set up to be a MySQL slave
  • Tokenizer issues
  • IE and logo issues in the new skin
  • Rebuildall.php can't be used with in-place install