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5 June 2006

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New revision-hiding feature added
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Paper profiles Wales, criticizes Wikipedia business coverage
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The Report On Lengthy Litigation
 

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2006-06-05

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Parser fixes

Brion Vibber has made various fixes to the parser in an attempt to remove the need for HTML Tidy, a software program that fixes HTML errors, but has various glitches. Many of the fixes involve problems with the parsing of extensions such as <ref>.

Last week in MediaWiki software

New functionality

Bug fixes

Last week in servers

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2006-06-05

News and notes

Two resolutions passed

Two Wikimedia Foundation resolutions were passed on Friday, June 2. One resolution, passed with three support votes with Michael E. Davis, Angela Beesley, and Florence Nibart-Devouard (Anthere) casting support, authorizes money to purchase new hardware, update equipment and pay for the required services. The second resolution, passed with four support votes (Nibart-Devouard, Jimbo Wales, Davis, and Tim Shell) and one oppose vote (Beesley), authorizes the hiring of an in-house legal counsel and interim executive director.

Wikimarkup changes debated

A proposal to introduce Wikimark2, a wiki-markup code designed to supersede the current coding syntax in MediaWiki, was made this week. Wikimark2 would change several of the current methods of linking to other languages, images, and external links. There are no plans, however, to introduce or change the current markup syntax.

Wikiscope proposed

A proposal was made this week to create Wikiscope, a project that would integrate all of Wikimedia's projects. Each article in the project would link to the relevant pages in each project, and a search function would simultaneously look through all of the projects.

Briefly

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2006-06-05

The Report On Lengthy Litigation

The Arbitration Committee closed two cases this week.

SqueakBox and Zapatancas

A case against SqueakBox and Zapatancas was closed on Sunday. As a result, both were banned for a month, banned from articles relating to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and placed on personal attack parole for one year. SqueakBox and Zapatancas had edit-warred with each other over the article, and both had made personal attacks against each other and vandalized each other's userpage.

Marcosantezana

A case against Marcosantezana was closed on Monday. As a result, Marcosantezana was banned one year from articles related to natural selection and placed on indefinite probation. A mentorship has also been suggested, awaiting the selection of mentor(s). Marcosantezana had caused "disruption" at these articles, edit-warring and "persist[ing] in adding excessively detailed information into the article."

Cases

Cases were accepted this week involving a request to unblock Blu Aardvark (user page), a request to unblock Saladin1970 (user page), editors on Francis Schuckardt, and a naming dispute on U.S. highway articles. All are in the evidence phase, and no other articles are in the evidence phase.

Cases involving editors on the article 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities, Deathrocker (user page), Infinity0 (user page), PoolGuy (user page), editors on Biological psychiatry, and Sam Spade (user page) are in the voting phase.

A motion to close is on the table in the cases involving Locke Cole (user page) and users DarrenRay and 2006BC.

A motion to restrict StrangerInParadise to one user account is still pending, with seven support votes with no opposition. It appears that the motion has been enacted, with the StrangerInParadise account blocked pending the user's decision on which account to use, but it has not been removed from the arbitration page.

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