Wikipedia:Announcements October 2002

Announcements for October 2002

October 31, 2002

The French wikipedia is now converted to the new software and running on the new server -- http://fr.wikipedia.org/

If you're so inclined, please help setting up interlanguage links back from the French articles to English and other languages.

October 29, 2002

A new subwiki is being set up at http://sep11.wikipedia.org to more permanently house the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack memorial pages.

Software tweaks: in your user preferences you'll find a new option to "Edit pages on double click". Try it, you'll like it.

October 27, 2002

In many parts of the world, daylight saving time has recently ended or commenced or is about to. If you're setting a local time zone in your preferences, you might want to double-check that it's still your correct local time.

October 26, 2002

The so called rambot completed its mass entry of approximately 30,000 articles on U.S. cities. The process which began on October 18, took over a week to finish. It caused lots of discussion and problems with cluttering up the Recent Changes.

October 23, 2002

The Spanish-language Wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org/) this morning has now been moved over to Wikipedia's new server (at *.wikipedia.org) and upgraded to the new custom Wikipedia wiki software.

Anyone interested in setting up and checking interlanguage links, please give a hand!

October 22, 2002

Japanese online news service Yomiuri Shimbun ran a favorable story about Wikipedia. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20021022wo62.htm (dead link)

October 12, 2002

Early in the morning EST, Wikipedia starts spitting out random pages instead of the pages users ask for. People wonder if Wikipedia was hacked or if it was just some bug than ran uncorrected for many hours. The latter.

No, there was no hack. There is a temporary fix in place. Read: [1] (http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-October/006256)

October 11, 2002

In your user preferences, you can now set an option that will mark links to stub articles (a "stub detector"). The default setting is 0, which turns it off; setting it to another value ("x") will cause links to articles with less than "x" characters to be displayed in a different color, or with a "!" following the link, depending on your other preferences.

October 10, 2002

If you look in your special pages list you may notice a new Maintenance page which has some tools to list double redirects, pages that link to themselves, etc. There are also some new search options (/w/wiki.phtml?search=xyzzyx), for those who want to search in Talk:, User:, and Wikipedia: pages.

Additionally, the Meta-Wikipedia (http://meta.wikipedia.org/), for discussion and planning about the project and all your rants and raves that don't fit in the encyclopedia, has been upgraded to the new software.

October 8, 2002

The Danish-language Wikipedia (http://da.wikipedia.org/) this morning joined the English, German (http://de.wikipedia.org/), and Dutch (http://nl.wikipedia.org/) wikis in being moved over to Wikipedia's new server (at *.wikipedia.org) and upgraded to the new custom Wikipedia wiki software with a completely localized user interface. The Japanese (http://ja.wikipedia.org/) wiki is additionally on the new software but isn't yet fully localized, and French (http://fr.wikipedia.org/), Polish (http://pl.wikipedia.org/), and Esperanto (http://eo.wikipedia.org/) localizations are in testing. The other Non-English Wikipedias remain on our old server (*.wikipedia.com, running UseMod wiki software) for the time being, but will continue to be moved and upgraded as fast as our volunteer development team can do it.

October 5, 2002

The Dutch-language Wikipedia (http://nl.wikipedia.org/) has now been converted to the new phase III Wikipedia software. The new server is at http://nl.wikipedia.org/ ; the old UseMod-based version will continue to be available at http://nl.wikipedia.com/ for a few days to make sure all pages were converted successfully, then will become an alias for the new server.

Anybody who's interested, please help importing the interlanguage links!

October 3, 2002

Wikipedia received its 10,000,000th hit (since the Phase III Software was installed in July) today, according to Special:Statistics. This works out to an average of about 135,000 hits per day (around 1.5 per second, around the clock).