Contributing to Wikipedia

Author: n\a Source: Wikinews Date: Aug 4, 2010 The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), host of Wikinews and its sister projects, to take down its image of the FBI seal from its websites. However, the WMF declined, saying that FBI lawyers had misinterpreted the relevant federal law. In a letter dated July 22, 2010, David C. Larson, Deputy General Counsel of the FBI demanded that the WMF remove the seal from its websites within fourteen...Read Full Story

Foundation[Terms Of Use] - On websites the "Terms of Use" are what most of us frequently indicate to agree with but never reed. Also Wikipedia has a "Terms of Use". A "Terms of use" for Wikipedia came only to existence years after its founding and remained very basic. Until now. In original Wikimedia style a new Terms Of use have been written by the community at Meta. It is more extensive then the current but it remains, for a "Terms of Use", relative short and very readable. The WMF board...Read Full Story

Technical news[Flagged revisions] - status information about flagged revisions and how the English Wikipedia is going to use it.http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/flagged-revisions-your-questions-answered/ [10gbit/sec] - on the 11th of January Wikimedia's world-wide five-minute-average transmission rate crossed 10gbit/sec. This peak rate was achieved while serving roughly 91,725 requests per second. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/46655[Wikipedia and...Read Full Story

Technical news[Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet] - Brion Vibber, the Chief Technical Officer, announced that he's leaving the Wikimedia Foundation after four years.http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/announce-brion-moving-to-statusnet/ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-September/055358.html[Labs: FlaggedRevs] - due to some miscommunications, a lot of people didn't realize that the FlaggedRevs labs test wiki has been active and waiting for people to poke at it for a...Read Full Story

Happy Wikipedia-day!Technical news[Upload size] - The maximum allowed upload size of files in increased from 20 megabytes to 100 megabytes. That is especially important for Commons that now can receive more easy video. Brion says there is now 48 terabyte of storage space for the media. 5 terabyte is used currently. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/011309-wikipedia-digital-media.html[Time zone] - in the user preferences, section "Date and time", is there now an option to select your...Read Full Story