Archive:Current events

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Mediawiki software: the mythical Universal Login soon a reality
Brion, our head developer, visited Berlin to drop in on the 22C3 conference and get some face-to-face chatting done with some of our European folks (such as Magnus and JeLuf). He posted a report about that on Meta. (Anthere, 02 January 2006)

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Wikipedia wins two Awards in Italy
At the Premio WWW event of the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore Wikipedia was honored as "best website" in the category Education and Work. The free encyclopedia also received a special award from Il Sole 24 Ore in cooperation with the Italian ministry of Technology and Innovation. (elian, 14 December 2005)

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Wikimedia Foundation supporting non-profit medical research....
The Wikimedia Foundation is supporting non-profit medical research by participating in the Folding@Home program, donating computer-time on servers when these do not have any other work to do.

• fah-web.stanford.edu
• article.gmane.org

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A meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was held on irc on November 13, 2005
Notes may be found at Meetings/November 13, 2005. (Florence Devouard, 27 November 2005)

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The Wikimedia Foundation is honored by a World Technology Award in Communications Technology
This week, the Wikimedia Foundation was honored by a World Technology Award in communication, joining the ranks of other World Technology Network members. See http://www.wtn.net/2005/summit/ (Florence Devouard, 15 November 2005)

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• News before October 2005 are found on past events.

Other news

These news are maintained by volunteers on an indipendent basis.

• Wikizine.org, home of the "Wikizine" e-mail newsletter.
• The Wikipedia Signpost, weekly news by English Wikipedia based volunteers.
• Wikimedia News. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
• Goings-on. More cross-project news.
• Server admin log. Technical software/hardware news.