Month: October 2009

Technical news [Wikimedia data sets] – Wikimedia XML data sets have been released on Amazon Public Data Sets.  This should help Wikimedians who do analysis on project data. http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/wikimedia-xml-data-sets-released-on-amazon-public-data-sets/ [Media Features Gadget] – there is a “New Media Features” gadget on Commons.  When it is enabled, you can test out the new media developments from […]

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 […]