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==May 24, 2006==
In terms of system maintance and upgrades, we've been coasting on the flurry of maintenance work that took place last November. Today, I've finally upgraded the wiki to the newly released [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.6#What.27s_new_in_1.6 MediaWiki 1.6.6], which offers a few new features, security updates and so on - nothing too dramatic.
==November 28, 2005==
In order to better comply with Wikipedia's GFDL licensing policy, we are asking all users to revisit any articles they've imported from Wikipedia to make sure that we satisfy the attibution requirement. [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Copyright|Wikipedia:Copyright]] states that "a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement."
Although this is often already provided, in other cases, there is simply a note in the history. Ideally, the link back to the original article would be the permalink to the version imported (these can be discovered by going to "history" and then clicking on a revision date), but, since Wikipedia does not require this, neither will OrthodoxWiki, especially in cases where it would take a lot of effort to retrace steps to the original version. Any discussion about this should take place at [[OrthodoxWiki_Talk:Copyrights]].
==November 26, 2005==
OrthodoxWiki is launching an ambitious initiative to organize all the images on the site. ''We will need your help!''
What we'd like to to is stamp all the images with appropriate image categories. These automatically become photo galleries!
Please see [[OrthodoxWiki:Photo galleries]] for details. Thanks!
::'''Update:''' Image galleries are now available at [[:Category:Images]]. There is much more work to be done!
==November 23, 2005==
OrthodoxWiki finally has an explicit [[OrthodoxWiki:Privacy policy|privacy policy]] in place, prominently linked from the page footer. Your feedback is welcomed and appreciated.
==November 21, 2005==
The [http://www.cafepress.com/orthodoxwiki OrthodoxWiki Promotional Store] is now open! We're advertising it as "a great place to do your Christmas shopping." We don't expect to make much money on the merchandise offered here for sale, but we wanted to be able to provide another way to promote our work here. (If the profits are large enough, Fr. John might get a free mug out of this.) Please contact [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]] if you have any comments or suggestions.
We've also announced a [[OrthodoxWiki:Copyrights|revised default copyright policy]] to the effect that all new edits and submissions will be dual licensed under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GFDL] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5] licenses by default (unless explicitly stated otherwise). We have also rolled out more detailed "click-through" language in order to make it easier to republish the content under the terms of the licenses. If you're willing to reissue your prior edits under this new policy, please add "<nowiki>{{acceptrevised}}</nowiki>" to your user page. This could make things much simpler in the future! Thanks.
==November 20, 2005==
* We've had some talk recently about a [[OrthodoxWiki:Patron saint|patron saint]]. I would like to go ahead and ask St. [[John of Damascus]] to fulfill this role for us. As a great apologist and compiler of Orthodox teaching, he offers an inspiring example for OrthodoxWiki. He is recognized as a teacher and revealed as a saint throughout the Orthodox world. Please join me in asking him to be present with us, and to guide and inspire our humble project by his prayers. [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]
* Hotlinking (pulling OrthodoxWiki images directly into another site) has been disabled to forestall abuse, but a few sites have been grandfathered in. Please see [[OrthodoxWiki:Hotlinks]] for details. Direct links to OrthodoxWiki images from other websites are now redirected to [[OrthodoxWiki:Image links]].
==November 16, 2005==
I'm pleased to announce that [[User:HappyGrevling]] has won the [[OrthodoxWiki:Logo Contest]] with his [[:Image:SealLogo1.gif]] submission. Thanks to Zander and to all who participated!
This is the '''OrthodoxWiki:News''' page, detailing important news about '''OrthodoxWiki''' itself. It is strongly recommended that you [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=watch}} '''add it to your watchlist'''] so that you can keep track of whenever it's updated. New updates will always appear at the top of this page. Old news items will be archived, so headings should not be considered permalinks.
To see what the newest articles are, see: '''[[Special:Newpages]]'''.<br>
For new conversation regarding this project, see: '''[[OrthodoxWiki:Community Portal]]'''.
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==November 7, 2005==
We've also added a list of keyboard shortcuts on the [[OrthodoxWiki:Tools and hacks|Tools and hacks]] page and outlined a variety of search possibilities on [[OrthodoxWiki:Searching]].
'''We're also requesting [[OrthodoxWiki:Patron saint|nominations for a patron saint for OrthodoxWiki]]. Please help us!'''
==November 6, 2005==
Our channel is registered through [http://freenode.net/ freenode] and classifies as a [http://freenode.net/primary_groups.shtml primary], [http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#ontopic on-topic] channel because it is used to primarily talk about official work on the wiki. We are further classified as a [http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#ontopic Web Media] channel, as we are an online community reference site. You can find out more about freenode at [http://freenode.net/faq.shtml their frequently asked questions page].
For information about how to use IRC, please see the [[OrthodoxWiki:Community_Portal#Internet Relay Chat(or IRC)|Community Portal]].
==June 8, 2005==