Sarkarverse:Sarkarverse Bulletin/Previous issues
2014 April 01
Issue: 3 • Date: 2014 April 1
Greetings, welcome to the third issue of Sarkarverse Bulletin, Sarkarverse's monthly newsletter. We're sending you the second edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or have shown interest in Sarkarverse. To receive future updates of Sarkarverse Bulletin, please subscribe (or unsubscribe) the bulletin.
- Sarkarverse Featured Content and Bullleting frequency: Sarkarverse Featured Content and Sarkarverse bulletin have become more systematic. From now Sarkarverse Featured Content on/around 6 and 21 of every month and new issues of Sarkarverse will be published on 1 of every month.
- New system admin — User:Prem: On 2014 March 20, User:Prem (Tommi Koskinen) joined Sarkarverse as a system admin. Prem is skilled with sysadmin work on Linux but new to MediaWiki.
- First editor to complete 10,000 edits: On 2014 March 21, User:Tito Dutta become the first editor of Sarkarverse to complete 10,000 edits at Sarkarverse. User:Abhidevananda congratulated Tito saying "Congratulations... it is a testament to your perseverance."
- 6-hours outage: On March 26 Sarkarverse suffered a 6-hour outage. It was a server-side issue. Upon investigation, it was found that the site server was overloaded by extremely heavy traffic. In the not-too-distant future, Sarkarverse will require a more robust server.
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2014 March 14
Issue: 2• Date: 2014 March 14
Greetings Welcome to the second edition of Sarkarverse Bulletin, Sarkarverse's fortnightly newsletter. We're sending you the second edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or have shown interest in Sarkarverse. To receive future updates of Saarkarverse Bulletin, please subscribe (or unsubscribe) the bulletin.
- Sarkarverse in three more languages: On 2014 March 21, Sarkarverse was made available in three additional languages. Besides our English version, we now have:
- MediaWiki upgrade:: Sarkarverse's platfrom MediaWiki was upgraded from MW 1.21 to MW 1.22 in the first week of March. This upgrade brought both benefits and hassles. With the upgrade, we got a faster site, some errors were fixed — these were benefits. The upgrade also brought some new errors, and we had to update a series of modules and templates — these were hassles.
- Scribunto Lua— No more: Scribunto is a core extension of MediaWiki that uses the Lua programming language. From the very first day we have been facing difficulties with this extension. In mid-November (2013) it was fixed. Now the error is back, and it is affecting hundreds of pages and templates. Our volunteers are working to fix it.
- Lack of editors: Although Sarkarverse is going to be 5 months' old this March, the site is still badly lacking active editors. If you are not engaged with editing, please consider helping out.
- Sarkarverse social news: Sarkarverse Facebook page touched 350 likes on March 14.
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2013 November 1
Issue: 1 • Date: 1 November 2013
Greetings Welcome to the inaugural edition of Sarkarverse Bulletin, Sarkarverse's fortnightly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or have shown interest in Sarkarverse. To receive future updates of Saarkarverse Bulletin, please subscribe (or unsubscribe) the bulletin.
- Sarkarverse launched: On 21 October 2013, Sarkarverse was launched by Ananda Marga senior monk Abhidevananda Avadhuta. The initial work of the encyclopedia began on 7 October 2013.
- Sarkarverse reaches 500 articles: On 26 October 2013, Sarkarverse reached 500 articles. As of 1 November 2013[update] Sarkarverse has 936 articles.
- Deluge of spam: On 27 October 2013 Sarkarverse faces a serious spam attack and saw more than 150 new accounts those were created to write spam articles and insert external links in Sarkarverse articles. All 150+ accounts were quickly blocked and new account creation in Sarkarverse was temporarily disabled. Account creation was re-enabled on 28 October.
- Ongoing discussions: Ongoing discussions on Sarkarverse policies and guidelines planning may be seen at Sarkarverse:Policies and guidelines planning. Feel free join and share your opinion there (Maps and categories • Projects)
- Portal:Quiz: On 30 October 2013 Sarkarverse launched Portal:Quiz — a recreational portal of the encyclopedia. Any registered user may ask or ask questions here, but all questions must be connected to Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.
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