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By Flcelloguy, July 3, 2006

One million Wiktionary entries

Wiktionary, a sister project of Wikipedia, has exceeded a total of 1,000,000 entries in all languages. An unofficial press release cited that the project has seen extraordinary growth since its inception in December 2002, and since then the free dictionary has been started in nearly 150 languages. In addition, the total number of edits in all Wikimedia projects surpassed 150 million.

Modified privacy policy goes into effect

Changes to the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy became effective on Saturday, July 1. The changes, which were approved by the Board of Trustees in June, mainly reflect the use of CheckUser, with the major change providing that people with access to CheckUser can view a logged-in user's IP address "in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a wiki page by you or by another user with the same IP address."

Translation newsletter released

The promotion and translation subcommittee, part of the communications committee, released their first newsletter this week. Temporarily dubbed "The Babylonian", the monthly newsletter will serve to coordinate translation of news, press releases, and notices, and bring together promotional efforts, such as poster designs.

Medical wiki proposed

A medical dictionary wiki was proposed recently, with the goal of providing a comprehensive medical resource. The advocates of the proposal admitted that the project would have a controversial legal status, as law prohibits anyone from giving medical advice except for medical professionals. However, the proponents argued that "[the project] would be retelling medical advice from legitimate sources" instead of giving medical advice.

Voting begins on incubator logo

Voting began on a new logo for the Incubator Wiki, a place where projects can be developed and tested before launch. As of press time, there are four logos proposed, with one logo having the vast majority of votes. A vote is also ongoing on whether the name should be "Wikimedia Incubator" or something else.

Briefly

• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Ligurian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Samogitian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 600 articles.
• The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• The Ido Wiktionary has reached 60,000 pages.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.
• The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles.
• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 7,000 registered users.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
• The Tagalog Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Italian Wikibooks has reached 1,000 wikibook modules.
• The Turkish Wikibooks has reached 100 wikibook modules.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Marathi Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
• The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Venetian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 25,000 total pages.

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