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News and notes

By Ral315, 15 January 2007

Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser passes $1,000,000

The Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser will conclude this week. At the end of the drive, over US$1,000,000 had been raised, not including a matching funds donation yet to be received.

Personal attack noticeboard rejected

After complaints over its effectiveness, and worries that it was being used inappropriately in disputes, the personal attack intervention noticeboard was shut down last week, after a deletion request.

Mailing lists moved

The mailing lists for Wikipedia and other projects have changed to new addresses after the Wikimedia Foundation migrated them to a new server. All new addresses will use @lists.wikipedia.org, so that for example the English Wikipedia mailing list is now wikien-l at lists.wikipedia.org. Old addresses will still work, but the transition will include mail headers and may require recipients to adjust any filters or other settings they use to read list messages. Also note that links to old mailing list messages may point to different ones now: this is because of how the archive rebuilding process works.

Briefly

• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Samoan Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Zazaki Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
• The Dutch Wikisource has reached 1,000 texts.
• The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Chuvash Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 registered users.
• The Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Ido Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.
• The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
• The Tongan Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia was edited 800,000 times.
• The Alemanic Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.
• The Marathi Wikipedia was edited for the 47,000th time.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 31,000 articles.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 7 million total pages.
• The Portuguese Wikisource has reached 7000 texts.

Also this week: — 2006 in review — Arbitrator interviews — Cascading protection — WikiWorld — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration