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News and notes

News and Notes

Q3 Wikimedia Funding Drive starts

A $200,000 funding drive started on 19 August. The drive aims to pay for the significant server costs, which have risen dramatically recently. Nearly four days into the fundraiser,

USD
$44,413.07 has been raised.

Procedural changes

Two pages received minor procedural overhauls in the past week.

Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion
has been split into templates based on date, which are transcluded into the main deletion page. Both changes were driven by near-universal community consensus on their individual pages.

Briefly