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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
- The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
- The French Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
- The Danish Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
- The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Sanskrit Wikipedia dropped from the 1,000-article mark to only 600 articles with the deletion of nearly half its articles, mostly for having English-only content.
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