Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-26/News and notes

Jimbo Wales appears on C-SPAN

Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales appeared on cable network C-SPAN's program Q&A on 25 September, speaking for an hour in a taped interview. The show discussed many of the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia, as well as debunking many of the problems with Wikipedia. A full transcript of the program can be found here.

Username changes disabled

Changing username has been temporarily disabled, says bureaucrat

, is that "it very inefficiently tries to alter the archive table". There is currently no timetable for when the feature will be reenabled.

Wikinews chooses CC-BY 2.5 license

Wikinews has chosen the Creative Commons CC-BY 2.5 license as their official license for all content uploaded as of 25 September. This allows Wikinews content to be included in Wikipedia, though not vice-versa.

Wikiversity vote continues

The Wikiversity project, which currently resides on Wikibooks, started a vote on 15 September to move to wikiversity.org, which currently hosts a near-dormant German Wikiversity project. The vote will last until 1 November. Currently, the vote is about 77% in favor of the project (a two-thirds majority and board approval is required to start a project beta period)

Briefly

• Wikipedia has surpassed the 2.5 million articles mark across all languages.
• The Slovenian Wikipedia now has over 1,000 registered users.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 95,000 articles.
• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 14,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 1,000 uploaded files.
• The Nauruan Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.