Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-06/News and notes

Two Arbitrators granted CheckUser rights

Two newly-elected

The second annual Wikimedia Conference, or Wikimania, announced its call for participation last Friday. Submissions for papers and other presentations are being accepted over the next few months. The deadline for proposed workshops and tutorials is 30 March; abstracts for panels, papers, posters, and presentations should be received by 15 April. Wikimania is scheduled to be held August 4-6 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Deletion process goes live

A new

Kelly Martin resigned from her position as chair of the Clerk's Office this week. The former Arbitrator said in her resignation that "It is obvious that the community, for its own inscrutiable reasons, is unwilling to accept the services I am willing and able to provide. I have no doubt that I have the trust of Jimbo and the Arbitration Committee itself. However, it's evident that the community has no intention of allowing me to provide any service of an administrative nature to Wikipedia without having to deal with endless sniping." The position vacated by Martin is now vacant, although only former Arbitrators may fill the position.

Featured content milestones, changes

Briefly

• The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 pages.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 18,000 articles.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 25,000 pages.
• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles with Peszternye.
• The Luxembourgish Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 uploaded files.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 950,000 articles.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 350,000 articles.
• The Japanese Wikipedia has been awarded the 11th AMD Award, Digital Contents of the Year '05, Best Writer prize by Association of Media In Digital.
• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.