Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-08-07/Interwiki report
Report from the French Wikipedia
Status and community news
As of Tuesday, 1 August 2006, the
The latest three additions to the list of articles de qualité are: Battle of Adrianople (fr:Bataille d'Andrinople), Eiffel Tower (fr:Tour Eiffel) and Domestication (fr:espèce domestiquée).
As of 1 August 2006, 106 users of the French Wikipedia are administrators. This makes 0.08% of users out of a total number of 134,124 registered users.
Médiamétrie
A poll about internet traffic showed that Wikipedia was the 21st most visited website by French web surfers. 4,355,000 or 16% of the total have visited Wikipedia at least one time during June 2006. Wikipedia had the biggest growth of web traffic in 2005. At the beginning of year 2005 Wikipedia was in 137th position and by the end of the year Wikipedia landed in the 37th.
In the media
Since January 2006, there has been established a column about the French Wikipedia, called Wikifeuilleton in a weekly satirical newspaper called Le Tigre [1]. The columnist relates passionate debates which have occurred during 2006 in the Wikipedia, like the discussion about a dictator category or an incredible story of a sysop having about ten sock puppets.
Interview of scholars for Wikipedia
The portal of the zoological and botanical history (
Linné and Buffon tercentenary
For the tercentenary of
Discuss this story
Can we please copyedit this? This sentence doesn't make sense. Carmelapple 15:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As of1 August 2006 , 106 users of the French Wikipedia have been nominated for adminship.
This makes 0.08% of the total number of 134,124 registered users .
10 sockpuppets?!
Woah... anyone have details?
Interview of scholars for Wikipedia
Sound brilliant, but isn't that original research? -- Zanimum 17:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Template or category
Interwiki reports should be aggregated into some easy to access tool, like the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Series/Wikimania 2006 template.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 19:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]