Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-02-19/News and notes
News and notes
News and notes
Brief outage
Wikipedia was down for about 25 minutes on Saturday, 17 February. One of the servers that handles text load balancing failed and service was restored after this function was moved to a different server.
Verifiability + No Original Research = Attribution?
Work has been done to merge
No Original Research into a single policy, Wikipedia:Attribution. Discussion is underway on Wikipedia talk:Attribution
; the proposed move/merger has sparked significant discussion.
Commons Picture of the Year competition
The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year competition has reached the second and final round. For the second round, which lasts through Wednesday, 28 February, the 321 pictures on the shortlist have been narrowed to the top 11 (due to a tie). Users with at least 100 edits on any local project or Commons can vote on their favorite of the 11 photos. The finalists can be seen below:
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SS America (1940)
Photo credit: Wollex -
Blue Jay
Photo credit: Mdf -
Biological reproduction (hoverflies)
Photo credit: Fir0002
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Moon overSan Diego, California
Photo credit: Rufustelestrat -
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Aurora borealis
Photo credit: Senior Airman Joshua Strang -
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Barred Owl
Photo credit: Mdf
WikiProject meta-template up for deletion
After the creation of the meta-template {{
Talk:Jogaila
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The template, which was created on 5 February, was
nominated for deletion on 19 February. Ned Scott
said in nominating the template for deletion, "We all agree some talk pages have gotten out of hand with their template banners, but not all ideas are good for how to clean up the situation. This template basically just shoves all the WikiProject templates of a given talk page into a drawer, rendering the banners useless. If you're going to do that then you might as well just not use the banners in the first place. The hide-and-forget method is a sloppy way of dealing with this situation."
In the template's defense,
talk page, a change to another version
of the template that shows the names of all WikiProjects seems to be preferred.
Briefly
- The Asturian Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.
- The Czech Wikipedia has passed 60,000 articles.
- The Romanian Wikisource has reached 5,000 text-units.
- The Kashubian Wikipedia has passed 1,000 articles.
- The Latvian Wikipedia has passed 8,000 articles.
- The Polish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
- The Thai Wikipedia has passed 19,000 articles.
- The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has passed 2,000 articles.
- The Thai Wikipedia has reached 19,000 registered users.
- The Upper Sorbian Wikipedia has passed 500 articles.
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