Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-02-26/News and notes
News and notes
New arbitrators appointed
On Friday,
CAPTCHA images enabled for account creation
Due to malicious robot account creation, CAPTCHA images are now required to register a Wikipedia account. To help users who cannot read the images, a new process, request an account, has been created. Administrators are needed to watch the page and create accounts for these users. For more information, contact Ral315.
Alexa ranks rise
Alexa ranks for Wikipedia rose again this week. The daily traffic rose to 8th for the first time on Monday, 19 February, but dropped back to 9th on Wednesday. Wikimedia sites traffic ranks (updated Friday, 23 February) include:
Site | 3-month rank | 1-week averages |
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Wikipedia | 12 | 10 |
Meta/Commons/Wikispecies | 351 | 311 |
Wiktionary | 2,255 | 2,338 |
Wikibooks | 3,286 | 3,357 |
Wikiquote | 3,596 | 3,626 |
Wikimedia Foundation | 5,820 | 14,596 |
Wikisource | 7,007 | 6,995 |
Wikinews | 11,672 | 16,109 |
Wikiversity | 21,899 | 23,452 |
Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikiquote showed small declines in rank; Wikinews and Wikiversity showed larger declines in rank. The sharp decline in rank for the Wikimedia Foundation website can be attributed to the end of the fundraiser; indeed, the site's rank had risen to about 1500 during the peak of the fundraiser, then declined sharply.
Wikipedia again mentioned on prime-time U.S. sitcom
Wikipedia has again been mentioned on a prime-time U.S.
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 -
Moon overSan Diego, California
Photo credit: Rufustelestrat -
Aurora borealis
Photo credit: Senior Airman Joshua Strang -
Barred Owl
Photo credit: Mdf
Briefly
- The Asturian Wikipedia has reached 500 users.
- The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 1500 users.
- The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 100 Featured articles.
- The Norwegian (Norsk Bokmål) Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.
- The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 500,000 total pages.
- The French Wikipedia has reached 450,000 articles.
- The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
- The Kurdish Wikipedia has passed 8,000 articles.
- The Quechua Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
- The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
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