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By Flcelloguy, October 16, 2006

Logo votes begin

The fourth and final phase in the search for new logos for Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wiktionary began this week. The previous phase had identified the best variant of proposed logos, and a vote will now take place to determine the new logo for each of the three projects. This is the third vote in the process of designing and choosing new logos, and the votes will last until October 31.

Milestones

This week, the Telugu Wikipedia reached 21,000 articles, becoming the first language of the Indian subcontinent to surpass 20,000 articles. Telugu is one of 23 national languages of India with approximately 80 million total speakers. In addition, according to Alexa Internet, Wikipedia reached 60 million unique visitors in one day for the first time ever. Wikipedia now routinely ranks among the top 15 websites in the world by the number of page hits.

Briefly

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 35,000 edits.
• The Arabic Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.
• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
• The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Low Saxon Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Sundanese Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 200,000 entries.
• The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Japanese Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 160,000 articles.
• The Min Nan Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Newar / Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Wu Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Chinese Wikinews has reached 500 articles.
• The Tagalog Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 38,000 articles.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 65,000 entries.

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