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News and notes

By Flcelloguy, October 23, 2006

Donation currencies added

Fundraising committee member and former Chief Financial Officer Daniel Mayer announced the addition of 10 new currencies to the list of currencies accepted in the PayPal donation box for the Wikimedia Foundation. The new currencies, ranging from Hong Kong dollars to Polish złotys, brings the total number of currencies accepted to 16.

Creations

Chief Technical Officer Brion Vibber announced the creation of four new Wikis this week: the Spanish Wikiversity, Bosnian Wikinews, Tajik Wikibooks, and the Macedonian Wikisource. In addition, the Wikimania 2007 wiki, designed for Wikimania 2007 Taipei, was also created. The Taipei bidding team, following the creation of the wiki, which will serve as the place for planning and coordination, also released the first Team Bulletin on Sunday. The regular updates will serve to inform interested Wikimedians of news, announcements, and the progress of the planning for Wikimedia 2007.

Briefly

• The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 50,000 edits.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The French Wikipedia has reached 380,000 articles.
• The Novial Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Tongan Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 70,000 entries.
• The Ido Wikipedia has reached 14,000 articles.
• The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 12,000 articles.
• The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 75,000 edits.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
• The Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Classical Chinese Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Latin Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.

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