Wikipedia:Goings-on/March 20, 2005

Goings-on in the week starting Sunday March 20 2005

• Wikipedia:Arbitration policy/Proposed amendment revote continues.
• Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week is added to the community portal.
• Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship is a proposal to allow Wikipedians to vote on the demotion of administrators, just as they vote to promote them. A straw poll is open to gather consensus as to whether such a process should be available.
• Wikifun Round 6 starts.

Current live Collaborations of the Week

• General: History of the Balkans
• Article Improvement Drive: Asia and Leonardo da Vinci
• Hong Kong: Culture of Hong Kong
• Indian: New Delhi
• United Kingdom: Question Time (television)
• Spanish translation: Origin of the name California, from es:Origen del nombre de California
• Gaming: Game controller

Articles featured on the Main Page

• Cambodia (March 20)
• Isaac Asimov (March 21)
• Flag of South Africa (March 22)
• Pioneer Zephyr (March 23)
• History of the Yosemite area (March 24)
• Military history of the Soviet Union (March 25)
• Helicobacter pylori (March 26)

Articles that gained "featured" status

• History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) (March 21)
• History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 (March 24)
• Comet Hyakutake (March 24)
• Brian Close (March 24)
• The Country Wife (March 24)
• Carl G. Fisher (March 24)
• Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (March 24)
• Oroonoko (March 24)
• Convair B-36 (March 26)
• Mumbai (March 26)
• Wladyslaw Sikorski (March 26)
• Parliament Act (March 26)

Pictures that gained "featured" status

• Aisawan Thiphya-Art (March 21)
• Dry Tortugas (March 21)
• Walt Whitman (March 21)
• Petrified wood closeup (March 22)
• Australian Blue Dragonfly (March 22)
• Lake-effect snow (March 22)
• Kyoto Fushimi Inari shrine (March 26)
• Pine cones, male and female (March 26)

Archived goings-on, 2005

March 13 | March 6 | February 27 | February 20 | February 13 | February 6 | January 30 | January 23 | January 16 | January 9 | January 2

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