Wikipedia:Goings-on/November 14, 2004

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Welcome to Wikipedia's goings-on. This page is a central point for community members to collect current information about the community project and to report on recent goings-on. In a sense, it's an announcement page, but it is supposed to collect even those kinds of information that are normally not announced on pages like Wikipedia:Announcements (e.g. arbitration progress, outspoken newcomers, amusing things, etc.). However, please notice that this page is explicitly not for discussion. When listing topics here that are being discussed or have been discussed, please link to the appropriate discussion page and discuss it there. For a project-wide update of events, see the Meta goings-on.

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday November 14 2004

The next Arbitration Committee elections will be held from 1–15 December. Candidates should declare themselves before November 30 on the candidate statement subpage. Anyone interested is encouraged to announce their candidacy as early as possible to help determine whether we have enough qualified candidates to fill all the openings.
A streamlining of the Arbitration Committee's policy is undergoing a ratification vote from 14–28 November.
The Forum for Encyclopedic Standards, a new voluntary association, has been formed. The group discusses a system of expert review on Wikipedia.
Upcoming meetups include Boston on November 21, London on December 3, and New York City on December 12.
Ran, Hyacinth, DF08, Ortolan88, DanKeshet, Joy Stovall, Derek Ross, Karada, Wapcaplet and Aris Katsaris become administrators. Congratulations!
The Arbitration Committee has made a ruling in the case of Wikipedia v. Rex071404 (four-month ban) and has closed the cases of RickK v. Guanaco, Lance6Wins, and Jimmyvanthach.
The Wikipedia Trivia Contest, Round 3 has begun.
A "Interesting Fact of the Day" project has been initiated to draw attention to articles that need tender loving care.
A poll is going on at Requests for adminship talk about proposed caps on adminship nominations and de-adminship for inactive users.
On Saturday, November 20, 2004, the English Wikipedia reaches 400,000 articles. The 400,000th article is probably Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle by Timrollpickering.