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By Ral315, 19 December 2005

Fundraiser begins

A Wikimedia Foundation fundraising drive began Friday. The fundraiser, which will last for three weeks, ends on January 6. At press time, US$54,479.66 had been raised, and the $16,285.68 raised on December 18 was the highest one-day total yet for a Wikimedia fundraiser. Although no specific goal has been set, Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia CFO, indicated he hoped it could raise at least USD $500,000.

United States goes missing

After a series of page moves, United States was inadvertently deleted for over an hour. The cause was a move conflict by administrators trying to fix the moves. When administrators tried to undelete the article, they were unable to do so. brion finally undeleted the article. Interestingly, the deletion log shows no page deletion during this time.

Briefly

• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 3000 articles.

Also this week: Semi-protection — ArbCom election — Wikipedia quality — Steward elections — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.