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By Flcelloguy, March 27, 2006

Two more granted CheckUser rights

Two more Wikipedians were granted CheckUser rights this week: Mackensen and UninvitedCompany. Both are former members of the Arbitration Committee; Mackensen was elected in the January elections and served until he resigned in February, while UninvitedCompany was a member of the initial Arbitration Committee who served until his resignation in February of 2004. This brings the total number of CheckUser status on the English Wikipedia to 14, including Essjay and Ambi, who were both granted access last week.

Arbitration enforcement board proposed

A noticeboard for reporting and enforcing decisions of the Arbitration Committee was proposed this week. Although similar to the existing page from ArbCom requesting administrators to implement Arbitration decisions, the new proposed noticeboard would be for users to report violations after the respective Arbitration case had already closed.

English Wikinews closes first ArbCom case

The English Wikinews' Arbitration Committee closed its first case this week. The case, which involved an administrator's deletion of userboxes, resulted in the Arbitration Committee ruling for the creation of a "userbox whitelist", which would include language and localization userboxes, as well as others approved by the community.

Czech Wikipedia's ArbCom closes case

The Czech Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee closed its first complete case this week, against Rosta. Although it was actually the second case accepted by the Czech ArbCom, it was the first case to run through the entire Arbitration process.

15 new Wikipedias created

Fifteen new Wikipedias have been created, in the following languages: Piedmontese, Dutch Low Saxon, West Flemish, Ligurian, Kalmyk, Tetum, Papiamentu, Romani, Samogitian, Ripuarian, Pennsylvania German, Franco-Provençal/Arpitan, Cantonese, Banyumasan, and Norman.

Briefly

• The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 registered users.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 375,000 articles.
• The Afrikaans Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikinews has reached 100 news stories.
• The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• Wikibooks has entered the top 4,000 websites on the internet, according to Alexa.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 40,000 registered users.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 registered users.
• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The Turkish Wikibooks has reached over 1,000 page edits.
• The Chinese Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 200,000 registered users.
• The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikinews has reached 100 news articles.
• The Slovak Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• The Wikimedia Commons has reached 500,000 media files.

Also this week: Britannica v. Nature — Community Portal — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.