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By Flcelloguy, April 17, 2006

New anti-vandalism tool released

A new anti-vandalism application, dubbed VandalProof, was recently released. Created by AmiDaniel and inspired by CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, the tool makes finding vandalism, warning users, checking out other contributions by vandals and watching articles easier. Because of security reasons, users must first be approved by the moderators of the application in order to use it. As of April 29, over 200 users had been approved for the tool. Please note that the application is exclusively for use with Windows based PCs with Internet Explorer.

Bengali Wikipedia campaign

Ragib, a native of Bangladesh and administrator on both the English and Bengali (or Bangla) Wikipedias, reports some developments with the Bengali Wikipedia in addition to its recent milestone (see below). He relates that the project was mostly dormant until a publicity campaign starting last month in Bangladeshi media brought in a number of new volunteers. Underrepresentation of particular languages has been a longstanding concern for Wikimedia Foundation projects. Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, ranking somewhere between fourth and seventh, depending on how speakers are counted and whether non-native speakers are included.

Briefly

• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 14,000 entries.
• The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 registered users.
• The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 8,000 registered users.
• The Nynorsk Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Haitian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles
• The Azeri Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 22,000 articles.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 50,000,000 edits since July 2002.
• The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 400 registered users.
• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 3,000 registered users.
• The Ido Wiktionary has reached 40,000 pages.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 23,000 articles.

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