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News and notes

By Ral315, 8 May 2006

Repeated mentions at ACM CFP-2006

Vernor Vinge spoke highly of Wikipedia.

Three users - Raul654, Mindspillage, and Sj - represented Wikimedia at Friday's session of the ACM CFP-2006 conference. Several speakers - notably EFF lawyer Mike Godwin and science fiction author Vernor Vinge - spoke in glowing terms of Wikipedia. (Vinge later said the plenary session discussing Wikipedia was one of the highlights of the conference for him.)

Mr. Vinge also passed along a request for a certain feature (a sort of "Wayback Wikipedia" where it would be possible to view all articles on Wikipedia as they existed at a certain point in time) and Mindspillage dutifully filed the request for him.

Briefly

• The Spanish Wiktionary has reached 6,000 entries.
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 3,000 files.
• The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The German Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
• The Latin Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.
• The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Kapampangan Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Franco-Provençal/Arpitan Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The English Wiktionary has reached 140,000 entries.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 4,000 registered users.
• The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 600 articles.
• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 registered users.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 60,000 registered users.
• The English Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

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