Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-08/News and notes
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News and notes
Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser continues
The Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser was extended this week, and will end on January 15, to coincide with Wikipedia Day. As of press time, the fundraiser had raised over US$900,000. Matching funds donations from Virgin Unite have not yet been received. Wikimedia Foundation Chair Florence Devouard indicated that no more matching funds promotions were scheduled for this fundraiser.
The Wikimedia Foundation C.O.R.E. fundraising site has been updated to include all donations from 2006 (though until the database is updated to indicate whether donors wished their name to be public, all old entries appear as 'anonymous'). The site indicates that during 2006, the Foundation received US$1,467,062.93 in donations (before fees).
Mailing lists moved
The mailing lists for Wikipedia and other projects have changed to new addresses after the Wikimedia Foundation migrated them to a new server. All new addresses will use @lists.wikipedia.org, so that for example the English Wikipedia mailing list is now wikien-l at lists.wikipedia.org. Old addresses will still work, but the transition will include mail headers and may require recipients to adjust any filters or other settings they use to read list messages.
Briefly
- The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
- The English Wikipedia has reached 7 million total pages.
- The Portuguese Wikisource has reached 7,000 texts.
- The Voro Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
- The Tajik Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
- The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 75,000 entries.
- The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
- The Malay Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
Also this week: 2006 in review — Press plagiarism — Content manipulation — PR firm — WikiWorld — News and notes — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration
