Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-22/News and notes

News and notes

New template created to eliminate talk page clutter

Template:ArticleHistory was created this week, and is being "slowly rolled out" onto talk pages that have undergone various article review processes. Raul654, one of the contributors behind the template, said that the template "gives the review history of an article in chronological order, [merging] the functionality of many templates, including: {{FAC}}, {{FAR}}, {{featured}}, {{FACfailed}}, {{Mainpage date to come}}, {{Mainpage date}}, {{Peerreview}}, 'etc. This makes it much easier to keep track of them."

One example that Raul654 cited is that of New York City, which is currently undergoing its sixth featured article candidacy. Before and after links show that most of the templates were easily condensed into the Article History template.

Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser closes

The Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser ended this week. At the end of the drive, over US$1,000,000 had been raised, not including a matching funds donation yet to be received. On 15 January, four large donations were contributed anonymously, presumably by the same Polish user:

US$10,000
€8,000 (US$10,314.40)
€7,500 (US$9,669.75)
22,000 złoty (US$7,323.30) ([1])

The four donations were the only major donations made this week, and totaled over US$37,000. After the fundraiser ended, donations leveled off, from $6,336.04 on 16 January to $2,321.78 on 21 January.

Briefly

The Slovak Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 150,000 total pages.
The Lojban Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
The Portuguese Wikisource has surpassed 8,000 texts.
The Georgian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
The Kapampangan Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 25,000 registered users.
The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.
The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
The French Wikipedia has reached 200,000 registered users.
The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 600 registered users, and becomes the first wiki to switch to the new Wiktionary logo.
The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles, and also reached 400 registered users.