Main Page redesign

The redesign project for the Main Page, after working on various ideas for several months, has completed an open editing session and nearly settled on a proposal. Among other things, the redesign incorporates both the featured picture of the day and the Did you know section. This would replace the current system of rotating them, a practice that began last July (see archived story). The organizers plan to submit the redesign for a community vote beginning 1 March.

One question that remains unsettled in the proposed redesign is whether to include a search box as part of the page (in addition to the search box that is part of the navigation sidebar on every page). A straw poll is being held this week about whether this is desirable, with preliminary results indicating that people are about evenly split on the issue.

Delaware meetup

A Wikipedia meetup is scheduled for Newark, Delaware on Saturday, 25 February.

Briefly

• The Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles. (Corrected from February 6)
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
• The Persian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles.
• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.