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From the editor: RSS returns
Thousandth FA
English Wikipedia reaches 1,000 Featured Articles
NSLE desysopped
Administrator desysopped after sockpuppeting incident
Wikimania series
Meetups And Newsworthy International Assemblages
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News and notes: Wikimedia board resolutions, milestones
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The Report On Lengthy Litigation
 

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2006-06-12

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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By Ral315

Information about recent software changes was not provided as of press time.

Last week in servers

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Two resolutions passed

The Wikimedia Foundation passed two resolutions this week. The first resolution defines the scope of the special projects committee, and the second resolution authorizes the creation of a fundraising committee. The fundraising committee will be organized by Daniel Mayer (Maveric149, also known as Mav), the current Chief Financial Officer of the Foundation.

World Cup brings debate

The World Cup brought debate and controversy to the "In the news" section of the Main Page this week. The discussion centered around whether Wikipedia should place updated scores from the monthlong competition, which draws significant worldwide attention, on the Main Page. Previous sporting events, including the Olympics and Commonwealth Games, had been featured with updated scores and/or medal counts, with a distinguishable section placed below the other entries on the template. The question of whether other less-global sport events, such as the ongoing Stanley Cup Finals and NBA Finals, merit updated scores or even a mention on the page was also discussed. As of press time, "In the news" did not have updated scores but had an item mentioning the games with a link to Portal:Association football, which contains the scores.

Language select starts at Meta

Language select was implemented using JavaScript in meta this week. The script allows users to select their preferred language(s) and then narrowing down multilingual templates, pages, and articles to only the languages chosen. For example, the stub template prior to language select contained 20 languages and lines; the new script makes the template only display the languages selected.

Wikipedian dies

The death of a Wikipedian was noted this week. Gérald Anfossi (Nataraja) was an active contributor on the French Wikipedia, where he was an administrator, as well as on Commons and on the English Wikipedia. Known for his contributions to Indian and South Asian-related articles, as well as inter-wiki work, Anfossi succumbed to cancer in mid-March and was buried in India.

Project and logo proposals

Incubator, a proposed project where new projects or new languages "can be arranged, written, tested and proven worth for being hosted by Wikimedia", was started this week. The project is also looking for a logo. In addition, a proposal to change the current Wiktionary logo was also initiated. Finally, Wikicitizens, a forum where people could discuss current events, ideas, and viewpoints, was also proposed this week.

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2006-06-12

The Report On Lengthy Litigation

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The Arbitration Committee closed two cases this week.

Sam Spade

A case brought against Sam Spade was closed on Thursday. As a result, Sam Spade was placed on indefinite probation, and cautioned to avoid assuming bad faith. Sam Spade, who says he "[edits] controversial topics almost exclusively", was found to have edit-warred on numerous articles, including God, Human, and Socialism. Sam Spade has not edited an article since 17 May.

DarrenRay, 2006BC

A case brought against DarrenRay and 2006BC was closed on Saturday. As a result, DarrenRay, 2006BC and AChan were all banned indefinitely from editing Dean McVeigh, Melbourne University student organisations, University of Melbourne Student Union, and related articles. The dispute centered on the controversial liquidation of the Student Union after the Union fell into debt. The users involved were also involved in the liquidation, and were involved in point of view editing on the articles.

Other cases

A case was accepted this week involving Raphael1 (user page).

Other cases involving a request to unblock Saladin1970 (user page) and editors on Francis Schuckardt are also in the evidence phase.

Cases involving a naming dispute on U.S. highway articles, a request to unblock Blu Aardvark (user page), editors on the article 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities, Deathrocker (user page), Infinity0 (user page), PoolGuy (user page), and editors on Biological psychiatry are in the voting phase.

A motion to close is on the table in the case involving Locke Cole (user page).

A motion to restrict StrangerInParadise to one user account was officially approved, with seven supporting users and no opposition.

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