Following the conclusion of the Board of Trustees elections last week, where Erik Möller received the most votes and was declared the winner (see archived story), the Board officially welcomed Möller with a resolution accepting the results of the elections and inviting him to officially replace Angela Beesley, who resigned earlier this year. He will serve the remainder of Beesley's term, which lasts until 18 July, 2007.

In addition, this week the election officials also requested feedback from the community regarding the elections. The page, modelled after a "request for comments", asked users to provide their opinions on a variety of issues, ranging from the manner of voting used (approval) to the overall way the elections were run.

Last week, the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, a group of editors working together to evaluate the quality of articles in preparation to gather a list of articles suitable for release, assessed their 100,000th article. The assessments involve the grading of articles to place each page in one of six categories, ranging from featured articles to stubs. Multiple Wikiprojects are involved in making assessments, often utilizing collaborative "task forces" to streamline the process.

Danny's third contest will conclude this week on Saturday, 7 October. The contest promotes the sourcing and improvement of current articles either in the list of vital articles or in an article related to history; the winner will receive $100 in books and media. As of press time, there were 12 initial entries; the improvements will be judged by a panel of Wikipedians.

Proposals for new logos for Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wiktionary proceeded into the third phase this week. Following the close of the second phase, which allowed for minor changes and readjustments to some of the proposed logos, the current phase allows for approval voting to select one variant of each proposal to be voted on in the next and final phase. Voting for all three projects concludes on 15 October.

A meetup was held in Bangalore, India, on 29 September with Jimbo Wales and approximately 15 local Wikipedians. Wales, in India to participate in a conference, talked with the group for approximately three hours, discussing topics ranging from the need for more multilingual cooperation to the establishment of an Indian wiki-community.

Last week's article on the Board of Trustees elections erroneously implied that Wikimania 2005 and the publication of the book written by Erik Möller were following Möller's temporary departure from Wikimedia projects, when in fact they occurred prior to his resignation as Chief Research Officer (and his subsequent hiatus in contributions to Wikimedia). Möller returned to major editing in January 2006. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Persian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 25,000 registered users.
• The Sindhi Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
• The Danish Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• Twenty new Wikipedia language editions have been created. [1]
• The Belarusian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Armenian Wiktionary has reached 5,000 total pages.
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
• The Occitan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.
• The English Wiktionary has reached 200,000 entries.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 12,000 total pages.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
• The Kannada Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.
• The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee opened one case this week, and closed one case.

• Israel-Lebanon: A case involving the actions of AdamKesher, Tasc and others on 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. AdamKesher accuses Tasc of removing relevant external links which satisfy WP:EL, and he denies the allegation. In response, Denis Diderot accuses Kesher of "using Wikipedia as a tool to promote his POV". Remedies were enacted affirming the possibility of using blogs containing "contemporary opinion and observations" about current events, cautioning editors involved and sanctioning bans for users who edit war on the article.

• Jean-Thierry Boisseau: A case, accepted on Sunday, involving the actions of Jean-Thierry Boisseau on List of major opera composers. Various users accuse him of "a course of bullying, personal attacks, and generally making things awful for all contributors". He strenuously denies the allegations.

• Giano: A case involving the actions of Giano, Tony Sidaway and others, in which Sidaway blocked Giano for making "inflammatory" comments regarding the behaviour of the ArbCom and the Wikimedia Foundation. The block was subsequently overturned after discussion on WP:AN/I.

• Rachel Marsden: A case involving the actions of Arthur Ellis, Rachel Marsden, Bucketsofg and others on the Rachel Marsden page. Marsden and Ellis allege that the page contains inaccurate and libellous material, and that this has been protected on the page by various admins. In response, others allege that Ellis has engaged in edit warring on the page.

• Vivaldi: A case involving the actions of Vivaldi on Jack Hyles and related articles. Arbustoo alleges that Vivaldi has removed "cited criticism" from the article, as well as harassment, incivility and edit warring. However, an anon IP, 205.157.110.11 accuses Arbustoo of removing comments from AfDs.

• Kven: A case involving the actions of Art Dominique and alleged sockpuppets on the Kven article.

• Honda S2000: A case involving the actions of SpinyNorman on List of fastest cars by acceleration. Fred Bauder has proposed remedies placing SpinyNorman on probation, general probation, personal attack and revert parole, as well as limiting him to one account. However, no other arbitrators have yet commented on the proposals.

• Kosovo: A case involving the actions of editors on Kosovo, particularly the political status of Kosovo. A temporary injunction has been passed allowing any uninvolved administrator to ban any of the named users from the page. Various remedies have been proposed, mostly with the support of three arbitrators, applying various bans, warnings, limits and paroles to a number of users.

• Ackoz: A case involving the actions and community ban of Ackoz, and his later account, Azmoc. The user previously contributed to Wikipedia under the name Ackoz. He admits to "some trolling" after a three-day block, which led to his ban. However, he has stated that were he unbanned, he would cease his disruptive behaviour, and would be prepared to undergo mentorship. Fred Bauder has introduced remedies to unblock Ackoz and place him on probation for one year, leaving open the possibility for a renewed community ban should Ackoz "revert to his previous pattern of sustained trolling", which have been supported by Dmcdevit.

• Marudubshinki: A case involving the actions of Marudubshinki. Snottygobble, I@n and others allege that Marudubshinki has operated an unauthorised bot, and misused his sysop powers by unblocking himself and allowing his bot to delete pages. A remedy to desysop Marudubshinki has the support of three arbitrators.

• MONGO: A case involving the actions of MONGO, rootology, and others. The case centers around Encyclopædia damatica, and an article posted on the site portraying MONGO in a negative light. Remedies proposed by Fred Bauder include indefinitely banning PrivateEditor and Rootology, as well as other remedies, none of which have yet been voted on by other arbitrators.

• Ed Poor 2: A case involving Ed Poor. JoshuaZ and Consumed Crustacean have accused Poor of POV pushing and disruption; Poor has not introduced evidence in the case. Ed Poor was party to two prior cases; the first was closed after Poor resigned his status as a bureaucrat, and the second resulted in his desysopping. Fred Bauder has proposed a remedy placing him on probation, a modified version of which has attracted the support of four arbitrators.

• Pat8722: A case involving the actions of Pat8722. BorgHunter has accused Pat8722 of edit-warring. Pat8722 has requested that the ArbCom stay the case while he pursues 6 pro se cases in the American courts, and has agreed not to edit Wikipedia in the interim. A motion establishing the principle of a "continuance", and a remedy extending this to Pat8722, are supported by two arbitrators, with two opposing; a separate motion to place Pat8722 on probation has also been raised by Dmcdevit, and supported by Charles Matthews, but opposed by Fred Bauder and SimonP.

• Deir Yassin massacre: A case involving the actions of KimvdLinde and Guy Montag on Deir Yassin massacre. KimvdLinde alleges that Montag has violated his probation by rewriting the article, unilaterally moving it to "Battle of Deir Yassin", violating copyright and votestacking. In return, Montag refuses "to participate in any of these proceedings", and alleges that KimvdLinde has abused her admin tools by exercising them in a dispute in which she is involved. Proposed remedies banning Guy Montag from articles relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, extending his probation for another year, and encouraging users to enforce Montag's probation have the support of six to seven arbitrators.

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