LGBT WikiProject featured in US magazine
The LGBT studies WikiProject was featured in US magazine The Advocate, a magazine with 165,000 subscribers. The article quotes project coordinator Dev920, and misattributes a quote made by Gmaxwell to Raul654 ("All new media are first explored by the minorities and the marginalized.")
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- The Catalan government supports a marathon in the Catalan Wikipedia for reaching 100,000 articles in the Catalan language.
- The Italian Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
- The Volapük Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The German Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
- The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 600,000 edits.
- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 registered users.
- The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 20,000 edits.
- The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 total pages.
- The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 9,000 articles.
- The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
- The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
- The Lombard Wikipedia has passed 50,000 articles.
- The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 600,000 edits.
- The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 edits.
- The Italian Wikiquote has reached 100,000 edits.
- The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 users.
- The Divehi Wiktionary has reached 500 pages.
- The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 7,000 pages.
The Arbitration Committee opened two cases this week, and closed no cases. The committee is also voting on whether to lift Dmcdevit's ban on Koavf (talk · contribs) without a full hearing. Currently, voting stands at 4/0/0/1, but some editors have expressed concerns over whether it is appropriate to deal with the case by summary motion.
New cases
Evidence phase
- Abu badali: A case alleging that Abu badali (talk · contribs) has disruptively tagged non-free images for deletion, even when a valid fair-use justification exists, and has harassed editors who have complained about this behavior.
- TingMing: A case involving the actions of TingMing (talk · contribs). Ideogram (talk · contribs) alleges that he has engaged in "controversial edits", edit warring, incivility, and possibly sockpuppetry. TinMing denies the allegations, and alleges incivility on the part of Ideogram.
Voting phase
- Zeq-Zero0000: A case involving the actions of Zeq (talk · contribs) and Zero0000 (talk · contribs). Zero alleges that Zeq has engaged in POV-pushing, while Zeq alleges that Zero has misused administrative tools in blocking him, the case in particular involving the question of whether probations, article bans, etc. can be enforced by involved admins. The arbitrators have considered several different versions of a principle covering to what degree involved administrators may enforce probation; none yet has majority support. A majority (between eight and ten) of the arbitrators have voted to advise Zero0000 not to take further administrative actions against Zeq, including enforcement of probation, and to admonish Zero0000 that editors who are not restricted in their editing of a page or area are entitled to be accorded good faith and be treated with respect and courtesy. Arbitrator Fred Bauder proposed banning Zeq from editing articles related to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but no other arbitrator has voted in support, and four have opposed.
Motion to close