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This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Please note that some bug fixes or new features described below have not yet gone live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.12 (8b8c762), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.
3 bots or bot tasks were approved for operation this week. These were:
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Voting for the Board of Trustees elections for the Wikimedia Foundation is beginning on July 28, and will run until August 10. See story in this issue for more.
Voting for the August 2009 CheckUser and Oversight elections has begun. Voting will continue until August 10. Five candidates are running for CheckUser:
Twelve candidates are running for Oversight:
An unofficial table of the voting results is maintained here. According to the ArbCom's guidance on these elections, "The successful candidates will be those with the highest percentages of support, subject to (i) their achieving a minimum of 70% support in keeping with the Wikimedia Foundation Oversight Policy, and (ii) a net difference of at least 25 between their support and oppose votes."
As of 22 July 2009, all of the images that the German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv) donated to Wikimedia Commons in December 2008 have been categorized. The total donation numbered approximately 100,000 images. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-27/Serendipity Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-27/Op-ed Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-27/In focus
The Arbitration Committee this week announced that they had published a report on Arbitration business since the beginning of the year. They also established, by 8–2 motion, a second mailing list whose purpose is to hold "discussions involving (i) the conduct of an arbcom-l subscriber or (ii) cases, broadly defined, to which an arbcom-l subscriber is a party".
The Arbitration Committee has one open case, plus an open motion:
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