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News and notes: Fundraiser, milestones
 * By Ral315, 8 December 2008

Fundraiser continues: $X.XX million in five weeks
The Wikimedia Foundation's 2008 fundraiser continued this week, raising over $266,000 in its third week and bringing total fundraiser contributions to $1,148,200 over the first three weeks. Including major gifts, the Foundation had raised over $3.05 million so far this fiscal year (since July 1).

Briefly

 * A vote on a new logo for Wikibooks is ongoing on the Meta-Wiki.
 * This week, the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia was created.
 * The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
 * The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 15,000,000 edits.
 * The Russian Wikipedia has reached 333,333 articles.
 * The Gilaki Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.