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  signpost-rss-0.3 Wikipedia Signpost - Volume 2, Issue 24 Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) The Wikipedia Signpost is a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering events and stories related to the English Wikipedia. Major news from other Wikimedia Foundation projects is also included as occasion permits. A new issue is published on Monday of each week. Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:42:19 GMT English Wikipedia reaches 1,000 Featured Articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/Thousandth_FA Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT Flcelloguy Featured articles must pass strict criteria to ensure that they are "well written, comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral, and stable". Since the inception of the program in January 2004, the number of featured articles has steadily risen. Although several observers have noted that the standards for a featured article have also gone up over time, leading to an increased number of removed featured articles, the number has never decreased in a significant amount of time. Wikipedia reached 500 featured articles in February 2005 (see archived story), and featured article director Raul654 has commented that the number of featured articles increases at approximately one article promotion per day. Administrator desysopped after sockpuppeting incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/NSLE_desysopped Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT Ral315 NSLE had his administrative powers revoked on Saturday, after the Arbitration Committee determined he had abused his powers by unprotecting an article, then editing it with a sockpuppet account. Meetups And Newsworthy International Assemblages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/Wikimania_series Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT brassratgirl Lawrence Lessig is professor of law at Stanford University, founder of the Creative Commons, and board member of the Free Software Foundation. He is also the author of the book Free Culture and is associated with the movement of the same name. He will be speaking on Friday, August 4, about open licensing, giving us his insight on new models of licensing as applied to collaborative projects. News and Notes: Wikimedia board resolutions, milestones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/News_and_notes <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Flcelloguy</dc:creator> 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. Wikipedia in the News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/In_the_news <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>HereToHelp</dc:creator> The July issue of Discover (already done by the beginning of June) sports a map of "evolution evolving" on page 21. Indeed, it is a history chart produced by IBM's Watson Research Center of all the different versions of evolution up to October 2005. It looks like a a bar graph, upside down, with hundreds of paper thin bars squashed together next to each other. There are black lines, breaking the flow of the graph, indicating emptiness where the page was vandalized. The magazine lists six important moments in the history of the page (omitting that the article became a Featured article on 30 January 2006, although the graph is older than that). The article gives special mention to Dmerrill, Graft, and Jlefler. Features and admins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/Features_and_admins <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>RoyBoy</dc:creator> Seven users were granted admin status last week: Staxringold (nom), Richardcavell (nom), Philip Baird Shearer (nom), Ben W Bell (nom), Kukini (nom), Ganeshk (nom) and Gurch (nom). Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/Technology_report <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ral315</dc:creator> Information about recent software changes was not provided as of press time. The Report On Lengthy Litigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-06-12/Arbitration_report <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ral315</dc:creator> A case was accepted this week involving Raphael1 (user page).