Wikipedia:Goings-on/December 4, 2005

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday December 4, 2005

 * Wikifun: Round 11 has begun
 * Issue 48 of Wikipedia Signpost is published


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Current collaborations
 * General: Oil reserves
 * Improvement Drive: Emergency department
 * Australian: Australian Aboriginal flag
 * Biography: Jerry B. Jenkins
 * Canadian: Simon Fraser (explorer)
 * Canberra: Walter Burley Griffin
 * Comics: Spider-Man
 * Cricket: Donald Bradman
 * Gaming: Essential articles
 * Indian: Military History of India
 * Medicine: Prostate cancer
 * Spanish translation: Mission of Nuestra Señora de Loreto from es:
 * United Kingdom: Classical music of the United Kingdom
 * Wikipedia Book Club: Vanity Fair
 * Interwiki checker


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Articles that gained "featured" status
 * Xanadu House (December 6)
 * Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 6)
 * Marilyn Manson (December 6)
 * Ido (December 6)
 * Voting system (December 6)
 * Game theory (December 6)
 * The Waterboys (December 6)
 * Butter (December 6)

Pictures that gained "featured" status
 * Plasma lamp (December 8)

Lists that gained "featured" status
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