Wikipedia:Goings-on/July 10, 2005

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday July 10 2005

 * Voting is now being held on a proposal to amend the Manual of Style regarding era designations.
 * Discussion at Template locations and Template talk:Expansion over whether some templates should be placed on article talk pages rather than the articles themselves.
 * Issue 27 of Wikipedia Signpost is published.


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Current collaborations
 * General: Reproduction, Polynesia
 * Improvement Drive: Refugee
 * Australian: Snowy Mountains Scheme
 * Canadian: Oka Crisis
 * Indian: History of India
 * United Kingdom: Welsh people
 * Spanish translation: Geology of Venus from es:Geología de Venus
 * Gaming: Intelligent Systems
 * Cricket: West Indian cricket team
 * Wikimedia: Help pages


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Articles that gained "featured" status
 * History of Poland (1945-1989) (July 11)
 * Augustan literature (July 11)
 * Real Love (song) (July 11)
 * USS Missouri (BB-63) (July 11)
 * Layla (July 15)
 * Hong Kong (July 15)
 * Norman Borlaug (July 15)
 * Carl Friedrich Gauss (July 15)
 * Krill (July 15)
 * Virtuti Militari (July 15)

Pictures that gained "featured" status


 * Galanthus nivalis (July 13)
 * Barren Ground Caribou (July 13)
 * Pomegranate fruit (July 13)
 * Oceans map (July 13)
 * RHIC Gold ion collision (July 15)
 * 2004 tsunami in Thailand (July 16)

Lists that gained "featured" status
 * List of Commonwealth Members by name (July 11)
 * List of Commonwealth Members by continent (July 11)
 * Periodic table (large version) (July 11)
 * List of elements by name (July 11)
 * List of U.S. Senate committees (July 11)
 * List of Oklahoma birds (July 16)
 * List of Super Bowl champions (July 16)
 * List of ISS spacewalks (July 16)
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