Wikipedia:Goings-on/March 20, 2005

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday March 20 2005
Current live Collaborations of the Week
 * Arbitration policy/Proposed amendment revote continues.
 * Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week is added to the community portal.
 * Requests for de-adminship is a proposal to allow Wikipedians to vote on the demotion of administrators, just as they vote to promote them. A straw poll is open to gather consensus as to whether such a process should be available.
 * Wikifun Round 6 starts.
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 * General: History of the Balkans
 * Article Improvement Drive: Asia and Leonardo da Vinci
 * Hong Kong: Culture of Hong Kong
 * Indian: New Delhi
 * United Kingdom: Question Time (television)
 * Spanish translation: Origin of the name California, from es:Origen del nombre de California
 * Gaming: Game controller
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Articles featured on the Main Page
 * Cambodia (March 20)
 * Isaac Asimov (March 21)
 * Flag of South Africa (March 22)
 * Pioneer Zephyr (March 23)
 * History of the Yosemite area (March 24)
 * Military history of the Soviet Union (March 25)
 * Helicobacter pylori (March 26)


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Articles that gained "featured" status
 * History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) (March 21)
 * History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 (March 24)
 * Comet Hyakutake (March 24)
 * Brian Close (March 24)
 * The Country Wife (March 24)
 * Carl G. Fisher (March 24)
 * Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (March 24)
 * Oroonoko (March 24)
 * Convair B-36 (March 26)
 * Mumbai (March 26)
 * Wladyslaw Sikorski (March 26)
 * Parliament Act (March 26)

Pictures that gained "featured" status
 * Aisawan Thiphya-Art (March 21)
 * Dry Tortugas (March 21)
 * Walt Whitman (March 21)
 * Petrified wood closeup (March 22)
 * Australian Blue Dragonfly (March 22)
 * Lake-effect snow (March 22)
 * Kyoto Fushimi Inari shrine (March 26)
 * Pine cones, male and female (March 26)
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