Wikipedia:Goings-on/October 9, 2005

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday October 9 2005

 * Issue 40 of the Wikipedia Signpost published.
 * Voting for Wikiversity continues at Wikiversity/Vote/en.


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Current collaborations
 * General: French intervention in Mexico
 * Improvement Drive: NASA
 * Australian: Marree Man
 * Biography: Pope Damasus I
 * Canadian:
 * Indian: Military History of India
 * United Kingdom: Hungerford massacre
 * Spanish translation: Capernaum from es:Cafarnaúm
 * Gaming: Final Fantasy Legend
 * Medicine: Multiple sclerosis
 * Cricket: Donald Bradman
 * Comics: X-Men
 * Interwiki checker


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Articles that gained "featured" status
 * Acorn Computers (October 13)
 * Fauna of Australia (October 13)
 * Herbig-Haro object (October 13)
 * Theodore Roosevelt (October 13)
 * MDAC (October 13)
 * History of Limerick (October 13)

Pictures that gained "featured" status Lists that gained "featured" status
 * Corn Cobs (October 15)
 * Meissner effect (October 14)
 * St Vitus stained glass (October 13)
 * Yarra Panorama at night (October 12)
 * Yarra Panorama at twilight (October 12)
 * Sydney Harbour Bridge (October 10)
 * McCoy Tyner (October 10)
 * Battles of the Mexican-American War (15 October)
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