Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-20/News and notes

Main Page redesign
The redesign project for the Main Page, after working on various ideas for several months, has completed an open editing session and nearly settled on a proposal. Among other things, the redesign incorporates both the featured picture of the day and the Did you know section. This would replace the current system of rotating them, a practice that began last July (see archived story). The organizers plan to submit the redesign for a community vote beginning 1 March.

One question that remains unsettled in the proposed redesign is whether to include a search box as part of the page (in addition to the search box that is part of the navigation sidebar on every page). A straw poll is being held this week about whether this is desirable, with preliminary results indicating that people are about evenly split on the issue.

Delaware meetup
A Wikipedia meetup is scheduled for Newark, Delaware on Saturday, 25 February.

Briefly

 * The Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles. (Corrected from February 6)
 * The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
 * The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
 * The Persian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
 * The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles.
 * The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
 * The Czech Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
 * The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
 * The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.