Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-08/News and notes

Repeated mentions at ACM CFP-2006
Three users - Raul654, Mindspillage, and Sj - represented Wikimedia at Friday's session of the ACM CFP-2006 conference. Several speakers - notably EFF lawyer Mike Godwin and science fiction author Vernor Vinge - spoke in glowing terms of Wikipedia. (Vinge later said the plenary session discussing Wikipedia was one of the highlights of the conference for him.)

Mr. Vinge also passed along a request for a certain feature (a sort of "Wayback Wikipedia" where it would be possible to view all articles on Wikipedia as they existed at a certain point in time) and Mindspillage dutifully filed the request for him.

Briefly

 * The Spanish Wiktionary has reached 6,000 entries.
 * The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
 * The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
 * The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 3,000 files.
 * The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
 * The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
 * The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
 * The German Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
 * The Latin Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
 * The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.
 * The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
 * The Kapampangan Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
 * The Franco-Provençal/Arpitan Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
 * The English Wiktionary has reached 140,000 entries.
 * The Korean Wikipedia has reached 4,000 registered users.
 * The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 600 articles.
 * The Italian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 registered users.
 * The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 60,000 registered users.
 * The English Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles.
 * The Galician Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
 * The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.