Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-29/News and notes

Arbitrator resigns
UninvitedCompany resigned from the Arbitration Committee on September 23, effective immediately. UninvitedCompany had not been active on arbitration cases since April. His position will be filled in the December 2008 election, for the remaining year left on his original term.

Military history WikiProject elects new coordinators
The sixth election for coordinators of the military history WikiProject concluded on September 30. As a result of the election, the following nine users were elected to a six-month term:


 * Roger Davies, 61 votes (Lead Coordinator)
 * Woody, 48 votes
 * TomStar81, 46 votes
 * Nick Dowling, 45 votes
 * Eurocopter tigre, 42 votes
 * Climie.ca, 36 votes
 * MBK004, 35 votes
 * Catalan, 30 votes
 * Bedford, 9 votes

Five of the six incumbent coordinators standing for re-election (Davies, Eurocopter tigre, Dowling, TomStar81, Woody) were re-elected. The other coordinator, YellowMonkey, had enough votes to be elected, but subsequently chose not to take the position.

Also, as part of the election, the WikiProject recognized former lead coordinator Kirill Lokshin as a coordinator emeritus, a new designation recognizing him as an honorary coordinator.

Briefly

 * The Italian Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.
 * The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles.
 * The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
 * The Romanian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 articles.
 * The Bavarian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
 * The Bangla Wikisource has reached 1,000 pages.
 * The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 80,000 articles.
 * The Cebuano Wikipedia has reached 35,000 articles.
 * The Ido Wikipedia has reached 16,000 articles.
 * The Quechua Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.