Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-09-12/News and notes

Editor's note: The Wikinews news came in very late for this edition, which was therefore delivered to some subscribers under a different subtitle. It will be dealt with in full in next week's issue. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 22:52, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Aren't the subtitles transcluded anyway? – xeno talk 23:05, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * On the ENglish Wikipedia, yes. Our global subscribers don't get transclusions (obviously) but did get the updated subtitle; I think it was just the mailing list that went out incorrectly, and the first few subscribers here may need to purge. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 06:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

We at Malayalam wikipedia had made a collective and concerted effort to reach the 20000 article target before Onam, the regional festival of Kerala which was to be on the 9th of September.When we set ourselves the target, it seemed a preposterous and impossible idea. But brick by brick, drop by drop articles started coming in. First a drop, then a trickle and it became a flood. On sixth september we reached the target and still had a few days to spare .The effort should go down in Wikipedia History as a classic example of collective, targeted effort. Yes we admit that the quality of many of the articles leaves something to be desired. We have now set our mind to cleanse the ml wikipedia of one line articles and to clean up the area. Stay tuned. We've just begun :)--Fuadaj (talk) 14:20, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Exciting stuff. The "rubbish article" or "no article" divide is always a contentious one. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 14:44, 13 September 2011 (UTC)