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May 2008

	8:	Candidate submissions for the 2008 Board Elections begin.
	6:	Flagged revisions is now running on the German Wikipedia.
	6:	Proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick (where every article is a real medical case), is started. See proposal details for Wikisick.
	5:	Early registration for Wikimania 2008 is now open.
	5:	A brainstorm for a new project, Wikimedia Radio, has been started. Your input is welcomed!

April 2008

	30:	A discussion on introducing the Babel extension for Wikimedia was started.
	28:	A community petition questions the recent decision to reduce community representation on the WMF board.
	22:	Proposal of a new Semi-Wikipedia Project, called WikiTimeLine.net, is started. See proposal details for WikiTimeLine.
	21:	Stuart West, a former senior executive at Yahoo! Inc. and TiVo Inc. was appointed as the new Treasurer of the Wikimedia Foundation by the Board of Trustees.
	15:	Discussions on a Global Blocking extension for Wikimedia was started by creator/developer Andrew Garrett.
	11:	The Wikimedia Blog is now open.

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