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[edit] Goings-on in December 2007

Wikipedia-W-bold-in-square.svg   26 : Jimbo Wales has appointed the new members of the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee.
Wikimania.svg   22 : 2nd Public meeting for Wikimania 2008 to be held in #wikimania2008.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   21 : As per the 2007 steward election, the new stewards have been appointed.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   18 : Erik Möller is appointed by Sue Gardner as the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   17 : Erik Möller resigns from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
Wikimania.svg   15 : City bidding for Wikimania 2009 is now officially opened.
Wikimania.svg   13 : The first public planning meeting is held for Wikimania 2008 (Details).
Wikipedia-W-bold-in-square.svg   3 : Voting for the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee begins here today. Voting closes December 16th.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   1 : The Chapters Committee appoints Anders Wennersten, Andrew Whitworth, and User:Barcex as new members of the committee, as well as Oscar Van Dillen and Michael Bimmler as new advisors to the committee.

[edit] Goings-on in November 2007

Wikimedia-logo.svg   26 : Global default setting change of pagemove restriction is discussed.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   26 : Logo selection has begun for Wikibooks and Wikijunior.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   26 : Voting for the 2007 Steward elections begins.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   24 : New ombudsman commission appointed.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   11 : Organization for the 2007 Steward elections begins at Talk:Stewards/elections 2007.
Wikipedia-W-bold-in-square.svg   1 : Nominations for the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee begin here today. Nominations close November 30th.

[edit] Goings-on in October 2007

Wikimedia-logo.svg   28 : A proposal has been made for a Wikimedia Macau chapter. Comments are appreciated.
Bulbgraph.svg   27 : A new proposal for a wiki called Chains of Reason is up. Please review and comment.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   22 : Fundraising 2007 begins. Many translations needed. Please help.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   27-28 : The first Wiki-Conference in Russia is held in St. Petersburg, Russia
Wikimedia-logo.svg   27 : The second Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland is held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wikimedia-logo.svg   20 : The statutory meeting for Wikimedia Sverige is being held in Stockholm, Sweden.
Wikipedia-W-bold-in-square.svg   19-20 : The first Colloque wikipédia is held in Paris, France.
Wikimania.svg   9 : Alexandria has been chosen as host city for Wikimania 2008.

[edit] Goings-on in September 2007

Wikipedia-W-bold-in-square.svg   30 : A proposal for the deletion of the already closed Siberian Wikipedia is up. Please review and comment.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   8 : A proposal has been made for a Wikimedia New York City chapter and the more general development of a Wikimedia United States Chapters Council. Comments are appreciated.
Crystal 128 knode.png   5 : The Communication Projects Group is re-organizing itself and needs to expand! Membership more easily accessible than it was before, still to anyone interested. If you are interested in project management or graphic design, you would be a very beneficial addition to the group!

[edit] Goings-on in August 2007

Wikimedia-logo.svg   31 : A new wiki is up at the Wikimedia Incubator, WikiAds. WikiAds aims to create a free advertisement directory that anyone can edit. The project does not yet have an official meta proposal, but please take a look here!
Crystal browser.png   30 : A proposal to re-arrange the translations-related pages is up. Please, review and comment.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   23 : The List Summary Service, an inactive summary of activities over several Wikimedia mailing lists, is being revived! If you are interested in helping out please see the related discussion at the Metapub.
Wikimania.svg   20 : Bidding begins on Wikimania 2008 and Jury is announced.
Bulbgraph.svg   10 : A new proposal regarding democracy on wikis is available at Wikicracy. Please review and comment.
Wikimania.svg   3-5 : Wikimania 2007 takes place, with over 1000 registered participants from 92 countries and regions.
Wikipedia-W-bold-in-square.svg   1 :
Polska Wikipedia na DVD z Helionem (krążek bez tła).png
The Polish Wikipedia on DVD has finally been released and is available for purchase in shops in Poland as well as online. The release contains 239 000 articles, 59 000 images and the dedicated Java software WikiMiner. The DVD costs 39 PLN (~ 10 EUR, $14).
Soon the 8 GB image of the DVD will be available for download as well.

[edit] Goings-on in July 2007

Wikinews-logo.svg   31 : The results for the July 2007 English Wikinews Arbitration Committee election have been announced. IlyaHaykinson, Cspurrier, and Brianmc are the new members of the English Wikinews ArbCom!
Bulbgraph.svg   25 : A page describing WikiEarth is up please review and comment.
Wikinews-logo.svg   18 : Voting for the July 2007 English Wikinews Arbitration Committee election begins.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   14 : The Establishment Ceremony of Wikimedia Hong Kong has been held, now pending approval by the Foundation.
Crystal yast partitioner.png   12 : The results of the 2007 Wikimedia Board Election have been announced. Erik Möller, Kat Walsh and Frieda Brioschi are elected to the Board of Trustees.


Wikinews-logo.svg   11 : Nominations for the July 2007 English Wikinews Arbitration Committee election begin.
Crystal yast partitioner.png   8 : Wikimedia Board Election: Voting closed. The result tallied by a third party organization is expected to be published around July 15.


Wikibooks-logo.svg   5 : There are two competing proposals at Wikibooks/Logo, one to continue with the current logo selection process, and one to restart the process.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   4 : Wikimedia Taiwan is been approved by the Foundation as one of its local chapters.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   1 : Today is Canada Day, and Wikimedia Canada (a previously dead project) is starting back up and is looking for new members. They are currently writing bylaws, so any legal advice is welcome.

[edit] Goings-on in June 2007

Wikimedia-logo.svg   28 : Wikimedia Board Election accepts votes now. Please go to the wiki you are active and cast the ballot!
Crystal browser.png   27 : Users are invited to translate the voting interface in their own languages.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   26 : New mailing list specific for Meta affairs: Meta-l
Wikimedia-logo.svg   24 : Endorsements for the Wikimedia Board Election has been closed. Voting will begin on Thursday, 0:00 June 28, 2007 (UTC). Further details will be announced shortly.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   17 : Endorsements for the Wikimedia Board Election are now being accepted.
Bulbgraph.svg   14 : A new proposal for Wiki Community College is up, please review and comment.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   10 : Board elections begin. Candidates are now being accepted.

[edit] Goings-on in May 2007

Bulbgraph.svg   24 : A new proposal for Wikilingo is up, please review and comment.
Bulbgraph.svg   2 : A new proposal for FireWiki Proposal is up, please review and comment. The site is already up and working and can be visited at www.theFireWiki.org.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   1 : In response to the American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term that would affect so many Wikimedia sites, especially Wikimedia Commons, a petition is now alive. All concerned users should sign the accompanying petition at Petitiononline.com.

[edit] Goings-on in April 2007

Wikimedia-logo.svg   14 : A new proposal for TranslateWiki is up, please review and comment.
Crystal 128 knode.png   10 : We want to hear your success stories about using Wikimedia projects in real life

[edit] Goings-on in March 2007

Wikimedia-logo.svg   14 : The Wikimedia Foundation introduces its new licensing policy.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   14 : Wikiquote dedicated mailinglist wikiquote-l is launched. (multilingual)
Wikimedia-logo.svg   10 : Planet Wikimedia, a weblog aggregator operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, is launched.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   5 : Transcom issues their newsletter, The Babylonian #2. Come and see the hot topics around Wikimedia translation world!
Crystal 128 knode.png   3 : The German Wikipedia has reached 1000 featured articles

[edit] Goings-on in February 2007

None occured this month.

[edit] Goings-on in January 2007

Mediawiki-logo.png   23 : An open question: What would the ideal wiki software be like? Discuss at MediaWiki Ideal.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   22 : Sandra Ordonez is Wikimedia Foundation's new Communications Manager [1]
Mediawiki-logo.png   22 : Work begun on writing an EBNF description of Wikitext at Wikitext Metasyntax.
Mediawiki-logo.png   19 : Parser suggestion to seperate markup and code by creating a new template language, Wikisyntax.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   15 : Fundraiser crosses the one million dollar mark.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   14 : A new proposal for Wikithink is up, please review and comment.
Wikimedia-logo.svg   5 : Toţi utilizatorii înregistraţi sunt invitaţi să participe la dezbaterea publică a propunerii de Statut al Asociaţiei Wikimedia România.