Reports/February 2005/Wikipedia

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ja[edit]

  • Japanese Wikipedia reached 100,000 articles at February 11th (See ja:Wikipedia:10万項目達成 and Wikimedia_News#February 11, 2005). The growth rate seems to be slightly slower than before 75K milstone passing.
  • We got six new administrators since last November and one candidate is now requsting for adminship. As of 27 February 2005 there are 34 admins, though several of them are inactive and two admins' resignments are being processed.
  • Eight new Wikiportals were created and 9 are under construction. There are 21 regular portals. Some of Wikiportals work out to develop articles and stimulate community works.
  • In November 2004, two hours attacks through open proies. As a result a autoproxy check-and-blocking bot was introduced into the Japanese Wikipedia. The bot (Linky-ja) was coded and operated by Tietew. Whenever an unregistered user made an edit, Linky-ja checked this address, and if this IP address is proved as an open ploxy, blocked it indefinitely. In the midst of February, a complaint by a blocked user has the community realise an unexpected side-effect: good users are banned from Japanese Wikipedia. It has been undesirable and soon after the operator turned off the function of autoblocking. Now the community have been discussing blocking policy on open proxy access.
  • Anonymous access is increasing. As of March 1, 48% of edits were made by unregistered users. Comparing with October 2004, the ratio arose about 10 points. (Statistics is according to http://wikipedia.g.hatena.ne.jp/mintleaf) -- eG, Feb 26, proofread by Aphaia, March 1.

scn[edit]

  • As at the end of February, we had 46 registered users (almost a doubling from where we were at the end of December) and 464 articles (a tripling), which is a reasonable position after less than five months of operation. However, we are still relying on 3 regular contributors. We get lots of interested people coming through, many registering, but not many that wish to take the plunge. Apart from these excellent stats, the big news for scn.wiki during Feb was that we were selected as one of the translations of the week - see here: Trisceli --pippudoz 03:46, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)