Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-09/News and notes

News and notes

News and notes

By Ral315 and Raul654

Featured article stats changed

With help from SandyGeorgia, Rick Block, Gimmetrow, and Raul654, the FA stats page was revamped this week. The numbers there are more accurate and (for the FA proportion) more precise.

Wikipedia tops Nielsen/NetRatings' news/information rankings

Reuters reported this week that Nielsen/NetRatings' U.S. stats show that Wikipedia is "the top online news and information destination", with 46.8 million unique users, about 10 million more than the Weather Channel.

Briefly

• The Quechua Wikipedia has reached 30,000 edits.
• The Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia has reached 100,000 edits.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles.
• The Sicilian Wikipedia reaches 10,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles.
• The Venetian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Low Saxon Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Wikimedia Commons has reached 1,600,000 files and 2,000,000 pages overall.
• The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 250,000 edits.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 150,000 entries.
• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 11,000 entries.

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9 July 2007 (all comments)

Bureaucrat nominations

Board elections

New hires

Japanese plagiarism

WikiWorld

News and notes

Features and admins

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