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News and notes

News and notes

By Ral315

Two new developers hired

This week, Wikimedia Chief Technical Officer Brion Vibber announced the hiring of two new developers: Trevor Parscal and Ariel Glenn. Parscal will focus primarily on MediaWiki development and other scripting, while Glenn will handle MediaWiki and extension development, as well as general IT support for the San Francisco office.

Briefly

• The English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary have both reached 1,000,000 entries.
• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Czech Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.
• The Czech Wikiversity has reached 500 articles.
• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 7,000 articles.

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