Wikipedia:Simple News/08-06-09

Issue 7 - 30th November 2024

1,528,697 editors, 260,786 articles, 854,041 pages.

Announcements

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Administrators

Wikipedia has 59,000 articles!
Color blindness has been promoted to Good Article status.
Bloc Party has been promoted to Very Good Article status.
Tropical Storm Barry (2007) has been promoted to Very Good Article status.
Hurricane Ismael has been promoted to Good Article status.
France has been demoted to regular article status.
Mouthpiece (brass) has been demoted to regular article status.
Cuban Missile Crisis has been demoted to regular article status.
Wijerd Jelckama is currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed.
Hermann Göring, Ludwig van Beethoven and Linux are currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed.
There is an ongoing discussion about the introduction of Very Good Lists - your comments are welcomed.
DYK is getting back up to speed with several contributions waiting for the Main Page. Please continue to show your support by reviewing and nomination hooks.
There is an ongoing discussion about the introduction of an Arbitration Committee - your comments are welcomed.

User Articles

Yotcmdr - Article 7

For his seventh article, Yotcmdr speaks about Kennedy, (V)GAs and DYK..

Microchip08 - Article 1

For his first aticle, MC8 speaks about various things.

EhJJ - Article 2

For his second article, EhJJ talks about the new CC-BY-SA dual license

A Wikipedia Song

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A song written by Yotcmdr. Originally from a German song about Wikipedia. The idea first came from Barras. It was translated by Eptalon. Guitar, lyrics and vocals all done by Yotcmdr

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Congratulations, EhJJ for passing a request for adminship!
Commiserations go to Djsasso who was unsuccessful in his request for bureaucratship.
Congratulations, Barras for passing a request for adminship!
Congratulations, Mentifisto for passing a request for adminship!
Congratulations, EVula for passing a request for adminship!
Congratulations, Shappy for passing a request for adminship!
Billz is currently up for deadminshp because of tool inactivity.
Good luck to NonvocalScream who is having a request for adminship!

QandA

The QandA. Every month, Kennedy interviewed one of the Simple English Wikipedia's editors, asking them about themselves, and their opinions on Wikipedia. It was an exciting insight behind the anonymous face of an online username. Unfortunately, Kennedy has left us, and will obviously not be doing the QandA. Bluegoblin7 has taken it over.

This weeks interview is with Juliancolton.

Click here for Juliancolton's interview!

The Commander's Choice

The Commanders's Choice. For every edition, Yotcmdr will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. Here is this edition's list: