• AMA - TheWikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates is searching for a Coordinator. See:Wikipedia:AMA Coordinator Election.
• Quickpolls - TheWikipedia:Quickpolls process is implemented for the first time after an edit war onWikipedia:Requests for adminship, and the vote results in 24-hour bans forAnthony DiPierro andGrazingshipIV. One of the bans ends early when support for the ban falls below 70%. Two other polls result in no action.
• Mailing list merge - Proposed merger for Intlwiki-l and Wikipedia-l mailing lists at meta. Vote atMailing list merge.
• Developer-level access - (Mar 22, 2004) elections for granting more folksDeveloper access going on at meta.
• The Accuser of Kobe Bryant - (Mar 24, 2004) controversial issue of whether to name the woman involved in theKobe Bryant case. Page was listed on VfD, and speedily deleted later. Discussion atVotes for Deletion andVotes for Undeletion. Jimbo Wales opinion on mailing list:[1].
• Edit summary prefill poll - (Mar 24, 2004)Timwi started a secondEdit summary prefill poll because he believed the previous one was not visible enough.Brion VIBBER moved the new poll to the talk page of the old one.
• New maintainability experiment for Votes for Deletion - (Mar 25, 2004) to avoid edit conflicts, VfD is using MediaWiki namespace pages for each article being considered. Initiated byPete/Pcb21 seeVfD talk.
• New tutorial -Wikipedia:Picture tutorial has been written. Anyone wishing to improve its clarify or completeness is welcome.

• Administrators -Chris Roy,Dale Arnett,Mic,moink andMoncrief becomeadministrators. Congratulations!

• Arbitration committee matters continuing this week:Irismeister
• thematter of Anthony DiPierro remains pending

Articles featured on theMain Page

• Punk rock (March 21)
• Electronic amplifier (March 22)
• Attack on Pearl Harbor (March 23)
• Summer Olympic Games (March 24)
• Gough Whitlam (March 25)
• Medieval literature (March 26)
• Mandarin (linguistics) (March 27)

Articles that gained "featured" status

• Voynich Manuscript (Mar 25)

Pictures that gained "featured" status

• Gallium (Mar 24)

Wikipedia-l,Wiken-l,Intlwiki-l,Wikitech-l ,Wikilegal-l andMediaWiki-CVS, 21-27 March

Bugfixes will typically go live immediately, while larger changes will go live with the next update.

• History links, diff links for (top) edits in contributions list
• Printable versions implemented through CSS
• Section edit links in diff view to current version
• Make ~~~~~ (five tildes) insert just date/time, without [[User:username]]
• French Wikipedia switched toUTF-8
• Automatically generated meta keywords for search engines