Theelections for the Board of Trustees continued this week with more Wikimedians declaring their candidacy. Potential candidates have until 28 August tosign-up. There are currently seven candidates:Arno Lagrange,Cerejota,Cimon Avaro,Improv,Kelly Martin,Linuxbeak, andNicholas Turnbull. Several candidates, includingJeffrey Merkey (User:Gadugi), who is currently blocked on the English Wikipedia, also withdrew their candidacies this week.
The number offeatured articles tolose FA status reached a milestone last week.Wikipedia wasde-featured on 2 August, making it the 200thformer featured article. Articles are de-featured if they no longer meet thefeatured article criteria. Despite the featured article criteria gradually becoming more stringent, the number of featured articles has beenrising inexorably since the status was created in January 2004 from the previous "Brilliant prose" page. There are now over 1,000 featured articles (the Signpostreported on the 1000th FA in June).
Two projects were proposed this week:SpeedWiki, a place where advice on how to accomplish a certain task in a quick and efficient manner would be posted, andWikibibliography. Wikibibliography aims to collect book and published information into one comprehensive reference and guide.
Votes closed on proposed logos for both theIncubator Wiki and theTest Wiki. Thevote for the Test Wiki logo resulted in a Wikipedia logo with inverted colors and "Test Wiki" underneath in red font. TheIncubator vote, meanwhile, was for the variant of the "meddie egg" logo chosen in the previous vote. The horizontal variant of the logo was chosen.
Last week's issue erroneously reported that theSwahili Wikipedia was the firstAfrican-language Wikipedia to reach 1,000 articles. TheAfrikaans Wikipedia has already reached over 1,000 articles.Afrikaans, while ofIndo-European descent and considered aLow Franconian language, is a language spoken primarily inAfrica. The Afrikaans Wikipedia currently has about 5,500 articles.
