Voting in the steward elections continued this week. Voting, along with the chance toconfirm the current stewards, will last until 15 December. As of press time, there remained 15 candidates in the election, unchanged from last week, with every candidate confirmed by the Foundation already.
Wikipedia became the 12th most visited site this week, according toAlexa. During the week, theFrench Wikiversity and theTamil Wikinews were also created, and theFrench Wikiquote was reopened, with Board of Trustees approval. The French Wikiquote was temporarily closed in April of this year (seearchived story) following potential legal issues.
List Summary Service, or LSS, began in late September; its goal is to summarize threads on Wikimedia mailing lists in multiple languages. It initially only summarized theFoundation-l mailing list, but has now expanded to four languages and includes theWikipedia-l list and theWikien-l list, used for the English Wikipedia.
