Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-03-29/Sister projects

A handful of happenings

• On meta, the global sysops proposal passes but without the "Global blocks" related rights. A list of global sysops is located here.
• The following eight candidates were approved as Stewards:
  1. Avraham
  2. Dferg
  3. J.delanoy
  4. Jyothis
  5. Melos
  6. Mercy
  7. Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt
  8. Wutsje
• Landmarks
  • The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 17,000 entries.
  • The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with Lugit.
  • The Italian Wikiquote has reached 10,000 articles with Fazio degli Uberti‎.
  • The Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia opens its doors.
  • After being closed and its database locked some time ago, the Tokipona Wikipedia has been completely removed. (Toki Pona is a constructed language first published in 2001.)
  • The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
  • The French Wikiversity has reached 1,000 lessons.
  • The Korean Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles.

In this issue

29 March 2010

News and notes

In the news

Sister projects

WikiProject report

Features and admins

Arbitration report

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Why is this page referred to as "sister projects"? It has always been categorized as milestones under "News and notes". OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:09, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose a clever editor noticed that by moving this material to Sister Projects, which is a semi-irregular feature at bet, you avoid redlinks in next/previous navbars for the feature. Circéus (talk) 11:35, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]