Wikipedia:Announcements
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If your announcement might be of interest to the project as a whole (not just to the English edition of Wikipedia) then please place a copy of your announcement on the "Wikimedia News" page of our multilanguage discussion site.
To see information about Wikipedia in the news, see Wikipedia:Press coverage.
Software status
To boost performance, searching has been temporarily disabled; a form to search the site through Google is provided pending upcoming upgrades to the server. (The go button should still function where an exact match can be found.)
The following MediaWiki features are currently disabled for performance reasons:
- Individual page access counters (for the foreseeable future)
- Most wanted, orphaned pages, popular pages, short pages, long pages (temporary)
Current news
November 29
- WikiProject Fictional Series launched. Please visit to make comments on organising fictional series.
November 25
- The new monster database server has been delivered.
November 24
- Wikipedia is going through some software upgrades today, which hopefully will not be too disruptive...
November 22
- The Wikipedia Typo Department is launched.
- The French Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
November 21
- Wiktionary has had a few short bursts in alexa ranking: [1]
- The English language Wikipedia has reached 175,000 articles. 25,000 articles have been created in the last three months, since the 150,000th article was written on August 19th.
November 12
- The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 15 000 articles.
November 8
- The new load-balancing code has greatly improved responsiveness, and the Alexa daily traffic rank is improving again.
November 5
- Some simple load balancing has been set up bouncing between 'en.wikipedia.org' and 'en2.wikipedia.org'; this should help reduce server strain at peak hours. Login sessions should transfer cleanly between the two.
- A Wikipedia article is linked from one word in a Slashdot article. [2] Since Wikipedia is not the focus of the article, we are not truly "Slashdotted" . Nevertheless, the Volunteer Fire Department should go into action to help possible newcomers.
November 4
- The English language Wikipedia has reached 170,000 articles. The latest 10,000 articles have been produced since the English Wikipedia hit 160,000 articles on Sept 26, 40 days ago.
- The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
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