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News and notes

Main Page redesign

The redesign project for the Main Page, after working on various ideas for several months, has completed an open editing session and nearly settled on a proposal. Among other things, the redesign incorporates both the featured picture of the day and the Did you know section. This would replace the current system of rotating them, a practice that began last July (see archived story). The organizers plan to submit the redesign for a community vote beginning 1 March.

One question that remains unsettled in the proposed redesign is whether to include a search box as part of the page (in addition to the search box that is part of the navigation sidebar on every page). A straw poll is being held this week about whether this is desirable, with preliminary results indicating that people are about evenly split on the issue.

Delaware meetup

A Wikipedia meetup is scheduled for Newark, Delaware on Saturday, 25 February.

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==Number of articles, Norwegian and number of users, Spanish==

The number of articles on Norwegian Wikipedia just passed 50,000 - very easy to check here [no.wikipedia.org]. Regarding the Spanish, how come they have more users than pages? The article states 100,000 users, but they have only 95,000 articles, can that be correct? Ulflarsen 09:35, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We'll probably add Norwegian next week, then. Regarding more users than pages, yes, it's possible. According to Special:Statistics, the English Wiki currently has 985,489 articles and 967,329 registered users- so it's not a big stretch. Ral315 (talk) 22:03, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

















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