News and notes:
Arabic Wikipedia gets video intros, Smithsonian gifts images, and WikiProject Conservatism scrutinized
In the news:
Why Wikipedia survives while others haven't; Wikipedia as an emerging social model; Jimbo speaks out
WikiProject report:
History in your neighborhood: WikiProject NRHP
Featured content:
Brazil's boom-time dreams of naval power: The ed17 explains the background to a new featured topic
Arbitration report:
Case requests on ethnic strife and a WikiProject declined,
Abortion
case stalls but topic bans look to be lightened on amendment
Technology report:
WMDE renew investment in Toolserver, first offsite backup programme of Wikimedia begun
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