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9 April 2014
News and notes
Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.
WikiProject report
WikiProject Law
This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.
Special report
Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
"I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."
Traffic report
Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of
How I Met Your Mother
, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of
The Walking Dead
and the upcoming fourth season of
Game of Thrones
. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.
Featured content
Snow heater and Ash sweep
Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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