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iPhone app update, Vector rollout for May 13, brief news
- The Wikimedia Foundation has announced six MediaWiki-related Google Summer of Code projects for 2010.
- As discussed on the Foundation-l mailing list, a Facebook group called "Vandalize Wikipedia day" was set up and deleted recently.
- The "Content scope" task force of the Foundation's Strategic Planning project is currently drafting a "project policy", which includes "a number of questions to be considered before a new [Wikimedia] project is accepted."
Wikipedia iPhone app updated
The Wikimedia Foundation has updated the official "Wikipedia Mobile" iPhone app, first released in August 2009. New features include an improved layout, bookmarkable articles, and plotting geolocated articles near to the user's location on a map. The app is a free download from the App Store.
New user interface to be deployed on May 13
The rollout of the new user interface will take place on 5:00am UTC on May 13, as announced on May 1st by Naoko Komura from the User Experience team. The process is expected to take two to three hours. Details of the changes had already been described in a March 25 announcement (see earlier Signpost coverage). Users who prefer the old interface will be able to deactivate the new features easily (see FAQ). On Commons, the default skin had already been switched to the new interface on April 5. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-03/Serendipity Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-03/Op-ed Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-03/In focus
Arbitration Report
The Arbitration Committee neither opened nor closed any cases this week, leaving four open.
Open cases
- Alastair Haines 2 (Week 3): The case was opened to address allegations of edit warring and other disruptive editing, and is in the evidence/workshop phase.
- Gibraltar (Week 8): The case was opened to address issues of ownership and nationalist warfare on articles related to Gibraltar, and is in the voting phase.
- Russavia-Biophys (Week 5): The case was accepted to expedite a complicated Arbitration enforcement issue concerning Russavia and Biophys. The case is in the evidence/workshop phase.
- Transcendental Meditation movement (Week 11): The case was opened to deal with circumstances surrounding articles related to the eponymous movement, similar to the circumstances at issue in Scientology pages a year ago. The case is in the evidence/workshop phase.
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