Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-02/News and notes

The election committee for the 2008 board elections officially announced the elections, and some of the procedures behind the elections, in a post circulated across various pages and mailing lists last week:

The annual RecentChangesCamp meeting will be held this year on May 9–11. RecentChangesCamp is a working meeting for all wiki-involved people from around the world. Three previous events have been held in Portland, Oregon and Montreal, and this year's will be in Palo Alto, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Everyone involved in wikis—especially Wikipedians and other Wikimedians—are invited to participate. The two-day working event is free-of-charge for all comers. The volunteer organizers sincerely request an RSVP by participants.

After a mid-April expansion of their dataset, Alexa Internet now ranks Wikipedia.org as the 7th most-trafficked Internet domain, up from 9th. According to Alexa's new estimates, Wikipedia reaches about 10% of all Internet users each day (with 52% of that traffic for English Wikipedia); before the revision the average was about 6% reach.

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.