Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-06-22/News and notes

Wikizine, video editing, milestones

A large new edition of Wikizine is out: "Year: 2009 Week: 29 Number: 108". It includes news about the LiquidThreads extension, various Wikimedia Foundation announcements and goings-on, privacy issues with traffic analysis services that were installed on two Wikipedias, a Wikimedia Canada meeting and Wiki-Conference New York, and more.

According to an article in MIT's Technology Review, "Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade", Wikipedia will see dramatic improvements in video capabilities rolled out within the next few months.

On the Commons-l mailing list, Casey Brown described the article:

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles (Страсти по Матфею (Бах)) (St Matthew Passion).
• The Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography) Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with page be-x-old:Казімер Нарбут.
• The Turkmen Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
• The Occitan Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.

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