Wikipedia:Goings-on/May 30, 2004

Goings-on in the week starting Sunday May 30 2004 The Template namespace initialisation script moves all non-interface messages from the MediaWiki namespace to the Template namespace. It also changes every instance of {{msg:name}} to {{name}} in the database. Wikipedia:Half-million pool opens. Go there and vote on when you think the English wikipedia will hit 500,000 articles. Jimbo has declared today (June 1) to be Brion Vibber Day. A vote on artificial languages equal rights is started on Meta: Meta:Artificial languages equal rights The English Wikipedia was the final Wikipedia to be upgraded to MediaWiki 1.3, on 29 May. Please report bugs to m:MediaWiki 1.3 comments and bug reports. Wikipedia now supports the use of categories. Wikipedia:Categorization will be the center for coordinating efforts to categorize wikipedia. See m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using Categories and m:Categorization requirements for more information on categorization. After one week, we have almost 3000 categories. Voting has begun in the Elections for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees Jrdioko, Mirv and Niteowlneils become administrators. Congratulations! Sysops obtain the ability to edit the site's monobook stylesheet at MediaWiki:Monobook.css! There is discussion (including several polls) on suggested modifications to the monobook stylesheet at MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css.

Articles featured on the Main Page Chinatown (May 30) Helium (May 31) Simon & Garfunkel (June 1) Carl Sagan (June 2) Speech synthesis (June 3) Belgium (June 4) Dmitri Shostakovich (June 5)

Articles that gained "featured" status Zeppelin (June 3) Transit of Venus (June 5) Emacs (June 5) Pictures that gained "featured" status Bumblebee (June 1) Paris from Notre-Dame (June 6)