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News and notes

Wikipedia regains PageRank 9

Alterego reports that Wikipedia has regained Google PageRank 9.

Find-A-Grave project started

In conjunction with WikiProject Missing articles, Wikipedia now has a list of famous deceased persons who do not have Wikipedia articles. The list, consisting of over 46,000 people, was compiled with the permission of Find A Grave.com.

WikiSort project started

A subproject of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, the WikiSort project focuses on suggestions to help get the project to Wikipedia 1.0 status.

Wikiversity vote ends November 1

The vote on whether to create a new Wikiversity project ends on 1 November. Wikiversity, which currently resides on Wikibooks, started a vote on 15 September to move to wikiversity.org, currently hosting a near-dormant German Wikiversity project. The vote will last until 1 November. Currently, the vote is about 70% in favor of the project (a two-thirds majority and board approval is required to start a project beta period).

Briefly

The Ilokano Language Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
The Serbian Language Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with the article Krakow.
The Irish Language Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
The Corsican Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.