Wikipedia:Goings-on/April 4, 2004

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New WikiProject. WikiProject Philosophy has been formed, in an attempt to coordinate the efforts of philosophically-inclined contributors. All those interested are invited to visit the project page.
Vandalism. Hukuki.net spam found on the following small wikis: als, as, ay, az, be, bn, bo, ca, co, cs, el, eo, pa, ps, pt, qu, ro, ru, sa, sh, si, simple, sk, sl, sq, sr, sw, te, tg, th, tk, tl, tr, tt, ug, uk, ur, uz, vo, xh, yi, yo, and zu (larger wikis not checked).
Downtime. A short downtime of the server leads a large number of users to join #wikipedia, on which TreatzBSD proudly presents his first article, Star's Edge.
Requests for Page Expansion. There is a new requests for page expansion page for stubs worth improving.
m:Extension Syntax: Voting begins on what syntax to use for extensions such as math, music, hieroglyphs, chemistry, etc.
Wikipedia talk:IRC channel cloaks: A vote on what cloaks to allow on IRC.
Administrators: Sj and Sverdrup become administrators. Congratulations!
Policy proposal: Three strikes you're out policy, revised policy on blocking usernames

Arbitration Policy. The new Arbitration policy is ratified by a vote of 28 to 4, and Jimbo Wales declares his approval for implementing the policy based on that vote
Arbitration committee vote to hear the matters of Anthony DiPierro and Wik (Wik's case is being reviewed a month after his original case)
"Mav v. 168" appears to be too late to arbitrate given the fact 168 has left wikipedia
"WHEELER and 172" and "Kevin baas and Dwindrim" are referred to mediation
Angela requests arbitration on JRR Trollkien; three arbitrators vote to accept the case, none decline

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