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Events

بقابس]] ("The Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts" of the University of Gabès in Tunisia).Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-06-01/News_and_notes

  • May 28: After long proceedings, Arbcom issued a massive restriction, including numerous bans against editors affiliated with Scientology. This was the first intentional ban of a whole organization for alleged pushing their agenda on wikipedia. Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-06-01/Scientology_arbitration
  • June 15: [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_update_approval Wikimedia to relicense its content] as Massive Multiauthor Collaborations under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, in addition to the current GFDL license
  • June 22: Beginning of "Wiki Loves Art" event in Netherlands (van 22 juni tot 1 september 2009): volunteers will visit Dutch museums to take photographs of art objects. The photos will be published online with a creative commons (CC) license. The project is run by Creative Commons Netherlands and Wikimedia Netherlands, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum Night Foundation and the Netherlands Institute for Heritage.[http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/en/2009/04/volunteers-put-art-online-wikipedia "Volunteers to put art online for Wikipedia"][http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wikilovesart.nl]
  • July 25-26: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference 2009 at New York University
  • August 17: The 3,000,000'th article, Beate Eriksen, was created by user:Lampman
  • August: An iPhone app, Wikipedia Mobile, is announced.{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6054502/Wikipedia-launches-official-iPhone-application.html

|title=Wikipedia launches official iPhone application

|last=Le Masson

|first=Sarah

|date=19 Aug 2009

|work=The Daily Telegraph

|accessdate=2009-08-20}}

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=Expected/predicted events=

Features

Organizations

=Establishments=

  1. April 19: Establishment of the Audit Subcommittee of the ArbCom (first appointment) whose purpose is to investigate complaints concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight.

Wikipedians

=Adminship granted=

=De-adminship=

See Wikipedia:Former_administrators for all other currently former admins, who were desysopped voluntarily (those who may have been resysopped are no longer listed there).

  • {{formeradmin|Hemanshu}} - January 2009 emergency desysopped by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=261745852#Temporary_emergency_desysop_of_User:Hemanshu Arbitration Committee]
  • {{formeradmin|Sade}} - February 2009 involuntarily desysopped by [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard&oldid=268160654#Sade_desysopped ArbCom decision]
  • {{formeradmin|Jasonr}} - March 2009, involuntarily desysopped by [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship&diff=prev&oldid=275663832 Jimbo Wales]
  • {{formeradmin|Mitchazenia}} - April 2009, emergency desysop by steward Spacebirdy
  • {{formeradmin|Ryulong}} - May 2009, per ArbCom decision
  • August 3: {{formeradmin|Aitias}}: Aitias (nom) (desysopped August 3 2009[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&action=view&type=rights&page=User:Aitias])
  • {{formeradmin|Law}}- September 30, resigned under controversy (revealed to be a sockpuppet)
  • {{formeradmin|Jossi}} - June 13 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User:Jossi banned as a sockpuppeteer]. Previously they "voluntarily" desysopped, probably to avoid scrutiny amid scandal with the article Prem Rawat

=Death and retirement=

  • February 20: {{user|Titch Tucker}} died.
  • March 29: {{user|Nitelinger}} (Dick Golembiewski, aka Dick Nitelinger) died.[http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/42154672.html The passing of Dick Golembiewski]
  • August 23: {{user|Fg2}} (Frank Gualtieri) died.
  • August 30: {{user|Glen Dillon}} died in car crash.

=Other =

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