Wikipedia:Goings-on/January 15, 2006

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Wikipedia always has a lot going on. This page is for news and updates about existing or new projects or initiatives of Wikipedians (i.e. new Collaboration articles, WikiProject help requests or announcements of success, backlogs that really need help, etc.)

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday January 15, 2006

• The Wikipedia Signpost publishes Volume 2, Issue 3.
• Wikifun round 12 has begun.

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Current collaborations

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Calendars Help with holidays for the new Year!
• General: Invasion
• Improvement Drive: History of the world
• Australian: Six o'clock swill
• Biography: Jerry B. Jenkins
• Canadian: Ice Storm of January 1998
• Canberra: Walter Burley Griffin
• Comics: Spider-Man
• Cricket: Donald Bradman
• Gaming: Essential articles
• Indian: Delhi Metro
• Medicine: AIDS
• Spanish translation: Mission of Nuestra Señora de Loreto from es:
• United Kingdom: Classical music of the United Kingdom
• Wikipedia Book Club: Vanity Fair
• WikiProject Novels: A fresh start?
• [http://www.flacus.de/wikipedia/Interwiki-Link-Checker/index-en.html Interwiki checker]

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Articles that gained "featured" status

• OpenBSD (January 21)
• Epaminondas (January 21)
• Amateur Radio Direction Finding (January 21)
• €2 commemorative coins (January 19)
• Vivien Leigh (January 19)
• Yagan (January 19)
• This Charming Man (January 19)
• Flag of Mexico (January 19)
• Marian Rejewski (January 19)
• History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) (January 19)
• Central processing unit (January 19)
• Céline Dion (January 19)
• Panama Canal (January 19)
• Michigan State University (January 19)
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (January 19)
• Karen Dotrice (January 19)

Lists that gained "featured" status

• List of notable brain tumor patients (January 21)

Pictures that gained "featured" status

• White's tree frog (January 16)
• Animated horse (January 16)
• Wingtip vortex (January 17)
• Apache Wickiup (January 17)
• Nez Perce warrior on horse (January 18)
• Navy binoculars (January 18)
• Cows in green field (January 18)
• Montreal Twilight Panorama (January 19)
• Lewis and Clark expedition map (January 20)
• Leaf Morphology Chart (January 20)
• Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica (January 20)
• Rooster (January 21)
• White-breasted Nuthatch (January 21)
• Castle Neuschwanstein (January 21)

Portals that gained "featured" status

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