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BBC presenter Clive Anderson will host a half-hour show about Wikipedia, entitled "The Wikipedia Story". The show, scheduled to air on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:30 a.m. British Summer Time (10:30 a.m. UTC) on BBC Radio 4, is described as "[asking] whether Wikipedia is a valuable source of human knowledge or a symptom of the spread of mediocrity." It includes interviews from Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, former Britannica editor-in-chief Robert McHenry, Web 2.0 critic Andrew Keen, and singer Mike Scott, who was involved in an edit war on his own article [http://www.tenalps.com/newsview.php?id=238]. The show will be available on [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/radioplayer_holding.shtml BBC Radio 4's website] ([http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ram/wikipediastory.ram RealAudio link]) or available as a podcast ([http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/radio4choice/rss.xml Radio 4 Choice podcast]) for about a week after its original airing.

A Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia [http://www.austlii.edu.au//cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/cth/FMCA/2007/975.html?query=Refugee%20Review%20Tribunal ruling] that overturned the denial of a visa to an Armenian citizen repeatedly mentions Wikipedia, in an apparent misunderstanding:

{{quote|21. It should be noted that the reference to the web site www.armeniapedia.org (the web site) is taken to be a reference to what I understand the parties to accept is a linked web site to the web site known as "Wikipedia".}}

The court appeared to have assumed that [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Armeniapedia.org] was the same as, or related to, Wikipedia; some of the court's individual findings are questions about the reliability of Wikipedia, not Armeniapedia.

• The Volapük Wikipedia reaches 30,000 articles.
• The Asturian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The French Wikiversity has reached 2,000 pages.
• The Ewe Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 150,000,000 edits and 750,000 local media files.
• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached an average of three edits per page.
• The French Wikisource has reached 2,000 registered users.
• The Afrikaans Wikiquote has reached 100 articles.

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