Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-02/News and notes
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Stewards, Wikimania bids, and more|By Phoebe|2 March 2009}}
=New stewards confirmed=
After the 2009 steward elections, Cary Bass of the Wikimedia Foundation announced that nine new stewards have been confirmed: Meno25, Erwin, Kylu, Laaknor, Mike.lifeguard, Leinad, Dorgan, Alexanderps, and Mardetanha. The new stewards come from a variety of projects and languages, including Arabic, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Persian.
===Wikimania bids due===
Bids for cities to host Wikimania 2010 are due on March 7. Further information may be added to bids after they are submitted (until March 30), but no new bids may be submitted after this date. Bids should be posted to the bid page, bearing in mind the judging criteria. Any questions may be directed to this year's Wikimania Jury or posted on the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l Wikimania-l] mailing list.
=Free content in Norwegian=
The Store norske leksikon, the second-largest Norwegian-language encyclopedia (after the Norwegian Wikipedia), made its online version free from February 25. The encyclopedia will also begin to accept user-submitted content, which will be reviewed by experts and added as appropriate. See the [http://www.snl.no/ official website] and [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-February/050304.html this Foundation-l post].
===Wikipedia data sets available===
Amazon released its new [http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ Public Data Sets], which include two different subsets of Wikipedia data: structured data from DBpedia and a processed English Wikipedia dump from Freebase. The data sets (computer files having a record organization) are hosted for free as part of Amazon EC2. (See related [http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/02/25/25readwriteweb-amazon_exposes_1_terrabyte_of.html New York Times article].)
=Briefly=
- As part of the Wikimedia usability initiative, any user may [http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Extension_Survey/Extension_Nomination nominate an extension] to be considered as part of the usability initiative's survey of extensions. A software extension is a computer program designed to be incorporated into another piece of software in order to enhance, or extend, the functionalities of the latter.
- There is currently an open volunteer position for an OTRS coordinator; details are on the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Email_response_team_leader Wikimedia Foundation wiki].
- There is also an open position for [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Communications_Intern a communications intern] in the San Francisco WMF office.
=Milestones=
- The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles with uk:безвиглядний.
- The Limburgish Wikisource has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Chinese Wikipedia moved its main page from :zh:首页 to :zh:Wikipedia:首页.
- The Swahili Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
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