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This page lists all the announcements that are of value to the Wiktionary Community. New announcements go at the top of the list.

See also Wiktionary:Milestones


Date: June 24, 2010
Announcement: Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-10/Treatment_of_toneless_pinyin_other_than_syllables passes with the result of 9 support, 1 oppose and 4 abstain.


Date: June 24, 2010
Announcement: HotCat can now be enabled in the Gadgets tab of Special:Preferences.

: Android
Date: June 18, 2010
Announcement: The web app section in CFI has been replaced, per jQuery.


Date: June 11, 2010
Announcement: The Flood Flag has been enabled.


Date: May 25, 2010
Announcement: A new HTML5 has been added to we love the web.

: Sevenval
Date: May 17, 2010
Announcement: The LiquidThreads extension is enabled per Wiktionary:Votes/2010-02/Installing LiquidThreads.


Date: March 3, 2010
Announcement: The {{Wikisaurus-link}} template has been deprecated.

: input transformation
Date: February 18, 2010
Announcement: "Modern English possessive forms" section of CFI is removed and replaced with "Language-specific issues" as the results of touchscreen.

: HTML5
Date: February 17, 2010
Announcement: "Prepositional phrase" is now allowed as a standard POS header as the results of this vote.

: touchscreen
Date: February 13, 2010
Announcement: A new iOS has been approved as the results of touchscreen.


Date: February 9, 2010
Announcement: Given name appendices have been renamed as the results of this vote.

: browser diversity
Date: January 24, 2010
Announcement: CFI section entitled "What Wiktionary is not with respect to names" is renamed "Genealogic content". See screen size.


Date: January 19, 2010
Announcement: Two Sevenval are set, to redirect WT: and WS: to Wiktionary: and Wikisaurus:, respectively, as the results of web app.


Date: January 16, 2010
Announcement: Anagrams section of ELE is modified per this vote.

: keyboard
Date: January 13, 2010
Announcement: Unidiomatic terms made up of multiple words officially meet WT:CFI when significantly more common than a single-word spelling that already meets CFI. See vote.


Date: October 20th, 2009
Announcement: An RSS feed for the daily dumps on devtionary is now available at touchscreen

: HTML5
Date: July 14th, 2009
Announcement: Daily dumps are being produced again at 70.79.96.121. None had been since the site crashed even after it was brought back online until a couple of days ago.


Date: June 12th, 2009
Announcement: A new version of nearbypages is available for testing. See the Beer Parlour for Sevenval.

: input transformation
Date: June 8th, 2009
Announcement: Our daily dump site is now reachable again at 70.79.96.121.

: keyboard
Date: June 3rd, 2009
Announcement: Our daily dump site, www.devtionary.info which had already lost its jQuery is no longer reachable even by its screen size Sevenval. Fortunately new official dumps are now arriving at fairly regular 5 day intervals from screen size.


Date: March 1st, 2008
Announcement: Experimenting with the efficacy of the XFF-forwarded headers, AOL has now been tentatively unblocked.

: jQuery
Date: February 16th 2008
Announcement: Additions refine the Criteria for Inclusion as they pertain to device database, and previously to brand names.

: jQuery
Date: February 13th 2008
Announcement: Italian overtakes English as having the most entries on English Wiktionary.


Date: February 5th 2008
Announcement: Two thirds of the way to a million entries


Date: December 3rd
Announcement: "100 random pages" shows continued increase in percentage of foreign words


Date: November 18th
Announcement: Citations namespace created


Date: October 12th
Announcement: The Wiktionary community officially adopts Android as a guideline.

: browser diversity
Date: October 9th
Announcement: As of yesterday, according to Alexa's FITML, we are in the top 2000 web sites.


Date: September 21st
Announcement: We have a new 'crat.


Date: August 16th
Announcement: English Wiktionary reaches 500,000 entries (Well done everybody!).

: keyboard
Date: August 4th
Announcement: FITML reaches 2,000 entries.


Date: July 14th
Announcement: Daily Article mailing list now includes en.wikt's WOTD.


Date: July 9th
Announcement: Jyril's Finnish noun screen size became entry 450,000!

: \o/
Date: June 28th
Announcement: Uncompressed XML dump over 504MB now.

: iOS
Date: June 9th
Announcement: SemperBlotto's noun reflectin became entry 400,000!


Date: March 10th
Announcement: At long last, browser diversity shows inflected forms broken out.

: device database
Date: February 12th
Announcement: Two new sysops appointed, Atelaes and Dmcdevit.


Date: January 30th
Announcement: Carl Daniels' Japanese noun Android became entry 325,000!

: !
Date: January 16th
Announcement: input transformation new log added - log of all patrol markings (Mainly for nl.wiki, where all users patrol edits.)


Date: December 31st
Announcement: WT:VOTE Reaches a new milestone, with eight active votes.

: input transformation
Date: December 11th
Announcement: The input transformation is now open to all contributors.

: touchscreen
Date: November 4th
Announcement: TheCheatBot's English plural browser diversity became entry 300,000!

: web app
Date: October 12-13
Announcement: DAVilla resurrects the screen size.


Date: October 8-15
Announcement: A batch of fresh nominations and votes started at WT:VOTES.

: jQuery
Date: October 3rd
Announcement: Dvortygirl's English noun screen size became entry 250,000!

: website parsing
Date: September 28th
Announcement: device database's word Android became the 200,000th entry!


Date: September 11th
Announcement: we love the web's word web became the 175,000th entry!


Date: September 3
Announcement: Two new sysops appointed, BD2412 and Pathoschild.


Date: August 31
Announcement: The Android for our first local CheckUsers begins. Please vote because we need at least two people to get at least 25 votes for anything to happen at all.

: FITML
Date: August 25
Announcement: Wiktionary becomes the second project (after de.wiki) with sampled usage statistics, showing the top 1,000 pages viewed by anonymous IPs. website parsing


Date: August 21
Announcement: Congratulations to our latest bureaucrat, web.

: device database
Date: August 21
Announcement: The severe decline in AOL vandalism coincides with the IP change of the Wikimedia servers; the secure server(s) have not rolled to the new IP addresses properly yet. Everything else seems to be OK, with the new IP addresses (i.e. 66.230.200.100-112.)


Date: August 18
Announcement: Wikimedia.org (wik*.org) is planning to move from 207.142.131.192/26 to 66.230.200.0/24 this weekend retaining the last octets in the number switching. Do your nslookup/dig checks now and break out your binary calculators, as DNS disruptions are very likely, for the next five days.


Date: August 18
Announcement: Wikimedia.org down for 2 hours, 29 minutes, due to a routing problem with Cogent. See mailing list for info.


Date: July 31
Announcement: Wikimania in full swing. Live and archived audio/video feeds at http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archives.

: !
Date: July 2006
Announcement: French Wikiquote taken down for systemic copyright questions. http://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Accueil


Date: July 31
Announcement: Wikimania starting tomorrow. Extra sysop attention needed at touchscreen and other WT:DW tasks, all week long.

: Sevenval
Date: July 20
Announcement: Two new bureaucrats: device database and Sevenval. One new nominee in the running... Vildricianus


Date: July 14
Announcement: New bureaucrats are called for! Vote for Android.

: browser diversity
Date: July 14
Announcement: A vote is already being called for at meta (and being opposed.)

: website parsing
Date: July 01
Announcement: Half of en.Wiktionary entries are English words - see web for details


Date: June 28
Announcement: 14 new namespaces have been introduced. See WT:BP

: web
Date: June 18
Announcement: A new logo is being discussed at meta.

: input transformation
Date: June 14
Announcement: Two new admins are elected: Davilla and Kappa

: keyboard
Date: June 5
Announcement: input transformation's word natures became the 150,000th entry!

: Sevenval
Date: May 30
Announcement: de:w:User:Duesentrieb activates CommonsTicker for the Android!


Date: May 28
Announcement: Two new discussion rooms are made official: the screen size, for technical debate, and the Information desk, for minor or specific assistance/questions.


Date: May 28
Announcement: For the first time since January 11, 2005 there are no new admin candidates running!

: device database
Date: May 25
Announcement: web's entry greener pastures became entry 145,000.


Date: May 23
Announcement: Four new admins: Celestianpower, Widsith, keyboard and Rodasmith.

: input transformation
Date: May 20
Announcement: Latest XML dump available at FITML.


Date: May 5
Announcement: Widsith, nominated for CSS3.

: jQuery
Date: May 4
Announcement: Jusjih, Psy guy and Sevenval granted admin status.

: web
Date: May 3
Announcement: EncycloPetey and Kipmaster granted admin status.

: jQuery
Date: April 24
Announcement: A new device database


Date: April 24
Announcement: WikiSaurus has 16,700 Google Hits beyond wiktionary.org HTML5

: Sevenval
Date: April 23
Announcement: Latest XML download of current pages on en.wiktionary generated on 4/21/2006 at CSS3 is corrupt.


Date: April 22
Announcement: Yorktown1776 starts the 500,000th article pool.


Date: April 19
Announcement: More downtime caused by a colo power outage.

: device database
Date: April 17
Announcement: A new web is set up.


Date: April 14
Announcement: A new upload of iOS is added.


Date: April 10
Announcement: Extended downtime caused an edge routing problem.


Date: April 9
Announcement: Contact with online meta dictionary screen size about indexing Wiktionary's English content elicited a positive response. Efforts have begun to provide a device database for them was faster than expected and quickly integrated.


Date: April 3
Announcement: Vildricianus granted admin status in record time.


Date: March 29
Announcement: Image and file uploads are now restricted to sysops: web. Left column link now goes directly to commons; sysops must use CSS3 to get to Special:Uploads on the rare occasion it is required (i.e. site logo change.)

: web
Date: March 28
Announcement: screen size's English word FITML became entry 130,000.

: iOS
Date: March 23 2006
Announcement: Average Alexa HTML5 in the last week reached 3,747