Wiki143:Goings-on/November 7, 2004

Goings-on in the week starting Sunday November 7 2004 Plans are being made for the next Arbitration Committee elections to be held in December. A streamlining of the Arbitration Committee's policy is undergoing a ratification vote from 14–28 November. Vote on the Wikinews proposal ends Friday 12 November. Voting extended on Wikipedia:Preliminary Deletion until Friday 12 November. Help find a Wikijunior logo and vote on the Commons logo. See the report on the Seattle meetup and take the quiz Upcoming meetups include New York City on November 13 and again December 12, and Boston on November 21. Violetriga, Duncharris, Lachatdelarue, Dbachmann (dab), and COgden become administrators. Congratulations! The poll about the name order of articles about Japanese figures has begun at Wikipedia:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles/Naming order.

Articles featured on the Main Page Exploding whale (November 7) Parliament of Canada (November 8) Shrine of Remembrance (November 9) Japanese toilet (November 10) Sarajevo (November 11) Baseball (November 12) Economy of Africa (November 13)

Articles that gained "featured" status Soda can stove (November 8) Battle of the Somme (1916) (November 8) Robert Walpole (November 8) Old Swiss Confederacy (November 8) Marginated Tortoise (November 8) John Vanbrugh (November 8) A Hard Day's Night (song) (November 8) Augusta, Lady Gregory (November 12) Venus (planet) (November 12) National parks of England and Wales (November 12) Economy of Africa (November 12) John Dee (November 12) Pictures that gained "featured" status Baseball pitching motion (November 11) Air Force One over Mt. Rushmore (November 10) Cockroach (November 9) Robert Hooke's drawing of a flea (November 9) Meadow Argus butterfly (November 8) Japanese sake barrels at Itsukushima Shrine (November 8)