Wikiquote:Announcements

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April 27: Wikimedia Board Election process begins.
April 23: Yehudi is now a sysop. Congrats!
April 23: Stuart West (w:User:Stu) join Wikimedia Board of Trustees and now the Treasurer. The Board now consists in eight people.
April: Single user sign-in test begins. Sysops are invited to join the test and fill the bugs they find.
March 21: English Wikiquote has 15,000 articles. The milestone article is Nicholas Roerich posted by Kalki.
March 13: Cato is now a checkuser. Congrats!
March 8: Cato requests for checkuser access.
February 18: Poetlister is now a bureaucrat. Congrats!
February 4: Poetlister requests for bureaucrat access.
January 10: WMF has moved in San Francisco. Erik, who resigned from the Board last December is now Wikimedia Deputy Director.
January 9: User talk-page change email notification is now enabled.
January 2008: Happy new year! Jusjih now has an import flag. Discussion on the way to use is ongoing.
December: Michael Davis and Erik Moeller resigned from Wikimedia Board of Trustees. There replacements are now being sought.
December: Steward election ended, new stewards promoted. Among Wikiquotians, Jusjih is now a steward. Congrats!
December: Ubiquity is now a sysop, supported unanimously. Congrats!

November 26: meta:Stewards/elections_2007 and meta:Stewards/confirm begin (Rules).
November 24: Ubiquity requests for sysop access.
November 10: Wikiquote:Proposed deletion trial ended. Join the review to determine what happens next.
October 10: Wikimania 2008, the 4th annual Wikimedia internatioanl conference will happen in Alexandria, Egypt.

September 25 2007: Blocking policy is revised.
September 22 2007: Sue Gardner, Special Adviser of Wikimedia Foundation announces the coming relocation of its office from Florida, USA to San Francisco Bay area, California, USA. Servers will remain in the current Tampa collocation, Florida. (Read more...)

30 July 2007: Wikiquote:Assume good faith has been made official guideline.
20 July 2007: Wikiquote now has local CheckUser capability for investigating persistent, widespread vandalism or sockpuppetry. Please post requests for assistance at WQ:AN.
12 July 2007: Board Election results: Erik and Kat win and stay, Frieda joins the Board newly as replacement of Oscar. Thank you for your all cooperations for Election. All Board members' bios are available online.
7 July 2007: Voting in the Board Election closed.

17 June 2007: Board Election Candidates are now waiting for your endorsement. (Read more...)
10 June 2007: Wikimedia Board Election is now open.
3 June 2007: Our sister project, French Wikiquote reaches 500 article milestone. Congratulations!
3 June 2007: The bug on WQ:VP seems to be resolved. Recently such a loss of previous text has not repeated.

27 Mar 2007 : We have a mailing list, Wikiquote-l! You are invited to sign up for it and read the list information at mailing list page.

10 Mar 2007 : Wikiquote:Good entries is launched. Experienced users are invited to list their recommendations.

Dec 2006: French Wikiquote reopened on December 4. They were once closed due to copyvio from an external website and all their contents were once deleted based on agreement between that website owner. Their first article is Bertolt Brecht.

Oct 2006: Florence Devouard (Anthere) is now the Wikimedia Chair. Jimmy Wales becomes the Wikimedia Chairman Emeritus. Further information is available at wikimedia:Board of Trustees.

Sept 2006: Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation: elected Erik Moeller (Eloquence) as replacement of Angela. Result is available on m:Election results 2006.

April 2006: The Wikimedia Foundation decides to close the French Wikiquote due to copyright infringement from a website. All its content will be once deleted. After clean-up, it may be reopened.