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A completely rewritten spam filter has been incorporated into MediaWiki, which blocks URLs containing certain domains and words. The new filter comes with a greatly expanded blacklist, derived from the publically available Wikiblacklist.
All Wiktionaries became unaccessible because its domain name was expired. The problem was solved on December 17 and Wiktionary regained its connectivity.
In Rotterdam the first Wikipedia Symposium was held. It was a great success, with over 40 people present, among which were were three trustees, Jimmy Wales, Angela Beesly and Florence Nibart Devouard.
Wikipedia.org is the 172nd most visited site on the Internet according to Alexa.com.
The French chapter had its inaugural meeting ([1]) in Paris and via the Wiki and IRC and elected its board members.
Vala, a user of the Italian Wikipedia, graduated in sociology with a thesis on Wikipedia. She graduated "summa cum laude". This is the first time in Italy that a thesis on this subject has been discussed.
Images on Wikimedia Commons can now be linked to like local images.
There has been a huge spike in traffic over the last two days leading to slower than normal load times. Our previous Alexa ranking record was 349 on September 22nd; we climbed to 260.