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These archives are a list of stories in chronological order. See also recent news.

Contents 1 2006 2 2007 2.1 January–April 2.2 June 2.3 July 2.4 August 2.5 September 2.6 October

[edit] 2006

Date	Story	Author
Mar 04	Blocking policy proposed	Pathoschild
Mar 04	Developers enforce email confirmation	Pathoschild
Mar 04	Second bot requests bot flag	Pathoschild
Mar 05	Inclusion guidelines move to discussion phase	Zhaladshar
Mar 07	New database to identify public domain works	Pathoschild
Mar 08	Debate over fair use on Wikisource	Pathoschild
Mar 11	Threat to Public Domain texts	Apwoolrich
Mar 15	Relative links activated	Pathoschild
Mar 20	Blocking policy becomes official	Pathoschild
Mar 30	Voting begins on two for checkUser access	Pathoschild
Apr 03	Discussion renewed over reference data	Pathoschild
Apr 19	Local CheckUser status in doubt	Pathoschild
Apr 24	Project started for New Student's Reference Work	Zhaladshar
May 02	Vote excludes reference material	Zhaladshar
Aug 28	Policy and guideline changes	Pathoschild
Oct 20	First administrator confirmation votes unanimous	Pathoschild
Oct 21	Technical changes affecting registration	Pathoschild
Nov 02	Jimbo Wales resigns amidst restructuring	Pathoschild
Nov 02	New option to disable autoblocks	Pathoschild
Nov 11	Controversy over copyright restrictions	Pathoschild
Nov 13	Reference data phased out	Pathoschild
Nov 19	Second 2006 steward elections	Pathoschild
Nov 30	Three lose access in second admin confirmation votes	Pathoschild
Nov 30	Unified login in test phase	Pathoschild
Dec 27	Results of the second 2006 steward elections	Pathoschild
Dec 28	One administrator promoted, another loses access	Pathoschild

[edit] 2007

[edit] January–April

• Wikisource report:

  –copyright debates;

  –new administrators and bots, confirmations;

  –DynamicPageList unlikely to be enabled;

  –featured texts, new structural pages;

  –crosswiki milestones.

• Wikimedia report:

  –new restrictions on access to nonpublic data;

  –Wikimedia licensing policy;

  –Board of Trustees reorganized, advisory board created;

  –Board elections and Wikimania.

• Technical report:

  –new password restrictions;

  –hardware expanded;

  –features and changes, new external tools.

[edit] June

• Wikisource:

  –Wikisource in Tamil created, Old English closed;

  –Wikisource is web's 24^th most viewed wiki;

  –Featured works;

  –Author template changes.

• Wikimedia Foundation:

  –New Business developer;

  –Election Steering Committee created;

  –Unofficial brand survey.

• MediaWiki:

  –Syntax highlighting;

  –New features.

[edit] July

• Wikisource:

  –Illy loses administrator access

  –Reform month

  –ProofreadPage and Labeled Section Transclusion enabled

• Wikimedia Foundation:

  –2007 Board of Trustee elections & summary of candidates

  –Board resolutions

  –Unofficial brand survey

  –Debate over Creative Commons 3.0 licenses

• MediaWiki:

  –Fixed bugs and new features

  –Server problems

  –Page view statistics

[edit] August

• Wikisource:

  –French Wikisource passes 2000 users

• Wikimedia Foundation:

  –Board election results

  –New hirings

• MediaWiki:

  –Upgraded search engine coming

  –Bug fixes & features

[edit] September

• Wikisource:
  • New bot, request for adminship
  • Featured texts
  • Multilingual milestones
• MediaWiki:
  • Unified login nears beta
  • Fixed bugs & new features
• External:
  • Google provides text versions of public domain books
  • Petition for US rule of the shorter term

[edit] October

• Wikisource:
  • JavaScript changes, new transclusion script
  • New Wikisource, milestones
  • Admin confirmations, no featured text
• MediaWiki:
  • Audio/video player in MediaWiki
  • Features & bug fixes
• Wikimedia Foundation:
  • Foundation to move headquarters
• External:
  • New York Times opens archives
  • British Library to scan rare 19th century works