Wikiquote:Announcements/Archives/2008


 * Announcements in 2008


 * October 4, 2008: UDScott and InvisibleSun are now bureaucrats. Congrats!
 * September 22, 2008: WQ:RFA on Cato, Quillercouch (aka Poetlister) and Yehudi closed and all three of them are deflagged. In consequence of discussion all but one of their accounts are permanently blocked.
 * September 20, 2008: UDScott and InvisibleSun are nominated as bureaucrat candidates. Votes are open until October 3 at least.
 * September 20, 2008: Metapub/On disbanding Wikiquote is closed as rejected.
 * September 15, 2008: WQ:RFA on Cato, Quillercouch (aka Poetlister) and Yehudi started which s:user:Cato confessed to be identical.
 * September 7, 2008: Metapub/On disbanding Wikiquote is suggested. Related discussions may be found at WQ:VP.
 * July 5, 2008: Jusjih, Wikimedia steward, is now requesting for local checkuser flag on this project
 * June 27, 2008: Wikiquote day: Now Year 6 begins!
 * June 26, 2008: Ting Chen (user:Wing) wins the Board Election. He'll be appointed effective on July 1, 2008 and serves for one year.
 * June 3, 2008: MalafayaBot (operator: Malafaya) is now bot-flagged. Congrats!


 * April 27, 2008: Wikimedia Board Election process begins.
 * April 23, 2008: Yehudi is now a sysop. Congrats!
 * April 23, 2008: Stuart West (w:User:Stu) join Wikimedia Board of Trustees and now the Treasurer. The Board now consists in eight people.
 * April 2008: Single user sign-in test begins. Sysops are invited to join the test and fill the bugs they find.


 * March 21, 2008: English Wikiquote has 15,000 articles. The milestone article is Nicholas Roerich posted by Kalki.
 * March 13, 2008: Cato is now a checkuser. Congrats!
 * March 8, 2008: Cato requests for checkuser access.


 * February 18, 2008: Poetlister is now a bureaucrat. Congrats!
 * February 4, 2008: Poetlister requests for bureaucrat access.


 * January 10, 2008: WMF has moved in San Francisco. Erik, who resigned from the Board last December is now Wikimedia Deputy Director.
 * January 9, 2008: 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.