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October 2010
- Bureaucrat nomination
- Thenub314 was nominated for use of the bureaucrat tools and the nomination was successful.
- Administrator nomination
- Recent Runes was nominated for use of the administrator tools and the nomination was successful.
September 2010
- Mike.lifeguard retired
- A long time community member Mike.lifeguard has announced his retirement. His farewell is here.
August 2010
- Wikibooks reconfiguration
- After a wait, Wikibooks has finally been reconfigured. The reconfiguration affects flagged revisions, alters user groups and rights, enables the reader feedback extension, enables the edit filter extension, and corrects some errors in the previous configuration. Applications for importer rights can be filed at WB:RFP.
- CheckUser nomination
- Thenub314 was nominated for use of the CheckUser tools and his nomination was successful.
- Wikijunior in the news
- Examiner.com has an article discussing the grant the Beck Foundation provided for the Wikijunior project and whether the money was well spent.
July 2010
- Simple English Wikibooks merger
- The merge of content that was at Simple English Wikibooks and will be useful here has been completed. Wikibooks:Simple English merger provides an overview of what was brought in and where it was put. As a result, there are several new books now available for your reading pleasure!
- Wikibooks reconfiguration
- After a lengthy period of tweaking and building consensus, the Wikibooks community approved several changes to the wiki's configuration. These changes affect flagged revisions, alter user groups and rights, enable the reader feedback extension, enable the edit filter extension, and correct some errors in the previous configuration.
June 2010
- Pi zero's RFA
- Pi zero received unanimous support in his request for adminship and is now an administrator.
May 2010
- Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year competition opened!
- The competition for the Picture of the Year 2009 has now started on Wikimedia Commons. Every user with an account registered before 2010 and at least 200 edits before 16 January 2010 (UTC) may vote. Check your eligibility now and if you're allowed to vote, you may use one of your accounts for the voting. The vote page is located at: Commons:Picture of the Year/2009/Voting. Wikimedia Commons is looking forward for your decision in determinating the ultimate featured picture of 2009.
- Main Page updated
- After several weeks tweaking things, the Main Page of Wikibooks has been updated. The page aims to be simpler and more inviting for new users. It now showcases featured Cookbook recipes and Wikijunior books as well as featured books. On the back-end it is also simpler for administrators to update the lists of featured items.
- SB Johnny retires
- Longtime contributor, administrator, bureaucrat, and checkuser SB Johnny retired at Meta following a fruitful history of contributions as far back as November 2005. Wikibooks is grateful for his service and wishes him well on future endeavors.
April 2010
- Book browsing
- The card catalog has undergone a visual overhaul and a new method of browsing books has been added: you can now browse books based on how complete they are. The subject pages have also been improved, both visually and functionally, with books sorted into sections based on completion, allowing readers to more easily find books with the content they need. Help make this new browsing method and the card catalog and subject pages more effective by indicating books' completion with {{status}}.
- New featured books
- We are pleased to announce the successful nomination of two new featured books. Fundamentals of Transportation and Wikijunior:Small Numbers will make fine additions to our growing collection of featured books. If you have other quality books in mind you would like to see added to our list, please nominate them.
February 2010
- Simple English Wikibooks
- The Simple English Wikibooks sister project has been closed. We invite anyone who contributed there to find a home here and we are able to import content contributors would like to make use of in new books.
January 2010
- Comments in local time
- A new gadget has been made available that will change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time. It even shows which comments have been made today and the days of the week comments have been posted on. This makes reading of discussions easier. The gadget also streamlines manual archiving of discussions through the display of the time elapsed since a comment has been made. It can be enabled by visiting your preferences and selecting the comments in local time gadget under the browsing gadgets section.
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