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RfA Thank You

My RFA passed today at 75/2/1 so I wanted to thank you for your participation in it. Special thanks go to GlassCobra and FlyingToaster for their nomination and support. Cheers! --Rosiestep (talk) 02:20, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfA Thanks

Thank you for supporting me in my recent RfA, which unfortunately did not pass with a final tally of (45/39/9). I plan on addressing the concerns raised and working to improve in the next several months. Special thanks go to MBisanz, GT5162, and MC10 for nominating me. Thanks again, -down load ׀ sign! 03:48, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ThankSpam

My RfA

Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record.
I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 18:13, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome Back!

Yo Mikhailov!, good to hear from you again. Where you been for all that time?. Anyway, sure I'll accept those invatations. I am a person who recreates redirected article that people (especially one's who know/know alot about the page subject) just delete and not edit them. I've even asked people why they do that!, so yeah, I'll accept those invites, I love european music (They know how to make FANTASTIC music, unlike alot of American bands. Heck, I'm even European and I am pretty good at singing and doing some other musical things. I am also in a band, we don't have a fully decided name, but I think were gonna be called Pectoralz). Respond (if you can) ASAP. See ya round, and don't let the bastards grind ya down! (Hmm. What song could I be taking this from?)

P.S. Do you live in America?--Das Ansehnlisch (talk) 14:14, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank

Thanks

Thanks for your participation in my recent RfA. I will do my very best not to betray the confidence you have shown me. If you ever have any questions or suggestions about my conduct as an administrator or as an editor please don't hesitate to contact me. Once again, thanks. ·Maunus·ƛ· 12:53, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did I forget to thank you? ..

Mikhailov Kusserow ,Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 174 in support, 2 in opposition and 1 neutral votes. Special thanks goes to RegentsPark, Samir and John Carter for their kind nomination and support. I am truly honored by the trust and confidence that the community has placed in me. I thank you for your kind inputs and I will be sincerely looking at the reasons that people opposed me so I can improve in those areas ( including my english ;) ). If you ever need anything please feel free to ask me and I would be happy to help you :). Have a great day ! -- Tinu Cherian - 06:02, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fribbulus Xax's RfA

Thanks, Mikhailov Kusserow, for supporting me in my RFA. It passed unanimously. I am very grateful of your input – if you have any further comments, let me know!
Fribbulus Xax (talk) 12:10, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thankspam

Hello, Mikhailov Kusserow! This is just a note thanking you for participating in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with a total of 93 support !votes, 1 oppose and 3 editors remaining neutral. While frankly overwhelmed by the level of support, I humbly thank the community for the trust it has placed in me, and vow to use the tools judiciously and without malice.

KV5 (Talk • Phils)

An Invitation From Sue Gardner

Dear Wikimedia Project Contributor,

I am the assistant to Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia. Sue and I will be in Dubai from December 1-6 for speaking events at TedxDubai and Zayed University's-Dubai Campus.

Sue invites you to meet with her and other local Wikipedia contributors the afternoon of Saturday, December 4. If you are interested to attend please sign-up on using the below link or email me at jowen@wikimedia.org.

Dubai Meet-Up Sign-Up Page

WIKI MEET-UP DUBAI WITH SUE GARDNER

Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010

Time: 18:30-20:30

Location: The Pub in the Radisson Blu Duabi Deira Creek

Address: Bani Yas Road, 476 Dubai

We hope you can attend.

James Owen (talk) 04:23, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Executive Assistant & Board Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

Thank you!

Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and if you ever need help from a janitor please feel free to drop me a line! Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 13:05, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: III (December 2010)

Sociology Project • News • December 2010

Spreading the meme since August 2006

The Sociology WikiProject third newsletter is out!

According to our April mini-census, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004.

On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Research and wiki-research-l listerv.

Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors are teaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and some really useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that!

And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too?

In other news: the a automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an active tag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400).

We now have a listing of most popular sociology-related pages. It is updated on the 1st of every month, starting with August, and reports which of our sociology-tagged articles are most frequently read. Of course, GIGO holds true, so after looking at it right now and trying to determine what is our most popular article, my first action was to shake my head and remove Criminal Minds (which, perhaps not too surprisingly, outranks all sociology articles in period tested). Second item I noticed it this month's Industrial Revolution, beating Criminal Minds, that moved from close to 30th position in August/September, to 9th in October and 2nd in November. If you'd like to discuss this or any other trends, please visit WT:SOCIOLOGY!

Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our own here. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more.

Our first task force (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force) was created (1 June 2010).

If you have basic or better graphic skills, our projects needs a dedicated barnstar (award) (currently the closest we can get is the Society Barnstar.

As always, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

Authored by _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 04:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Mikhailov Kusserow! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 04:14, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Question about WikiProject South Carolina

Greetings, I have been watching WikiProject South Carolina for a while and it doesn't appear to be very active and I had a proposition for the members to consider. I would like to pull WPUS under WikiProject United States to some degree. I am not necessarily talking a full merger unless thats what the members of WPSC want but here is what I mean.

The project would stay the way it is except for a couple things. I would like to replace {{WikiProject South Carolina}} with {{WikiProject United States}} and add WPSC to the list of Projects supported by WPUS. This would include replacing the WPSC template on the talk pages of the articles with WPUS/South Carolina (if you want to see an examply you camn look at Washington DC).
I would also add it to the list of Projects supported by WPUS on the main WPUS landing page.

This would do a couple things that I think would benefit both projects.

It would increase visibility of South Carolina and related articles to a much larger user base
It would allow WPSC to more easily benefit from the Bots running for WPUS. This includes article alert bot that warns of Articles and Images for deletion or Promotion. This would ensure maximum visibility if an article relating to South Carolina was submitted for deletion or promotion.
It would allow the South Carolina related articles to fall under the WPUS and South Carolina scope.
It would somewhat reduce the maintenance required by consolidating the templates
It would reduce the number of templates visibile on the articles
In addition to the above, I typically cycle through all the articles in the WPUS scope every month or 2 fixing various things (sections, typos, persondata, categories, etc) and this would allow the South Carolina articles to fall under that much more easily.

Please let me know what thoughts or ideas you have about this and if the other members would be receptive to this. I also added a message to the talk page of WikiProject South Carolina. Thanks in advance. --Kumioko (talk) 20:58, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The May 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

. --Kumioko (talk) 15:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

A belated thanks for the barnstar. It is definitely appreciated. Andrevan@ 05:47, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello. You have a new message at User talk:Feezo#Awarded_Barnstar's talk page.

...and thanks! Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 05:20, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Hi, Mikhailov Kusserow. Thanks for that! -- Rrburke (talk) 22:25, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for the barnstar! --Susan118 ^talk 05:58, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 06:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for the barnstar! --Susan118 ^talk 05:58, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 06:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help Save Article - Speedy deletion nomination of Barbara Kanam

A tag has been placed on Barbara Kanam, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. mabdul 15:28, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The June 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

--Kumioko (talk) 22:09, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

US National Archives collaboration

United States National Archives WikiProject

Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts.

There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Guardian Angel wanted

I am asking unofficially on behalf of anon users in desperate need of help at Talk:Notzrim on how to deal with disruptions to team efforts by a very belligerent/aggressive sock-puppet/troll. Once upon a time anon-users were an integral part of the building of the encyclopedia, but now we are increasingly sidelined due to bad behavior of a troublesome but comparatively small minority. On principle I do not want to get a wiki account. I hope this choice can be respected. But I find that my requests for help are being ignored. I am looking for a guardian angel from someone very experienced in wiki policy to watch over our process and a friendly voice to tell us where we are going wrong. Can you recommend anyone or at least point me in the right direction? :( 81.103.121.144 (talk) 11:38, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Tibetan naming conventions

A while back, I posted a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions, i.e. conventions that can be used to determine the most appropriate titles for articles related to the Tibetan region. This came out of discussions about article titles on Talk:Qamdo and Talk:Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture. I hope that discussions on the proposal's talk page will lead to consensus in favour of making these conventions official, but so far only a few editors have left comments. If you would be interested in taking a look at the proposed naming conventions and giving your opinion, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks—Nat Krause^{(Talk!·What have I done?)} 15:49, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies!

Apologies for not responding or replying sooner to your message on my Talk board in 2008... but I have been very busy. Regards. JW-somewhere (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:02, 16 July 2011 (UTC).[reply]

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The July 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

--Kumioko (talk) 12:45, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary

Hi! I didn't know about the "edit summary" field :-[ So I explained what I chanced in the discussion page.

Is there a way to add the edit summary retroactively..???

Thank you!! Germanopratin (talk) 16:07, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Washington

It was recently suggested that WikiProject Washington might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. I have started a discussion on the projects talk page soliciting the opinions of the members of the project if this project would be interested in being supported by WikiProject United States. Please feel free to comment on your opinions about this suggestion. --Kumioko (talk) 01:35, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

--Kumioko (talk) 02:37, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

recent reverted edit to Weregeld

Hmmm. Gave my reasoning on the article's talk page, thought it was a reasonable edit. So how could this be fixed properly do you think?

Thank you for your warm welcome!

Hi! Thank you for your warm welcome. I see that there are a lot of rules here! Will be fun reading through them and understanding them. TacitusIndicus (talk) 06:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

change user name

Hello I'm new to wikipedia so am on steep learning curve, thank you for your patience. i'd like to change my user name from "bennfundsmanagement" to "Double Darell". Will I be able to retain the content I created today? many thanks Ella Bennfundsmanagement (talk) 06:16, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awarded Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I hearby grant you this barnstar for the splendid contributions you made in Wikipedia. Keep it up! — Bryan Anderson (talk) 07:58, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	This is for your amazing work on Wikipedia. Bryan Anderson (talk) 08:01, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Hi hope ur lucky today! Bryan Anderson (talk) 08:05, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indonesia

Yes. I am from Indonesia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indra Bintang Taruna (talk • contribs) 10:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol survey

New page patrol – Survey Invitation

Hello Mikhailov Kusserow! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you.

If this invitation also appears on other accounts you may have, please complete the survey once only.
If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it.

Please click HERE to take part.
Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback.

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December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

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--Kumioko (talk) 03:51, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Cambridge

Wikiproject Cambridge is now part of Wikipedia:WikiProject East Anglia. Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 21:11, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What i wrote on that page was not vandalism it was merely fact now you need to go get educated on childbirht and look into the womans mind, because what you dont seem to understand that it is an alien featus as far as people are concerned — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.187.100.66 (talk) 12:17, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects

The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 19:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

re: your message

Hi Mikhailov, I've left a reply to your message on my talk page :) Marek.69 ^talk 15:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mikhailov, I appreciate that you too are very busy off-Wikipedia at the moment, but if you do have some time you are invited to participate here :) Marek.69 ^talk 15:11, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Fæ

A request for comments has been opened on administrator User:Fæ. You are being notified due to your prior participation in ANI, RfA, or RfC discussions regarding this user. Thank you, MadmanBot (talk) 19:59, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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World Factoring Yearbook

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Your welcome

Hello Mikhailov Kusserow, I took the liberty of transcluding your anti-vandalism barnstar to my unblocked Poeticbent account following appeal to ArbCom on condition only this account is used. Thank you.
Poeticbent talk 22:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing![reply]
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Ichthus: January 2012

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WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

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The Signpost: 09 April 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Wikidata: The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata
Interview: Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling
News and notes: Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee
WikiProject report: The Land of Steady Habits: WikiProject Connecticut
Featured content: Assassination, genocide, internment, murder, and crucification: the bloodiest of the week
Arbitration report: Arbitration evidence-limit motions, two open cases
Technology report: Next Wikimedia deployment already in the pipeline and details of recent performance improvements

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Arbitration analysis: Inside the Arbitration Committee Mailing List
Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren
News and notes: French language outreach, WikiTravel debate, and HighBeam reloaded
Discussion report: The future of pending changes
WikiProject report: The Butterflies and Moths of WikiProject Lepidoptera
Featured content: A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals
Arbitration report: Evidence submissions begin in Rich Farmbrough case, proposed decision in R&I Review
Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 hits first WMF wiki, understanding 20% time, and why this report cannot yet be a draft

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line"
News and notes: Help-space revamp, WikiTravel RfC, and Justin Knapp scores a million edits
WikiProject report: Skeptics and Believers: WikiProject The X-Files
Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content
Arbitration report: Evidence submissions ends in Rich Farmbrough case, vote on proposed decision in R&I Review
Technology report: Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development?

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth
News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities
Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more
Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default
WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps
Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings
Arbitration report: R&I Review remains in voting, two open cases
Technology report: What Git means for end users, design controversies and pertinent poll results

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The Signpost: 07 May 2012

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Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes
News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013
In the news: What does Wikipedia call an expert; and untruths in biographies ... again.
WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages
Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?
Arbitration report: Proposed decision in Rich Farmbrough, two open cases
Technology report: Search gets faster, GSoC gets more detail and 1.20wmf2 gets deployed

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The Signpost: 14 May 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication
News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic
WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse
Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week
Arbitration report: R&I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure
Technology report: Cross-wiki watchlist controversy; and is "go file a bug" really a useful response?

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The Signpost: 21 May 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: New editor-in-chief
News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues
WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....
Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week
Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending
Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content

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News and notes: Wikimedia endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends
Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph
WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology
Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese
Arbitration report: Fæ and GoodDay requests for arbitration, changes to evidence word limits
Technology report: Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6

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R&N Userbox

Hello, Mikhailov Kusserow! You can add the new userbox for the Royalty & Nobility taskforce, {{User WikiProject Royalty and Nobility}}, to your userpage! - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 11:53, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women
News and notes: Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture
Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change
WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts
Featured content: On the lochs
Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three requests for arbitration, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban
Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon

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The Signpost: 11 June 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"
News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI
WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit
Featured content: The cake is a pi
Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three requests for arbitration
Technology report: To support or not to support? IPv6, and how best to serve non-Wikimedia wikis

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The Signpost: 18 June 2012

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Investigative report: Is the Requests for adminship process 'broken'?
News and notes: Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
WikiProject report: The Punks of Wikipedia
Featured content: Taken with a pinch of "salt"
Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration, GoodDay case closed
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 25 June 2012

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Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing
News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012
In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias
Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere
WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics
Featured content: A good week for the Williams
Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration
Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches

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The Signpost: 02 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism
Op-ed: Representing knowledge – metadata, data and linked data
News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool
In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?
Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport
Featured content: Heads up
Arbitration report: Three open cases
Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5

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The Signpost: 09 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo
News and notes: Russian Wikipedia protest blackout; E3 team and new tools; Wikitravel proposal bogged down
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football
Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'
Arbitration report: Three cases, Carnildo desysopped
Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime

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The Signpost: 16 July 2012

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Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years
News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
Featured content: Takes flight
Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted
Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

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The Signpost: 16 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years
News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
Featured content: Takes flight
Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted
Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

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The Signpost: 23 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: Signpost developments
Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia
Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike
News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics
Featured content: When is an island not an island?
Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans
Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

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The Signpost: 30 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South
Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; best wiki paper award
Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
Featured content: One of a kind
Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

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The Signpost: 06 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold
News and notes: FDC portal launched
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
Featured content: Casliber's words take root
Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

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The Signpost: 13 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias
Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship
WikiProject report: WikiProject Dispute Resolution
Featured content: On the road again
Arbitration report: Youreallycan request for arbitration
Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

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The Signpost: 20 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary
News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline
In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: WikiProject Korea
Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

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The Signpost: 27 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide
Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'
Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension
WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: WikiProject Doctor Who
Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?

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The Signpost: 03 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing
News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal
Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror
Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

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The Signpost: 10 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes
Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial
Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention
News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"
In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal
Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions
WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi
Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'
Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

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The Signpost: 17 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook
News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced
WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force
Featured content: Go into the light
Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

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The Signpost: 01 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales
News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners
Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty
WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond
Featured content: Mooned

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk
Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

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The Signpost: 15 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins
News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks
WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals
Featured content: Second star to the left
Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

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The Signpost: 22 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: Adminship from the German perspective
News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
Arbitration report: War declared over Malleus Fatuorum
WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

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The Signpost: 29 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
Featured content: On the road again
Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

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The Signpost: 05 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks
WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs
Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

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WikiMedicine

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:01, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
Featured content: The table has turned
Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

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The Signpost: 19 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

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Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle

Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited

Date Saturday, December 8, 2012
Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104
Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand.
Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki.
Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration.

Yours, Maximilianklein (talk) 04:15, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What change?

I didn't change the genre of Korn. All I did was fix the member timeline box because it was set too large.

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
Featured content: The play's the thing
Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

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WP Poetry and The Canterbury Tales task force

As someone who is listed as a participant for WikiProject Poetry, I hope you will be interested to learn of an attempt to revive the WP and alongside this the creation of task force to improve coverage of The Canterbury Tales. We are currently looking for participants to help set up the basics. Please get involved if you can, and we can hopefully revive this important project within Wikipedia! Many thanks, MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 18:33, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Meet-up: Editors from Malaysia

Hello! You might or might not have seen me around here as I've not been active in Wikipedia the past few months. Before leaving for NS, it was my intention to form a Malaysian user group. I'm still very much interested in forming the group. However, before forming the group, I would love to organize a meet-up between editors of the Malaysian editing community to test the waters and hear what you guys might have to say. To my knowledge, there has not been a Wikipedia meet-up in this country before. I don't mind organizing the meet-up but need to know if anyone is interested in joining the meet-up. So... please reply and let me know if you would be interested in joining a meet-up and your ideas/thoughts about a user group. Thank you.

Looking forward to hearing from you, Bejinhan talks 12:27, 15 December 2012 (UTC) (Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 12:27, 15 December 2012 (UTC))[reply]

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

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The Signpost: 24 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum
Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter
In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?; Wales accused of Kazakh corruption
Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy
WikiProject report: New Year, New York
Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review
Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes

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The Signpost: 07 January 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die
News and notes: 2012—the big year
WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year
Featured content: Featured content in review
Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
News and notes: Launch of annual photo competition, new grant scheme
Special report: Loss of an Internet genius
Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style, accessibility and equality
WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy
Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012
Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months
Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment

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The Signpost: 21 January 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward
WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics
Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review
Arbitration report: Doncram case continues
Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success

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The Signpost: 28 January 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention; Sue Gardner's op-ed; Women of Wikipedia
News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate
Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics
Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012
WikiProject report: Checkmate! – WikiProject Chess
Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests
Arbitration report: Doncram continues
Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

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WikiProject Malaysia Skype chat

Hello, thank you for participating in WikiProject Malaysia! As per my previous message and the responses made, I'm organizing an informal Skype conference call on February 5th, 20:00 - 21:30 (Malaysian time). I'd love for you to join this chat. If you do not have a Skype but wish to join the chat, let me know and I'll try to work something out. iFurther details can be found at the Meetups page. You can also leave any suggestions or comments on that page. Please RVSP and hope to "meet" you there! Bejinhan talks 14:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications
In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry
News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance
Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes
WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun – WikiProject Norway
Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia
News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year
In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute
Discussion report: WebCite proposal; request for adminship reform
WikiProject report: Just the Facts – WikiProject Infoboxes
Featured content: A lousy week
Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit
In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press
WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines
Featured content: Featured content gets schooled
Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year
In the media: Former WMF board member creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for Fleishman-Hillard PR agency
Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers; EPOV instead of NPOV
Discussion report: Wikivoyage links; overcategorization
WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload
Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin'
Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely

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Reach for consensus

Since you are a listed member at Wikipedia:WikiProject Badminton I am inviting you to reach a consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Badminton regarding the format of brackets for tournaments, particularly the Super Series competitions.--MorrisIV (talk) 15:42, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger; new writers
News and notes: Finance committee updates
Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes
WikiProject report: Setting a precedent
Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns
Technology report: Article Feedback reversal: watershed moment?; plus code review one year on

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee
Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm
WikiProject report: Making music with WikiProject Composers
Arbitration report: Another arbitrator resigns; Richard case closes
Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews
Featured content: One and a half soursops
WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh
Arbitration report: Two open cases
Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
Recent research: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages

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Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats
News and notes: Funding for the Wikipedia Library and six other projects; April Fool's Day ructions
Featured content: What the ?
WikiProject report: Special: FAQs
Arbitration report: Three open cases
Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt

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Wikizine: Introducing Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer
Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry
WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes
Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History
Technology report: Testing week for developers and their deployments

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Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops
Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear
WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: WikiProject South Africa

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News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news
Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea
WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
Arbitration report: Sexology case nears closure after stalling over topic ban
Technology report: A flurry of deployments

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News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp
In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax
Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
Featured content: Wiki loves video games
WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball
Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases
Recent research: Sentiment monitoring, Wikipedians and academics favor the same papers, UNESCO and systemic bias, How ideas flow on Wikiversity

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News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014
In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions
Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!
WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!
Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy

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News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list
In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?
Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map
WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts
Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases

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Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment
News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles
In the media: Qworty incident continues
WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome
Featured content: Up in the air

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Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money
News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions
In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing
Featured content: Life of 2π
WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates
Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels
Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

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From the editor: Signpost developments
News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
In the media: China blocks Wikipedia
Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
Featured content: A week of portraits
WikiProject report: Operation Normandy
Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'

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Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"
Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing

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The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

The Wikipedia Library (talk | edit)

Get free access to research!

...Support Open Access...

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'
News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?
In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia
Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement
Technology report: VisualEditor set for early July rollout

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Election results released
In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator
WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion
Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden
Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended
Recent research: Controversial Wikipedia topics

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News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
WikiProject report: Puppies!
Featured content: Queen of France
Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

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News and notes: Wikimedia Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south
Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
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News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
Featured content: Documents and sports
Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications
Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

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News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
Featured content: Engineering and the arts
Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
Traffic report: Gleeless

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Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
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News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
Featured content: The great Colorado River and the mysterious case of the grand duchess
Discussion report: Civility policy, geographic names, CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea party movement case
Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard

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Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches
In the media: Chinese censorship
Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS
WikiProject report: For the love of stamps
Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities
Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes; invitation to comment on applicants for checkuser and oversight ends 16 August

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From the editor: Call for contributors
WikiProject report: Today's article for improvement
News and notes: Wikipedia's Manual of Style marches into Manning's sex change
Traffic report: Bad Cat
Discussion report: Skyscrapers, Gibraltar DYKs, Four Award, Secure login, and more
Featured content: Afrobeat
Technology report: Generating musical scores with LilyPond

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News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
Traffic report: Reddit creep
WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective

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In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia
News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia
Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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New Wales Coast Path WikiProject

As a member of WikiProject Wales, WikiProject Cardiff or an user who has contributed to Welsh articles we invite you to contribute to a new project, Living Paths!: articles, images, translations... Lonely Planet rated the coast of Wales "the best region on Earth" in 2012, yet there is a very low number of articles on the history and culture of places along the Coastal Path. This promises to be an exciting project as it gathers momentum with many Users joining in across the world.

If you are interested in training groups in Wales, please leave a message on the Talk Page.
Let's make this WikiProject, like the path itself, the best on earth! And let's put Wales back on the map!

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News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas
In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?
WikiProject report: Traveling to Indonesia
Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!

Featured content: Tintin goes featured
Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes

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News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
Featured content: Hurricane Diane and the Van Gogh
Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?

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Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

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obvious (and major) error on Col. John Montgomery

I'm viewing this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montgomery_%28pioneer%29

Please note that the contributor has Col. John Mongtomery, born ca. 1750, married in 1753 to Anne Agnes Crockett. This contributor has obviously confused an earlier John Montgomery with our subject. The actual Col. John Montgomery (c1750-1794) married Phoebe RAMSEY (1754-c1810), daughter of Josiah RAMSEY.

The problem is, I don't know how to make the "edit" because it would involve deleting most of the page.

What would you suggest?

DianaGaleM (talk) 04:00, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
WikiProject report: U2 Too
Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

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News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
WikiProject report: Australian Roads
Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
Featured content: Under the sea

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News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

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News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumbling in the German-language Wikimedia
In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia
Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia
Traffic report: Your average week... and a fish
Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more
WikiProject report: WikiProject Elements

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News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?
Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years
In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?
WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying
Featured content: Wrestling with featured content
Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube

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News and notes: Alleged 'outing' of an editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban
Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic
WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility
Traffic report: Danse Macabre
Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more
Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed

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"Wiki Loves Libraries" edit-athon in Vancouver, WA

	WIKI LOVES LIBRARIES 2013! You are invited to attend the upcoming "Wiki Loves Libraries" edit-athon. The event will be held from 2:30–4:30pm on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at the Vancouver Community Library (901 C Street) in Vancouver, Washington. The edit-athon will focus on creating and expanding articles related to Vancouver and Clark County. Details and signup here!

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Special report: FDC staff assessments raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance
News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it
Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block
Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more
WikiProject report: The world of soap operas
Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting
Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive
Traffic report: Ill Winds
WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia
Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

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News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions
Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more
WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie
Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who
Featured content: F*&!
Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review
Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia

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Get your cameras ready! Christmas in Oregon and PDX Pods

This month, WikiProject Oregon features two photo campaigns:

PDX Pods
Christmas in Oregon

The concept is simple: upload photos of these two topics and share your work! Whether you upload one or one hundred, these images will help capture the culture of our state and illustrate Wikimedia projects. Have fun, and happy holiday season! You are receiving this because you are listed as an active member of WikiProject Oregon or WikiProject Washington. This message was delivered on behalf of Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:44, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced
In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling
Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion
Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list
WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine
Featured content: Viewer discretion advised
Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced
WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia
Discussion report: Usernames, template data and documentation, Main page, and more
Traffic report: Hopper to the top
Featured content: Triangulum, the world's most boring constellation
Technology report: Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset

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News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions
Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings
WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos
Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings
Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools
Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: The year in review
In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
Book review: Życie Wirtualnych Dzikich
Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
Featured content: 2013—the trends
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In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times
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Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
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News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
Traffic report: Six strikes out
WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups
In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia
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Traffic report: Sports Day
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News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
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Special report: Diary of a protester—Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
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News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
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Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
Comment: A foolish request
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WikiProject report: From the peak
Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
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WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
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News and notes: 'Ask a librarian': connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
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Wikipedia's second featured article centurion
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Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
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News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
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Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
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Exclusive: Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
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WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects, the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies

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News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
WikiProject report: Indigenous peoples of North America
Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
Featured content: Ship-shape
Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

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Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
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News and notes: With echoes of the VisualEditor, conflict breaks out again over tech initiative
Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
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Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

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Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors dismissed with help from WMF, but plaintiff intends to refile
Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

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Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

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News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab world
Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection

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Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results
Traffic report: Ebola drives reader interest* Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

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Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
Wikimedia in education: Wikimedia Global Education: WMF's Perspective
In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

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Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

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Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
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Personal infoboxes in relation to patriotism and nationalism

Hi Mikhailov Kusserow,

I saw your name on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Discrimination#Participants listing.

There is a discussion at Template talk:Infobox person#Citizenship suggesting a change of emphasis to a Citizenship entry from the Nationality entry.

The idea is to give more facilitation to Patriotism instead of Nationalism and also to allow more freedom of expression in regards to terminologies used.

Contributions are welcomed but may be worth checking last edit to check progress first :) Regards Gregkaye (talk) 20:58, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
Traffic report: Holding Pattern
WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

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Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

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News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
Featured content: Which is not like the others?
Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

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In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
Featured content: Oil paintings galore
Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the election in Scotland
WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

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From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
Featured content: Brothers at War
Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

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In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire
Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
Traffic report: Panic and denial
Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

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Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

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In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

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Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

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In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

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The Signpost: 12 November 2014

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In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

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Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
Traffic report: Big in Japan
WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

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Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
In the media: Embroidery and cheese
Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
WikiProject report: Today on the island

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014

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Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
Traffic report: A December Lull

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

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From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
In the media: Wales on GamerGate
Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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MfD nomination of User:Mikhailov Kusserow/book

User:Mikhailov Kusserow/book, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Mikhailov Kusserow/book and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Mikhailov Kusserow/book during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Jeffro77 (talk) 03:12, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

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News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
Featured content: A bit fruity
Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

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Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
Featured content: Kock up
Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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Featured content: Citations are needed
In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
WikiProject report: Articles for Creation: the Inside Story

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From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
Technology report: The future of MediaWiki

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

Special report: Traffic in the fog—2014's most popular articles include death, Facebook, and Ebola

In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

Traffic report: A sea of faces

Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

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News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia
Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
Traffic report: The American Heartland
Featured content: It's raining men!
Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
Gallery: Langston Hughes

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From the editors: We want to know what you think!
News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million
In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?
Traffic report: Bowled over
WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled
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The Signpost: 18 February 2015

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Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
Special report: Revision scoring as a service
Traffic report: February is for lovers
Gallery: Darwin Day
Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
Gallery: Far from home
Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
Gallery: Far from home
WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
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The Signpost: 04 March 2015

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From the editor: A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes
Interview: Meet a paid editor
Traffic report: Attack of the movies
In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015

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Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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The Signpost: 18 March 2015

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From the editor: A salute to Pine

Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

Featured content: A woman who loved kings, a king who loved angels ...

Traffic report: It's not cricket

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News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

Traffic report: Oddly familiar

Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
Traffic report: All over the place
Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

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Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
Traffic report: Resurrection week
Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015

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News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
Traffic report: Furious domination
Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

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The Signpost: 22 April 2015

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Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
Featured content: Vanguard on guard
Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
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terence hogan...........lucky tel hogan .

Hello thank you for all your help to everyone on wiki. Although I am a journalist for You magazine I am not very good at wiki.I appreciate that you had to edit re something not being neutral? Do I have to ammend anything? I have not put a recent reference in and that was an interview with the BBC TV One Show with a criminal specialist and they recreated my father's crime, the eastcastle st robbery, it is now on youtube terry hogan, and obviously verifies his crime. But if there is something I need to redo or edit could you (when you get time) advise me please. Very many thanks karen hogan. Would the tags get removed if you are happy as not sure how it works very best wishes kare Kareenza (talk) 08:10, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation

I'd like to invite you to join the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music. We are currently on demand for new members, the project was dying, but with your help we can revive it and make it one of the best WikiProjects. Make me sure that you'll think about this and remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards Dfrr (talk) 19:27, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

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Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
Featured content: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen
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The Signpost: 06 May 2015

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Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
Traffic report: The grim ship reality
Blog: How many women edit Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

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Foundation elections: WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
In the media: Grant Shapps story continues; Wikipedia's "leftist ties"
News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
Traffic report: Round Two

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

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News and notes: The dark side of comedy: Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
Traffic report: Inner Core

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The Signpost: 27 May 2015

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News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime
Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated
Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

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News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
Traffic report: A rather ordinary week
Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

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News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

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Arbitration report: An election has consequences
Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
WikiProject report: We are back - Western Australia speaks

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015

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From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

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News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015

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Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

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Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion
Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
Traffic report: Belles of the ball
WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

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From the editor: Change the world
News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case
Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries
In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free
Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
WikiProject report: Some more politics
Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters\
Gallery: "One small step..."
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

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News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian
Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?
Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues
Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit

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The Signpost: 05 August 2015

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Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers
Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google
News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers
In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten
Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...
Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga
Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program

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The Signpost: 12 August 2015

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News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
Forum: Community voices on paid editing
Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom
Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz

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The Signpost: 19 August 2015

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Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus
In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"
Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!
Travelogue: Seeing is believing
Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news

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The Signpost: 26 August 2015

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In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors
Op-ed: Wikimania – can volunteers organize conferences?
News and notes: Re-imagining grants
In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia
Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
Featured content: Out to stud, please call later
Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration

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The Signpost: 02 September 2015

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Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia
News and notes: Flow placed on ice
Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments
Featured content: Brawny
In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage
Traffic report: You didn't miss much
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 09 September 2015

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Gallery: Being Welsh
Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity
News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article
In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined
Featured content: Killed by flying debris
Traffic report: Mass media production traffic
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

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Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access
Traffic report: Another week
News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?
In the media: Is there life on Mars?
Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

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Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library
In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.
WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

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In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
Recent research: Wiktionary special; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?; newbies, conflict and tolerance
Tech news: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

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Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
Traffic report: Reality is for losers
Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

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Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: Built on good faith
Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
WikiConference Report: WikiConference USA 2015
News and notes: Fundraising: 2015–2016 Q1 Update sparks mailing list debate
Featured content: A fistful of dollars
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

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Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
Featured content: A more balanced week
Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

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From the editor: The Signpost‍‍ 's reorganization plan—we need your help
News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Community letter: Five million articles

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
Gallery: Paris

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

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Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
Traffic report: Darkness and light

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:41, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
Featured content: Caves and stuff
Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

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Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections
In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches
Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: ArbCom election results announced
Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?
Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015
In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
Arbitration report: GMO case decided
WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
Traffic report: A feast of Spam
Featured content: An unusually slow week
Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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The Signpost: 30 December 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
Traffic report: The Force we expected
Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
Gallery: It's that time of year again

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The Signpost: 06 January 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
Featured content: Featured menagerie
Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 13 January 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
Editorial: We need a culture of verification
Op-ed: Transparency (by James Heilman)
Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
Community view: Strategy and controversy
In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 20 January 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
Traffic report: Danse Macabre
Featured content: This week's featured content
Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editors: Help wanted
In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
Traffic report: Bowled
News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
Featured content: This week's featured content
Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: New leaked internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

News and notes: Another WMF departure

In the media: Jeb Bush takes a swing at Wikipedia, and connects

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A river of revilement

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
Featured content: This week's featured content
Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Traffic report: Super Bowling

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent's fashion to the world

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The Signpost: 02 March 2016

News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Brawling

Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted

In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share

Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future

Featured content: Five articles, four lists, a topic, and five images were promoted this week.

Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks

WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists

Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."

Traffic report: All business like show business

The Signpost: 16 March 2016

News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing

Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

Featured content: This week's featured content

Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 23 March 2016

Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

Featured content: A slow, slow week

Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down

Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 14 April 2016

Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

Gallery: A history lesson

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The Signpost: 24 April 2016

News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

Traffic report: Two for the price of one

Featured content: The double-sized edition

Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

Traffic report: Purple

Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks

Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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The Signpost: 17 May 2016

News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF

Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs

Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee

Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

Featured content: From the crème de la crème

In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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The Signpost: 04 July 2016

News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany

Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?

In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source

Featured content: Triple fun of featured content

Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit

Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year

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Contests

User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:33, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 July 2016

News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

Featured content: A wide variety from the best

Traffic report: Sports and esports

Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality

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The Signpost: 04 August 2016

Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

Featured content: Women and Hawaii

Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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The Signpost: 18 August 2016

News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses

Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica

In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising

Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks

Traffic report: Olympic views

Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)

Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016

News and notes: AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters

Special report: Olympics readership depended on language

In the media: Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Wikipedia coverage

WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia

Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between

Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit

Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them

Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism

Blog: Upload of free photos from Swiss library underway

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

In the media: Wikipedia in the news

Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét

Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

Traffic report: Debates and escapes

Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

Wikicup: WikiCup winners

Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

Featured content: Cream of the crop

Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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New deal for page patrollers

Hi Mikhailov Kusserow,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

Featured content: Featured mix

Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

Traffic report: President-elect Trump

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WikiProject Punjab

Dear WikiProject Punjab Members,

The Wikipedia WikiProject Punjab interface has been upgraded to a more convenient structure. Feel free to use the new WikiProject to contribute towards the improvement of Punjab-related topics.

An Invite to join WikiProject Punjab

You are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Punjab

Thank you for your contributions to articles related to Punjab. I'd like to invite you to become a part of the many Punjabi related WikiProjects. The goal of WikiProject Punjab is to improve the quality and quantity of information about the region on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the WikiProject main page for more information.

Peeta Singh (talk) 09:18, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

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Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

Year in review: Looking back on 2016

News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results

Special report: German ArbCom implodes

In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

Featured content: The Christmas edition

Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017

From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

WikiProject report: For the birds!

Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

Traffic report: Cool It Now

Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017

From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed

Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education

Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app

In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia

Gallery: A Met montage

Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers

Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer

Featured content: The dominance of articles continues

Traffic report: Love, football, and politics

Blog: WikiIndaba 2017: A continent gathers to chart a path forward

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017

From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!

News and notes: Global Elections

Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis

Op-ed: Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured

In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?

Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press

Technology report: Tech news catch-up

Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10

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The Signpost: 23 June 2017

News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)

In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill

Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take

Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues

Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth

Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?

Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all

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The Signpost: 15 July 2017

News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes

Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more

In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce

Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers

Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017

Gallery: A mix of patterns

Humour: The Infobox Game

Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday

Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts

Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up

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This is the wrong information on wiki. Hence edited. Please keep my edits.

My edits were correct.

There is no relation of Gajanan Maharaj with Telangana. They have rejected them. It is mentioned in Gajanan Vijay.

Hello

Edits on wikipedia about Gajanan Maharaj are wrong. They are not from Telangana.

They did not like to follow rituals like Telangana Bramhin. It is written in Gajanan Vijay. Please believe me.

I lived near Shegaon (Place of Gajanan Maharaj) since my birth. Information on wiki is not correct. This is giving wrong information about them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.65.16.10 (talk) 16:52, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 5 August 2017

News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!

Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality

WikiProject report: Comic relief

In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity

Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list

Blog: Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders

Special report: Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic

Featured content: Everywhere in the lead

Technology report: Introducing TechCom

Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017

From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?

News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments

Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies

Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts

Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future

Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia

In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?

WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube

Technology report: Latest tech news

Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up

Humour: Bots

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The Signpost: 25 September 2017

News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL

In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues

Humour: Chickenz

Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe

Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications

Gallery: Chicken mania

Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative

Traffic report: Fights and frights

Featured content: Flying high

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The Signpost: 23 October 2017

News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!

Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

Humour: Guys named Ralph

In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

In the media: Facebook and poetry

Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment

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The Signpost: 24 November 2017

News and notes: Cons, cons, cons

Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

Technology report: Searching and surveying

Interview: A featured article centurion

WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects

In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution

Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate

Featured content: We will remember them

Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text

Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)

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The Signpost: 18 December 2017

Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up

Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind

Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017

In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more

Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors

Gallery: Wiki loving

Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures

Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"

Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech

Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys

Humour: On their way to the WMF Incubator

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The Signpost: 16 January 2018

News and notes: Communication is key

In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media

Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics

Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count

Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers

Humour: Why don't we have an article about _________?

Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018

Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017

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The Signpost: 5 February 2018

Op-ed: Do editors have the right to be forgotten?

Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible

Recent research: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?

Blog: New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes

Interview: Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists

Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles

Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative

Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues

In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations

Humour: You really are in Wonderland

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The Signpost: 20 February 2018

News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators

Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back

Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases

Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain

Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history

Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks

Humour: Impossible and unexplained traffic report

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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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The Signpost: 26 April 2018

From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again

Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost

News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

In focus: Admin reports board under criticism

Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised

Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

Discussion report: The future of portals

Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History

Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia

Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018

From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

Traffic report: We love our superheroes

Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

Humour: Play with your food

Gallery: Wine not?

From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018

From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

Traffic report: We love our superheroes

Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

Humour: Play with your food

Gallery: Wine not?

From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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The Signpost: 29 June 2018

From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking

Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?

Op-ed: What do admins do?

Opinion: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania

In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress

Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page

Featured content: New promotions

Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed

Traffic report: Endgame

Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements

Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa

Blog: Wikipedia should be open for editors in Turkey

Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry

Humour: Television plot lines

Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors

From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

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The Signpost: 31 July 2018

From the editor: If only if

Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR

In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set

Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals

Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose

Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes

Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else

Technology report: New bots, new prefs

Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July

Blog: Motivation of two editors

Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons

Humour: It's all the same

Essay: Wikipedia does not need you

From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

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The Signpost: 30 August 2018

From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia

Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles

Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Special report: Wikimania 2018

Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits

Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work

Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat

Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies

Humour: Signpost editor censors herself

Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment

From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words

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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

From the editor: Is this the new normal?

News and notes: European copyright law moves forward

In the media: Knowledge under fire

Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2

Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom

Traffic report: John McCain's death generates over 7 million hits, followed by historical low

Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile

Gallery: A pat on the back

Blog: After a catastrophic fire at the National Museum of Brazil, a drive to preserve what knowledge remains

Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?

Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle

Essay: Expressing thanks

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
Country Winners
Diversity winner
High quality contributors
Gender-gap fillers
Page improvers
Wikidata Translators

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair

News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks

In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias

Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

Technology report: Bots galore!

Special report: NPP needs you

Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six

In focus: Alexa

Gallery: Out of this world!

Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion

Humour: Talk page humour

Opinion: Strickland incident

From the archives: The Gardner Interview

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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The Signpost: 1 December 2018

From the editor: Time for a truce

Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

Special report: The Christmas wishlist

Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

Arbitration report: A long break ends

Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

Gallery: Intersections

Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

Essay: No one cares about your garage band

Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

From the archives: Ars longa, vita brevis

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Venezuelan cinema task force


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The Signpost: 24 December 2018

From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

News and notes: Some wishes do come true

In the media: Political hijinks

Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone

Blog: News from the WMF

Humour: I believe in Bigfoot

Essay: Requests for medication

From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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The Signpost: 31 January 2019

Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther

Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

News from the WMF: News from WMF

Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

Essay: How

Humour: Village pump

From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

From the editors: Help wanted (still)

News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!

Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Binge-watching

Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

Gallery: Signed with pride

Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers

Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia

From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

Humour: Pesky Pronouns

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Wikiproject United Nations: We need you!

Dear Mikhailov Kusserow, I noticed your name was under the participants' list of WikiProject United Nations. I wanted to invite you to contribute to the advancement of this project. Here's how you can do so: 1. Select the latest CC BY SA publications for which no articles have been created yet available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_Nations/Open_Access_text/Education_publications 2. Follow the instructions available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Adding_open_license_text_to_Wikipedia 3. Add the text to Wikipedia (either by creating new articles or adding content to existing ones). Since these are available under CC BY SA, you can copy/paste content and/or edit if need be. 4. Attribute the text using the 'Free-content attribution' template in the 'Sources' section. 5. Add your contribution in the table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_Nations/Open_Access_text/Education_publications Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! Looking forward to working with you on enriching Wikipedia, one article at a time:)! C.recalde — Preceding unsigned comment added by C.recalde (talk • contribs) 10:54, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

From the editors: Getting serious about humor

News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive

In the media: Women's history month

Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding

Featured content: Out of this world

Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM

Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations

Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles

News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive

Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention

From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37

Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?

In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch

Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

News and notes: An Action Packed April

In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

Technology report: A new special page, and other news

Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

From the archives: Portals revisited

Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

From the editors: Picture that

News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!

Technology report: Lots of Bots

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

Essay: Paid editing

From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

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The June 2019 Signpost is out!

Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

In the media: The disinformation age

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

Technology report: Actors and Bots

Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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The Signpost: 31 July 2019

News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India

In the media: Politics starts getting rough

Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban

Arbitration report: A month of reintegration

Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?

News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way

Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect

Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract

Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things

In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored

Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong

News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year

Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
Diversity winner
Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

From the editors: Where do we go from here?

Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report

Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

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2019 US Banknote Contest

US Banknote Contest

November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate.

If you do not want to receive invitations to future US Banknote Contests, follow the instructions here

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The Signpost: 31 October 2019

In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit

Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse

In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing

Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars

Community view: Observations from the mainland

Arbitration report: October actions

Traffic report: Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers

Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast

Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia

Essay: Wikipedia is in the real world

News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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The Signpost: 29 November 2019

From the editor: Put on your birthday best

News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?

In the media: You say you want a revolution

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases

Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things

Gallery: Winter and holidays

Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews

Essay: Adminitis

From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited

In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy

Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019

From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again

News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages

Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?

In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?

Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki

Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December

Technology report: User scripts and more

Gallery: Holiday wishes

Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary

From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap

WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta

In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?

Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners

News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations

Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015

In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!

Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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The Signpost: 1 March 2020

From the editor: The ball is in your court

News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide

Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews

In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation

Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?

Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed

By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?

Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman

In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019

Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone

From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?

Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark

Gallery: Feel the love

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator

Opinion: Wikipedia is another country

Humour: The Wilhelm scream

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The Signpost: 29 March 2020

From the editors: The bad and the good

News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

Arbitration report: Unfinished business

In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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April 2020

Please do not add or change content, as you did at New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Elizium23 (talk) 17:24, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 April 2020

News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?

In the media: Coronavirus, again and again

Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit

Featured content: Featured content returns

Arbitration report: Two difficult cases

Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night

Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos

Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias

Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing

By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic

Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon

In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia

WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors

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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

From the editor: Meltdown May?

News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

Featured content: Weathering the storm

Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction

Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam

Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?

Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book

News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement

Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020

Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime

On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming

WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles

On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

Obituaries: Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine

Community view: Community open letter on renaming

Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd

In the media: Part collaboration and part combat

Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals

Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow

Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation

Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths

News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice

Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking

Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?

Humour: Cherchez une femme

Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news

On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?

In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism

WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020

Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

In the media: Dog days gone bad

Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

Traffic report: Now for something completely different

Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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The Signpost: 30 August 2020

News and notes: The high road and the low road

In the media: Storytelling large and small

Featured content: Going for the goal

Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way

Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax

Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics

News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online

Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles

Arbitration report: A slow couple of months

From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till

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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
Diversity winner - $100
Gender-gap fillers - $100
Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

Special report: Paid editing with political connections

News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

Featured content: Life finds a Way

Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

Traffic report: Is there no justice?

Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

Special report: Paid editing with political connections

News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

Featured content: Life finds a Way

Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

Traffic report: Is there no justice?

Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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The Signpost: 1 November 2020

News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking

In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books

Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20

Op-Ed: Anti-vandalism with masked IPs: the steps forward

Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story

Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.

Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?

Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year

Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters

In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
Diversity winner - $100
Gender-gap filler - $100
Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 29 November 2020

News and notes: Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"

Op-Ed: Re-righting Wikipedia

Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia

In the media: Relying on Wikipedia: voters, scientists, and a Canadian border guard

Featured content: Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria

Traffic report: 007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election

News from Wiki Education: An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker

GLAM plus: West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large

Wikicup report: Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup

Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail

Essay: Writing about women

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The Signpost: 28 December 2020

News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent

In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds

Arbitration report: 2020 election results

Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear

Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.

Traffic report: 2020 wraps up

News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next

Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions

Essay: Subjective importance

Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget

Gallery: Angels in the architecture

Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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Greetings from WikiProject:Ukraine

	Have a good day!
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The Signpost: 31 January 2021

News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021

Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection

In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades

Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

In the media: The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists

Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years

News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world

Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers

Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020

Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021

News and notes: Maher stepping down

Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video

Opinion: The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction

In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house

News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia

Recent research: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism

Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day

Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021

News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments

In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan

News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond

Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise

From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia

Obituary: Yoninah

From the editor: What else can we say?

Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees

Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack

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Discussion on the inclusion of Iraq in the 'Arab states of the Persian Gulf' article

Hey there @Mikhailov Kusserow! I saw that you're a member of WikiProject Western Asia. Just wanted to notify you that I have opened up a discussion on whether Iraq should be included in the ASPG article. In the talk page I've organized a short history and research on the subject. And opened a discussion on the issue. If you're interested please feel free to join, we would love for neutral third party opinion on the matter. Cheers! — ♾️ Contemporary Nomad ^{(💬 Talk)} 07:16, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

From the editor: A change is gonna come

Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise

In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

From the editor: A change is gonna come

Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise

In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 27 June 2021

News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more

In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money

Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release

Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report

Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way

News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia

Humour: Wikipedia's best articles on the world's strangest things

WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview

Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?

Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed

Obituary: SarahSV

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021

News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories

Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong

In the media: Larry is at it again

Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates

Recent research: Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility

Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki

News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department

Humour: A little verse

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban

In the media: Vive la différence!

Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year

Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs

News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia

Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage

WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview

Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan

Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans

In the media: The future of Wikipedia

Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators

Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings

Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?

Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11

News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund

WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
Diversity winner - $100
Gender-gap fillers - $100
Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

From the editor: Different stories, same place

News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded

In the media: China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?

Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process

Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more

Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

WikiProject report: Redirection

Humour: A very Wiki crossword

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
Diversity winner - $100
Gender-gap filler - $100
Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography

WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021

Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained

From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?

Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021

Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent

Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?

WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers

Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot

News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles

Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail

Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior

Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword

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WikiProject Liechtenstein

Hi Mikhailov Kusserov, I saw that you are a member of WikiProject Liechtenstein. I recently created the article International Association of Project Managers. It has now been marked for deletion, wrongly in my opinion. I was wondering if you could comment on it as well? Because this article is about an association in Lichtenstein. Deletion discussion page GilbertPotter (talk) 09:04, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 December 2021

From the editor: Here is the news

News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

In the media: The past is not even past

Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 30 January 2022

Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment

News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election

Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"

Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?

Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion

WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured

Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021

Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph

Obituary: Twofingered Typist

Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial

Essay: The prime directive

Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?

In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing

Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"

Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years

Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword

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The Signpost: 27 February 2022

From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief

News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine

Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia

Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia

In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons

Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)

Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results

WikiProject report: 10 years of tea

Featured content: Featured Content returns

Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February

Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks

Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate

By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?

Gallery: The vintage exhibit

Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix

News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team

Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles

Humour: Notability of mailboxes

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022

From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

News and notes: Of safety and anonymity

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps

Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks

In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff

Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures

Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond

Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now

Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon

Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors

Traffic report: War, what is it good for?

Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine

Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."

From the archives: Burn, baby burn

Essay: Yes, the sky is blue

Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja

On the bright side: The bright side of news

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The Signpost: 24 April 2022

News and notes: Double trouble

In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia

Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)

Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer

Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March

In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia

Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners

Interview: On a war and a map

Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers

Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion

Recent research: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images

News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?

Essay: The problem with elegant variation

Humour: Really huge message boxes

From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization

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The Signpost: 29 May 2022

From the team: A changing of the guard

News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections

Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections

Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency

In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more

Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

In focus: Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles

Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited

Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis

Featured content: Featured content of April

Interview: Wikipedia's pride

Serendipity: Those thieving image farms

Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed

Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia

Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows

News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced

News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?

Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing

Gallery: Diving under the sea for World Oceans Day

From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia

Essay: How not to write a Wikipedia article

Humour: A new crossword

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks

In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down

Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?

Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled

Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it

Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose

Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?

Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed

Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals

Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving

Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter

Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel

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The Signpost: 1 August 2022

From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

News and notes: Information considered harmful

In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap

Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Community view: Youth culture and notability

Opinion: Criminals among us

Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

Essay: How to research an image

Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

Gallery: A backstage pass

From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere

Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?

In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth

Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me

In focus: Thinking inside the box

Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...

Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now

Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth

Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.

Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links

Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come

Essay: Delete the junk!

Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)

Humour: CommonsComix No. 1

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022

News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"

In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers

In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements

Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution

Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News

Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship

Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?

Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos

Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future

Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs

Featured content: Farm-fresh content

Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2

CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

From the team: A new goose on the roost

News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet

News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment

In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias

Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove

Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?

Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship

Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com

Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?

Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal

From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver

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The Signpost: 28 November 2022

News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"

In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"

Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC

Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future

Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed

Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality

Book review: Writing the Revolution

Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality

Essay: The Six Million FP Man

Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff

Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"

Featured content: A great month for featured articles

Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler

Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia

Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

CommonsComix: Joker's trick

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins

In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more

Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief

Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"

Essay: Mobile editing

Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022

Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes

Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical

Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?

Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!

CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again

Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020

News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion

In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again

Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery

In focus: Busting into Grand Central

Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100

Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?

Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany

Featured content: Flip your lid

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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The Signpost: 4 February 2023

From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function

News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan

Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia

Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos

Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation

In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate

Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter

Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage

Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias

WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour

Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles

Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea

Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT

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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan

In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage

Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?

Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia

Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK

Featured content: Eden, lost.

Gallery: Love is in the air

Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!

Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground

Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?

Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy

In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?

Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter

Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences

Featured content: Way too many featured articles

Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA

Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions

News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI

In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news

Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing

Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid

Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT

From the archives: April Fools' through the ages

Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

Humour: The law of hats

Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU

In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics

Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!

Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion

News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation

Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

In the media: History, propaganda and censorship

Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"

Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors

Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles

Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs

WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea

In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again

Featured content: Poetry under pressure

Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing

In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia

Featured content: Content, featured

Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter

Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia

In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed

Featured content: Incensed

Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?

Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions

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The Signpost: 17 July 2023

News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?

In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia

Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)

News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns

In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?

Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)

Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy

Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced

Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop

Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!

Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

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The Signpost: 1 August 2023

News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server

In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change

Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!

Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash

Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!

Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?

In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia

Opinion: Are global bans the last step?

Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July

Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects

In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida

In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!

Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?

Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them

Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing

Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?

Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether

Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed

Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire

Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online

News and notes: You like RecentChanges?

In the media: Taking it sleazy

Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia

Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties

Humour: The Dehumourification Plan

Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?

In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?

Obituary: Nosebagbear

Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me

Featured content: Catching up

Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"

Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors

Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"

Featured content: By your logic,

Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS

Poetry: "The Sight"

Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?

In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements

Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!

Traffic report: The calm and the storm

News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes

Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015

In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man

News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups

Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk

WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023

News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia

Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades

Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.

Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia

Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup

News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health

Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads

Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom

Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy

In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns

Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"

In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged

Comix: Bold comics for a new age

Essay: I am going to die

Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence

Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain

Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies

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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?

News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023

In the media: Consider the humble fork

Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI

In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU

Technology report: Dark mode is coming

Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata

Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture

Crossword: when the crossword is sus

Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!

From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^

Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.

Humour: Guess the joke contest

BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

Comix: Conflict resolution

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

Opinion: Until it happens to you

Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

Comix: We've all got to start somewhere

Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

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