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The Signpost: 29 April 2013

• News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp
  The Funds Dissemination Committee released its recommendations to the WMF board last Sunday. The news that the Hong Kong chapter's application for US$212K had failed was followed by a strongly worded resignation announcement by Deryck Chan on the public Wikimedia-l mailing-list.

• In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax
  On 24 April 2013, novelist Amanda Filipacchi published what turned out to be an influential op-ed in the New York Times; illuminating the unusual background of the Yuri Gadyukin hoax.

• Featured content: Wiki loves video games
  Nine articles, three lists, three pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" this week.

• WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball
  This week, we traveled to the Japanese Wikipedia's WikiProject Baseball for perspectives from a version of Wikipedia that treats WikiProjects as their own unique namespace (プロジェクト:) independent of "Wikipedia:".

• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles
  The WP:TOP25 and WP:5000 reports chronicle the most popular Wikipedia articles on a weekly basis.

• Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases
  The Sexology case closed shortly after publication with no changes.

• Recent research: Sentiment monitoring; UNESCO and systemic bias; and more
  A report on an online service which was created to conduct real-time monitoring of Wikipedia articles of companies, and more.

• Technology report: New notifications system deployed across Wikipedia
  This week saw the deployment of the Echo extension, also known as "notifications".

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Hello, Chrishmt0423. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of highest scoring NBA games/archive1.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—Bloom6132 (talk) 17:41, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unanimous ROY

Is it within all those table guidelines to add the † to the year column instead and coloring it at NBA Rookie of the Year Award?—Bagumba (talk) 22:34, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, color is not required.—Chris!_c/t 23:00, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Just makes it easier to notice things without having to look for smaller symbols.—Bagumba (talk) 23:51, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FA Thanks

This user helped promote Juwan Howard to featured article status.

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for your editorial contributions to Juwan Howard, which has recently become a WP:FA.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:03, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2013 April newsletter

We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with Sven Manguard (submissions) claiming for the high-importance Portal:Sports and Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and Cwmhiraeth (submissions) claiming for a did you know of sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place Casliber (submissions) and second place Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.

The next issue of The Signpost is due to include a brief update on the current WikiCup, comparing it to previous years' competitions. This may be of interest to current WikiCup followers, and may help bring some more new faces into the community. We would also like to note that this round includes an extra competitor to the 32 advertised, who has been added to a random pool. This extra inclusion seems to have been the fairest way to deal with a small mistake made before the beginning of this round, but should not affect the competition in a large way. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact one of the judges.

A rules clarification: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on 29/30 April, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 16:09, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 May 2013

• News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014
  Although not yet in great numbers, candidates are coming forward for Wikimedia Foundation elections, which will be held from 1 to 15 June. The elections will fill vacancies in three categories, the most prominent of which will be the three community-elected seats on the ten-member Board of Trustees (or the first Board meeting after the election results are announced, if sooner). The current two-year terms for these trustee positions ends on 1 September.

• Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy
  The Wikimedia Foundation will be receiving more than $100,000 worth of free developer time courtesy of internet giant Google, it was announced this week. The funds, allocated as part of Google's Summer of Code programme, will support up to 21 student developers through three months of coding time.

• Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!
  May sees the beginning of Round 3 of the 2013 WikiCup, with 33 of the original 127 competitors remaining. ... six articles, ten pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions
  The SOS Children's Villages news service advised on 3 May 2013 that Wikipedia for Schools 2013 is nearly ready for release. ... On 26 April 2013, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation published an article reviewing Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's edits to the English Wikipedia, where it revealed the name of Breivik's English Wikipedia account.

• WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!
  This week's English Wikipedia project, WikiProject Biophysics, is home to several experts in their fields and a collaboration with the Biophysical Society. The project is hosting a contest through July 15 with six contributors winning $100 in cash and given the opportunity to attend the 2014 meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco. Other strong entries will be awarded barnstars online and everyone who contributes can receive a physical button mailed out to them.

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The Signpost: 13 May 2013

• News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list
  The removal of administrator rights from all volunteers on the Wikimedia Foundation's official website sparked a highly emotional reaction on the Wikimedia-l mailing list—one of the largest off-wiki methods of communication for the Wikimedia movement.

• WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts
  This week, we spent some time watching WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts, which was started in August 2005 and has grown to include 12 Good Articles and a Featured List.

• Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map
  Fourteen articles, three lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia, including Boletus luridus, seen above.

• In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?
  An article published on May 10 on Odwyerpr.com written by Greg Hazley documented a "spar" between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and public relations firm Qorvis partner Matt Lauer, who disputes Wikipedia's guideline discouraging public relations firms from editing articles on their clients.

• Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases
  The Race and politics case has been accepted for arbitration, and the evidence phase is now open. Two other cases remain open.

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The Signpost: 20 May 2013

• Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment
  Nominations closed last Friday for the three community-elected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) ten-member Board of Trustees—the ultimate corporate authority of the worldwide WMF. The Board has influential roles and responsibilities over one of the most powerful global information sources on the Internet.

• WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome
  This week, we traveled to WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. The project was started in May 2006 and has 37 featured articles.

• News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles
  On 16 May, the Spanish Wikipedia became the seventh Wikipedia to cross the million article Rubicon, a symbolic yet important achievement.

• In the media: Qworty incident continues
  Salon.com published another article detailing the ongoing incidents with Wikipedia user Qworty, who has identified himself as Robert Clark Young. It documents Qworty's role in the controversy involving Amanda Filipacchi's op-ed, which kindled a debate on Wikipedia sexism as it relates to categories, where Qworty was responsible for a series of revenge edits against Filipacchi in the days after she released her op-ed.

• Featured content: Up in the air
  Nine articles, six lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 09:18, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Brandon Bass in March 2013.jpg

FYI, I think this is D.J. White: [1] Zagalejo^^^ 17:19, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I will request a name change.—Chris!_c/t 19:26, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 May 2013

• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions
  Alongside the Signpost's interviews with the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees candidates, the Signpost asked the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and its Ombudsperson position a series of questions relating to the positions they may be taking on. For the FDC candidates, this will include specific recommendations to the WMF on how to disburse over US$11 million in donors' funds to affiliate organizations, something which appears to have garnered little attention from the editing community at large so far.

• In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing
  In the continuing saga of User:Qworty's outing as author Robert Clark Young, several blogs and websites covered the now-banned user's anti-Pagan editing. In an article published on 22 May 2013, TechEye described Qworty's edits as a "reign of terror" and were pleased to find that he had not succeeded in removing several prominent Pagan biographies from the encyclopedia.

• Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money
  The elections for the three community seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees start on 8 June. This second and final part of the interview explores two broad themes: Meta, the site that hosts movement-wide coordination; and offline entities—the chapters and the new thematic organisations and user groups.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates
  This week, we plotted out the demarcations of WikiProject Geographical Coordinates, which aims to create a single standard of handling coordinates in Wikipedia articles.

• Featured content: Life of 2π
  Twelve articles, four lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?
  An article in Library Review offers a much-needed comparison of data from a population of editors outside the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels
  Second only to the technical track of Wikimania in terms of numbers, the Berlin Hackathon (2009–2012) provided those with an interest in the software that underpins Wikimedia wikis and supports its editors a place to gather, exchange ideas and learn new skills.

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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

• From the editor: Signpost developments
  I am excited to announce that a Portuguese-language journal, Correio da Wikipédia has been launched by Vitorvicentevalente. It has just published its third edition, and I encourage readers who speak the language to read and contribute to its already-expansive coverage of the Portuguese Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.

• Featured content: A week of portraits
  Five articles, four lists, and thirteen images were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

• Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
  This is mostly a list of requests for comment believed to be active on 4 June 2013 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC or watchlist notices.

• News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
  On 31 May, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal and Community Advocacy team announced that the Wikivoyage logo would have to be replaced, because it has become the subject of a cease-and-desist letter from the World Trade Organization (WTO).

• In the media: China blocks secure version of Wikipedia
  An article on TheNextWeb.com says that the Chinese Government has effectively blocked Wikipedia by cutting off access to the HTTP Secure (https) "workaround", almost completely cutting off access to those in China.

• WikiProject report: Operation Normandy
  This week, we reflect on the anniversary of D-Day by storming the shores of Operation Normandy, a special initiative of WikiProject Military History.

• Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'
  Last week, the Signpost reported on a feeling at the Amsterdam hackathon that Toolserver developers were coming round to the idea of migrating to Wikimedia Labs.

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 00:20, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Swaminarayan and Pramukh Swami Maharaj

Hello,

I am fairly a new Wikipedian and was hoping for some guidance. I am not sure if you are able to help me, or, if you could guide me in the right direction. I have studied the swaminaryan faith for the past three years. I have been making edits on certain articles that are backed by multiple soarurces and find my edits being reverted my multiple member of the organization in a cult like fashion. I own the two books below but wasn't sure how to cite them properly so I used the book links from google books. Many other people are helping me with my research and specifically my research partner has also assisted. Is there a way I can get some help on how to get articles from being reverted? I posted the criticism for Swaminarayan after finishing the research and plan to do the same for Pramukh Swami but the followers of the faith are tedious in removing any critical aspects.

I have followed this line of thinking by goethean when attack by BAPS followers on this debate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bochasanwasi_Shri_Akshar_Purushottam_Swaminarayan_Sanstha

He said "Wikipedia documents both positive and negative aspects of all organizations ...These organizations neither have authority over Wikipedia's content, nor do they offer infallible documentation of their organization. Wikipedia presents BAPS's perspective on itself, but it also presents other perspectives on BAPS. Taking any other course would be to allow Wikipedia to be censored and would virtually be the end of Wikipedia. If you want an article that presents BAPS in only a favorable light, then start your own wiki."

I believe you based on your work also adhere to this correct comment.

Thank You.

http://books.google.com/books?id=zrKdPTfog3oC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=Swami+Dayananda+swaminarayan&source=bl&ots=HcxNprtz_8&sig=MqWUCjSe7B4-7Q63ViF1kg-P2eY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-kCxUbuUINLaqQHinYHIBQ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=swaminarayan&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=tPkexi2EhAIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=raymond+williams+swaminarayan+women&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IkSxUciVLMS0rQGtkoHIBw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hindoos&f=false

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4379024

http://www.shikshapatri.org.uk/~shik/ Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).

The Signpost: 12 June 2013

• News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
  Late last year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) awarded $8.4 million in donors' money to 11 Wikimedia entities, including the Wikimedia Foundation and 10 nationally defined chapters. Under this arrangement, these organisations are required to issue quarterly reports on how far they have progressed towards their declared programmatic and financial goals. The FDC has now announced that all 11 completed and submitted their reports by the 1 April deadline, and have responded to each.

• Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
  Seven articles, two lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"
  In an article published by the Huffington Post's United Kingdom edition, writer Thomas Church asserts that the new VisualEditor will change history, literally. It says that Wikipedia's mark-up language has been to its advantage, as most people didn't bother trying to learn it

• Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
  I've long thought that we should get rid of the Wikimedia Commons as we know it. Commons has evolved into a project with interests that compete with the needs of the primary users of Commons and the reason it was created. It's also understaffed, which results in poor curation, large administrative backlogs, and poor policy development.

• Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
  Last week's most popular article list on the English Wikipedia was dominated by the massively popular TV series Game of Thrones, which claimed six slots in the top 25, including the top three. Its popularity was likely stoked by the most recent episode, The Rains of Castamere. Bollywood continued to increase its share of views as well, aided by the tragic suicide of star Nafisa Khan.

• Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
  Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement have been suspended. Argentine History remains open, and a proposed decision was posted on 12 June.

• WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing
  This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Computing. Started in October 2003, the project has grown to include 17 featured articles, 11 featured lists, 3 pieces of featured media, and 80 good articles.

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The Signpost: 19 June 2013

• Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'
  Following last week's op-ed by Gigs ("The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"), the Signpost is carrying two contrary opinions from MichaelMaggs, a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons, and Mattbuck, a British Commons administrator.

• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
  The season finale of Game of Thrones ensured that the epic high fantasy series would dominate the top 10 again last week; however, it was joined by Maurice Sendak and Man of Steel.

• In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia; Editing of Israel topics
  Memeburn.com published an article on the yearning of students in South Africa for free knowledge through Wikipedia Zero.

• WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
  This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.

• News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?
  With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.

• Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
  Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
  A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: May engineering report published
  The WMF's engineering report for May was published recently on the Wikimedia blog and on the MediaWiki wiki ("friendly" summary version), giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.

• Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement
  Richard Farmbrough was set to have his day in court, but as events transpired, this was not to be so. On 25 March 2013, an accusation was made against Farmbrough at Arbitration Enforcement (AE), claiming that he violated the terms of an automated edit restriction. Within hours, Farmbrough had filed his own request with the arbitration committee, citing the newly filed AE request and claiming that the motion was being used "in an absurd way" in the filing of enforcement requests: "I have not made any edits that a sane person would consider automation."

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The Signpost: 26 June 2013

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
  With most TV shows on hiatus for the summer, attention has turned to movies, celebrity and sports. The dramatic events at the 2013 Confederations Cup drew massive attention, as did summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and World War Z. But the most searched event of the week was the tragic and unexpected death of popular actor James Gandolfini on June 19.

• In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
  The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.

• Recent research: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets
  A comparative work by T. Yasseri., A. Spoerri, M. Graham and J. Kertész looks at the 100 most controversial topics in 10 language versions of Wikipedia, and tries to make sense of the similarities and differences in these lists.

• News and notes: Election results released
  Less than three days after the close of voting, the volunteer election committee posted the results on Meta. The worldwide Wikimedia movement has elected three WMF trustees for two-year terms on the 10-seat Board: Samuel Klein (supported by 43.5% of voters), Phoebe Ayers (38.3%), and María Sefidari (35.6%). The new trustees will take their seats at a critical time for the movement: one of the first tasks in their terms will be to help the Board to find and approve the new executive director to take up the top job when Sue Gardner departs.

• Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator
  A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden
  This week, the Signpost interviews Adam Cuerden, a Wikimedian who has been for years gathering featured pictures, and who constantly participates in what could be his favourite part of the project. Cuerden dedicates most of his time to scanning and restoring old, valuable illustrative works. He explains to us how the featured process works, its relation with other parts of the encyclopedia, and how pictures evolve before reaching featured status.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion
  This week, we walked the runway with WikiProject Fashion. Started in March 2007, the project is home to 4 Featured Articles and 41 Good Articles. The project has a lengthy list of how you can help and a list of Article Alerts.

• Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended
  Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.

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TemplateData is here

Hey Chrishmt0423

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:04, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber (submissions) and Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 10:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

NBA stuff

Working my way there. Just going through my watchlist now. ;) Zagalejo^^^ 00:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK, got em. Zagalejo^^^ 02:58, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signing between Tyler Hansbrough and the Toronto Raptors is official as of July 10, 2013 he was signed as a unrestricted free agent. 02:58, 11 July 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JMichael22 (talk • contribs)

Is there any statement from the Raptors themselves? I couldn't find anything on their website. Zagalejo^^^ 04:25, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
  Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.

• Featured content: Queen of France
  Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• WikiProject report: Puppies!
  This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.

• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
  The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits

• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series
  The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.

• Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
  The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.

• Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
  Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

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Bulls

No worries. I've done that myself. Zagalejo^^^ 03:32, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great Job on map for San Francisco Crash (6 July 2013AD)

Wanted to say great job on the map you provided for the crash site. Very well done!! Magnum Serpentine (talk) 14:43, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

• Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
  This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.

• WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
  This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.

• Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere
  The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south
  In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.

• Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
  The fundamental idea of an infobox is clear: keep it simple and limited to essentials. At some point, however, these basic principles seem to have been abandoned, in favour of an approach akin to "the more the merrier".

• Featured content: The week of the birds
  Five articles, six lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
  This week, we explored the fantasy worlds of video game developer Square Enix by interviewing WikiProject Square Enix. The project began in September 2006 as a spin-off of WikiProject Final Fantasy, but today covers that, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and a variety of other game series, with exceptions explained in the interview below. The project is home to 32 pieces of Featured material and 104 Good and A-class articles.

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
  The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
  Last week the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual plan for July 2013 to June 2014. It provides a surprisingly frank view—of past achievements and failures, and future goals and risks—that could be afforded only by a non-profit that is confident and beholden to no commercial or political interests.

• Featured content: Documents and sports
  Four articles, five lists, and sixteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications
  The case Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds was opened. Voting on the Tea Party movement case continued, after a failed attempt at moderated discussion. A group tasked with deciding the content of the lead section of the Jerusalem article has reported back to the committee. Applications for checkuser and oversight permissions close on 22 July.

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List of 2013-14 NBA Transactions

Please stop reverting changes in the vertical alignment of the tables. The default vertical alignment looks like hell with large numbers of rowspans. Users shouldn't have to scroll through multiple screens to find out the date being referred to.

Sorry about the multiples earlier; the Database Locked window not mentioning that changes would be saved combined with the frustration of a week from hell combined to make a single comment look like a personal attack.

G. Timothy Walton (talk) 21:02, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mavs

We should but neither have been officially announced and both don't really have an official date. But true, I hadn't checked the roster and they are both there. The mavs suck at press releases so they both probably have been signed... DaHuzyBru (talk) 04:41, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How about ask Zagalejo and see what he thinks. If it's on the roster, it should be official. DaHuzyBru (talk) 04:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See my long-winded reply at User_talk:DaHuzyBru#Question. I still don't think they have officially signed Ellis or Ellington. It's a complicated situation, but I think the most telling source is this article from the Mavs' website. It was published today, and talks about Calderon and Dalembert. It says that the Mavericks are "rumored to be involved in other signings that haven’t been announced by the team". Zagalejo^^^ 00:25, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You!

Thank you for updating the List of African-American United States Cabinet Secretaries article per my suggestion on the article's Talk page. --TommyBoy (talk) 01:12, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013

• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
  The Washington Post reported Tuesday on the most controversial articles on various language Wikipedias as determined by a cross-continental research group.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
  This week, the Signpost delved into the vast and complex areas of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that make up religion. WikiProject Religion has been around since 2005 and has a complex scope, in that it only takes articles that deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense, along with any articles that do not have a dedicated daughter project.

• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
  Contributors to Wikivoyage, the sister project adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. ... The Wikimedia Foundation has announced via press release that it has partnered with Aircel to provide free mobile access to Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Gleeless
  Death hangs over the top 10 this week, as tragic deaths both past and present continued to cast their pall over an already troubled world. The death of Corey Monteith led to a spike in interest in the man himself, his girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele, and the show that made them both famous, Glee.

• Featured content: Engineering and the arts
  Twelve articles, seven lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
  The case Infoboxes was opened. The evidence phase continues in Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Voting on the proposed decision continues in the Tea Party movement case.

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Nate Robinson

Hi Nate Robinson is OFFICIALLY a Denver Nuggets player...check official web page and re-edit it Thanks Riccardo811 Riccardo811 (talk) 20:49, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

Other than that, there is not much to report! If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:44, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
  One of the narratives I've heard a lot is that Wikipedia is unable to change, that it's too stagnant, too poorly resourced, too inherently resistant to change. I don't believe that at all.

• Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview
  An ArXiv preprint titled "Highlighting entanglement of cultures via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles" is about the Wikipedia articles on individuals and their position in the hyperlink network of the articles in each Wikipedia language edition, considering the whole hyperlink network.

• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
  Somewhat predictably, the birth of a new heir to the House of Windsor on 22 July led the English-speaking world to suddenly embrace Monarchism. In honour of this occasion, the Traffic report will be assiduously employing British spelling and dating conventions. Cheers.

• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
  This week, we visited the Turkish Wikipedia for an interview with VikiProje Siyaset (WikiProject Politics). The project began in April 2010 and has sustained a small but enthusiastic group of editors focusing on both the domestic politics of Turkey and international politics. The basics for article quality and importance ratings have been determined, but tracking this data has not yet become widespread on the Turkish Wikipedia. The project maintains a portal, a variety of resources, and a rotating selection of images to spruce up the project's page.

• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
  The ninth annual Wikimania conference will open in just over a week at the Jockey Club Auditorium, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania is for people worldwide who have an interest in Wikimedia Foundation projects. It features presentations and discussions on those projects, on free knowledge and content, and on related social and technical issues.

• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
  The case Race and politics was closed, while three other cases remain open.

• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
  Eight articles, five lists, seven pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

• Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea Party movement case
  Fourteen editors have been proposed for a six-month page ban in the Tea Party movement case. In the Infoboxes and Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds cases, the workshop and evidence phases have closed, and proposed decisions are scheduled to be posted.

• Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard
  It's crickets and tumbleweeds this week, as the top 10 sees its lowest view-count since the project began. If Wikipedia were selling anything, we'd be having a fire sale by now.

• News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
  The opening days of the annual Wikimania, referred to as the "pre-conference", are not typically newsworthy. This changed dramatically when the Chapters Association council met on Thursday.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
  This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.

• Featured content: Mysterious case of the grand duchess
  The week's newest featured content includes...

• Discussion report: CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
  Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

• News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches
  About a thousand Wikimedians journeyed to Hong Kong this week for the annual Wikimania conference, the annual gathering of the Wikimedia movement. Wikimania, which has been held since 2005, serves as the principal physical meetup for Wikimedians around the world.

• In the media: Chinese censorship
  One major story that came out of Wikimania was Jimmy Wales' statements at the conference that he would prefer to have Wikipedia banned entirely in mainland China than censored as it is currently.

• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities
  The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.

• Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
  Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and its public face to most of the media, has declared that media organizations are missing out on the "opportunity of the century" by not conducting true investigative reporting into American surveillance practices, a debate kindled by information leaked by Edward Snowden.

• Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS
  Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• WikiProject report: For the love of stamps
  

• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes
  The Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case has closed, with a unanimous decision to desysop a Wikimedia Foundation employee and indefinitely ban another editor. The Tea Party movement case has stalled yet again, in the wake of a controversial proposal to ban 14 editors. A proposed decision in the Infoboxes case was scheduled to be posted on 14 August.

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The Signpost: 21 August 2013

• In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
  Wikipedia's gender identity MOS section and its effect on Chelsea Manning was both praised and emulated in the media this week. ... Coverage of the distributed open collaborative course called "Storming Wikipedia" continued this week.

• Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective
  98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.

• WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
  This week, we secured free admission for WikiProject Amusement Parks, the project dedicated to amusement rides, roller coasters, theme parks, traveling carnivals, and funfairs.

• Traffic report: Reddit creep
  The debt that Wikipedia owes sites like Reddit or Google often goes unacknowledged around here. If the purpose of Wikipedia is to bring knowledge to the world, then it is sites like these that are actually doing it.

• Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
  The 2013 WikiCup competition is entering its final round. Eleven articles and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
  Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), Wikimedia's annual volunteer-driven and the world largest photo contest, is gearing up to be conducted throughout September 2013. The event, originally developed in the Netherlands in 2010, has gone global with 34 countries taking part last and 49 this year.

• Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
  Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.

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WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

1. Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
2. Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
4. Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
5. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
6. Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
7. Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
8. Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), Dana boomer (submissions), Status (submissions), Ed! (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 05:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

• In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
  Wikipedia's gender identity MOS section and its effect on Chelsea Manning was both praised and emulated in the media this week. ... Coverage of the distributed open collaborative course called "Storming Wikipedia" continued this week.

• Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective
  98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.

• WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
  This week, we secured free admission for WikiProject Amusement Parks, the project dedicated to amusement rides, roller coasters, theme parks, traveling carnivals, and funfairs.

• Traffic report: Reddit creep
  The debt that Wikipedia owes sites like Reddit or Google often goes unacknowledged around here. If the purpose of Wikipedia is to bring knowledge to the world, then it is sites like these that are actually doing it.

• Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
  The 2013 WikiCup competition is entering its final round. Eleven articles and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
  Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), Wikimedia's annual volunteer-driven and the world largest photo contest, is gearing up to be conducted throughout September 2013. The event, originally developed in the Netherlands in 2010, has gone global with 34 countries taking part last and 49 this year.

• Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
  Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013

• In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in Azerbaijani Wikipedia
  After media praise for Wikipedia's decision to move the Bradley Manning article to Chelsea Manning, the reversion of that page move on August 31, after a discussion in which several hundred Wikipedians participated, has so far triggered less favourable feedback, as well as a blog post from Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner expressing her disappointment with the decision.

• News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
  On September 3, the Wikimedia Foundation launched the second stage of the process to improve the privacy policy implemented on most Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia and its sister projects, by publishing a policy draft.

• Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
  A news-heavy week offers some insight, perhaps, into humanity's priorities.

• Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
  As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."

• Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
  Four articles, four lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status this week on the English Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia
  This week, we spent some time with the minds behind WikiProject Psychology. The project was created in March 2006 and has grown to include 14 Featured Articles and 43 Good Articles.

• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
  The dispute over the title for the Manning article escalated quickly to arbitration levels, as the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute case was accepted for arbitration.

• Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible
  In this week's "Technology report", we explore ways of making Wikipedia more accessible to users of screen readers. Graham87 is a highly active contributor who is also blind and accesses the site through a screen reader.

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013

• 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?
  'The National Law Journal reported on September 9 that lawyer Susan L. Burke has been taking legal steps to discover the identity of Wikipedia editor . Zujua had edited her biography, allegedly adding misleading content about various lawsuits in the process

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Indonesia
  The Signpost went to Indonesia this week.

• Featured content: Tintin goes featured
  Four articles, eight lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

• News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas
  The deadline for proposals to the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) volunteer committee on Meta will pass on 30 September. The program is designed to fund projects that tackle long-term problem and have a significant editing community impact; it has previously supported solutions like The Wikipedia Library, which improves Wikipedian access to online reference sources like JSTOR (see Signpost coverage).

• Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!
  While the Syrian Civil War crept its slow way into the minds of the public, with a new fourth related entry in the top 25, the top 10 remained dominated by celebrity, mainly sports and music. Two megabucks transfers stimulated public interest in football/soccer ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, while Lil Wayne's public apology ahead of his latest album release sent him to the top.

• Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes
  Discussion over the Manning title dispute was off to a running start as evidence and workshop phases continued in the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute. The Infoboxes case closed with topic bans for two users, and a recommendation for community discussion of infoboxes.

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013

• News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
  The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the volunteer-led body that evaluates chapter and (for the first time) thematic organizational annual plan grant requests to the Wikimedia Foundation, is preparing for its third round of public proceedings to deliberate on the distribution of several million US dollars of Wikimedia movement funds.

• WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
  This week, the Signpost headed to WikiProject Good Articles. As of publishing time, out of the 4,331,477 articles on Wikipedia, only 18,464 are rated as "good" (about 1 in 235).

• Featured content: Hurricane Diane and Van Gogh
  Thirteen articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status last week on the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?
  In this week's "Technology report", we look at how the growth of Wikidata can benefit Wikipedia. Gerard Meijssen is a highly active contributor and frequent blogger about Wikidata. We asked him to share his thoughts on how the new project benefits Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
  The top 10 is bookended by unlucky dates, as Friday the 13th fell just after the anniversary of 9/11. Breaking Bad's final season continued to draw attention, while interest in Miley Cyrus's youthful exuberance is fading only slowly.

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013

• Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
  Over the last year, there's been extensive debate about whether public relations professionals and other corporate representatives should participate on Wikipedia and, if so, to what extent and what kinds of rules should be followed.

• Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
  The saga of Walter White, chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin, as told in the critically adored television series Breaking Bad, has been a water-cooler necessity for years, and now, as it nears its end, audiences are feverishly following every plot thread to guess what the finale will reveal.

• In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
  Fox News writer Perry Chiaramonte published an article detailing Wikipedia's alleged abandonment of its fight to remove pornography.

• News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
  On 30 September, Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the Wikimedia community's global photo competition, will reach to the end of its submission period. The proceedings have been underway since the first of this month; national juries will start reviewing submissions for the first round of selections after it closes ... Community aggravation with one of the Wikimedia Foundation's signature initiatives, the VisualEditor, came to the fore again this week with the announcement and implementation of code blocking the tool.

• WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
  This week, we continued our exploration of other language editions of Wikipedia by visiting the Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto Fútbol (WikiProject Football).

• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
  Twelve articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?
  A conference paper makes a rather serious claim: "We find a surprisingly large number of editors who change their behavior and begin focusing more on a particular controversial topic once they are promoted to administrator status."

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Input Requested - NBA Head Caoches/templates

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association/Archive 23#NBA Coaches/Franchise template to try to achieve some consensus around how NBA franchise head coaches are displayed in templates. As an experienced WP:NBA editor, your opinion is requested. Thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 20:07, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Sasata (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

The did you know (DYK) eligibility criteria have recently changed, meaning that newly passed good articles are accepted as "new" for did you know purposes. However, in the interests of not changing the WikiCup rules mid-competition, please note that only articles eligible for DYK under the old system (that is, newly created articles or 5x expansions) will be eligible for points in this year's WikiCup. We do, however, have time to discuss how this new system will work for next year's competition; a discussion will be opened in due course. On that note, thoughts are welcome on changes you'd like to see for next year. What worked? What didn't work? What would you like to see more of? What would you like to see less of? All Wikipedians, new or old, are also warmly invited to sign up for the 2014 WikiCup.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:21, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

• Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
  Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.

• Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
  In what will be remembered as a game-changing week for Wikimedia grantmaking, the Foundation's executive director, Sue Gardner, published a forthright and in places highly critical statement, Reflections on the FDC process, and grantmaking staff revealed that the WMF will significantly strengthen its targeting of optimal impact in funding.

• Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
  Six articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war
  Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.

• WikiProject report: U2 Too
  This week, we revisited the enthusiastic editors at WikiProject U2. Started in June 2007, the project has grown in spurts, resulting in a collection of 8 Featured Articles and 24 Good Articles. The project maintains a to do list, portal, and a list of references.

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The Signpost: 09 October 2013

• Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
  If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad.

• WikiProject report: Australian Roads
  This week, we moved to the esoteric world of Australian roads.

• Featured content: Under the sea
  Seven articles, six lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
  An investigation by the English Wikipedia community into suspicious edits and sockpuppet activity has led to astonishing revelations that Wiki-PR, a multi-million-dollar US-based company, has created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts.

• In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
  The University of California, San Francisco attracted substantial media attention over its new course offering that will give credit to fourth year medical students for editing Wikipedia articles about medicine.

• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
  A proposed decision has been posted in the Manning naming dispute. The workshop phase of the Ebionites 3 case closes 13 October. Arbitrator NuclearWarfare has resigned.

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

• News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
  Media coverage on Wiki-PR, the multi-million-dollar US-based company that has broken several policies and guidelines on the English Wikipedia in its quest to create and maintain thousands of articles for paying clients, continued this week with a feature story by Martin Robbins in the British edition of Vice magazine.

• Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
  A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point.

• WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
  This week, we studied coats of arms and flags with the folks at WikiProject Heraldry and Vexillology. Started in September 2006, the project has grown to include 20 Featured Articles and nearly 50 Good Articles. The project maintains a portal, a list of resources, and a variety of images and templates.

• Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
  Six articles, two lists, and thirty-three pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes
  The Manning naming dispute case has closed, with a strong and unanimous statement by the Committee against disparaging references to transgendered persons. Sanctions were enacted against six editors.

• Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

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October 2013

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The Signpost: 23 October 2013

• News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumblings in the German-language community
  The next twice-yearly round of Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) grantmaking is soon to close for community questioning and commentary. Ten nation-based Wikimedia chapters and one thematic organisation are asking for a total of more than US$5M of donors’ money from the Foundation’s renamed annual plan grant process. Aside from Wikimedia UK ($708k), the three biggest asks are from the German-speaking chapters: Wikimedia Germany is asking for $2.4M and Wikimedia Austria $311k; and the German-language-related Swiss chapter is applying for $500k.

• Traffic report: Your average week ... and a fish
  Media, sports and Google Doodles dominate, though a very odd fish decided to crash the party.

• Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia
  Twelve articles, four lists, and four pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on cabbage.

• Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia
  MIT Technology Review published a long article on what it called "The decline of Wikipedia". Editor involvement has decreased since 2007; according to the article, this has had an adverse qualitative effect on content, particularly on issues pertinent to non-British and American male geeks.

• WikiProject report: Elements of the world
  This week, we headed to an elementary subject with WikiProject Elements. Founded by Mav in 2002, this project has grown to have 19 featured articles, 2 featured topics, and 68 good articles. The project also has a list of templates, and a periodic table of elements filled with pictures.

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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter

Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 19:51, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

NBA awards template

Hello, I disagree with you that the navbox for the various NBA awards is redundant. Could you please explain how it is redundant? There is no other navbox like it.Hoops gza (talk) 23:10, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• I see now what you mean, the template is already at the top of each of those pages. My mistake, sorry for the trouble.Hoops gza (talk) 23:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
2. Hawkeye7 (submissions)
3. Sasata (submissions)
4. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
5. Casliber (submissions)
6. Adam Cuerden (submissions)
7. Miyagawa (submissions)
8. Piotrus (submissions)
9. Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

• Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
• Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
• Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
• Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
• The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
• Finally, the judges are awarding Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 01:04, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

NBA Conference standings

Why is it unnecessary to note the division leaders when they are automatically ranked 1st through 4th? Tampabay721 (talk) 02:01, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well of course it doesn't really matter right now. Technically it doesn't matter until the end of the regular season. Regardless, by not applying the "divisionxleader" parameter correctly, it has the possibility to mess up some of the division standings. For example, right now Miami is 1st in the Southeast but on {{2013–14 NBA Southeast standings}} it says they're 1 GB because they're 1 GB the Pacers in the conference standings. Tampabay721 (talk) 22:55, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem! It's a weird template. Last year the same thing happened and after a few days someone realized it was because those parameters were supposed to be in all lowercase. Tampabay721 (talk) 23:48, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 October 2013

• Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years
  The top 10 encapsulates the history of human aviation; at #1, a Google Doodle celebrating the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump; at #10, the enduringly popular scifi film Gravity, a paean to human spaceflight. It's odd to think it's taken us 200 years to travel about that many miles up.

• In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?
  While giving a speech on behalf of a gubernatorial candidate, Paul advocated his pro-life position, and compared allowing unrestricted abortions to the film Gattaca. He went on to use strikingly similar language and phraseology in his speech to what the Wikipedia page reads. The Washington Post's article conceded that Wikipedia is a widely used source for trivial information, but mocked the fact that a politician would view it as a reliable source.

• News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?
  In January we raised several potentially troublesome issues for the Wikimedia movement in taking on Wikivoyage, including the apparent inadequacy of the English Wikivoyage sex-tourism policy, hurriedly strengthened against mention of child sex after our inquiries. However, both sex-tourism and illegal-activities policies remain equivocal about how the site should treat entries about sex tourism more generally, and drugs that are classed as illicit in almost every country. Yet the Signpost has found it remarkably easy to locate material in Wikivoyage that violates both the spirit and the letter of the policies.

• Featured content: Wrestling with featured content
  This year's WikiCup competition has finished, while three articles, five lists, and six pictures, were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube
  Laura Stein, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, has concluded that, based on her comparison of user policy documents (including the Terms of Service) of YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia, Wikipedia offers the highest level of participation power overall.

• WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying
  With Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and other gloomy celebrations this week, we're taking a look at Wikipedia's dead and dying. For some dead WikiProjects, the sole purpose of their life was simply to serve as a warning to others. Some of these projects may still be salvageable, but for most, a revival is unlikely. Here are some projects that never got off the ground and the lessons that can be gleaned from their follies

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Rfa?

Dear Chris, I thought I'll check with you if you were interested for an RfA. I've reviewed your contributions and feel they are outstanding. In case you were interested in an RfA, I could nominate you. Will await your reply. Kind regards. Wifione ^Message 04:58, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion. But I am not interested in an RFA.—Chris!_c/t 21:35, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. If you change your mind any time in the future, do drop me a line. Best regards. Wifione ^Message 09:31, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Correction on players that scored 100 or more

Clark Quijano played for St Augustine International School with the school initials of AMA which is a participant of the Mariano Bondoc Cup. This is a league for Quezon City Schools. Tiong Lian is participated by chinese schools only. Jeron Teng of Xavier school was the one who scored 104 in a Tiong Lian game. Clark made the feat on the 7th Mariano Bondoc Cup and the league is currently on its 8th season P3x8975 (talk) 15:40, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 November 2013

• News and notes: Alleged "outing" of editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban
  As part of the second major "outing" controversy to hit the English Wikipedia in less than a year, the Chelsea/Bradley Manning naming dispute was dragged into the spotlight yet again when the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee ruled by motion to remove the administrator tools from and ban long-time Wikipedia contributor Phil Sandifer.

• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
  It's fair to say that commemorating death was a strong theme this week, with Lou Reed's passing generating interest, as well as a Google Doodle celebrating the costume designer Edith Head. And of course, the world's greatest celebrations of the dead, Halloween and the Day of the Dead, were also popular this week.

• Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic
  HMS Hood, one of the most famous warships of the Second World War, was a battlecruiser and therefore part of what is now the largest featured topic on Wikipedia: "Battlecruisers of the world". The topic was promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week alongside eleven articles, three lists, four pictures, and two other topics.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility
  This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Accessibility, a project that strives to make Wikipedia accessible for users with disabilities. The project improves Wikipedia's guidelines and Manual of Style, collects useful templates and scripts, and provides support to impaired Wikipedians.

• Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed
  The Ebionites 3 case has closed with an interaction ban for the two editors involved in the dispute.

• Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013

• Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block
  The numbers this week are beyond anything that has been seen since this report began. The top view count beats the average by an order of magnitude. Usually the appearance of numbers this big on the list is due to spamming, but in this case it seems they are due to honest interest; more specifically, Google Doodles, which for the first time claimed all five top slots. This column has raised numerous times the power of a Google Doodle to shine light on Wikipedia, but the wattage has never been as high as this.

• Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent
  Five articles, two lists, one topic, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Special report: FDC staff raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance
  The supporting staff of the Wikimedia Foundation’s powerful volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) have released their assessments for the third half-yearly round of funding applications. The applications for the newly named annual plan grants were submitted by affiliated entities on 1 October, and comprise a total of more than US$5M in bids.

• News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it
  The Italian-language Wikipedia community has overwhelmingly voted to request the Wikimedia Foundation's assistance in recovering wikipedia.it, a website that has been frequently confused with the Italian Wikipedia.

• WikiProject report: The world of soap operas
  This week, we followed the intricate storylines of WikiProject Soap Operas.

• Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
  As I said in August, contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do. The genre is refreshingly different from that of Wikipedia articles, and can allow writers to use a different range of skills. The need for an independent, volunteer-run Signpost continues to grow, given the increasing complexity and financial expenditures of the global Wikimedia movement, not to mention the English Wikipedia.

• Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive
  Peter Burke's A Social History of Knowledge: Volume II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia is a broad and wide-ranging look at how knowledge has been created, acquired, organized, disseminated, and sometimes lost in the Western world over the last two and a half centuries, a sequel to his 2000 book covering the prior three centuries, A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot.

• Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures
  Four articles, five lists, and thirty-four pictures were promoted to 'featured status' this week, including an image of a small fraction of the 18,000 taxis that serve Hong Kong.

• WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia
  This week, we headed over to WikiProject National Football League. With 10 Featured Articles, 61 Featured Lists, and 142 Good Articles (as of publication), this WikiProject has done a lot of work improving American football articles.

• News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting
  The Wikimedia Foundation has sent a formal cease and desist letter to Wiki-PR—the public relations agency accused of breaking Wikipedia policies and guidelines by creating, editing, and maintaining several thousand articles for paying clients through a sophisticated array of accounts. The Foundation's attorneys, Cooley LLP, have demanded that Wiki-PR's employees abide by the site's Terms of Use and the language of a community ban from the English Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Ill Winds
  It's not hard to guess which event is leading interest in the top 25 this week. The sheer scale of Typhoon Haiyan is staggering; estimates place its maximum windspeed upon first landfall in the Philippines on November 6 at 315 km/h, which would make it the most powerful tropical cyclone ever to reach land. To date, the storm has killed nearly 4000 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 4 million homes.

• Arbitration report: WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators
  Back in March, when the March 25 Arbitration Report covered the Audit Subcommittee appointment discussion, a statement from the WMF legal division clarified its position that access to deleted revisions required an RFA or RFA-identical process; therefore AUSC committee appointments were not open to non-admins. The WMF legal team has now further clarified its position, saying that running for and winning an election for arbitrator would qualify as the type of rigorous community selection process required for the checkuser and oversight rights held by arbitrators.

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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

• Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who
  Summary:Doctor Who nearly got cancelled in its first week because its premiere was swamped by coverage of the JFK assassination, which happened the same day. Thankfully, producers saw fit to rerun it the next day, which is now its official anniversary date.

• Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia
  Wikipedia works on the efforts of unpaid volunteers who choose to donate their time to advance the cause of free knowledge. This phenomenon, as trivial as it may sound to those acquainted with Wikipedia inner workings, has always puzzled economists and social scientists alike, in that standard Economic theory would not predict that such enterprises would thrive without any form of remuneration.

• Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more
  Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions
  The sister project Wikisource, the digital library that hosts free-content primary sources, is now a decade old. Wikisource, which now has versions in 63 languages, is the sixth type of project to reach ten-year milestone and will be the last until 2016. The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations to the Board of Trustees on 11 new applications for annual grants by 11 WMF-affiliated organisations. The maximum total budget for the current and upcoming March rounds is US$6M.

• WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie
  This week, we returned to WikiProject Apple Inc. for a peek at their newest articles about the latest in gadgets and software. The last time we took a bite out of WikiProject Apple, they had just finished merging WikiProject Macintosh and WikiProject iPhone OS. Today, the project is hard at work rewriting their primary article, improving the subject's outline, and adding to the project's list of 25 Good Articles and 6 Featured Articles.

• Featured content: F*&!
  Seventeen articles, four lists, and twenty-eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status in the last two weeks.

• Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review
  The Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case has opened. The second draft of the discretionary sanctions proposal is now open for review.

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The Signpost: 11 December 2013

• Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list
  When one edits this page for too long, one is tempted to appoint oneself as the psychoanalyst for the human race, or at least the English-speaking portion thereof. Since nearly everyone uses Wikipedia, the constant stream of TV updates, pointless celebrity scandals, and inquiries after who has died can seem like a dreary peek into humanity's surprisingly banal collective consciousness.

• In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling
  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales caught headlines last week when he referred to former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden ... Loek Essers of the International Data Group, (IDG) News Service is reporting that a German court has held Wikipedia liable for its content, but still does not have to fact check the information in advance.

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced
  Amid great anticipation the international prize winners have just been announced for the fourth annual Wiki Loves Monuments, now the world's largest photographic competition and one of the biggest events on the Wikimedia movement's calendar. ... The first prize has gone to David Gubler's photograph of a Swiss train crossing a viaduct.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine
  This week, the Signpost interviewed the Wine WikiProject.

• Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion
  On 7 December, Wikipedia editor Wehwalt reached the momentous milestone of 100 featured articles with History of Chincoteague, Virginia. Quite apart from the reading and research, that's around three-quarters of a million words of finalised text, not counting footnotes, image captions and the rest.

• Featured content: Viewer discretion advised
  Three articles, one list, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released
  On 6 December, the latest version of the MediaWiki software was released. In development from March 2013 through October 2013, the release featured anti-spam and counter-vandalism improvements.

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Paul George primary topic

I'm looking for feedback on my proposed move here > Talk:Paul George (basketball). Thanks. BV ^talk 18:37, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 December 2013

• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia
  This week, the Signpost interviewed the Tunisia WikiProject on the French Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Hopper to the top
  An animated Google Doodle for computer programmer and naval rear admiral Grace Hopper generated another record-breaking hit count for the year, though the count for the list overall was lower than for that of the previous holder.

• Discussion report: Usernames, template data and documentation, Main page, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced
  A little more than six days after the close of voting, the results of the annual Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced. Of the 22 candidates, 13 managed to gain more supports than opposes, though only one gained the support of more than half of the voters. Eight were elected to two-year terms, and a ninth will serve for one year.

• Featured content: Triangulum, the most boring constellation in the universe
  Seven articles, three lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Technology report: Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset
  This week, the GLAMWikiToolset, or GWToolset, is being deployed to the Wikimedia Commons. It allows for GLAM organizations to batch upload content based on various metadata stored in an XML schema. In the past this has been done by various bots, but now it will be easier for GLAMs to do it directly.

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013

• Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments
  Analyzing edits to the-then 46 largest Wikipedias between July 9 and August 8, 2013, a study identified a set of about 8,000 contributors with a global user account who have edited more than one of these language versions in that time frame.

• Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings
  Five articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia.

• Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos
  We saved one last special report for 2013. After our well-received review of great WikiProject logos a couple years ago, it was only a matter of time before we collected a new batch of interesting iconography that showcases the creativity of the Wikipedia community. Hopefully, these logos will also inspire other projects to liven up their drab pages.

• News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions
  A significant move by the Wikimedia Foundation has been to broaden the types of activities it funds to develop several different programs for judging and allocating that funding, and to set up volunteer committees that initially assess applications for funding.

• Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools
  Last month, the OAuth extension was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. OAuth is a standard used for allowing users to authenticate third-party applications, also known as consumers, to take actions on their behalf.

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DYK for Lufsig

On 4 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lufsig, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the IKEA soft toy Lufsig sold out in Hong Kong within hours partially due to a Cantonese pun? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lufsig. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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The Signpost: 01 January 2014

• Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
  In fact, the majority are relatively evenly split between three themes: people of interest, television, and websites.

• Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year
  In 2013, the arbitration committee closed 10 cases, 9 amendment requests, and 26 clarification requests.

• In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
  On New Year's Day, an article by Tim Sampson published in The Daily Dot and republished shortly after on Mashable covered the currently ongoing medical disclaimer RfC.

• Book review: Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
  Dariusz Jemielniak's book is the newest about Wikipedia, published in Poland in 2013 and with an English edition forthcoming in 2014.

• News and notes: The year in review
  This was the year in which one journalist described the flagship site, Wikipedia, as "wickedly seductive". It was the year Wikipedia's replacement value was estimated at $6.6bn, its market value at "tens of billions of dollars", and its consumer benefit "hundreds of billions of dollars". But it was also the year in which one commentator forecast the decline of Wikipedia—that the project is in trouble from its shrinking volunteer workforce, skewed coverage, "crushing bureaucracy" and 90 percent male community.

• Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia and around the Wikimedia movement include...

• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
  The year 2013 has come and gone, adding 50 new WikiProject Reports to our long list of projects we've had the privilege to meet. Last year saw the continuation of our Babel series, featuring WikiProjects from other languages of Wikipedia. We also expanded our selection of special reports, offering readers a growing collection of helpful tips and tools as they participate in WikiProjects.

• Featured content: 2013—the trends
  Over the past year 1181 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured picture candidates (FPC), which promoted an average of 46 pictures a month. This was followed by featured article candidates (FAC; 32.5 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 18 a month).

• Technology report: Looking back on 2013
  2013 saw a lot of changes to MediaWiki software and Wikimedia infrastructure.

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The Signpost: 08 January 2014

• Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant
  Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

• Traffic report: Tragedy and television
  The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.

• Technology report: Gearing up for the Architecture Summit
  MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.

• News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"
  On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.

• Op-ed: WikiCup competition beginning a new year
  At the very start of the new year, 2014's WikiCup—an annual competition which has been held on Wikipedia in various forms since 2007—began.

• WikiProject report: Jumping into the television universe
  This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Television.

• Featured content: A portal to the wonderful world of technology
  Twelve articles, three lists, seven pictures, and a portal were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.

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The Signpost: 15 January 2014

• News and notes: German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
  Wikimedia Germany, the largest national affiliate, has authored an extensive critique of the Funds Dissemination Committee's process for issuing funding recommendations for the various large organizations in the movement.

• Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published
  The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.

• Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
  It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.

• In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times
  Wikipedia's recent decline in readership, possibly due to Google's Knowledge Graph. ... Judith Newman in the New York Times asks "What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page?"

• Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
  We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
  This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at WikiProject Sociology.

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NBA first overall draft picks

About my edits on the positions played by most of the NBA number one overall picks, those positions should match the positions they played in the individual articles about them. Please restore my edits 'cause they're correct.Santiago Claudio (talk) 06:06, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 January 2014

• Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
  A particularly esoteric anthology of speculative fiction, filled with imaginary Wikipedia entries from, as the introduction puts it, "the many Wikipedias across the Multiverse."

• News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
  The Wikimedia Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy's application of pending changes level two on the article Conventional PCI—an action taken under its rarely used office actions policy—has escalated to the Arbitration Committee after an editor upgraded it to full protection.

• Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume
  Fifteen articles, nine lists, twenty pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.

• Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
  On 15 January, Wikipedia turned thirteen years old. In that time, this site has grown from a small site that was known to only a select few to one of the most popular websites on the internet. At the same time, recent data suggests that there is a power curve among users, where the comparative few who are writing most of Wikipedia have most of the edits. The result of this is that there is going to be bias in what is created, and how we deal with it as Wikipedians is indicative of the future of the site. Furthermore, this brings up what we have to do in order to combat this bias, as there are many ideas, but the question is whether they will work or not.

• Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki
  This week we're interviewing Brion Vibber about the then-upcoming Architecture Summit. Brion is a long time Wikipedian, the first employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently the lead software architect working with the mobile team.

• In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager
  An article in USA Today announced that a European-funded project called RoboEarth that is designed to give robots a mechanism by which to access information to dispense.

• Traffic report: No show for the Globes
  While the 71st Golden Globe Awards, held on 12 January, had an impact on the top 25, their presence was largely absent from the Top 10. With the exception of Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the only Golden Globe entrants in the Top 10 are films that would have been there anyway.

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WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• 12george1 (submissions) and TropicalAnalystwx13 (submissions) were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
• WonderBoy1998 (submissions) scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Wikipedia:Featured topics/She Wolf.
• TheAustinMan (submissions) scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
• Igordebraga (submissions) has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

• Traffic report: Six strikes out
  There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.

• WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
  Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
  Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation "painted" his company to look like an "evil entity" that is "scrubbing truths from Wikipedia".

• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
  The Kafziel case has been closed, with Kafziel losing his administrator status as a result.

• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years
  An author experimented with "a promising type of assignment in formal translator training which involves translating and publishing Wikipedia articles", in three courses with students at the University of Warsaw.

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Main Page appearance

Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the article NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on February 17, 2014. You can view the TFL blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/February 17, 2014. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors Giants2008 (talk · contribs), Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs) or SchroCat (talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. Thanks! © Tbhotch^™ (en-2.5). 02:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annual All-Star Game. The award was established in 1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game. The league also re-honored players from the previous two All-Star Games. Ed Macauley and Paul Arizin were selected as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners respectively. The voting is conducted by a panel of media members, who cast their vote after the conclusion of the game. The player(s) with the most votes or ties for the most votes wins the award. Bob Pettit and Kobe Bryant (pictured) have each won the award four times, and are tied for the most All-Star Game MVP wins. No All-Star Game MVP was named in 1999 since the game was canceled due to the league's lockout.

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

• Traffic report: Six strikes out
  There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.

• WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
  Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
  Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation "painted" his company to look like an "evil entity" that is "scrubbing truths from Wikipedia".

• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
  The Kafziel case has been closed, with Kafziel losing his administrator status as a result.

• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years
  An author experimented with "a promising type of assignment in formal translator training which involves translating and publishing Wikipedia articles", in three courses with students at the University of Warsaw.

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Your article Dave Hakkens

Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Dave Hakkens to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It currently has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. — This lousy T-shirt — (talk) 21:32, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

• In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia
  As reported in various media outlets this week, including The Next Web and The Daily Dot, this past week, Wikimedia Commons and various language Wikipedias are working together to encourage subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second clip of their voice to be appended to their Wikipedia article.

• Technology report: Left with no choice
  Software evolution does not always mean that features are being added. It also means that old fat is being trimmed. It is no different for MediaWiki.

• News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups
  In a bold move, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees has announced a major change in policy concerning affiliated groups in the worldwide movement, and FDC funding levels to eligible chapters and thematic organizations over the next two years. Both decisions were published last Tuesday after considerable post-meeting consultation with the FDC and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom). The core of the first decision is

• Featured content: Space selfie
  Thirteen articles, three lists, and twenty-five images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia from 19 January to 1 February.

• Traffic report: Sports Day
  Two great sporting events, the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics, collide in one week, transforming the top ten into a festival of flying feet, a carnival of colliding caraniums and a bacchanal of bouncing balls, combined to influence Wikipedia's most popular articles last week.

• WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia
  In celebration of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, we revisited the team at WikiProject Russia to learn how the project has changed since our first interview in 2011.

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• MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:59, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thank you, User:Spiffy sperry, for finding the break between main 2014 Olympic page and 2014 Olympic Medals Table page. Thank you, User:Chrishmt0423, for stopping what was going to be a long edit check before I even got started. You are both excellent teamworkers!! Jmg38 (talk) 04:10, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

• News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
  The Wikimedia Foundation has proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' Terms of use to specifically ban undisclosed paid editing. ... Dimitris Liourdis, a lawyer in training who moonlights as an administrator on the Greek Wikipedia, is embroiled in a legal dispute with a Greek politician over alleged edits made to his Wikipedia article.

• Technology report: ULS Comeback
  Runa Bhattacharjee has notified the community that the Foundation is ready to turn the Universal Language Selector back on.

• WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
  WikiProject Countering System Bias aims to combat imbalanced coverage while encouraging neglected cultural perspectives and points of view, both in articles and in the larger Wikipedia community. As you'll see from the varied experiences and motivations of our nine respondents, the biases that the folks at WP CSB tackle run the full gamut of human characteristics and dispositions. The interview that follows unveils many of Wikipedia's greatest shortcomings.

• Featured content: Holotype
  Five articles, seven lists, forty-three pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.

• Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
  Valentines Day got a somewhat muted reception this week, overshadowed by continuing coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi and the death of Shirley Temple.

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The Signpost: 26 February 2014

• Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
  About a week ago, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' terms of use to specifically ban paid editing, by adding a new clause titled "Paid contributions without disclosure". We have asked two users, one in favor of the measure (Smallbones) and one opposed (Pete Forsyth), to contribute their opinions on the matter.

• Featured content: Odin salutes you
  Eight articles, three lists, and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience
  This week, we found three Ph.D.s willing to give us a crash course on WikiProject Neuroscience.

• Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
  Ukraine has been gripped by widespread protests over the past three months. Due to a decision by former president Viktor Yanukovych—at Russia's urging—to abandon integration with the European Union, the country was (and in many ways still is) split between the Europe-favoring Ukrainian-speaking western half and the Russian-speaking east and south. Hundreds have died during the unrest, leaving thousands of family members and friends to bury their loved ones. This week our Wikimedian colleagues in Ukraine are facing that challenge after the death of one of their own.

• News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy
  Following a trend started by Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Argentina has published an open letter challenging the recent deletion of hundreds of images from the Commons under its policy on URAA-restored copyrights, relating to the United States' 1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

• Traffic report: Snow big deal
  The 2014 Winter Olympics had more of an impact on the Top 25 than the Top 10, which had to shoulder old stalwarts like the death list, Reddit threads, TV shows and the eternal presence of Facebook; still, with four slots, it's the most searched topic on the list.

• Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism
  The monthly roundup of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee.

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WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
2. Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
3. WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

• Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
• Prism (submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(test) The Signpost: 05 March 2014

• Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
  There's nothing like a good old bit of Cold War nostalgia, combined with a suitably scary international incident, to focus our attention on the real world. That said, nothing could stem our outpouring of affection for the beloved comedian Harold Ramis, whose death managed to top the week in the face of those international concerns.

• Discussion report: Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
  This week, the Signpost caught up with the Wikipedia Library (TWL), which aims to connect reference resources with Wikipedia editors who can use them to improve articles. Funded through the Wikimedia Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants program, TWL has a new "visiting scholars" initiative and a microgrants program in the works.

• Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup
  The WikiCup competition is ongoing, while six articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status of the English Wikipedia this week.

• WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
  This week, the Signpost delved into the English Wikipedia's Article Rescue Squadron.

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The Signpost: 12 March 2014

• News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day, Women's History Month
  Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.

• Traffic report: War and awards
  An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.

• Featured content: Ukraine burns
  Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• WikiProject report: Russian WikiProject Entomology
  This week, we interviewed Anaxibia from the Russian-language Entomology WikiProject.

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The Signpost: 19 March 2014

• Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?
  Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.

• WikiProject report: We have history
  This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.

• Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the largest-ever good topic
  In a record-breaker, the English Wikipedia has a new largest good topic: the 71-article Light cruisers of Germany, which concerns the light cruisers used by Germany during the 20th century.

• Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
  Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny
  One of the first university Wikipedian in residence positions, hosted at Harvard University in 2012, has jumped back into the spotlight amid questions about its ethical integrity.

• Traffic report: Into thin air
  The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.

• Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
  The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include

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The Signpost: 26 March 2014

• Comment: A foolish request
  April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.

• Traffic report: Down to a simmer
  Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.

• Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates
  Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.

• News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
  Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.

• Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
  Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
  On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.

• Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
  As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.

• WikiProject report: From the peak
  This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.

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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:dtsh

Regarding the replacement of {{dtsh}} with {{dts}} on List of highest-scoring NBA games, I didn't realise that those years were not supposed to be linked. I've gone back and redone the replacement without linking the years in the first section. The {{dtsh}} template has always gone about things in a very inefficient way. Now that {{dts}} can do what {{dtsh}} does without all the wasted coding, it's time to deprecate {{dtsh}}. If there still is a problem, please give me a yell. Jimp 08:16, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

• News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future
  The run-up to the conference has seen the unfolding of two fractious threads on the Wikimedia public mailing list, both of which may serve as background for the last session at Berlin: "Future of the Wikimedia Conference".

• WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
  This week, we visited with WikiProject Germany.

• Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
  The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.

• Featured content: April Fools
  The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.

• Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
  The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.

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The Signpost: 09 April 2014

• News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
  Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
  This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.

• Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
  "I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."

• Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
  Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.

• Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
  Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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Nomination of List of National Basketball Association season statistical leaders for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of National Basketball Association season statistical leaders is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of National Basketball Association season statistical leaders until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Hoops gza (talk) 18:27, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Satellite image of possible debris of MH370.jpg

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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

• Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
  The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.

• Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do
  Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!

• News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
  Cynthia Ashley-Nelson, who edited as "Cindamuse" on the Wikimedia projects, passed away in her sleep at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin on 10 April.

• WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism
  This week, we visited WikiProject Catholicism.

• Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
  After just over a month of deliberation, the Wikimania jury has selected Wikimedia Mexico's bid to host Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, with a proposed date of 15–19 July.

• Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
  If I were the kind of person who made snap judgments based on flimsy evidence, I'd say our readership is in a funk.

• Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
  Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.

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The Signpost: 30 April 2014

• News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
  Like hammering a square peg into a round hole, the Wikimedia Foundation has submitted a draft annual plan for 2014–15 to its own Funds Dissemination Committee. Unlike the WMF's submission to the FDC's inaugural round in October 2012, the "proposal" does not seek funding.

• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
  Not much to report this week. The same post-Easter celebrations (4/20, Earth Day) were popular again this year, except last year we were still reeling from the Boston Marathon bombing.

• Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
  The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.

• WikiProject report: Genetics
  This week, we unraveled the mysteries of WikiProject Genetics.

• Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
  Ed Roley, Associate Director of Integrated Media at the Peabody Essex Museum, talks about GLAM engagement with Wikipedia.

• Featured content: Browsing behaviours
  Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google
  Can you predict the number of seasonal influenza-like illness in the U.S. using data from Wikipedia?

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WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

• News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
  The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) introduced the first form of what are known as the "discretionary sanction" (DS) in 2009. A new DS regime, called Discretionary sanctions (2014), is the result of an elaborate review process involving both the community, since last September, and the committee, for more than a year.

• Traffic report: TMZedia
  For all the claims of Wikipedia bringing the world's knowledge to all who want it, it seems the human race most wants is a tabloid newspaper; a quick source for TV listings, pop culture facts, celebrity gossip and, above all, scandal—with some nice juicy racism thrown in too.

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
  In a live video stream on 1 May, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that Lila Tretikov will be replacing Sue Gardner, its executive director. Gardner, who has been in the position since 2007, declared her intention to leave more than a year ago.

• WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
  Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain.

• In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
  Boston Children's Hospital postdoctoral fellow David McIver and a team have determined that using page view statistics from Wikipedia, they can track flu progression better than the Center for Disease Control can using Google searches.

• WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
  Formed in 2003, the Eurovision WikiProject boasts four featured articles and 22 good articles. The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, so we went to the stage to talk with one of the project's members.

• Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
  Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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You removing my Complex.com links regarding the list of NBA Game 7s

Please explain to my why these links no matter where I've put them, aren't "necessary" at all? I mean, they provide a much more proper perspective and analyst to the entire discussion regardless if they're essentially one person's opinion. BornonJune8 (talk) 11:44 p.m., 10 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

• Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
  On 2 May 2012, the Wikimania jury announced that Hong Kong's bid to hold the 2013 event had beaten four other proposals. Moderator James Forrester wrote: "The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off a magnificent Wikimania,"—and indeed there were positive comments about the event from most attendees.

• WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
  This week, the Signpost jumped over the ocean to chat with the Puerto Rico WikiProject.

• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
  Editors of Australian-related topics on the English Wikipedia may have noticed an odd addition if they viewed the article's talk pages. For example, on Talk:Darwin, Northern Territory, they might be drawn in by the question mark, nested within what is often a sea of WikiProject templates: "Need help improving this article? Ask a librarian at the National Library of Australia, or the Northern Territory Library." Just what is this?

• Featured content: On the rocks
  Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May
  Eurovision is known for being political, and it was a doozy this week.

• Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look
  The Media Viewer is scheduled to launch on the English Wikipedia next week.

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The Signpost: 21 May 2014

• News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
  Last Sunday the board of Wikimedia Germany passed 9–1 a vote of no confidence in the chapter's executive director, Pavel Richter, who has held the position since 2009. With more than 50 employees, an annual budget approaching $10 million, and the right to conduct its own fundraising through the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) site banners, Wikimedia Germany is the second-largest organisation in the movement after the WMF itself. The decision was announced on the Wikimedia mailing list by the chapter chair, Nikolas Becker.

• Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles
  Thirteen articles, sixteen pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
  It's a relief to see Google Doodles having an impact again; their wide coverage means that they inspire curiosity on many subjects which, for reasons of nationality, ethnicity or gender, might not be known in the English-speaking world. It's a shame then, that Wikipedia so often fails to keep up; articles on Google Doodles are almost invariably C-class, and seldom do justice to their subjects. Still, interest in Google Doodles has been waning in recent months—Audrey Hepburn last week was the first to top the list since December—so any rise in popularity is worth celebrating.

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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

• News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
  With the promotion to featured article of Grus (constellation) on 17 May, Casliber became Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion, following Wehwalt's groundbreaking achievement last December. Cas's first FA, Banksia integrifolia, a group effort, was promoted on 16 November 2006. His first solo project, Diplodocus, followed in January 2007; he has rarely been off the FAC since. In a second story, Ward Cunningham, an American computer programmer who invented the wiki, was interviewed by the WMF.

• Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
  Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.

• Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
  In the US, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and summer is definitely on people's minds this week, with summer films Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, the apparently designated summer song "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, and summer TV show, Game of Thrones.

• Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
  Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; "Chinese-language time zones" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 04 June 2014

• Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap
  Individual engagement grants (IEGs) are announced twice yearly by a volunteer WMF committee, the most recent of which we covered last December. The scheme, launched at the start of last year, awards funds to individuals or teams of up to four to produce high-impact outcomes for the WMF's online projects. It favours innovative approaches to solving critical issues in the movement.

• News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
  New trustee Frieda Briosch from Italy: we face "a couple of headaches", she says: "how to boost editors, which includes the development of the next strategic plan, and how to keep our project always 'glamorous'."

• Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
  I never feel quite adequate trying to paraphrase Sumana's words: she is so articulate. I highly encourage every person who reads this article to directly watch her keynote—it directly speaks to a lot of Wikimedia's most significant issues, made with great eloquence. We have a serious issue with retaining editors, and parts of her speech could serve as a pretty good partial blueprint towards how we could begin to fix that problem.

• Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
  David Iliff, or Diliff, as he is known on here outside of the file pages for his many, many, excellent photographs, is one of Wikipedia's longest-standing professional-standard photographers. This week, the Signpost salutes him.

• In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
  The month of May saw significant coverage concerning the reliability of Wikipedia's medical articles.

• Traffic report: Autumn in summer
  The northern summer is a time when one is meant to celebrate the exuberance of life; instead, commemoration of the dead was a significant theme this week.

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The Signpost: 11 June 2014

• News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
  Eleven public relations agencies have declared their intention to follow "ethical engagement practices" in Wikipedia editing. The results were published last Tuesday: a joint statement from the participating PR agencies—representing five of the top ten global agencies and all but one of the top ten in the United States—clarifying their views and practices with regards to the Wikimedia projects.

• Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
  It seems that, more than commemorating the great moments in our history, more than even anticipating great sporting events, what our audience wants is the weird.

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
  William Beutler (WWB), author of the blog The Wikipedian, is a long-time editor and community-watcher. He is also a paid editor (WWB Too). Well—not anymore—because he gave up direct editing of articles in 2011. Instead, for the past three years he has followed Jimmy Wales' Bright Line rule in acting as a researcher and consultant for companies and clients that want to suggest changes to Wikipedia articles and engage on the Talk page.

• Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
  Last week we reported the announcement of two new affiliate-selected WMF trustees. The board of trustees is the most powerful and influential body in the movement, and chapters have been permitted to select two of the 10 seats since 2008, for two-year terms that start in even-numbered years.

• Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
  Five articles, one list, twelve pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.

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Upload image

Hey. I am aware that you have uploaded images before onto wiki commons from Flickr and I was wondering if you could upload this one of Giannis Antetokounmpo. I tried but I obviously did it wrong because it was deleted. The image lists "some rights reserved" and the owner allows the image to be shared. Is that not all good for being uploaded? Thanks in advance if you can help. Cheers. DaHuzyBru (talk) 06:41, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, true. Thanks for that. DaHuzyBru (talk) 14:56, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

• News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
  The Wikimedia Foundation has amended its terms of use to ban editing for pay without disclosing an employer or affiliation on any of its websites. The broad scope of these changes will allow the WMF to selectively enforce their terms of use to avoid ensnaring well-meaning editors.

• Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
  Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
  The Bangladesh chapter of the Wikimedia movement was formed in 2009. They received official local registration from the national authorities on 10 June 2014. The long road in between was subject to much persistence, patience, and luck—along with a good deal of worry.

• Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
  To the surprise of absolutely no one, the 2014 FIFA World Cup was the main draw this week, taking four slots. People appeared desperate to bone up on their trivia; checking not only this year's World Cup, but the last one. Even so, they still couldn't push Game of Thrones from the top ten. It will be interesting to see what happens come next week's season finale.

• WikiProject report: Visiting the city
  This week, the Signpost came in from the hinterland to interview members of the Cities WikiProject.

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The Signpost: 25 June 2014

• News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan
  The US National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) have committed to engaging with Wikimedia projects in their newest Open Government Plan. The biannual effort is a roadmap for how the agency will accomplish its goals in the digital age.

• Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
  Despite the interest generated by its season finale, Game of Thrones still couldn't top the World Cup, which still dominated interest, as evidenced by the fact that this top 10 is virtually identical to last week's, just with a different dead celebrity.

• Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
  In her first interview since taking office, Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director, speaks about grantmaking, the global south, and the gender gap.

• Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
  Discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...

• Featured content: Showing our Wörth
  Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
  This week, the Signpost visited the land of Disney, blockbusters, explosions, dream sequences, and cultural masterpieces: film.

• Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects
  In a recent paper, Jacob Solomon and Rick Wash investigate the question of sustainability in online communities by analysing trends in the growth of WikiProjects.

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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

• In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
  The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.

• Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
  With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
  Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.

• Featured content: Ship-shape
  Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America
  This week, the Signpost visited the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject.

• Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
  In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts ("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.

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Informal note

Hey, I notice that you have HighBeam access and you seem to have a few topicons. That being said, if you are interested, I've created {{Wikipedia:HighBeam/Topicon}}. No reply to this message is necessary (and I won't see it unless you ping me), just wanted to let you know it was available. Happy editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 00:14, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
  Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?

• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
  After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.

• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
  The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.

• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
  Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.

• News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative
  As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.

• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
  Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

• Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
  On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."

• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
  This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).

• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
  It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...

• Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
  Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
  The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014

• Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
  "Great success" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.

• Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
  Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.

• News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
  Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.

• Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
  The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.

• Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
  Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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The Signpost: 30 July 2014

• Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
  In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.

• Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
  Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.

• News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
  Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?

• Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World
  A "program of heroes" is leading the charge in Egypt.

• Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
  We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.

• Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
  Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

• Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
  As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.

• Traffic report: Ebola
  Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.

• Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
  Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
  "Major growth" expected in Mexican university after a Wikipedia program is formally accepted by the school's administration.

• News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results
  The Wikimedia Foundation has published its first transparency report, covering from July 2012 to June 2014. The move comes on the same day the organization announced that Google, in order to comply with a recent court order upholding the "right to be forgotten", has removed a number of Wikipedia articles from their European search results.

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014

• Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
  Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.

• Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
  It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

• Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective
  "Education is at the core of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission."

• Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
  Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former "Technology report" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.

• News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
  Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. "Superprotect" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.

• Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
  Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.

• In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
  The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."

• Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
  Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.

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Peer review on Death of Osama bin Laden

A peer review is being held at WP:Peer review/Death of Osama bin Laden/archive1 to enhance this article to FA status.Forbidden User (talk) 16:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
  Dorothy Howard interviews Michael Szajewski, archivist for digital development and university records at Ball State University.

• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
  Comedian Robin Williams' untimely death takes the top spot.

• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
  At the plate with WikiProject Baseball!

• Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia
  Denny Vrandečić argues that "We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors."

• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
  Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
  Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.

• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
  More discussions about Media Viewer, Superprotect, and software development

• Traffic report: Viral
  "This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."

• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
  Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
2. Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
3. Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
4. Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
6. 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
7. Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
8. Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

• Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
  "On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."

• Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
  Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted

• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
  Doc James and some collaborators are working on quick detection of copyright violations

• Traffic report: Holding Pattern
  "This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."

• WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
  "This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."

• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
  The latest roundup of research about Wikimedia

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

• Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
  Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.

• Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
  Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.

• Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
  The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!

• WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
  This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
  The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.

• WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
  As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
  A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.

• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack
  There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.

• Featured content: Which is not like the others?
  Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

• Featured content: Oil paintings galore
  Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

• In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
  The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.

• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
  0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.

• Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
  This could be the beginning of a new era for this list. Until now, decisions to remove suspicious content have been largely educated guesswork. This week though, we have a new collaborator who can shine a light on the origins and patterns, sorting once and for all the webwheat from the cyberchaff.

• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
  A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.

• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
  Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.

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Belle Knox AFD #2

The second AFD for Belle Knox has been overturned and relisted. As you commented on the original AFD, you may wish to comment on this one as well. As there have been developments and sources created since the time of the original AFD, please review to see if your comments/!vote are the same or may have changed. Gaijin42 (talk)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 01 October 2014

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
  Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.

• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
  This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.

• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
  The argument on Wikipedia over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative Citizendium.

• WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
  This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.

• Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
  Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).

• Featured content: Brothers at War
  As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.

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The Signpost: 08 October 2014

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires
  Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon

• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
  2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.

• Traffic report: Panic and denial
  The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.

• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
  No seriously, it is.

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
  Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?

• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
  Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.

• Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
  The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.

• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
  Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
  This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.

• Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
  We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.

• WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
  Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
  Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.

• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
  Our op-ed writer this week opines that the organization of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" resembles how Wikipedia is organized.

• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
  Among many newsworthy stories this week, the Signpost notes the passing of Italian Wikipedia administrator and former Wikimedia Italia treasurer [Cotton

• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV
  Ebola, movies and television articles appear in this week's top ten.

• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
  PaintedCarpet explains that "WikiProject Orphanage aims to connect all Wikipedia pages, so that pages can be found and read more easily."

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014

• 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
  Noam Cohen reports in The New York Times (October 26) that Wikipedia's "Ebola Virus Disease article has had 17 million page views in the last month," an indication of the public's reliance on the online encyclopedia.

• Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
  Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload

• Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
  Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.

• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
  In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.

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WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

• Godot13 (submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
• Casliber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
• Czar (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Sturmvogel 66 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• 12george1 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• ChrisGualtieri (submissions) wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
• Caponer (submissions) wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
• Figureskatingfan (submissions) wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

• In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories
  "Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."

• Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween
  "It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."

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The Signpost: 12 November 2014

• In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
  "Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."

• Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?
  This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).

• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
  Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.

• WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
  We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014

• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
  Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.

• In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
  Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".

• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
  The monthly roundup of research related to Wikimedia.

• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians
  It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.

• Traffic report: Big in Japan
  Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
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• In the media: Embroidery and cheese
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• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
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• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
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• WikiProject report: Today on the island
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WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

• We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
• In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
• The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:53, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
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• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
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• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
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• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.
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Lists of 40-point games

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association#Lists_of_40-point_games, that is related to an article you created, List of 40-plus point games by Kobe Bryant. Robert4565 (talk) 18:10, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 December 2014

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
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• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
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• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
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• Traffic report: A December Lull
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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
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• In the media: Wales on GamerGate
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• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
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• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
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• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased
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WikiCup 2015 launch newsletter

Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.

Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs)
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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
  Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. The proposal, supported by more than 25 volunteers and half a dozen European institutions as project partners, aims to create a virtual research environment (VRE) that will enhance the project's capacity for freely sharing scientific data.

• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
  A "study tour" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject of much controversy and criticism in the Indian press... The Indian Express described a government report about the trip as having copied extensively from the Wikipedia articles for Port Blair and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
  Unlike last year, Wikipedia viewers seem to have embraced the Christmas spirit, with three topics in the top 10 (and eight in the top 25) focused on the holiday season.

• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
  Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.

• Featured content: A bit fruity
  Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.

• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting
  A paper titled "Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education" uses the technology acceptance model to shed light on faculty's (of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) views of Wikipedia as a teaching tool.

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
  ISIL hostage quotes Wikipedia in propaganda video; AirAsia articles draw complaints regarding Flight 8501; Article errors reveal US political approaches to Wikipedia editing; Rhode Island Governor numbering debate

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
  User:Jakec has been a Wikipedia editor for over two years and has been a writer of many recent Did you know articles on Wikipedia, including multiple articles on rivers and streams in the state of Pennsylvania.

• Featured content: Kock up
  Two lists and twelve pictures were promoted.

• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne
  We end 2014 and and start 2015 with the normal array of year-end activities, including movie watching with Bollywood film PK (#1) topping the list, followed by The Interview (#2), 2014 in film (#10), and five other films in the rest of the Top 25, plus a number of articles about the subjects of these films. We celebrated the New Year by singing "Auld Lang Syne" (#11), or perhaps watching Adam Lambert (#9) perform with Queen. But we could not avoid a final tragedy with the crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (#4) on December 28.

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The Signpost: 14 January 2015

• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
  Ever since the Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident in 2005 triggered the restriction against un-registered editors creating new pages, WikiProject Articles for creation (AfC) has stood in the breach. The WikiProject's purpose is to review draft submissions from IPs (and frequently new registered editors) to sort the wheat from the chaff.

• WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story
  This anniversary issue, the WikiProject report is returning to WikiProject Articles for creation for one of our largest interviews ever. Last looked at in 2011, AfC is the method used by unregistered or new users to create articles, and provides an effective filtering system to remove all unsuitable or unsourced submissions to save them needing to be found and deleted later.

• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
  On the fourteenth anniversary of the founding of the English Wikipedia, the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has announced that its prestigious annual Erasmus Prize will be awarded to the worldwide community that has built Wikipedia.

• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
  Wikipedia turned 14 on January 15. A few media outlets took note of the anniversary.

• Featured content: Citations are needed
  Six featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
  It's a grim certainty what topic most interested Wikipedia viewers this week. The horrific attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine have drawn anger and resolve from around the world, and also the attention of an English-speaking world that had previously never heard of it.

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
  A letter from departing Signpost editor-in-chief The ed17.

• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
  Celebrating and remembering ten years of community journalism.

• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
  Over seventy years ago, the US destroyer Mahan was patrolling off Ponson Island in the Philippines when eleven Japanese kamikaze aircraft appeared over the horizon and attacked. George Pendergast, who edits Wikipedia with the username Pendright, was eighteen years old when he joined Mahan '​s crew in April 1944.

• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
  The municipality of Esino Lario in Italy will host Wikimania 2016.

• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
  Our contributor opines that WikiProjects are failing to live up to their potential. WikiProject X is a new project funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant that focuses on figuring out what makes some WikiProjects work and not others.

• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
  Quotes from Jimbo on Wikipedia in education; net neutrality; preserving musical heritage; Wikipedia in audio; a cheerful vandal credits high school with papal visitations.

• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
  Nine articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted.

• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
  ArbCom's three open cases are GamerGate, Wifione, and Christianity and sexuality.

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The Signpost: 28 January 2015

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you
  The editorial board is not complete without you. We are looking for Wikipedians with all kinds of experience levels.

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case
  The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee has closed the colossal GamerGate arbitration case, whose size—involving 27 named parties—recalls large and complex cases of the past.

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia
  A murder suspect edits Wikipedia, Russia is kidding when it says it wants to censor Wikipedia.

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate
  Does the committee facilitate stability... or is it a circus. Two users, two perspectives.

• Traffic report: A sea of faces
  It is pretty clear what the theme is this week: people.

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content
  A paper presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition last year presents an automated method to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theatre plays.

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola
  As with last year, music stars were the majority of celebrities on the list, as their frequent concerts and media appearances keep their flames alight longer than others of their stripe.

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines
  Ten featured articles, three featured lists, and 22 featured images were promoted this week.

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Help Editing NBA WikiProject

HI,

I'm a student at American University, and I am engaged in a class on Wikipedia. I wanted to help you edit and try to contribute to the community of the NBA WikiProject. Let me know how I can help, and I will join the list of editors for the page! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TehSharp (talk • contribs) 16:26, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

• News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia
  The Signpost talks with the creator of a grant proposal to create an on-wiki exclusive space for women to discuss issues.

• Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
  Hundreds of posted jobs offer money to edit Wikipedia. These jobs appear to be thriving, with tens of thousands of dollars changing hands each month.

• In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
  Media fallout continues from the January 29 decision in the mammoth Gamergate arbitration case.

• Traffic report: The American Heartland
  The American heartland appears to dominate the Report this week, with Chris Kyle leading the Report.

• Featured content: It's raining men!
  Three featured articles, five featured lists, and thirty-nine featured images were promoted this week.

• Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
  One case has been closed, two cases remain open, a third is undergoing a review, and three clarification or amendment requests remain open.

• WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
  A small band of dedicated editors seek to improve articles relating to a less lively topic. If you haven't yet guessed, this week's focus is WikiProject Death.

• Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
  The Signpost has arranged to mirror Tech news from the Meta-Wiki.

• Gallery: Langston Hughes
  A new Signpost feature.

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The Signpost: 11 February 2015

• From the editors: We want to know what you think!
  Please take this survey about the Signpost.

• News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales awarded $1 million
  Also: GLAM-Wiki Conference; Ombudsman Commission announced; Slovak Wikipedia now has 200,000 articles

• In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?
  Edina edit war illustrates disconnect between new and experienced editors; Wikipedia is "astroturf's dream come true"; Canadian government investigating even more Wikipedia editing; academics on Gamergate as "clash of civilizations"?

• Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...
  Two articles, three lists, and twenty five pictures became featured.

• Traffic report: Bowled over
  Wikipedia presents itself as a repository for the world, and while that is a noble sentiment, it is still true that, Conservapedian complaints notwithstanding, the English language Wikipedia is very often the American Wikipedia, and never has that been more apparent than this week.

• WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled
  This week, we bring three of the most recently created WikiProjects to come into being on the English Wikipedia. While many long-established projects are becoming inactive, (as we have covered before), that doesn't stop new ones forming every now and then to cover a topic that a group of editors feel should be better cared for.

• Gallery: Feel the love
  This week, we feature subjects that are about love of all kinds.

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The Signpost: 18 February 2015

• Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
  Go Phightins! shares his thoughts on admin attrition and the size of the administrative backlog.

• In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
  The Australian ("Wikipedia not destroying life as we know it", February 11) and Times Higher Education ("Wikipedia should be 'better integrated' into teaching", February 10) reported on a recent study performed at Monash University, titled "Students’ use of Wikipedia as an academic resource – patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness".

• Special report: Revision scoring as a service
  The authors of this report inform us that the "goal in the Revision Scoring project is to do the hard work of constructing and maintaining powerful AI so that tool developers don't have to. This cross-lingual, machine learning classifier service for edits will support new wiki tools that require edit quality measures."

• Gallery: Darwin Day
  Darwin Day is observed annually on February 12 to commemorate the life and work of scientist Charles Darwin. Here is a selection of images of life on the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin made key observations leading to his scientific theory of evolution by natural selection.

• Traffic report: February is for lovers
  This week saw the 57th Annual Grammy Awards (#13 on the Top 25) held on 8 February dominating the traffic chart, as music lovers checked out Sam Smith (#3) picking up four awards, Beck taking album of the year, and performances including Sia (#9), Madonna (#11), and Annie Lennox (#16). But Valentine's Day (#1) proved the perfect time for the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, with the movie coming in at #5, the book of the same name at #2, and the primary actors at #14 and #15.

• Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
  Five pictures, six lists, and seventeen pictures were promoted

• Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?
  The most significant item on ArbCom's agenda this fortnight has been the closure of the Wifione case and subsequent fallout, although the fallout from GamerGate continues to linger.

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

• News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
  A report from the external research firm Lafayette Practice has declared that the Wikimedia Foundation is the "largest known participatory grantmaking fund." Several concerns have been raised with the report, the phrase being used (participatory grantmaking), the now-former Wikipedia article on that phrase, and an alleged conflict of interest by WMF staff members.

• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
  Doc James tells us that "The one good thing that has come out of all of this is that Wikipedia’s content passing a major textbook publisher review processes is some external validation of Wikipedia’s quality."

• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
  Andrew McMillen's February 3 profile of and his quest to rid Wikipedia of the phrase "comprised of" has been one of the most widely circulated and commented upon media stories about the encyclopedia recently.

• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
  Eleven articles and twenty pictures were promoted in the week covered by this report.

• Gallery: Far from home
  The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme, as well as an article you could help improve. This week, we feature subjects that are "far from home".

• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
  An odd juxtaposition this week, as interest in Fifty Shades of Grey coincided with the observance of the Chinese New Year and the annual festival of penance, Ash Wednesday.

• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
  A monthly roundup of Wikimedia-related research

• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
  This week's project is on a youth activity, one of the largest in the world; its project is commensurately large, containing around 136 active editors. It's WikiProject Scouting, a group of editors whose remit is everything relating to the Scouting movement, which has around 42 million members worldwide and celebrated the centenary of its founding only eight years ago.

• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

• News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
  A report from the external research firm Lafayette Practice has declared that the Wikimedia Foundation is the "largest known participatory grantmaking fund." Several concerns have been raised with the report, the phrase being used (participatory grantmaking), the now-former Wikipedia article on that phrase, and an alleged conflict of interest by WMF staff members.

• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
  Doc James tells us that "The one good thing that has come out of all of this is that Wikipedia’s content passing a major textbook publisher review processes is some external validation of Wikipedia’s quality."

• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
  Andrew McMillen's February 3 profile of and his quest to rid Wikipedia of the phrase "comprised of" has been one of the most widely circulated and commented upon media stories about the encyclopedia recently.

• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
  Eleven articles and twenty pictures were promoted in the week covered by this report.

• Gallery: Far from home
  The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme, as well as an article you could help improve. This week, we feature subjects that are "far from home".

• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
  An odd juxtaposition this week, as interest in Fifty Shades of Grey coincided with the observance of the Chinese New Year and the annual festival of penance, Ash Wednesday.

• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
  A monthly roundup of Wikimedia-related research

• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
  This week's project is on a youth activity, one of the largest in the world; its project is commensurately large, containing around 136 active editors. It's WikiProject Scouting, a group of editors whose remit is everything relating to the Scouting movement, which has around 42 million members worldwide and celebrated the centenary of its founding only eight years ago.

• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
• AHeneen (submissions) worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
• Rodw (submissions) developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
• And last but not least, Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

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The Signpost: 04 March 2015

• From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
  We received a large amount of feedback in our survey indicating that our readers found the idea of contributing to the Signpost difficult due to our opaque internal structure.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes
  The Wikimedia Foundation released their Quarterly Report last week covering the three months October to December of 2014.

• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
  Last week, my colleagues on the Signpost produced a news report covering a minor controversy about a report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Written by the staff of The Lafayette Practice, a French research firm, it proclaimed the WMF as a leader in the practice of participatory grantmaking.

• Traffic report: Attack of the movies
  The Report this week is dominated by the Academy Awards, taking the top 4 spots and 13 of the Top 25.

• Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
  In the first of what the author hopes will become a regular feature of the Arbitration report, the Signpost speaks to veteran arbitrator Newyorkbrad, who recently retired from the committee after almost seven years of arbitrating. The Signpost was keen to hear his thoughts on his time on the committee and on the past, present, and future of ArbCom.

• Interview: Meet a paid editor
  Before being indefinitely blocked, User:FergusM1970 made more than 4600 edits on the English Wikipedia, spread over eight years. In the last two years, he was paid to edit several articles for clients that included the Venezuelan energy company Derwick Associates. We spoke with him about his experiences.

• In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
  Numerous news outlets are reporting that the domain loser.com now redirects to the Wikipedia article for rapper Kanye West. Page views on West's Wikipedia article skyrocketed to almost 250,000 views on March 2, up from less than 19 thousand the previous day.

• Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
  Two featured articles, four featured lists, and 38 featured pictures were promoted this week..

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  The Signpost has arranged to mirror Tech news from Meta-Wiki to supplement the long-form tech coverage in our infrequent Technology report..

• Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
  Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, Wikipedians worked together to honor black history and to address Wikipedia's multicultural gaps in the encyclopedia, hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons throughout the United States, from February 1 to 28, 2015.

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey
  The Wikimedia Foundation gave the Signpost an advance copy of the results of a survey of English Wikipedia readers regarding Wikimedia fundraising, due for official release today.

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign
  The community has arranged a number of commemorative initiatives focused on the gender gap, under the banner "WikiWomen's History Month".

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West
  ThinkProgress tech reporter Lauren C. Williams wrote a long article on how the Gamergate controversy has spilled over onto Wikipedia.

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"
  In an effort to protect and maintain the privacy of Wikipedia's thousands of editors, the Wikimedia Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the United States' National Security Agency, Department of Justice, and the Attorney General.

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time
  A dull week, with only three new entries in the top 10; a UFC champion, a Google Doodle and a Hindu festival involving people throwing powder at each other (though that does sound fun).

• Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –
  Six featured articles, three featured lists, and forty featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters
  I continue to be excited about the Core Contest because I see it as a way of encouraging the expansion of broad articles that are typically neglected by our article improvement incentives.

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The Signpost: 18 March 2015

• From the editor: A salute to Pine
  We announce with sadness and gratitude that Signpost publication and newsroom manager Pine will be stepping back to focus on other Wikipedia and Wikimedia-related endeavors.

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation
  This process is now entering its long-awaited final phase with the upcoming SUL finalization, scheduled for April 15, less than a month away. ... Wikimedia Foundation chief talent and culture officer Gayle Karen Young announced her retirement from the Foundation this week. Young will be replaced in that role by interim chief operating officer Terry Gilbey. According to the Foundation's job description for the title as it was applied in the past, Gilbey will be in charge of "overall administration and business operations of the Wikimedia Foundation."

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct
  On March 13, Kelly Weill of Capital New York revealed that numerous Wikipedia edits originated from 1 Police Plaza, the headquarters of the NYPD. Most of the attention has focused on a number of their edits to articles about incidents of alleged police brutality and controversial police practices.

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?
  The publication of the Wikimedia survey findings on fundraising questions came three months after significant concerns were voiced about the design and wording of the December 2014 fundraising banners and e-mails.

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings
  Four featured articles, four featured lists, and thirty-five featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: It's not cricket
  If not for Kayne West's dubious repeat at #1, the 2015 Cricket World Cup (#2) would have made the top spot, albeit in a generally slow news week.

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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy
  Last week the WMF announced the release of its long-awaited open-access policy.

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization
  Once when I was young, growing up in the 1990s, my father pulled his collection of railroad slides out from the basement, set up his projector, and shared a glimpse into American railway history with our family.

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude
  Four featured articles, three featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014
  The Wikipedia Commons annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded, with 6,698 people voting, its largest participation yet.

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar
  This week's list is reminiscent of lists from the early days of this project: a preponderance of famous faces, Reddit threads, and Google Doodles.

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
  The authors attempt to answer the question "Who are the most important people of all times?" Their findings clearly show that different Wikipedias give different prominence to different individuals.

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program
  A university gives a top Wikipedia editor free and full access to the university library's entire online content—and the Wikipedia editor, who is unpaid and not on campus, then creates and improves Wikipedia articles in a subject area of interest to the institution.

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The Signpost, 1 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
  The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
  TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
  Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: All over the place
  The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base
  The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.

• Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015
  The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
  The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
  TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
  Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: All over the place
  The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base
  The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.

• Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015
  The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
  The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
  TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
  Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: All over the place
  The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base
  The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.

• Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015
  The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
  Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.

• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
  March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.

• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
  The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.

• Traffic report: Resurrection week
  How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.

• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
  Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
  With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.

• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
  The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
  Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.

• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
  March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.

• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
  The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.

• Traffic report: Resurrection week
  How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.

• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
  Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
  With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.

• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
  The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

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Proposed deletion of TNT's Next 10 Greatest NBA Players

The article TNT's Next 10 Greatest NBA Players has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unclear notability -- no independent sources used (except possibly a single, link-rotted SI article that appears to be an opinion piece). Propose merge to 50 Greatest Players in NBA History

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Pete (talk) 19:29, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 April 2015

• News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
  The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.

• In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
  Time profiles Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and paints a grim picture of the challenges faced by Tretikov and the encyclopedia.

• Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
  Later this month, everyone will be able to use the same user name on every wiki, thanks to Single-User Login.

• Traffic report: Furious domination
  If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week.

• Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
  Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

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Nomination of TNT's Next 10 Greatest NBA Players for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article TNT's Next 10 Greatest NBA Players is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TNT's Next 10 Greatest NBA Players until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. —Bagumba (talk) 06:00, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

• Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
  A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.

• In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
  Wikipedia appears to have been drawn into the drama of the upcoming, hotly contested UK general election.

• News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
  The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.

• In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
  2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.

• Featured content: Vanguard on guard
  Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
  Couch potatoes rule this week, as 9 of the top 10 slots were taken by either movies, TV, or sports.

• Gallery: The bitter end
  The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme.

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015

• Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
  Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
  The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.

• In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
  David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.

• Featured content: Another day, another dollar
  Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
  Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.

• Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
  Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.

• Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
  

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WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

• Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
• LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:28, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

• News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
  The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced the winning grantees in March's "Inspire" grant-making campaign.

• Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
  Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.

• In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
  artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.

• Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
  Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.

• Traffic report: The grim ship reality
  Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

• Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
  Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.

• News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
  This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.

• Traffic report: Round Two
  Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.

• In the media: Grant Shapps story continues
  Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.

• Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
  There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.

• Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
  Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

• From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
  The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.

• In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
  The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.

• Traffic report: Inner Core
  The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.

• News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
  Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."

• Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
  Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.

• In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
  Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.

• WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
  This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.

• Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
  The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

• News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
  The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.

• Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
  Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.

• Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
  Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.

• Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
  Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier
  Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.

• Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
  Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..

• In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
  More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap

• Traffic report: A rather ordinary week
  The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

• News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
  This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.

• Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
  "Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."

• In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
  UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.

• Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
  Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
  Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.

• Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese
  The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

• In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
  The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that Wikipedia would be the recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias award in the category of International Cooperation.

• Arbitration report: An election has consequences
  The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.

• In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
  This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.

• Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
  We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.

• Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
  The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.

• Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
  We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.

• News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
  A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.

• Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
  Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
  Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.

• WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back
  It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015

• From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
  Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.

• Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
  The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.

• Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
  During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.

• Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
  Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

• Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
  One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.

• Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
  This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.

• News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
  The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...

• In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
  The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.

• Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
  After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.

• Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
  Clausewitz' pithy summary of warfare as "politics by other means" seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

• News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
  This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.

• In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
  A week now remains until the vote, expected on 9 July, when the European Parliament will express either its approval, disapproval, or lack of opinion on the question of freedom of panorama in the European Union.

• WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
  Here to share their wisdom are Dodger67, Penny Richards, LilyKitty, and Mirokado of WikiProject Disability

• Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
  Four featured list and twelve featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
  For the week of June 21 to 27, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages.

• Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
  Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

• Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
  Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015

• Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
  It seems like a good time to discuss the various communications channels available to community members.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
  Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.

• In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
  The mayor of Esino Lario warns that Wikimedia 2016 is "at risk of disappearing".

• Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
  It's July 4 weekend and on this list that means only one thing: Wimbledon. Sure, the American Independence Day gets noticed too, but it can't hold a candle to that staggeringly British sporting event.

• Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
  12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, and 15 featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

• Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
  "How long will this take?" This is one of the first questions new clients ask. They come to us because the Wikipedia entry about the company at which they work is wrong, incomplete, or even just outdated. The answer varies ...

• Traffic report: Belles of the ball
  However coy they may be about it in public, Americans love to win. And when they do, they make no secret of it.

• WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?
  We return this week with an interview with a historical project that's still fairly active, WikiProject Former countries.

• In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion
  In The Register, Andrew Orlowski reports that three weeks ago, Grant Shapps filed a request with Wikimedia UK (WMUK) under the Data Protection Act 1998 "for all data relating to him".

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
  The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.

• News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
  Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.

• Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate
  One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

• From the editor: Change the world
  We want to take a moment to ask you to consider contributing to the Signpost.

• News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case
  Wikimania features remarks from some leading players from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the free knowledge movement.

• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries
  WMF's Executive Director, Lila Tretikov, gave the opening plenary address.

• In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free
  Three novelists "have found a way to control the Wikipedia narrative" by using the annotation website Genius to annotate their own Wikipedia articles.

• Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
  Summary:When I was a kid, being a nerd meant wanting to go to Pluto.

• WikiProject report: Some more politics
  WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom

• Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters
  Three featured articles, two featured lists, and 29 featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Gallery: "One small step..."
  46 years ago this week, humanity set foot on the Moon.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

• News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
  An RFC proposes to create a "Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee" (BARC) composed of bureaucrats empowered to remove adminship rights.

• Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian
  Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum.

• Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
  An article argues that Wikipedia displays some key characteristics of a collective intelligence process.

• In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?
  "Editors representing rival political tribes [are] frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official version of one or another cultural controversy."

• Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues
  Five featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit
  For the first time since this list began, India-related topics have claimed both the top two slots.

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The Signpost: 05 August 2015

• Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers
  That particular artists would be omitted through oversight or happenstance is reasonable, but that one of the world's leading publishers of art books is completely unaware of their major omissions is startling.

• Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google
  The public interest in remembering the facts about trials and convictions is, in my view, at least as strong as any "right to be forgotten."

• News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
  VisualEditor is now on slow roll-out on the English Wikipedia.

• WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers
  The Report checks in with WikiProject Templates.

• In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten
  The Indian government has launched an investigation into the source of Wikipedia edits regarding Jawaharlal Nehru that caused outrage in that country.

• Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...
  Death is no stranger to this list, but it has never cast such a pall as this week, when for the first time half the slots in the top 10 were devoted to it, including the top 3.

• Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga
  Three featured articles, seven featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program
  What if there was a gathering place on Wikipedia for newer editors to find a mentor?

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The Signpost: 12 August 2015

• News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
  Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August 10 last year, without warning.

• In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
  The Atlantic discusses "The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay".

• Forum: Community voices on paid editing
  The community speaks out on paid editing.

• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
  Our ongoing Wikimanía coverage.

• Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom
  The charts are led this week by UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey, who won her last match at UFC 190 (#9) in 34 seconds.

• Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
  Watch out for icebergs.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Wikimedia technical news.

• Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz
  During World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz was a major threat to Allied convoys travelling across the North Atlantic and Arctic Sea.

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The Signpost: 19 August 2015

• Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus
  Nothing makes Wikipedians more angry than a discussion of gender and feminism on Wikipedia.

• In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"
  A new article in PLOS ONE about Wikipedia's science coverage has attracted media attention.

• Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!
  This week's featured content.

• Travelogue: Seeing is believing
  Tony the Tiger tours New York City.

• Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut
  It's a long way from the leafy bowers of Greenwich, Connecticut to the concrete barrens of Compton, California.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

• Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news
  Wikipedia is capable of covering news like any news agency.

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The Signpost: 26 August 2015

• In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors
  Does the data mean good news for the encyclopedia?

• In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia
  The Russian Wikipedia is blocked, more blocks may be on the on the horizon.

• Op-ed: Wikimania—can volunteers organize conferences?
  Should paid event staff supplement the work of volunteers?

• News and notes: Re-imagining grants
  The Wikimedia Foundation's grant structure.

• Featured content: Out to stud, please call later
  This week's featured content.

• Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration
  The recently closed Arbitration Enforcement case.

• Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report
  A look at the research presented at the OpenSym 2015 conference.

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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

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The Signpost: 02 September 2015

• Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia
  Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.

• News and notes: Flow placed on ice
  The WMF collaboration team announced this week that Flow will no longer be under active development.

• Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments
  A conflict regarding fundraising banners on the Italian Wikipedia is resolved.

• Featured content: Brawny
  This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 August to 24 August.

• In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage
  Also vital statistics regarding Ja Rule.

• Traffic report: You didn't miss much
  The late-summer smash success of Straight Outta Compton remains the chief talking point of the English-speaking world, interrupted only by the welcome return of a Google Doodle.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

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The Signpost: 09 September 2015

• Gallery: Being Welsh
  The National Library is now releasing some of the nation's most treasured collections to Wikimedia Commons for everyone to use and enjoy.

• Featured content: Killed by flying debris
  Tony1 interviews a prolific featured content participant, Ian Rose.

• Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity
  Fram tells us why DYK is a problem.

• News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article
  First bot-created article generated from Wikidata; the Orange Bar of Doom has finally met its doom; active editor numbers still on the rise; arbitrator to resign; ne templates added in wake of Orangemoody case

• Traffic report: Mass media production traffic
  This week's theme in popular articles revolved entirely around mass media productions.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  section begin "tech-newsletter-content"

• In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined
  A recap of Wikipedia in the media this week

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

• Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access
  On Wikipedia's commitment to open access and its obligations to readers and editors.

• News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?
  WMF CFO to depart, notifications come and go, and questions about the possible editing by a recently arrested terrorism suspect.

• In the media: Is there life on Mars?
  Probably not. Also, Whitehall still editing Wikipedia.

• Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?
  This week's featured content.

• Traffic report: Another week
  No particular trends to spot in this week's top article traffic.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

• In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  PETA launches a copyright lawsuit over the infamous photograph.

• Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
  No, really, just stop.

• Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library
  This week's featured content.

• WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?
  This time of year features the Latin Grammy Awards, so here for an interview are WikiProject Latin music.

• Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.
  This week, drug lord and wannabe Bolivar Pablo Escobar was joined by a whole host of somewhat more primetime-friendly political insurgents.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
  A year of fundraising and a controversial decision.

• In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
  More Wikipedia editing in the news.

• Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
  Low numbers of active admins and high standards for adminship make a troubling combination.

• Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?
  A look at newly published Wikipedia research.

• Tech news: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

• Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
  Kazakhstan and Wikipedia: A marriage made in hell.

• Traffic report: Reality is for losers
  English speakers, like most of humanity, are primarily a northern-hemispheric people, and as autumn draws close and the days grow shorter, as a group we tend to huddle around our flickering screens and remember what matters: TV, movies, sports and, of course, crazy doomsday prophecies.

• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
  Some of Wikipedia's newest featured content.

• Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan
  These winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2015 contest were shared with the Social Media mailing list recently.

• Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
  A new case was opened for ArbCom as the Genetically modified organisms case was accepted and opened on 28 September.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  A reproduced version of the Wikimedia tech newsletter.

• In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
  A summary of Wikimedia's mentions in the media.

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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

• Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith
  We believe that human interaction can only make Wikipedia stronger.

• WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States
  Three days at the US National Archives.

• Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
  The news coverage we usually see about Wikipedia is neither in-depth, nor specialized, nor systematic.

• News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate
  Everyone's talking about money.

• Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
  For the second consecutive week, the most viewed article had less than one million views, the only two weeks that has happened in all of 2015.

• Featured content: A fistful of dollars
  This week's featured content.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

• Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
  On September 25, 26 and 27, Wikimedia Spain celebrated its third Wikimedia Conference at the Colegio Mayor Universitario Isabel de España in Madrid.

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

• Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
  Time to clean up our mess.

• News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
  District court judge decrees that the WMF lacks standing.

• In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
  "The lunatics are running the asylum."

• Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
  Examining the conflict and its participants.

• Featured content: A more balanced week
  Featured content

• Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
  When given a choice between journals of similar impact factors, editors are significantly more likely to select the “open access” option.

• Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
  Open cases before the Arbitration Committee.

• Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
  We live in a harsh, uncertain world.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

• From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help
  A call for volunteers.

• News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
  The community reacts to another milestone.

• In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
  The week's news coverage about the encyclopedia.

• Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
  Gangs of bullies and trolls rove the internet and make life difficult for the rest of us.

• Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
  A divisive case before the Committee opens.

• Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
  What's this all aboot, eh?

• Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
  New research about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.

• Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
  This week's featured content.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

• Community letter: Five million articles
  The community celebrates.

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

• Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
  The WMF wants your ideas for technical improvements.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
  WMF funding and the death and life of a controversial feature.

• In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
  The difficulties of verifying encyclopedia content.

• Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
  The week in article traffic.

• Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
  This week's featured content.

• Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
  Wikipedia received the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for global cooperation on October 23.

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WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

• Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

• Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
  Assessing the end of a controversial feature.

• Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
  It's that time of the year again.

• Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
  Fallout from a recent security breach.

• Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
  Featured content

• In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
  Are the inmates running the asylum? Are journalists copying Wikipedia? Are monkeys filing lawsuits?

• Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
  More doodles, more traffic.

• Gallery: Paris
  Reflecting on the tragedy in France.

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

• Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
  Our annual election coverage.

• In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
  Icelandic Wikipedia hits 400K articles; how do Wikipedia editors stay neutral?

• Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
  Discussions around the encyclopedia.

• Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
  Updates on the Committee. You know, besides the election.

• Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
  The week in Featured Content.

• Traffic report: Darkness and light
  Paris and Diwali.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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The Signpost: 25 November 2015

• Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
  Wikidata is set to become the main open data repository worldwide.

• News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
  Updates on the Wikimedia Foundation.

• In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
  The worldwide community wins a prestigious award while the Russian community struggles with government interference.

• Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
  Scholarly research about Wikipedia and related projects.

• Featured content: Caves and stuff
  Featured content

• Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
  The week's most read articles.

• Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
  Another long-running case has been closed, while the voting process for this year's Arbitration Committee Elections has begun.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
  The suit concerns copyright claims related to 17 images of the museum’s public domain works of art.

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

• Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
  Issues of quality and verifiability threaten the project.

• News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections
  How the community can have its say on two important matters.

• In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches
  Concerns about Wikidata and WMF fundraising.

• Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
  The new Netflix series heads the list.

• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
  Newly promoted featured content.

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015

• News and notes: ArbCom election results announced
  The three scrutineers announced the results, a little more than three days after the close of voting.

• Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
  A response from Wikidata.

• In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
  Another election, another series of edit wars.

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners
  The top 25 images.

• Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?
  Another death tops the report this week.

• Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things
  This week's featured content.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015

• In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
  Creating content in the sky.

• In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015
  Jimmy Wales finds his words edited on the Internet.

• Arbitration report: GMO case decided
  Keeping up with the committee.

• Featured content: An unusually slow week
  Featured content

• WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
  Tackling content gaps through collaboration.

• Traffic report: A feast of Spam
  More data, more problems.

• Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos
  A look back at October.

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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Figureskatingfan (talk), and Godot13 (talk).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 December 2015

• News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
  In a monumental move, the Board ousted one of its own

• Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
  The latest news from ArbCom

• Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
  A report covering material promoted from 13 to 26 December

• Traffic report: The Force we expected
  In a development that should surprise no one, Star Wars takes the first place prize

• Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
  We review the top ten stories that defined the Wikimedia movement in 2015

• In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
  The latest news coverage from around the movement

• Gallery: It's that time of year again
  Christmas time is here.

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The Signpost: 06 January 2016

• News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
  Trouble with the Board of Trustees

• In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
  Wikipedia's science articles are "effectively incomprehensible"

• Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
  Current Committee decisions

• Featured content: Featured menagerie
  Featured content

• Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
  Current academic research on Wikipedia and related projects

• WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
  Sports!

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news

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WikiCup 2016: Game On!

We are about to enter the second week of the 2016 WikiCup. The most recent player to sign up brings the current total to 101 contestants. Signups close on 5 February. If you’re interested, you can join this year's WikiCup here.

We are aware that in some areas the scoring bot’s numbers are a little bit off (i.e., overly generous) and are working to have that corrected as soon as possible.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:04, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2016: Game On!

We are about to enter the second week of the 2016 WikiCup. The most recent player to sign up brings the current total to 101 contestants. Signups close on 5 February. If you’re interested, you can join this year's WikiCup here.

We are aware that in some areas the scoring bot’s numbers are a little bit off (i.e., overly generous) and are working to have that corrected as soon as possible.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:08, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 13 January 2016

• In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
  A look at movement coverage "in the media"

• Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF
  Liam Wyatt shares his thoughts in "community view"

• Editorial: We need a culture of verification
  Our co-editor-in-chief, Gamaliel, shares his thoughts on the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia

• In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
  William Beutler discusses problems inside the WMF.

• Op-ed: Transparency
  James Heilman talks about why he was removed from the WMF board.

• Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
  What was the most-viewed article of 2015? Read to find out!

• Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
  WE LOVE PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!

• News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
  A look at community objections to a new Board trustee

• Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
  Jeff Elder talks sports vandalism on the Wikimedia blog

• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
  A review of the featured content promoted this week

• Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
  We sat down with both incoming and outgoing arbitrators to get their thoughts on the committee.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

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The Signpost: 20 January 2016

• News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
  The continuing controversy over a new Board appointment.

• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
  Is Wikimedia taking the right approach?

• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
  The news media remembers we're still around.

• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
  A cheery week.

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Newly promoted content.

• Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place
  A talk with MediaWiki developer : Magnus Manske.

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The Signpost: 27 January 2016

• Op-ed: Lila Tretikov: the WMF needs your input in developing our strategy
  Participate in the new strategy initiative.

• News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board
  Newly appointed trustee leaves following a community outcry.

• In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote
  Board turmoil gets the attention of journalists.

• Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling
  Current research involving Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Death and taxes
  Some things never change.

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Newly promoted content.

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, and two each by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, and Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7. Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7. Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 completing nine.

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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)

Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Template:User4, Template:User4, and Template:User4.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter

FP of Christ Church Cathedral, Falkland Islands by Godot13

Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 and one by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7), four Featured Lists (with three by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7), and 53 Good Articles (six by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 and five each by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, and Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 and five by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 scored 265 base points, while Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

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WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:

• First Place - Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7
• Second Place -Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7
• Third Place - Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

• Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
• Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
• Featured List – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 produced 2 FLs in R2
• Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
• Featured Portal – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
• Featured Topic – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
• Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
• Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
• In The News – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant7, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
• Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup Greetings, all! We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time. The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring. Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now! If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges. Cheers from Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, and Template:Noping. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out. Template:Center

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WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

• First place – $200
• Second & Third place – $50 each
• Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

• Template:Flagicon Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
• Template:Flagicon Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
• Template:Flagicon 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
• Template:Flagicon Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks & Resorts featured list

Greetings. I am attempting to get the Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts article upgraded to featured list status here: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts/archive1, and given that you were involved with the featured list status upgrade process for the List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines article, which is an article with similar traits, your input will be valuable. Jackdude101 (Talk) 22:44, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Template:Flagicon Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
• Template:Flagicon 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
• Template:Flagicon Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
• Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2017 July newsletter

The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2017 September newsletter

Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

• First Place - Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8
• Second Place -Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8
• Third Place - Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

• Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
• Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
• Featured List – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8 both produced 2 FLs in R2
• Featured Pictures – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8 improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
• Featured Topic – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8 has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
• Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
• Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
• In The News – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8 had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
• Good Article Review – Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant8 completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

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So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Template:User4, Template:User4 and Template:User4. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Template:Flagicon Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• Template:Flagicon FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Template:Flagicon Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Template:Flagicon Ceranthor, Template:Flagicon Numerounovedant, Template:Flagicon Carbrera, Template:Flagicon Farang Rak Tham and Template:Flagicon Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Template:Flagicon Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
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So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

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WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Template:Flagicon Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
• Template:Flagicon Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
• Template:Flagicon SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

• Template:Flagicon Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
• Template:Flagicon Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
• Template:Flagicon Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
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During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9, who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

1. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9
2. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9
3. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9
4. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9
5. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9
6. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9
7. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9
8. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9

All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9 wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9 wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9 wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9 wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9 wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9 wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant9 wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Template:User4, Template:User4, Template:User4 and Template:User4.

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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Template:User4, Template:User4, Template:User4 and Template:User4. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Template:Flagicon L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
• Template:U, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
• Template:Flagicon MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
• Template:Flagicon Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
• Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
• Template:Flagicon Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

• Template:Flagicon Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
• Template:Flagicon Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
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• Template:Flagicon Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

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So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Template:Flagicon Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
• Template:Flagicon Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
• Template:Flagicon SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
• Template:Flagicon Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10, who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:

1. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 964 points
2. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 899 points
3. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 817 points
4. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 691 points
5. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 388 points
6. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 146 points
7. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 145 points
8. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant10 wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

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Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Template:User4, Template:User4, Template:User4 and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2020 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Template:Flagicon Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
• Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
• Template:Flagicon Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
• Template:Flagicon Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
• CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
• The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included Template:Flagicon L293D, Template:Flagicon Kingsif, Template:Flagicon Enwebb, Template:Flagicon Lee Vilenski and Template:Flagicon CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; Template:Flagicon L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Template:Flagicon Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Template:Flagicon Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• Template:Flagicon The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Template:Flagicon Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Template:Flagicon Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Template:Flagicon Kingsif with 719, Template:Flagicon SounderBruce with 710, Template:Flagicon Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and Template:Flagicon MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Template:Flagicon Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
• Template:Flagicon The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
• Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, Template:Flagicon MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
• Template:FlagiconHaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
• Template:Flagicon Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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TFL notification for September 2023

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Nomination of List of career achievements by Dennis Rodman for deletion

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Good article reassessment for Ed Jew

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