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The Signpost: 04 February 2013

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On February 12, 2012, news of Whitney Houston's death brought 425 hits per second to her Wikipedia article, the highest peak traffic on any article since at least January 2010. It is broadly known that Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website on the Internet, but the English Wikipedia now has over 4 million articles and 29 million total pages. Much less attention has been given to traffic patterns and trends in content viewed.
Article feedback, at least through talk pages, has been a part of Wikipedia since its inception in 2001. The use of these pages, though, has typically been limited to experienced editors who know how to use them.
This week, we took a trip to WikiProject Norway. Started in February 2005, WikiProject Norway has become the home for almost 34,000 articles about the world's best place to live, including 16 Featured Articles, 19 Featured Lists, and nearly 250 Good Articles. The project works on a to do list, maintains a categorization system, watches article alerts, and serves as a discussion forum.
This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured portals, a small yet active part of the project. We interviewed FPOC directors Cirt and OhanaUnited.
On 30 January 2013, Kevin Morris in the Daily Dot summarised the bitter debates in Wikipedia around capitalisation or non-capitalisation of the word "into" in the title of the upcoming Star Trek film, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Following the deployment of the Wikidata client to the Hungarian Wikipedia last month, the client was also deployed to the Italian and Hebrew Wikipedias on Wednesday. The next target for the client, which automatically provides phase 1 functionality, is the English Wikipedia, with a deployment date of 11 February already set.

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      Daniella Pineda       1999 Arizona Wildcats football team
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      Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely       College rowing (United States)
      BC Spartak Saint Petersburg   Merge
      Chris Copping         Anti-piracy
      Dave Bronze     Megaupload
      2012–13 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team       Generalized continued fraction
    1964 Indiana Hoosiers football team   Add sources
      2012–13 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team         Ice Cold Ice
    Spritzkuchen       Lock picking
      2012–13 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team         Land Speed Record (album)
      Norman Joseph Woodland   Wikify
  2006–07 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team       1981 Colorado Buffaloes football team
      Dave Ball (musician)       Intercollegiate sports team champions
      2003 Maryland Terrapins football team       Jon Leuer
      Grand Hotel (album)   Expand
    Josh Phillips (musician)         Monte Yoho
      Geoff Whitehorn       2010–11 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team
      Daskalakis Athletic Center     South Philadelphia High School

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The Signpost: 11 February 2013

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Wikipedia has a long, daresay storied history with hoaxes; our internal list documents 198 of the largest ones we have caught as of 4 January 2013. Why?
Six articles, one list, and fourteen pictures were promoted to "featured" states this week on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we got the details on WikiProject Infoboxes.
Foreign Policy has published a report on editing of the Wikipedia articles on the Senkaku Islands and Senkaku Islands dispute. The uninhabited islands are under the control of Japan, but China and Taiwan are asserting rival territorial claims. Tensions have risen of late—and not just in the waters surrounding the actual islands.
Wikimedia UK, the non-profit organization devoted to furthering the goals of the Wikimedia movement in the United Kingdom, has published the findings of a governance review conducted by Compass Partnership.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The WMF's engineering report for January was published this week.

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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This week, we put our life in the hands of WikiProject Airlines. Starting in July 2005, the project has improved articles relating to airline companies, alliances, destination lists, and travel benefit programs. WikiProject Airlines has accumulated over 4,000 pages, including 4 Featured Articles and 26 Good Articles.
As of time of writing, twenty wikis (including the English, French and Hungarian Wikipedias) are in the process of getting access to the Lua scripting language, an optional substitute for the clunky template code that exists at present.
On February 15, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) declared 'victory' in its counter-lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the owner of Wikitravel and the operator of several online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The lawsuit clears the last remaining hurdles for the WMF's new travel guide project, Wikivoyage.
Sue Gardner's visit to Australia sparked a number of interviews in the Australian press. An interview published in the Daily Telegraph on 12 February 2013, titled "Data plans 'unnerving': Wikipedia boss", saw Gardner comment on Australian plans to store personal internet and telephone data. The planned measure, intended to assist crime prevention, would involve internet service providers and mobile phone firms storing customer usage data for up to two years.
Two articles, nine lists, and thirteen pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

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      2012–13 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team         Bemidji High School
      Cystic Fibrosis Foundation         Pharaoh (video game)
      Daniella Pineda   Merge
      Spritzkuchen     Data center
      Dave Ball (musician)       Crowdsourcing
      Grand Hotel (album)         Anti-piracy
      2012–13 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team   Add sources
      Daskalakis Athletic Center       Ice Cold Ice
      Matt Pegg         Privacy in file sharing networks
      Chris Copping         2012–13 Miami Hurricanes men's basketball team
    Josh Phillips (musician)   Wikify
      BC Spartak Saint Petersburg         Ater Majok
      2003 Maryland Terrapins football team       Intercollegiate sports team champions
    1954 Maryland Terrapins football team       Jon Leuer
  2006–07 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team   Expand
      2012–13 UIC Flames men's basketball team       Bullshit Detector
    1991 East Carolina Pirates football team       Monte Yoho
    1964 Indiana Hoosiers football team     South Philadelphia High School

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIII, February 2013

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013

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On 13 February 2013, PR Report, the German sister publication of PR Week, published an article announcing that PR agency Fleishman-Hillard was offering a new analysis tool enabling companies to assess their articles in the German-language Wikipedia: the Wikipedia Corporate Index (WCI).
"Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Production" by Jeff Loveland (a historian of encyclopedias) and Joseph Reagle situates Wikipedia within the context of encyclopedic production historically, arguing that the features that many claim to be unique about Wikipedia actually have roots in encyclopedias of the past.
The Wikimedia Commons 2012 Picture of the Year contest has ended, with the winner being Pair of Merops apiaster feeding, taken by Pierre Dalous. The picture shows a pair of European Bee-eaters in a mating ritual—the male bird (right) has tossed the wasp into the air, and he will eventually offer it to the female (left).
Current discussions include...
Six articles, three lists, and twelve images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this month.
How can we measure the challenges facing a project or determine a WikiProject's productivity? Several prominent projects have been doing it for years: WikiWork.
Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) this week committed itself to funding the Wikidata development team, ending fears that phase three would be abandoned.
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