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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

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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.
Five articles, four lists, and thirteen images were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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).
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.
This week, we reflect on the anniversary of D-Day by storming the shores of Operation Normandy, a special initiative of WikiProject Military History.
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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6   Campus of Drexel University (talk)       Expand
5,765   Google Chrome (talk) Expand
41   Radio music ripping (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
16   CorpWatch (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
569   Tehran Conference (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
686   Calvin cycle (talk)       Merge
7   International Louie Louie Day (talk)           Merge
11   Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District (talk)       Merge
45   Trey Thompkins (talk)       Wikify
125   Jon Leuer (talk)       Wikify
12   Criminal Copyright Law in the United States (talk)         Wikify
1   1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team (talk)           Orphan
1   Apple Market Loss Assistance Program (talk)           Orphan
2   1983–84 Yemeni League (talk)           Orphan
5   2012–13 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team (talk)       Stub
6   1964 Indiana Hoosiers football team (talk)         Stub
16   Chris Copping (talk)           Stub
2   2006–07 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team (talk)           Stub
58   Grand Hotel (album) (talk)           Stub
5   2012–13 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team (talk)     Stub

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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

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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.
Seven articles, two lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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
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.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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.
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.

The Signpost: 19 June 2013

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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.
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.
Memeburn.com published an article on the yearning of students in South Africa for free knowledge through Wikipedia Zero.
This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.
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.
Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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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2   2005–06 Bradley Braves men's basketball team (talk)         Add sources
8   Ice Cold Ice (talk)         Add sources
19   Nadine (album) (talk)           Add sources
1,283   Archimedes' principle (talk)       Add sources
2   2011–12 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team (talk)         Add sources
11   Bemidji High School (talk)         Cleanup
5   1999 Arizona Wildcats football team (talk)         Cleanup
11   Criminal Copyright Law in the United States (talk)         Cleanup
3   2010–11 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team (talk)         Expand
2   2009–10 USC Trojans women's basketball team (talk)       Expand
12   Sheldon High School (Sacramento, California) (talk)         Expand
24   Amelia Fletcher (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
49   Radio music ripping (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
1,534   Backup (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
7   International Louie Louie Day (talk)           Merge
11   Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District (talk)       Merge
104   Anti-piracy (talk)         Merge
46   Trey Thompkins (talk)       Wikify
5   1981 Colorado Buffaloes football team (talk)         Wikify
17   Steve Dior (talk)           Wikify
2   1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team (talk)           Orphan
3   Aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotroph bacteria (talk)           Orphan
1   Auguste Island (talk)           Orphan
56   Grand Hotel (album) (talk)           Stub
14   Chris Copping (talk)           Stub
17   Matt Pegg (talk)           Stub
4   2012–13 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team (talk)       Stub
135   Sailing (Rod Stewart song) (talk)         Stub
8   Josh Phillips (musician) (talk)           Stub

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVII, June 2013

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You do actually plan on improving those articles right? The first time I undid your edits was after three days. Yesterday you reinstated them, and that was it. It is not that Wikipedia works with a deadline, but there is no use of having articles around in bad shape either. If you are not going to improve them any time soon, I suggest we redirect them again, and maybe you can start your own subpage for them, and make them as best you can. --Soetermans. T / C 09:26, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

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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.
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.
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.
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.
A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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.
Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.
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