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The Signpost: 30 October 2013

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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291   The Flying Burrito Brothers (talk)       Add sources
489   Larsen & Toubro (talk)     Add sources
4   Persia (EP) (talk)           Add sources
706   Lidl (talk)     Add sources
9   Simchat Beit HaShoeivah (talk)           Add sources
2   1996–97 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team (talk)         Add sources
81   New Day Rising (talk)         Cleanup
2,702   DisplayPort (talk) Cleanup
266   Steve Alford (talk)     Cleanup
64   Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood & The Destroyers album) (talk)         Expand
2   2010–11 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team (talk)         Expand
18   Paul Martinez (talk)           Expand
7   2011–12 Baylor Bears basketball team (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
38   2009 Miami Hurricanes football team (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
151   College rivalry (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
873   Genderqueer (talk)     Merge
50   Hüsker Dü discography (talk)         Merge
5   Georgetown Tigers football (talk)       Merge
5   1999 Arizona Wildcats football team (talk)         Wikify
1,195   Rolex (talk) Wikify
3   1981 Colorado Buffaloes football team (talk)         Wikify
3   Babubhai P. Vaidya (talk)         Orphan
2   AudioConexus (talk)           Orphan
1   Achlysiella williamsi (talk)           Orphan
0   2006–07 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team (talk)           Stub
14   Nadine (album) (talk)           Stub
9   Ace Records (United Kingdom) (talk)         Stub
2   1964 Indiana Hoosiers football team (talk)         Stub
7   2003 Maryland Terrapins football team (talk)         Stub
4   The Spirit of Nøkken (talk)           Stub

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The Signpost: 06 November 2013

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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Ebionites 3 case has closed with an interaction ban for the two editors involved in the dispute.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Category:Recipients of the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award

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Category:Recipients of the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor (talk) 21:20, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award

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The Center Line: Fall 2013

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Volume 6, Issue 4 • Fall 2013 • About the Newsletter
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The Signpost: 13 November 2013

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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.
Five articles, two lists, one topic, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.
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.
This week, we followed the intricate storylines of WikiProject Soap Operas.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

The Signpost: 13 November 2013

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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.
Five articles, two lists, one topic, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.
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.
This week, we followed the intricate storylines of WikiProject Soap Operas.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

The Bugle: Issue XCII, November 2013

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The Bugle: Issue XCII, November 2013

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68   S.F. Sorrow (talk)         Add sources
1   2005–06 Bradley Braves men's basketball team (talk)         Add sources
1   2011–12 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team (talk)         Add sources
6   Jammed (talk)           Add sources
6   Back with Two Beasts (talk)           Add sources
1   Pharmakoi/Distance-Crunching Honchos with Echo Units (talk)           Cleanup
482   Iron sight (talk)   Cleanup
1,787   Dental braces (talk)   Cleanup
0   2009–10 USC Trojans women's basketball team (talk)       Expand
990   Monday Night Football (talk)   Expand
672   Amnesia (visual novel) (talk)       Expand
516   MagicJack (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
123   The Breakthrough (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
36   Radio music ripping (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
4   Rhody the Ram (talk)         Merge
398   Coprime integers (talk)         Merge
17   Riot in Cell Block Number 9 (talk)           Merge
5,206   Forest Whitaker (talk) Wikify
7   The Day After Yesterday (talk)         Wikify
45   NET Act (talk)           Wikify
1   Ahmadpur, Uttar Pradesh (talk)           Orphan
2   Alfred Latour (talk)     Orphan
1   American National Standards Institute Nanotechnology Panel (talk)           Orphan
5   2003 Oregon State Beavers football team (talk)         Stub
7   1991 East Carolina Pirates football team (talk)         Stub
5   El Momento Descuidado (talk)           Stub
2   1954 Maryland Terrapins football team (talk)           Stub
3   Beside Yourself (talk)           Stub
7   Forget Yourself (talk)           Stub

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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