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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

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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.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.
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.
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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5   Ice Cold Ice (talk)         Add sources
79   Steve Kilbey (talk)       Add sources
20   More George Thorogood and The Destroyers (talk)         Add sources
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630   Tyler Hansbrough (talk) Cleanup
5   Bemidji High School (talk)         Cleanup
107   Levellers (band) (talk)   Cleanup
118   Bob Irwin (talk)           Expand
4   2011–12 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season (talk)     Expand
1   2009–10 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team (talk)       Expand
36   Liu Hui's π algorithm (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
1,747   Judas Priest (talk) Unencyclopaedic
703   TRIPS Agreement (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
176   Business models for open-source software (talk)   Merge
3   International Louie Louie Day (talk)           Merge
363   Hüsker Dü (talk)     Merge
5   Awa Tanuki Gassen (talk)         Wikify
110   Mike Pereira (talk)         Wikify
15   Liverpool dockers' strike (talk)           Wikify
2   Ana María Picasso (talk)           Orphan
2   Abi Ferrin (talk)           Orphan
1   August Reinsdorf (talk)         Orphan
7   After Everything Now This (talk)           Stub
11   2004–05 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team (talk)         Stub
11   Half a Boy/Half a Man (talk)           Stub
1   2007–08 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team (talk)         Stub
5   2004 Maryland Terrapins football team (talk)         Stub
4   Bend to Break (talk)           Stub

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The Signpost: 11 December 2013

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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.
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.
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.
This week, the Signpost interviewed the Wine WikiProject.
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.
Three articles, one list, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.

The Bugle: Issue XCIII, December 2013

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The Signpost: 18 December 2013

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This week, the Signpost interviewed the Tunisia WikiProject on the French Wikipedia.
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.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.
Seven articles, three lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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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33   Metalium (talk)           Add sources
4,082   United States dollar (talk) Add sources
5   Singsongs (talk)           Add sources
371   Technical Ecstasy (talk)     Add sources
15   Madhav Prasad Ghimire (talk)           Add sources
11   The Flairs (talk)           Cleanup
3,824   Stevie Wonder (talk) Cleanup
48   Mark Andes (talk)     Cleanup
222   2013 in the United States (talk) Expand
22   Graham Broad (talk)       Expand
116   The Library (Seinfeld) (talk)         Expand
50   Trade group efforts against file sharing (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
17   Computer Associates Int'l, Inc. v. Altai Inc. (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
102   John Lennon's musical instruments (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
6   Line of Property (talk)         Merge
3   Purchase line (talk)           Merge
12   AGM method (talk)           Merge
419   Hotfile (talk)         Wikify
5   Williamsport Sun-Gazette (talk)         Wikify
220   Deshaun Thomas (talk)   Wikify
1   Aleksei Krivorotov (talk)           Orphan
2   Adam Munich (talk)         Orphan
5   Al Basar International Foundation (talk)           Orphan
5   One Eye to the Future – Live in Italy 2007 (talk)           Stub
8   Eucalyptus jacksonii (talk)           Stub
5   2003 Northwestern Wildcats football team (talk)         Stub
19   Homburg (song) (talk)           Stub
3   1993 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team (talk)         Stub
22   Procol Harum Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (talk)         Stub

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013

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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.
Five articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia.
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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.
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.
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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