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This edit was a joke. The editor you need to block is here. Sean.hoyland - talk 12:07, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure that that's my idea of a joke... I will investigate the matter further, as for the second link, it seems to me that the matter has been handled by other admins already. Snowolf How can I help? 12:14, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

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No harm done, and I appreciate the care you took to get a second opinion. cheers Nishidani (talk) 15:46, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

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In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.
A recent, poorly researched and poorly written story in the Register highlighted the perceived "cash rich" status of the Wikimedia movement. ... The Telegraph and Daily Dot, among others, have alleged that there are multiple links between the WMF, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and Kazakhstan's government, which is, for all intents and purposes, a one-party non-democratic state.
On 27 December the Wikimedia Foundation announced the conclusion of their ninth annual fundraiser, which attracted more than 1.2 million donors. The appeal reached its goal of US$25 million, even though fundraising banners ran for only nine days.
In the first of two features, the Signpost this week looks back on 2012, a year when developers finally made inroads into three issues that had been put off for far too long (the need for editors to learn wiki-markup, the lack of a proper template language and the centralisation of data) but left all three projects far from finished.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early development of the MediaWiki software and is now the lead software architect for the foundation's mobile development team.
At the beginning of the year, we began a series of interviews with editors who have worked hard to combat systemic bias through the creation of featured content; although we haven't seen six installments yet, we've also had some delightful interviews with people who write articles on some of our most core topics. Now, as we close the year, I would like to present some of my own musings on the state of featured content—especially as it pertains to systemic bias and core topics.
This week, we're celebrating the New Year from Times Square by interviewing WikiProject New York City. Since December 2004, WikiProject NYC has had the difficult task of maintaining articles about the largest city in the United States, many of which are also among the the most viewed articles on Wikipedia. The project is home to 22 Featured Articles, 7 Featured Lists, 32 pieces of Featured Media, and a lengthy list of Did You Know? entries.
Northeastern University researcher Brian Keegan analyzed the gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. ... A First Monday article reviews several aspects of the Wikipedia participation in the 18 January 2012, protests against SOPA and PIPA legislation in the USA. The paper focuses on the question of legitimacy, looking at how the Wikipedia community arrived at the decision to participate in those protests.

Request for comment at ANI page

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Hello Snowolf, since you are familiar with the partisan I/P article editing environment, perhaps you'd consider commenting on the following: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Comments_by_Ubikwit_and_Evildoer187.--Ubikwit (talk) 08:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hello Snowolf. I wonder if you would be kind enough to undo the protected page status of the article Brahman as some erroneus statements have become fixed and i would like to correct them. Thank you very much. 81.106.127.14 (talk) 07:19, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

 Done, I had merely downgraded a pre-existing full protection earlier. Snowolf How can I help? 14:24, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Abhay Gupta (Wicki) (talk · contribs)

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I noticed that you appeared to have suppressed all of this editor's edits. I'm sure this is a sockpuppet of Abhay Gupta Varanasi. Did he write about himself being a cricket player? -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:26, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for poking me about this, wasn't familiar with this case. While I do not wish to comment in public on the specific nature of the edits, I have blocked the user as a suspected sock of User:Abhay Gupta Varanasi. It is pretty obvious that it's the same guy. Again, many thanks! Snowolf How can I help? 04:45, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
No problem. He is one of the quieter socks since he sticks to just his user page. I noticed the new account when I was doing a poor person's CU. He is not very creative with his new account names so he is easy to pick out. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:12, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 21 January 2013

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A proposal is not a policy page, nor an article. And indeed, it is considered disruptive to edit a proposal during an active straw poll (XFD is one example, see also some discussions concerning the recent Arbcom election as well.)

So protection in this case was merely "preventative, not punitive".

You're welcome to your opinion, but that in itself is all it is.

Incidentally, no worries, I'll just see about placing any future proposals in user space so that such nonsense will be avoided in the future. Shrugs.

Happy editing. - jc37 21:04, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

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There's a massive BLP violation at http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Glascock It shows up in a Google search. Do you know how to get rid of it? Note that it was raised at Wikipedia:Help desk#A Page About Me. Ryan Vesey 02:44, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I see you've found some other steward to assist you, right? Snowolf How can I help? 07:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

unblock on hold at User talk:TheIrishWarden

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I certainly don't disagree with the initial block, the user was claiming to have 20 socks and was trolling user talk pages. However, a CU didn't find a single one, nor has any substantive accusation of socking based on behavior been made that I can see. While they are not 100% "owning" what they did they are characterizing it as a stupid remark that they regret, and which is false in every regard. I don't see what basis we really have to keep this user blocked, they seem genuinely sorry to have done something so stupid I wouldn't expect to see this particular problem from them again, and was thinking of an unblock. Checking in with you as blocking admin first. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:17, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

By all means, do as you see fit :) I do not have any particular insight to offer, merely saw the message and blocked the user. I see I mentioned some "vandalism", but I really have no recollection of what I might have been referring to, as a quick check of the contributions I did earlier did not reveal any such thing. So by all means, act as you think best ;-) Snowolf How can I help? 00:20, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick reply, I've gone ahead and unblocked. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:30, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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I have opened a discussion at WP:AN regarding an unblock request by this user. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:08, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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.

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

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Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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) J Milburn (talk) 01:09, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Vandalism Warning Toolbox

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A barnstar for you!

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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For cleaning out the sock drawer and denying recognition. Evanh2008 (talk|contribs) 23:51, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! Snowolf How can I help? 11:41, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for mopping out my talkpage Elen of the Roads (talk) 02:53, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
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Could you possibly assess my request for permissions over at the test wiki?—cyberpower ChatOnline 16:24, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot.—cyberpower ChatOnline 19:01, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
No problem. Do feel free to poke me directly on testwiki if you need anything, despite wild claims to the contrary, my talk page there is actually monitored :D Snowolf How can I help? 19:34, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Ok. Will do. :-)—cyberpower ChatOnline 19:39, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

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Recently I was having a casual conversation with a friend, and he mentioned that he spent too many hours a day playing video games. I responded with a comment that I, too, spent way too much time on an activity of my own – Wikipedia. In an attempt to reply with a relevant remark, he offered something along the lines of: "So have you ever written anything?" After a second, I quickly answered yes, but I was still in shock over his question. It seemed to be rooted in a belief on his part that using Wikipedia meant just reading the articles, and that editing was something that someone, hypothetically, might do, but not really more likely than randomly counting to 7,744.
"WP:OUTING", the normally little-noticed policy corner of the English Wikipedia that governs the release of editors' personal information, has suddenly been brought to wider attention after long-term contributor and featured article writer Cla68 was indefinitely blocked last week. This snowballed into several other blocks, a desysopping by ArbCom, and a request for arbitration.
Three articles, six lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on "Laura Secord", who was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 best known for warning the British of an impending American attack.
This week, we tuned to WikiProject Television Stations, a project that dates back to March 2004. WikiProject Television Stations primarily focuses on local stations, national networks, television markets, and other topics related to television channels in North America, the Caribbean, and some Pacific countries. The project has a fair bit of work ahead of them with over 4,000 unassessed articles and only one Good Article out of 626 assessed articles, giving the project a relative WikiWork rating of 5.262.

Wikidata weekly summary #48

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I sent to you an e-mail. Thanks you in advance for your answer. Best regards, --RoyFocker (talk) 09:11, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I have replied :) Snowolf How can I help? 11:17, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

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I am pleased to announce that the Signpost and Wikizine have reached an in-principle agreement that will see Wikizine published as a special Signpost section at the beginning of each month.
During March, three of the Wikimedia Foundation's grantmaking schemes on Meta will reach important crossroads, which will shape how both the editing communities and Wikimedia institutions handle the distribution of donors' money across the movement.
Twelve articles, five lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including an image of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, a front-engine, 2-seat luxury grand tourer automobile developed by Mercedes-AMG.
There are three open cases, and a final decision has been given in the Doncram case.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court Cases.
The WMF has aborted a plan to deploy version 5 of the Article Feedback tool (AFTv5) rolled out to all English Wikipedia articles.

Wikidata weekly summary #49

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    • Development
    • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
    • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
    • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
    • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
      • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
      • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
    • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
    • Selenium tests for multiline references
    • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
    • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
    • Selenium tests for language-table
    • Implemented in-process caching for entities
    • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
    • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
    • Improved error reports from the API
    • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
    • Added a table of content to item pages
    • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
    • Finished implementation of References-UI
    • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
    • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
    • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
    • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
    • More work on RDF export
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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
    • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
  • Open Tasks for You
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Another chat about bots?

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Hello Snowolf. I hope this finds you well. We chatted about bots last year when I was working on my dissertation project. I'm working on a new project now that looks at bots and bot policies across different language versions and policies. I'm wondering if you'd be willing/interested in chatting again to talk about cross-project differences, and how Wikidata is/will affect bot communities and interwiki bots. IRC, Gchat, Skype, or whatever works for you would work for me. I'm sure you must be quite busy, so thank you in advance for your consideration.

Here's the legal stuff I need to give you:

You can learn more about me and download my dissertation here, and please let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to leave a response here, on my en.wp Talk page, or email me here if you have some time to chat, and thank you in advance for your consideration.

This research has been approved by the Institutional Review Boards at both the University of Oregon and Endicott College. (Feel free to request a copy of those protocols). UOJComm (talk) 23:32, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 18 March 2013

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Just two months into his second term as an arbitrator on the English Wikipedia, Coren resigned from the Committee with a blistering attack on his fellow arbitrators. At the heart of a strongly worded statement, posted both on his talk page and the arbitration notice board, was the claim that ArbCom has become politicised to the extent that "it can no longer do the job it was ostensibly elected for".
This week, we composed a tribute to WikiProject Composers. The project was created during the final hours of 2004 and finalized in early January 2005. It has grown to encompass over 8,000 pages, including 26 Featured Articles and 23 Good Articles. WikiProject Composers faces a difficult workload, with a relative WikiWork rating of 5.45.
Ask librarians what they think about Wikipedia and you might get some interesting answers. Some will throw up their hands about the laziness of the Google generation and their overdependence on Wikipedia. Some see it as the "competition". And some will tell you it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Nine articles, seven lists, eleven images, and one topic were promoted to "featured status" this week on the English Wikipedia.
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Wikidata weekly summary #50

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  • Development
    • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
      • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
      • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
      • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
    • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
    • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
    • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
    • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
    • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
    • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
    • Support for multi-line references in diff view
    • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
    • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
    • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
    • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
    • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
    • SMWCon Spring NYC
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
  • Open Tasks for You
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIV, March 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #51

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
    • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
    • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
    • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
    • Selenium tests for qualifiers
    • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
    • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Newline 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
    • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
    • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
    • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
    • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
    • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
    • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
    • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
    • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
    • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
    • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
    • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
    • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See note at the end of this weekly summary
    • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
    • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
    • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
    • Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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Hi Snowolf. I've been trying to contact you through emails and through the contact form on your website for a few weeks now. I have several addons that I'd like to add to your WoW 2.4.3 website so my guildmates have an easy time finding all the addons they need for raiding and PvP with the guild. If you could get back to me ASAP, that would be great. I really need to be able to provide my subordinates with a website to find everything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MalakaiMalice (talk • contribs) 22:13, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 01 April 2013

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The Wikimedia Foundation has released its latest report card for the movement's hundreds of sites. The WMF has published statistics about the sites since 2009, but only recently have these been expanded in scope and depth to provide a rich source of data for investigating the movement and the world it serves. Dutch-born Erik Zachte is the driver of the WMF's statistical output, and he writes that the report card and accompanying traffic statistics comprise "enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while".
This week's Report is dedicated to answering our readers' questions about WikiProjects. The following Frequently Asked Questions came from feedback at the WikiProject Report's talk page, the WikiProject Council's talk page, and from previous lists of FAQs.
The Signpost interviewed prolific featured content creator and former Signpost "featured content" report writer Crisco 1492 about ? and Indonesian cinema. ? was the "Today's featured article" for 1 April 2013. 1 April is popularly known as April Fools' Day in many countries.
The first round of individual engagement grants (IEGs) have been awarded, disbursing about $55.6k (€42.7k) to seven applicants.
A case brought by Lecen involves several articles about former Argentinian president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
Users of ten Wikipedias got access to phase 2 of Wikidata following its first rollout to production wikis.

Wikidata weekly summary #52

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
    • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
    • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
    • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
    • Implemented string formatter
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
    • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
    • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
    • We hit Q10000000
    • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
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The Signpost: 08 April 2013

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Numerous Wikimedia Commons editors have chimed in on the Wikimedia Foundation's deployment of a new feature to its mobile website. Allowing anonymous users to register and upload pictures for use in an article, the feature was placed prominently at the top of Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.
This week, we felt the world tremble in the presence of WikiProject Earthquakes. The project was started in May 2008 to deal with articles about earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, plate tectonics, and related articles. While the project has seen success building 14 Featured Articles, one A-class Article, and 21 Good Articles, a fairly heavy workload remains, with a relative WikiWork rating of 4.94. WikiProject Earthquakes maintains a portal, a list of open tasks, a popular pages listing, and an article alerts watchlist.
Last Friday, the Wikimedia movement awoke to news that one of their number—Rémi Mathis, a French volunteer editor—had been summoned to the offices of the interior intelligence service DCRI and threatened with criminal charges and fines if he did not delete an article on the French Wikipedia about a radio station used by the French military.
The arbitration committee is looking for expertise in Argentina and the Spanish language for a case involving former Argentinean president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
Four articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The deployment of phase 2 of Wikidata to the English Wikipedia, originally scheduled for 8 April but delayed due to technical problems, may be rescheduled again as the result of community resistance.

Wikidata weekly summary #53

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  • Development
    • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
    • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
    • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
    • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
    • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
    • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
  • Events/Press
    • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
    • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
    • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
    • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
    • There is a new user right: property creators
    • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
    • We now have Bureaucrats
    • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
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The RfA process is widely discussed here on the English Wikipedia and it has been well documented that less and less new Requests for adminship are being filed. There are an abundance of bytes devoted to the discussion and analysis of this situation and plenty of hands have been wrung over the matter. Various RfCs have attempted to find a way to fix the problem. Many proposals have been made offering solutions, some more potentially drastic than others, with the goal of making the changes necessary to kick–start RfA back into regular action. However, Wikipedia operates based on consensus and, to this point, there are have simply been too many disagreeing views for us to reach a consensus on how to increase RfA activity.
This week, we ventured to WikiProject South Africa. The project was started in February 2005 and is home to thirteen pieces of featured material, two A-class articles, and twenty-one good articles.
The most recent move to reform the requests for adminship process on the English Wikipedia has failed, after a complex and drawn-out three-step procedure for community input was subject to decreasing participation as time wore on and came up with no clear consensus.
Four articles, twelve lists, and seven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

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    • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
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    • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
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    • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
    • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXV, April 2013

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The Signpost: 22 April 2013

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An article by John Sweeney published on 22 April 2013 on scnow.com, the website of the Florence, South Carolina Morning News, reported that Florence city officials have taken to monitoring and correcting the Wikipedia article on their city.
This week, we spent some time with a project that develops tools and methods for improving the user experience in the hope that new users will continue editing the encyclopedia. The project was started in July 2012 and has grown to include 124 members. The project's members partner with the Teahouse and the Welcoming Committee to spread WikiLove, welcome new users, encourage civility, and other related activities.
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Nine articles, four lists, eight pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
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On Monday, the English Wikipedia became the 12th wiki to be able to pull data from the central Wikidata.org repository, with other wikis scheduled to receive the update on Wednesday.

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Thank you for asking questions at my RfA . This is just a friendly notice that I have replied to them. I have not yet begun processing comments on any votes, if you left any and if I reply to them I'll ping you here again. Cheers, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:53, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for leaving comments at my RfA. This is just a friendly notice that I have replied to them. Regardless of your vote, and your decision to continue this conversation or not, I appreciate you taking your time to vote in the the first place. Cheers, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:05, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

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For the wikignome fix at [3]. I couldn't figure out how to do it, and you got to it before I even got around to asking at WP:VT. Cheers, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:35, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

No problem, glad to be of help :) Snowolf How can I help? 13:34, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

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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.
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.
Nine articles, three lists, three pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" this week.
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:".
The WP:TOP25 and WP:5000 reports chronicle the most popular Wikipedia articles on a weekly basis.
The Sexology case closed shortly after publication with no changes.
A report on an online service which was created to conduct real-time monitoring of Wikipedia articles of companies, and more.
This week saw the deployment of the Echo extension, also known as "notifications".

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Notifications box replacement prototypes released

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Hey Snowolf; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:51, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 06 May 2013

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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.
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.
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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 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.
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.
Fourteen articles, three lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia, including Boletus luridus, seen above.
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.
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 Bugle: Issue LXXXVI, May 2013

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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.
This week, we traveled to WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. The project was started in May 2006 and has 37 featured articles.
On 16 May, the Spanish Wikipedia became the seventh Wikipedia to cross the million article Rubicon, a symbolic yet important achievement.
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.
Nine articles, six lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

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FYI, Ched's block didn't affect the rest of Cluenet, because it's impossible to autoblock a bot; see this code change, which was implemented after this proposal. Nyttend (talk) 23:15, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

See this and this. This may be the age of the 'Net but people still SHOULD come before bots. That you, an admin, talked to another admin that way makes it even worse.PumpkinSky talk 23:21, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
I am fully aware that flagged bots have IP-block-exempt :) Unflagged bots do not tho, which is why we should be very careful when blocking bots still. Snowolf How can I help? 05:09, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
You were ahead of me, then. I only learned about it because I decided to give IPblockexempt to all of the Cluebots, and thus I found someone removing it from one of them with a link to the Bugzilla page as rationale. Nyttend (talk) 12:05, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Just FYI, ClueBot NG is flagged. This is because it routinely hits the default non-bot limits of the API. There was a change early on in the original ClueBot's life that allowed bots to mark their edits as bot edits or not. ClueBot and ClueBot NG both choose to not mark their edits as bot edits, but they do have the flag. -- Cobi(t|c|b) 21:36, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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This link which you reverted was posted by VolframoKarbido (talk · contribs), a sleeper sockpuppet of the banned User:TungstenCarbide. Could you please block the sock? Prioryman (talk) 21:38, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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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 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.
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.
This week, we plotted out the demarcations of WikiProject Geographical Coordinates, which aims to create a single standard of handling coordinates in Wikipedia articles.
Twelve articles, four lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
An article in Library Review offers a much-needed comparison of data from a population of editors outside the English Wikipedia.
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

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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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Another admin give me a talk and right to do the thing remining. Your administration action is not prudent. --777sms (talk) 14:38, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Not entirely sure that spamming the hell out of the RC again is a good idea, but I removed it because I assumed you fixed the lot given the last AWB edit was 40 minutes ago. Is that not the case? I'm confused. Snowolf How can I help? 14:40, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
You shoul have read the talk and history first. Another admin give me a talk and right to do the thing remining.--777sms (talk) 14:42, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Actually I did read the talk and the history. Merely got confused by the fact that you haven't used the right since he gave it back to you 40 minutes ago and assumed he had given it back to you earlier. Screwed up on the timeline, I have reverted myself. Snowolf How can I help? 14:43, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I think you are abusing of the right of administration. Administrator should be prudent, but you are not. Do not abuse the right of admistration.--777sms (talk) 14:48, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I think this is all a big misunderstanding :) Snowolf also removed it thinking you were done, and has since added it back since they realised that the only reason you had not edited was because I had removed previously :) Nothing to do with abuse! ·addshore· talk to me! 14:51, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

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.

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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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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.
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Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.

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This request refers to the deletion of Page on Prerna Suri ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prerna_Suri )

I would request you to reinstate the page since it refers to the Al Jazeera English and NDT Correspondent Prerna Suri.


http://www.ndtv.com/topic/prerna-suri http://blogs.aljazeera.com/profile/prerna-suri http://www.jcefmfp.com/speakers/prerna-suri-al-jazeera-english/--

Thanks

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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.
Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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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sei tu snowolf di terredeicelti?ho bisogno di te urgentemente contattami appena puoi

Beh, il mio utente con quel nome su TerreDeiCelti e' stato disabilitato anni fa' ormai, ma si, sono lo stesso. Puoi contattarmi via email tramite Special:EmailUser/Snowolf. Snowolf How can I help? 19:49, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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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.
This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.
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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.
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".
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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.
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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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Hey Im "Teori Johnson 2" Thanks for taking my personal infomation but can you please teach me how to use wikipedia good and how do you put speedy deletions? and become good at wikipedia and also , earn barnstars? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teori Johnson 2 (talk • contribs) 08:25, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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Sno: I think this kid's gonna have to go. He just re-added the edit you made. He also has a bio article about himself. I'll find that and let you know. You can block, right? Thanks for the quick help. Regards, --Manway 08:28, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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hey i do not like what ! Manway is doing to me !! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teori Johnson 2 (talk • contribs) 08:30, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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he so annoying me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teori Johnson 2 (talk • contribs) 08:32, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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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.
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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.
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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.
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388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
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14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
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27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
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3,006 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B The West Wing (talk) Add sources
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Pounce (calligraphy) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
175 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Rollerball pen (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Flex nibs (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Asus VivoTab (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Sensacell (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Abdullah Mohammed Al-Hugail (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
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23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
3,006 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B The West Wing (talk) Add sources
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Pounce (calligraphy) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
175 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Rollerball pen (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Flex nibs (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Asus VivoTab (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Sensacell (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Abdullah Mohammed Al-Hugail (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Retipping (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content
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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
3,006 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B The West Wing (talk) Add sources
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Pounce (calligraphy) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
175 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Rollerball pen (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Flex nibs (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Asus VivoTab (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Sensacell (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Abdullah Mohammed Al-Hugail (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Retipping (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day
Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality
Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content
Is more content needed?
Headings
Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images
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Links
Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources
For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
3,006 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B The West Wing (talk) Add sources
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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
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6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
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27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Pounce (calligraphy) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
175 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Rollerball pen (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Flex nibs (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Asus VivoTab (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Retipping (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
3,006 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B The West Wing (talk) Add sources
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Pounce (calligraphy) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
175 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Rollerball pen (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Flex nibs (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Asus VivoTab (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

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Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Asus VivoTab (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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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3,006 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B The West Wing (talk) Add sources
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Pounce (calligraphy) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
175 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Rollerball pen (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Flex nibs (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Asus VivoTab (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Sensacell (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Abdullah Mohammed Al-Hugail (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Retipping (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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3,006 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B The West Wing (talk) Add sources
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148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Anosy Region (talk) Please add more images Wikify
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

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Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
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117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
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63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
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23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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148 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pen spinning (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nib (pen) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Shambat (city) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,129 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Computer graphics (talk) Please add more sources Expand
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ink brush (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Expand
520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Educational technology in Saudi Arabia (talk) Please add more wikilinks Wikify
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6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Abdullah Mohammed Al-Hugail (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Retipping (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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Quality
Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

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Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
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1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
904 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Atari 2600 (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
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6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Dayemi Complex Bangladesh (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Sensacell (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Retipping (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Qalam (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub In the Room (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
27 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Paint marker (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Kalamos (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:25, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

ANI notice

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 22:46, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXIX, August 2013

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21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Pounce (calligraphy) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
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39 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Togo (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Mali (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
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520 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Gyo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B House of Saud (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Datacard (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
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388 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Wearable computer (talk) Please add more sources Merge
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Economy of Trinidad and Tobago (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
90 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Group of Five (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
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Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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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.
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.
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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.
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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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

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    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
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    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
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    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
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    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
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    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
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    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIX, August 2013

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64 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Sharp Zaurus (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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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.
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.
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.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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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.
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.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
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.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
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    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIX, August 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #72

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    • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
    • Started work on an api module to merge items
    • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
    • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
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The Signpost: 21 August 2013

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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.
98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.
This week, we secured free admission for WikiProject Amusement Parks, the project dedicated to amusement rides, roller coasters, theme parks, traveling carnivals, and funfairs.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate ___location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
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    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
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    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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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.
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The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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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.
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A news-heavy week offers some insight, perhaps, into humanity's priorities.
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."
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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.
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).
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status last week on the English 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.
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 Bugle: Issue LXXXXX, September 2013

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Snowolf - as a courtesy to you as the Steward, I wanted to let you know that I have re-opened my application for adminship on test-wiki, as I have what I believe to be a compelling reason to apply for the rights (see the grant reference that will entail development of an extension). However, I am not sure what the protocol is for re-opening requests, so I merely commented out your "notdone" template (as I am guessing a bot closes marked requests) and felt it appropriate to contact you. If this was out of protocol, please let me know and I will revert my changes (or you can do so, if you would prefer). Thank you for your time, and have a great day! --Jackson Peebles (talk) 00:58, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Nothing to do with my role a steward, I acted as a local bureaucrat. Closed requests are not supposed to be re-opened, but you are free to file a new request, of course. I have reverted your changes so you can file a new request. Snowolf How can I help? 01:02, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, resubmitting following protocol. --Jackson Peebles (talk) 19:04, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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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.
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.
Fox News writer Perry Chiaramonte published an article detailing Wikipedia's alleged abandonment of its fight to remove pornography.
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.
This week, we continued our exploration of other language editions of Wikipedia by visiting the Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto Fútbol (WikiProject Football).
Twelve articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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.
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.
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The Bugle: Issue XCI, October 2013

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The Signpost: 23 October 2013

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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.
Media, sports and Google Doodles dominate, though a very odd fish decided to crash the party.
Twelve articles, four lists, and four pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on cabbage.
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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.
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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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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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.
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Hey Snowolf! I am Petrb, one of core developers of Huggle, the antivandalism tool, which you are beta testing (according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers). I am happy to announce that Huggle 3 is ready for some testing. You can read more about it at WP:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta. Please keep in mind that this is a development version and it is not ready for regular use. That means you must:

  • Watch your contribs - when anything happens you didn't want, fix it and report a bug
  • Frequently checkout source code and build latest version, we change it a lot

If you find any problem with a feature that is supposed to work perfectly, please let us know. Some features are not ready yet, it is listed in known problems on Huggle3 beta page, you don't need to report these - we know it! So, that's it. Have fun testing and please let us know about any problems, either using bugzilla @ http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or #huggle connect. Please respond to my talk page, I am not going to watch your talk page. Thank you Petrb (talk) 10:58, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

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.
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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.
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The Bugle: Issue XCII, November 2013

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The Bugle: Issue XCII, November 2013

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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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Huggle 3 beta is out - and we need more feedback!

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Hey Snowolf, how are you? I am Petrb, one of huggle developers, and you are currently subscribed as a beta tester of huggle on meta (meta:Huggle/Members. You may not have noticed, but this week I released first beta precompiled installers for ubuntu and microsoft windows! Wikipedia:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta has all the links you need. So if you can, please download it, test it and report all bugs that is really what we need now. Don't forgot that as it's just a beta it's unstable and there are some known issues. Be carefull! Thank you for helping us with huggle Petrb (talk) 16:25, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #86

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Hey, this is confirmation that I am who I say I am. Graham87 04:18, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #87

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Wikidata weekly summary #88

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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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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.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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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