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Latest comment: 12 years ago by EdwardsBot in topic The Signpost: 25 February 2013


The Signpost: 04 February 2013

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

Help me?

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Hello there, I'm trying to appeal my ban. Can you please help me to do so? --Երևանցի talk 21:44, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

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

MoS sock

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Did I hallucinate a block of this guy by you, or was that undone by you or someone else? Evanh2008 (talk|contribs) 08:30, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Factocop (again)

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I'm asking that this editor's 'Troubles' restrictions be reapplied. These 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are not "per IMOS", as they should be only too well aware. If they don't understand the wording of IMOS, they shouldn't be editing in this area. If they do understand it and insist on imposing their mistaken 'interpretation' anyway, they should still not be editing in this area. Have left a note accordingly at "Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles" RashersTierney (talk) 23:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

lets be clear, highking is going page to page replacing Republic of Ireland with Ireland. i count 30 or so edits like this in last 2 months. i made these reverts given that Northern Ireland is mentioned in text per IMOS.Factocop (talk) 05:39, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Lets be crystal clear. You are stalking another's edits and reverting them on sight because you don't like how an element of IMOS is worded, despite its clarity to everyone else. Your inability not to edit disruptively in this area is long past a joke. I am in no doubt that your new-found obsession was kicked off by my edit here, per your very next edit (see time stamps)RashersTierney (talk) 08:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Dont refractor others comments FC, you are on here long enough to know this. And on point, if you correctly read IMOS, and the discussions, its not if NI is mentioned in the same article, but in a context similar. Murry1975 (talk) 05:52, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
And for what its worth Organic farming doesnt mention NI, so that is just purely a hounding/disruptive revert that you gave an incorrect summary for. Murry1975 (talk) 06:16, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Just realised FC said he was going by the reference source on that on not IMOS, but it is a very clear revert. Murry1975 (talk) 06:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Please don't twist the facts here.Factocop (talk) 10:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
ohh right, I'm the one who has misread IMOS. Here's my issue, Highking is going page to page replacing Republic of Ireland with Ireland, quoting WP:IMOS as the reasoning. I honestly thought that when Northern Ireland is mentioned in the body of the text that then Republic of Ireland would be used. Following recent allegations at ANI, regarding Highkings behaviour, I had to check it out and found these edits [1],

[2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. What is weird is that Rashers is the user who reverted all of the edits I made, sparing Highking any breach of 1RR, then Murry turns up to lay the boot in as well. Let me edit please without constant harrassment.Factocop (talk) 10:05, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

"Constant harassment" is a pretty good description of Factocop's behaviour in relation to any article that might afford an opportunity to bray his/her POV endlessly, even if the topic is one in which he/she appears to have very limited knowledge or expertise; for instance, making repetitive and pointless interventions into discussions around Gaelic sports for the sole purpose of stirring the Derry/Londonderry pot. Brocach (talk) 11:43, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Very rich Brocach, very very rich.Factocop (talk) 11:46, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Knock knock ArbCom. Anyone home? RashersTierney (talk) 23:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Is there such a thing as WP:WITCHHUNT? TC, just look at the edits made by highking/rashers. Heres one example [9] where NI and ROI are linked in the same paragraph. If that isnt the same context, then the definition of the word has changed.Factocop (talk) 00:09, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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

A barnstar for you!

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  The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
Thanks for your (sadly forgotten) program, Kissle! Looks great; I'm looking forward to future updates. Kevin12xd (contribs) 00:56, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

User talk:-- -- --#Unblock request

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Hello Tim. This user is requesting relief from an autoblock. Since you placed the original block, perhaps you can leave some advice on his page. The message about checkuser blocks indicates that there must be more to the story. I can't tell if he is likely to be the person for whom the block was intended or an innocent bystander. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 02:22, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

refactor

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Please don't refactor other user's comments like you did [10] here. Page was perfectly readable with the table showing (and more convenient to the reader, actually). NE Ent 03:30, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

User:Ajayupai95

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Hi Timotheus. User:Ajayupai95, whom your checkuser investigation showed up as a sock of Vrghs jacob, is vociferously protesting his innocence. In the interests of a quite life, I've acceded to his demands for another checkuser, and have asked WilliamH to take a second look - nothing required on your part, this is just a courtesy note to let you know. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 08:42, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

But....

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But everybody loves blue boxes! KillerChihuahua 01:06, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Great talk at the NYC Wikipedia Day!

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I really learned a lot about ArbCom, and appreciated it all. I only wish you'd had more time for Q&A. Keep churning out that sausage! -Thomas Craven (talk) 23:51, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

upping to hard block?

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Any strong negative consequence to upgrading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Block/2A01:E35:8A39:10A0:0:0:0:0/64 to a hard block? I was just going to block the range when I discovered your existing soft block.—Kww(talk) 17:25, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

No, go for it. T. Canens (talk) 13:58, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject Articles for creation Needs You!

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WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive
 

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from March 1st, 2013 – March 31st, 2013.

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Thank you

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For this. Even if the decision is to go by motion, I appreciate that you know the deal here. It is good to have an ex-AE admin on the ArbCom. Puppy (talk) 23:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

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