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Welcome

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I saw your entry on the New Users page, especially your note about American English. Make sure you read over the national varieties of English policy. -- Essjay · Talk 08:13, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

That's not what I meant, I swear! I didn't mean to imply you couldn't use American English; I just wanted to give you the heads up about the way Wikipedia deals with the diversity of "versions." There have been "edit wars" over using one way or the other and new users can easily get "bitten" by other users if they make changes without realizing that there's a policy. (It wouldn't be the first time someone innocently changed "center" to "centre" or "honor" to "honour.") Rencently, there was a flare up over "gasoline" v. "petrol"; I wouldn't want you to wander into the middle of something like that unprepared. Just trying to keep the "vicious" users at bay by giving you the heads up; I feel like the lion tamer! "Back you bitter oldies! He's new! Back I say!"

I hope you enjoy the wiki, and if you have any questions, let me know. :-> -- Essjay · Talk 09:07, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Hello!

I just saw your one of comments recently, and I wanted to stop by and say another welcome to the Wikipedia community, and also have a Happy 17th Birthday! =) --Andylkl ^(talk) July 2, 2005 03:47 (UTC)

Reverting

Hi there. I saw your summary at the Carrie Underwood article, and I've noticed that you said that you didn't know how to revert. Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version is the link that will show you how to revert articles to previous versions. I hope this will be of great help to you! Regards, --Gramaic | Talk 07:46, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

point of inflexion

I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov 15:30, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

nudity and speedy deletion

Hello. A picture containing nudity clearly does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. If you want that image deleted, follow the proper image for deletion process. Some related pages that you may want to read over include:

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors - where it states that pornography related articles may contain nudity
Wikipedia:Deletion policy - all aspects of the deletion policy
Wikipedia:Content disclaimer - the general disclaimer of content

-- JamesTeterenko 15:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

American Samoa

Thanks for the heads up on the U.S. Congressional Delegations from American Samoa. This wasn't never meant to be an article, per se; but they were meant as Templates for the Congressional member articles floating around . - Hoshie | Support the Chagossians! 08:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Adaminaby

Thanks. I was doing several at the same time and I must have hit this one by mistake. CambridgeBayWeather 09:05, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hopen directing to Smøla

Hi there, You were asking why I blanked out the redirecting of Hopen to Smøla. It's simply because they have nothing to do with each other!
Smøla is as described correctly in Wikipedia a municipality far away from Svalbard and the Hopen redirecting to it.

I think there might be a confusion with Hopen Brygge, which is part of Smøla.

Best regards. /John.

-- ** ADDED LATER ** --

Hmm. OK, I suppose it is in a way correct to redirect it as Hopen is ALSO indeed a part of Smøla. Sorry for what I wrote earlier. The reason I blanked it out in the first place was that I stumbled upon it when reading about the 3 islands of Svalbard and Hopen there linked directly to Smøla through that redirect.

So, there is are obviously two places in Norway that can be refered to as Hopen, and I therefore I still don't think there should be an automatic redirect to Smøla.

Best regards, /John.

Redirect

No need to tell me of something like that...and I really can tell the difference between a banana and a chemical. Trust me. :) If you look at the edit history, you'll see the original entry was near nonsense. Redirects have the advantages of being both cheap and preventing red links. - Lucky 6.9 07:38, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Eagle River

You put the cleanup tag on Eagle River, Alaska, and I'm a native of there, so I could help you out. I just don't quite know what to add. DevastatorIIC 20:53, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

My message about the bolding was directed at people who might want to de-bold the list of winners. I wanted the winners in bold so that I could add the nominees later in unbold--if someone unbolded the winners just because the nominees weren't added yet, it would be more difficult for me to re-bold when I added the nominees! So don't look at the top of the list (where nominees haven't been added yet), look at the bottom of the list where there are nominees. Some bold is certainly needed so that the winner stands out; I'm not really sure whether the winning writer should be bold as well. In terms of emphasis, I think both the name of the play and the name of the writer deserve emphasis; this award is given to the writer's contribution to the play, not to the play as a whole. It doesn't really matter to me, so I'll yield to your judgement in the matter. If you think one line out of four in bold is too much, I won't object. What does need to be changed, in my opinion, is the winner being on a separate line from the year. That I'm changing back, because it's important to do that to make the winner stand out--that way, it's easier for the eye just to pick out the winners from year to year with the indentation. If there's any other formatting thoughts you have, feel free to post at Talk:Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and we can discuss it there.Kevin M Marshall 04:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

English spelling

I noticed your comment on Talk:Main Page that said Wikipedia is written in American English except for certain cases. This is not the policy. For the English Wikipedia, there is no preference among the major national varieties of English. Though articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country should generally conform to the spelling of that country. Evil Monkey∴Hello 04:31, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rick_W._Vanover

Thanks for pointing out the deletion of this article. I am new to Wikipedia (I mean editing it, not reading) and is getting a feel of things. Will be careful next time..

PeaSea

selfref template

Thanks for fixing {{selfref}}, but do you know why the editors included that <hidden> part with the {{main}} and See also in the first place? (And this has been a recent addition as well). —jiy (talk) 02:09, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I meant <noinclude> oops. I understand why it would be used for things like categorizing the template into say Category:Wikipedia maintenance, but shouldn't comments, rationale, usage instructions, etc. go in the template's talk page? Actually, it seems User:Zondor has been applying this convention of including meta-info within the template for several templates. I'm not sure if he's doing this alone or if there is some discussion behind it? Personally I find it confusing. —jiy (talk) 02:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Use of "minor edit" tag

Greetings, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I notice you left a comment several paragraphs long at Talk:Proof that 0.999... equals 1. You tagged the comment as a "minor edit", which is not what you want. A typical minor edit corrects spelling or punctuation. Busy editors can hide all minor edits from their Watchlist if they choose; they would never be aware of your comment. Since all your edits are tagged minor, it's likely that you selected that option in your Preferences under the Editing tab. Either choice is fine of default is fine, but you still need to decide for each edit whether it is minor. For your protection, I would recommend not using "minor" as default, because it's a mere nuisance if a truly minor edit is not so tagged, but it is considered bad behavior to tag some major edits as minor.

There is no need to reply, but if you wish you can do so here. Happy editing. --KSmrq^T 08:26, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I leave that by default is because the majority of my edits are minor. :) x42bn6 Talk 08:30, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Rick Vanover"

Rick vanover does not give 36000 google hits. With quotes it gives 83 hits, which is definitely a lot less. (my name in quotes gives 15 hits and I haven't authored a book. Any I support the deletion of the article.. PeaSea

The ratio test

You are right. I replaced the text with what is in your sandbox. With one exception, I like the period (.) inside of the math tags. Otherwise, if it is outside, it can look a bit misaligned, and sometimes it even goes to a new line. Thank you for your patience. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:39, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I replied on my talk page, to keep all discussion in one place. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:01, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And I replied again. on my talk page. :) Let me know when you get that article done. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:07, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Method of differences

Hi. I know the method of differences under the name telescoping series, and we already have an article under the latter name. I know, it's very annoying, isn't it? I put a merge tag on your article, but afterwards I thought that it would be nicer to tell you personally. So here you are. Would you mind looking if you can combine the articles? I especially like your discussion on how it does not always work. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 17:57, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My fault. I did not recognize the method as telescoping series when X42bn6 mentioned it to me before writing the article. Yes, I guess the two will need to be merged now. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:35, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Template choice

I've changed it again to {{lowercase-user}}, lol. There's a category as well. Hopefully if the software ever changes to allow lowercase titles, that will allow users who want their name changed to quickly do so. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 16:45, Jan. 30, 2006

Regarding Digimon and Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime)

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. The most recent change I've done to the Digimon page is changing the vocal credits for the 02, Tamers, and Frontier ED songs. Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime) is not on my watchlist, so I don't edit anything on it. Soulsteelgray 02:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Loewemon

I know it's a bit mad to say this - and I know you've no real reason to believe me, as I'm just some guy you've bumped into on Wikipedia - but while Frontier was airing in the US, I was in regular contact with the dub director, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, to gain information on voice actors and such things for my [website]. She confirmed that "Loewemon" spelling for me as the one used in the show's scripts, but since the character's name never appeared onscreen, and since Bandai called him "Loweemon," that spelling never really entered popular use with fans. - Chris McFeely 30th December 2005

Technically, they are the same thing mind, as oe is a way of writing ö without the umlaut. Oh, and PS.. while I'm also just another random person on the internet, I can vouch for Chris' veracity on matters concerning the Digimon dub Shiroi Hane 03:12, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Digimon Systems Update

I'm trying to get some stuff done over at the digimon wikiproject, and have reorganized the project page. I also added a To-do list. In hoping we can collaborate. Circeus 17:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

True Love

Your edit to True Love introduced piping to the disambiguation page. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) prescribes not using piping on disambigaution pages. Thanks, --Commander Keane 09:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Huh?

What are you talking about? If it is about Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board, if you look at the edit history, you'll notice the multiple exclamation marks were there before I added the link to the PR release. If not, then I honestly have no idea what you are talking about; I can't remember the last time I even used an exclamation mark on Wikipedia. -- llywrch 02:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We all make mistakes. If you still feel guilty, edit a random article. ;-) llywrch 03:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ratio test

Well, f is usually associated with a function, while a, b, c, are usually associated with either constants or cconstant coefficients (that change with n if its a_n etc). So I changed it to f to make it ever so slightly clearer that the ratio test takes the nth *function* of the summation series, rather than a coefficient or constant. Fresheneesz 10:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Manchester United

Yeh sorry I realised I'd been doing something wrong after a while so I posted on the talk page, because I wasnt sure. My apologies. What does it mean to pipe links? Philc _T+C 11:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no, I think youve misunderstood what I was doing, I was unpiping all the Manchester United links that linked to Manchester United F.C., partly because as far as I am aware the club is named Manchester United and not Manchester Untied F.C., as it changed its name. I posted on the talk page about this though, because no-one else seems to have mentioned it, so it might not be true. Philc _T+C

Sorry

I'm sorry if you think I'm too new to be an adminship but I've been being a Wikipedian since December, 2003. I just didn't have an account. I know all about Wikipedia. I have interviewed many Wikipedians and have even made friends with a few. I WAS a perfect adminship nominee. An old nominee, General Eisenhower 17:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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thank you for your feedback on my edits of the article for the footballer 'Alan Smith', and although out of respect for your work i have not changed what you wrote there, i feel the need to point out that i disagree with your appraisal of my contribution. firstly, i wrote that all incidents involving friction between smith and leeds united supporters were 'alleged' which is different from saying that they definately occured. in addition, as a leeds united supporter and someone who is in constant contact with many other leeds supporters, i can say definitely that alan smith DID offend many leeds fans by moving to manchester united, and that he did not finish the season by kissing the badge, but rather cursed at leeds fans during his final away game. west yorkshire police also advised against smith appearing in the testimonial for former leeds player Lucas Radebe in 2005 because they were unable to guarantee the security of the match if Smith took part. this is clear evidence that Smith's relationship with Leeds supporters is tarnished beyond repair, following his comments and actions immediately prior to his departure from the club. this negative apsect of his reputation has been completely glossed over in the article on Smith's career, however, and i feel that this is fundamentally wrong, and that it is not in the best interests of wikipedia accuracy to ignore these extremely negative aspects of his character. as you are a more senior editor, however, i leave it to your discration to decide what is right. thank you - perry w.b. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pxw324 (talk • contribs)

Mega Digimon

My uncle might not be called a reliable source but Bandai New York has an article about it on their information website but good luck finding the website funny boy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by April2 (talk • contribs)

I'm assuming you can keep this person (↑) in check? I'll be going off. Circeus 02:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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You are of course totally right, I think I slipped that one in a moment of distraction. Anyway, thanks for the heads-up though. Take care --Xasf 08:26, 11 August 2006 (GMT+3)

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Manchester United F.C.#Sokongan

Please see my respons on your edits at Malay's Kedai Kopi. :) &mdash Polar 16:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Help desk question

Hi. I've made an edit to your help desk answer regarding a user's edit. As I'm sure you're aware of, WP:BLP encourages us to avoid unsourced negative info about living persons, and we could avoid repeating such comments inadvertently. Just a note. Thanks for helping out at the desk. Cheers. Xiner (talk, email) 03:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Françoise Chandernagor

Thanks for the clean up, it needed it, and I hope to learn from it. Is external link a reference? <Yoradler5 15:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)>[reply]

Re: Your comment

I know no one "owns" a page, but I should get credit for making one if I started it in the first place. -- Silva Storm

But surely you must get some "personal satisfaction" in knowing that you began a page for something that turns out to be quite popular? -- Silva Storm

Barnstar

Thanks! The guy had some nerve, so I was only too happy to minimise the damage he was causing. - Dudesleeper · Talk 00:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

question

why'd you remove my question from aiv page? It's a legit admin question. Rlevse 00:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. no problem.Rlevse 00:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

x42bn6

Your username is more like a password. I suppose that after a while I'll be able to keyboard it without checking it over and over. I also suppose that it's not without significant meaning, why else? ;-) --hydnjo talk 08:24, 3 March 2007 (UTC) Oops, fixed username. --hydnjo talk 19:18, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

just so you know

you are threating me and me and Craxy were doning nothing please stop threating and we have the freedom if a black man was to beat you up because you did first thats called self defence and should not be accused of vilonce this is not a threat or mad note this is simpley telling you to please repeat PLEASE stop threating me and my homie im only mad at Kyltym because of his rude aggenst Blacks and Hispanic note —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Butterrum (talk • contribs) 04:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

sir i do not like or love and will not take racisum he should be warned as well and tell that guy that is saying im racist to please back off i was only using self defence and will not take this i dont not like the fact 100 people are warning me for nothing he should be warn ~Jesus loves remeber that~ and freedom is beatiful

yes i do bealvie your claims of me being cool but nop that is not what started this this is a new issue i am curtly angered by the fact of him saying he hates Blacks and Hispanics and he shall also be warned

i demand to talk to the owner of wikipedia all the adfmin are curropted and seem to follow one person--Butterrum 10:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This user has been throwing around accusations of racism, personal attacks, and corruption for some time (and is probably lucky not to have been blocked for them); when asked for evidence, he simply repeats the accusations at louder volume. I've tried to find any evidence for his accusations, but have failed. Judging by his writing, it may be that his reading skills have misled him as to what other editors are saying (though that might be assuming good faith one step too far). Have a look at my Talk page for a taste. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 13:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GTA gang-wars

Yeah, I semi-protected one page and have been trying to persuade people to be nice to one another and concentrate on putting type to page, rather than getting caught up in feuds. Probably best this is dealt with by multiple admins, so it can be seen as impersonal. TimVickers 04:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Love at first sight

You misunderstand me. I am not one to deny that love at first sight exists, or that couples fortunate enough to be blessed with it find courtship unnecessary. However, in its earlier version, the article implied that it was enough for one person to fall in love from first sight for the courtship ritual to be abandoned. As I am sure You'll agree, this is not the case. I simply wanted clarity. --132.69.234.73 20:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:John O'Shea (footballer)

I remove some lines at the discussion page for John Francis O'Shea page (the footballer), that had no reliable source. Other persons had replied to the material and therefor I removed that also making the discussion page for John Francis O'Shea blank. I can't see any wrongdoing. Infact if any person can put a comment on a articles discussion page with remarks to sexual preferences with no reliable source I might be tempted to put one here and I will complain if you remove it due to lack of source material. "Controversial material of any kind that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.243.177.248 (talk • contribs).

Re: Canvassing

Thank you for your message and your concern. Actually, I did not consider myself in any danger of running afoul of the canvassing guideline, as it allows for friendly notification of a limited number of familiar, like-minded individuals. All of the people who have been notified have been previously involved in some capacity in the most recent, style-related discussions connected with the Clamp group and its work, with the two most vocal supporters of stylized typography in these matters - pfahlstrom and Kyaa the Catlord, I believe the later voiced the respective canvassing concerns - already being present at the table. Regards - Cyrus XIII 23:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hi X42bn6. Thank you for your support in my RfA. Rest assured that I heard every voice loud and clear during the discussion, and will strive to use the mop carefully and responsibly. Please don't hesitate to give me constructive criticism anytime.

Now, let me smother you. Xiner (talk, email) 13:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

well

what im talking about is all the admintors are leting a single person get away with some stuff a user was dealted and he didnt state why he deated him or blocked him at all and this certain user is sort of controlling aidmin to come here say that i cant spell then leave or even let me write anything and i already listed the resion for my stuff all the admin i know are to curropt or is/are sockpuppets--Butterrum 16:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm Sorry

I just want to apologize for all of this nonsense I'm dealing with; I'm doing my best not to egg him on, but it seems like it's not doing any good, and more and more people, perhaps unnecessarily, are getting involved. Something that was a simple content dispute between 2 editors 4 months ago has become something much worse. I just wish to apologize for all of the stress this may have caused you. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 18:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

True, but I didn't want any other people dealing with this "jackass-edness" I had to deal with for more that 3 months. It's pretty annoying and I'd rather no one else have to deal with it. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 00:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

your bent

im geting clean admin to take a look at this problem he threaten me and your not even doing anything about ti he swore to thyis is called Fraud you chould be stripped of your rank as a admin so i got a few clean one to scope this out and deal with certin users that are bending admin --Butterrum 02:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

because i need help i need tusted help because i hate that theres curroted users and people geting blocked because of crazyness and that im blame for sock puppeting i dont need your help if your the one thats making it even more worse--Butterrum 14:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry & Immaturity

Both Craxy and Butterrum have been getting in on the sockpuppeting craze; I don't have any concrete evidence but I'm sure it's them; check my talk page. Man, this is annoying.... ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 15:19, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind; Mel Etis (I hope I spelled that right) has handled it. Thanks anyway. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 15:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No need. It's been taken care of: Mel Etitis blocked him, along with a sockpuppet of Butterrum's. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 23:58, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tag deletion problem

Thanks for the intervention on Talk:Pallywood. Regarding the deleted tag, I can't restore it due to 3RR - could you please sort it out? -- ChrisO 01:09, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

unless it is in bad faith

unless it is in bad faith - and this is not bad faith. see POV pushing discussion

as for the rest of your argument, i believe that people who have some expertiese on the topic have shown why it is indeed notable - you can examine the article for starters, and i believe i've included some still missing information in my linked reply (i.e. "jenin, jenin" + pierre rehov, full length ducumentry, response). Jaakobou 03:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the wikipedia without a face

well i dont know if i should trust you anymore after all you did suspect me of sockpuppeting and helped that user Klyptzm out and made up lame and fake excuses to get me blocked without proof of me being a sock puppeting or helping others many users have been blocked from wikipedia becuaser of the gta article and they trace to KLP he makes fuin of how i type man this should be taken care of if i owned wikipedia id stop the rage and battle started by that kid there is no justice in this place no more just corrupted and the bent all frauding therre way out of troble and geting people blocked i dont wanna list a complant because i know your just gonna tell Klp again and start this mess all over like u said you have a thick skin--Butterrum 14:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes i do wanna file a commplant and i looked at the edits i made on its page theres nothing wrong with him and see he blamed me for somthing witfch he hid he wrote this witch i retreved from your page Both Craxy and Butterrum have been getting in on the sockpuppeting craze; I don't have any concrete evidence but I'm sure it's them; check my talk page. Man, this is annoying.... what is that then huh you helped him --Butterrum 14:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thats because he was harrasing me first always saying on a Sean mc Sean charater and junk or Craxy he blocked a kid because he said he was a sock puppet lots of people are being blocked because of him and i wanna end this YOU GOTTA HELP ME this is going on for tio long and what dose that haev to do with anything--Butterrum 17:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ok but you gotta help me an other user lost there account and they were blamed for sock puppeting WITHOUT PROOF and now im being blamed i have to say yes thats me for everything to stay out of troble im paranoid here i dont know who to trust at all anymore the only people i trusted arer blocked they had proof on Klyptzm to but scien there blocked i cant get any proof besides ones that your gonna say is useless he broke the 3RR rule but no 1 did anything i did it before and i got blocked for it nahh i dont think this is a excelpida i think this is GRand Theft Auto Wikipedia--Butterrum 14:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

but why is Liberty City's Miguel, ptpGTA and GTAXI all got blocked and when i checked it said these words BLOCKED for SOCKPUPPETING then it said the suposovly owner Craxy i think this is becominhg stupid and sorry i didnt know whaqt 3RR was i thought it was short for reverting well ok ill stop till we finally find out what is what--Butterrum 15:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:List of gangs...

That's just the thing: it is resolved; Butterrum will never agree on something that isn't going his way. I've, along with other users, have told him why he's wrong, yet he still persists to add those incorrect edits to the article. You've told me to stop reverting the article until that dispute is resolve; crap, you might as well tell me to wait until forever, because that's exactly how long it's going to take. Go take a look at the talk page archives to see what I mean. I had to archive the page 2 times due to his unnecessary stubborness. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 21:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh heh, we'll see, man, we'll see.... ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 22:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:DotA

It will be allowed to add dota.brainmarket.ru to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DotA in case if i will add all listed in article types of DotA maps to my download section? I can extend content of my site to cover all DotAs not only Allstars. Regards, Rrrichi.

North Buffalo

Please see the discussion on the Talk:North Buffalo, New York page regarding your change of the name.
T.C. 03:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, not sure if I followed your instructions correctly. I tagged North Buffalo, Buffalo, New York for speedy deletion, but it did not get blown away yet. Maybe I just need to be patient, but could you take a look to make sure that I did it right?

T.C. 02:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, North Buffalo, Buffalo, New York got turned down for speedy deletion. What should I do now?

T.C. 01:41, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to say, thanks for the help, expecially as I know you didn't completely agree with my idea here. I was thinking about creating articles for all of the different neighborhoods just so that all of the names would be defined already. If I just put a title into those articles do you think that they would just be deleted right away?

T.C. 03:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help desk help.

Now most of the alt codes work :) but I still cant get the smileys :(. Thanks again for your help, Razorclaw • 20070419161452

Thanks for assist with DeVry article

Thank you for the assist with the DeVry article! I like the new layout and phrasing on the site -- I think you found the compromise that myself and the other major current editor of the page weren't able to find on our own. I'm happy to see other editors jump in and work on the page, whereas before it was being very much driven by one user's vision of the article. OtterZero 17:11, 21 April 2007 (UTC)OtterZero[reply]

Thanks for fixing the logo. You're doing some great work on the DeVry article - keep it up! Vagary 22:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ranjit Fernando

Good job on the BLP pruning. Looks like we got it right before it got under lock and key. :-D --Iamunknown 00:53, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

regarding the DeVry issues

Thanks for catching my unsigned warning notices on Codeplowed's talk page. I wasn't sure if those are intended to be signed or not, but I think you're right, it's better with a signature.

I also saw that you removed the latest rant that he added on the DeVry talk page. I know the Wikiguides permit removing un-civil content, but I wonder in this situation if it might be better to leave it in place and instead use strike-text tags and then add a comment about why it was struck.

The only reason I suggest that is I have a feeling this is going to be an administrator case pretty soon and it might be less confusing that way.

Just a suggestion - You're within your rights and the policies to choose either method.

Have a good day... --Parzival418 22:19, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Received & understood your message on my talk page. Do you want to let this go for a while and monitor the page as you have been, or are you considering WP:AIV or WP:RFC/U? I'm not directly involved in editing the article and just came to help from seeing the Wikiquette Alert, so I don't feel it's my place to start that kind of report. If you decide to proceed though, I would be willing to add third-party comments about what I observed. --Parzival418 22:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for informing me about the misplaced warning on my user page, I've moved it to the talk page and replied.

I notice there is a problem with your user page too. It seems it was tagged for speedy deletion and now it is redlinked, though your talk page and contribs are still here. That might be a technical glitch unrelated to the ongoing issues, but I thought you should know so you can check it out.

Meanwhile, I also saw your continuing discussions with Codeplowed and that he again removed all the warnings from his talk page. I'm not going to do anything further on this unless he harrasses me directly. But if you decide to proceed with a report and need support, please let me know.

Good luck... --Parzival418 23:18, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Got your note about remodeling your page. I noticed in your prior comment, you mentioned RfC. I've never done one of those myself, but I saw it done regarding someone else and as it turned out it was rejected. The main thing is to make sure you use the right one. Plain Wikipedia:Requests for comment is for articles and other stuff; for user issues you need Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct. Instructions are at Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Request comment on users. RfC/U page has detailed proceudres. You need to have at least two editors certifying the problem with that user, and showing examples of how they tried to resolve it directly first. I think you have several others who would certify, but it's important if you do that method to get it set up in advance so it doesn't go stale. The certifying entries need to be made within 48 hours or they drop the request.

I wonder for this situation if it might be better to use Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism or Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, because those are less formal. This is all just casual advice though, I don't know for sure what's best. Once an administrator is invovled, they might not see it the same way as you do, so that's something to consider as well. --Parzival418 23:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, seems like you know what you're doing with those procedures. Let me know if you need any help later. Have a good one. --Parzival418 23:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Thanks for informing me of the COIN report. There are some comments there now you might want to read. I'm not able to keep going with this though, it's been too much work for me already. At first things seemed to improve but the multiple talk page reversions and edits of others' comments is a real mess. If that were an article I really cared about, I think I would try to find an individual administrator to ask for help rather than continuing to post procedures. I don't know, unless things are really obvious the procedures can take a lot of time - you have to show evidence, lists of diffs, concise explanations so they can review it fast. Maybe you can just ignore the disruptive stuff and as long as several editors are improving the article, so what if the talk page is messy? Sorry I couldn't help further. Good luck! --Parzival418 03:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"And the personal attacks on myself are not so bad - I can handle it - I am more concerned about the others involved." - I agree with you on that, I feel the same way. As I said, I'm burned out on this one so I'm letting it go for now. But if you need someone to back you up on a report or something, let me know and I'll chime in. --Parzival418 03:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New development, someone posted an RFCU. You may wish to view or comment at: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Codeplowed --Parzival418 _Hello 22:04, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism Warming

You already has complained about my posting, therefore, continue just work to improve Wikipedia content, I just tell you that at the end of the day DeVry Inc. will be something but a University, Controversy is part of any entry DeVry as you have learned and perhaps do not want to see it, has multiple systemic problems. "Personal attacks do not include civil language used to describe an editor's actions, and when made without involving their personal character, should not be construed as personal attacks, for instance, stating "Your statement is a personal attack..." is not itself a personal attack." However, you have cross the line, and not probably we need arbitration, it is fine for me, but you deserve this warnings, that previously were stipulated in DeVry:Talk page in very civil manner, Template:Unsigned -->

Please do not use talk pages such as Talk:DeVry University for general discussion of the topic. They are for discussion related to the article. They are not to be used as a forum or chat room. See here for more information. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned

vandalism. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by --Veritas Longa 22:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

last warning

This is your last warning. If you continue to use talk pages for inappropriate discussions you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

User:NE2

You don't understand. I have been having a problem with this user and as much as I try to have good faith for him, nothing I do works. He has problems with other users too, as seen on his talk page and his archives. I feel like giving upon him, but I won't. He needs to learn that if e continues, he'll get blocked for trolling, and one user gone doesn't make no difference. —Imdanumber1 (talk · contribs) 23:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why put a 1px + and "Stop hand" image

If you read the content of this div, you will see that I used this means (normal text, talk) for more than one month, which lead to endless talk. Encouraging to stop revert and to start a WP:RfC mediation, and encouraging to work on user:Yug/Stroke order, all was declined. Then, in impasse, the image, and the div were really need, but I still encouraged a RfC. EB open a Administrator/Incident.

I'm admin on Wiki-fr and Commons, I don't like endless talk and big opposition, but I have no other way when EB came and revert (!!! exactly what I think is abusive) my warning div, which highlight EB previous mistakes.

Since, this 1px line's edition war has become the primary point of contention because it's the only think he have to get me blocked, and "win". This will de facto means he was right on all the line (not read the talk page but hasty reverts, ask my blockage). This is, I think, what he want to show now : that he didn't any mistake. --Yug (talk) 12:38, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other thing more fun, I look for contributers who want help me and my English, on Stroke order/Temp. If you are interesting, please notice me. Yug (talk) 13:19, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Self-compassion

There may be copyvio problems with this article. See my comment at Wikipedia:Help desk#Article rename? before spending a lot of time on it. PrimeHunter 22:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here a two sentences with a Google hit:[1] and [2]. Many of the references are probably not searchable with Google. I don't know how well you know the subjcet (I know nothing), but a creation like this with six self-references and own website might also have WP:NPOV problems. PrimeHunter 22:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If some of the article is ok, then maybe a rewrite could solve copyvio and npov problems. I don't know the field. You could ask people at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Psychology to take a look. PrimeHunter 23:15, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

) hey there :P

Removing log entries of edits to user page

Woaw, long title. Anyway, is it possible to remove a couple of entries in the log of edits of my userpage? thanks. Storm talon 09:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC) 11:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Oversight. THF 11:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: That doesn't exactly remove the entries. It simply hides them (from non-oversights). x42bn6 Talk Mess 11:39, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help.Storm talon 06:43, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image problem?

hi, thanks for answering my question...but i still have some problems about it. can you please take a look here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_contributors%27_help_page#Image_problem

Thanks, and hey! are you a chinese? 你看得懂中文字嗎? 如果是就好極了:-)

Winniee852 07:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey hi!! i've made my reply here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_contributors%27_help_page#Image_problem

thank you for your kindness! you know what, you're just like my cousins, they moved to england where they were born, and i can hardly talk with them becuase my english sucks!=D Thanks again!

Winniee852 12:39, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bug Fixing

Hiya, thanks for the heads up - it might be useful to put in the edit summary that you are bug fixing though; an edit summary "test" on a regularly vandalised article will attract RC patrollers who will revert on sight. Cheers! Pedro | Chat 07:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

It'd be more helpful if I could get some input on this though. I've already put it up once, but as usual it just faded into the archive.--Crossmr 15:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC) I'm not sure what was wrong with the link and how you checked his block log, but according to: [3]. He has 8 blocks for uncivil behaviour.--Crossmr 14:15, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MJis4Freaks

No that warning was for the first time he vandalised my page, Im complaining now about the second occurance as well as him comments on the michael jackson talk page, Let me no. Realist2 10:39, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh great, its just wierd there isn`t a blocked message on his user page, how are less experienced users like myself ment to no any action has been taken? Realist2 10:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, thats for messaging him, it does seem odd there is no banned sign put up, I always ashumed that was the norm, thanx again, at least he`s blocked.Realist2 11:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your work with WP:HELPDESK. Good work! --Shark face 217 09:51, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That "edit war" (undeclared conflict?) on AN/I

Great job and thanks for stepping in and handling that. You rawk. - Philippe | Talk 04:34, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

level 3 headers

No problem, when I first restored the headers I hadn't yet looked at the edit history to see why they were changed. Once I checked the page history I realized that I had caused confusion when the next person posted their question with a level 3 header also. --69.118.235.97 17:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Digimon

I brought this up before (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Digimon#Fair use + lists) but didn't get much of an idea.

That is a direct quote from you, pending our current position at the project. I find that you yourself are partially to blame, I actually replied to the comment you posted. Yet you never replied back with a rebuttel, so there was not much we could do at the time. I'm not trying to be rude, but I believe the way this has gone and been done has been really unfair. Trainra 12:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless, it is done. Fair or not you/we technically need to figure out what to make of the situation rather then try to find "blame". Forgive me if I misunderstood the point of that paragraph though. ODK 00:03, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lists Reply

If you want to ramble on about Digimon Lists, talk to me about the future of them. The past is done and whether you did involve yourself or not is a Moot point. Oy, just give it a rest already. ODK 17:30, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This was apparent over a week ago, so why does it really matter now of all times? ODK 13:25, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious

When you added new section by posting at Sambure's talkpage: here. Why did my post get replaced? Dekisugi (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well I suspected that so. Don't worry, I reposted again. Dekisugi (talk) 15:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

latex

[4] is what I get. It doesn't seem to want to go to the right... Randomblue (talk) 20:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with uploading the latex picture is that the background color of the box is not the same as the white background. Randomblue (talk) 20:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Reference tags

Hi! Just let you know I first added the Reference correctly but for for some reason my first edit wasn't registered. Probably my fault but anyway thanks for the reminder - Linczone^Talk^/^Watch 16:41, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why I wanted help

Click on the link to my talk page and you will see.Sometimes somethings (talk) 04:09, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for taking the time to sort out the time line. Should have assumed good faith all along. Sorry for wasting so much board. --soulscanner (talk) 01:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

for your help in fixing the broken link in a reference note...

it is much appreciated!

jb —Preceding unsigned comment added by Projectx (talk • contribs) 02:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Youth Offending Team Glossary

I think Deb lost her rag with me, despite strenuous attempts to satisfy an inexplicable desire to wipe me out.

I am astonished at this conduct - although old enough to know that I shoudn't be.--SJB (talk) 22:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Youth Offending Team Glossary

Deletion Review for Youth Offending Team Glossary

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Youth Offending Team Glossary. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. SJB (talk) 23:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Re;[5]

Thanks for checking the issue with the VBS:Malware-gen. Much appreciated.--Hu12 (talk) 00:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Committed identities

Thanks for the info. That helps. Richiar (talk) 06:36, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Weird edits by Akradecki

About the weird edits that Edibility was reporting, it's just two vanity bios that got userfied in a non-standard way. No harm done. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:31, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying

Hi there. Thanks for trying to answer my question and i sent a message to Henrik who created the wiki hits page and he told me the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Henrik#Most_visited_User_page I wasn't at all surprised to see the Clown there. Just one other thing i hope you can help me with. Do you have any idea what the most popular picture on wikipedia is, as in the most number of users who have it on their page. Say for example look at the users for this pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:010105_fireworks2.jpg Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 12:00, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand 2

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand 2/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand 2/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Daniel (talk) 15:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your help with my signature. I had already found a way to shorten it and it looks identical to yours, but yours looks much less messy. I think I'll use it. Thanks for the help! Moo Chat 00:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cats

Thanks! I just didn't have my brain in gear on that one! —SlamDiego_←T 15:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

deathcamps.org

Thanks for your response. I ask because I've written what would be a start class article on a rather notable Nazi, and accordingly I planned to use these references (among others) for benign, constructive purposes. Do you have any suggestions what I can do? I'd be lying if I said I wasn't quite disappointed, it feels like all my efforts have amounted to nothing. Cheers. WilliamH (talk) 10:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mmmm, I did stumble across that and some of those discussions. ~~I'll try the whitelist option.~~ Thanks for articulating it to me, it's made it a lot easier. Thanks for your help once again. WilliamH (talk) 13:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like the Holocaust Research Project is not a reliable source, and the deathcamps/death-camps content/copyright dispute is still continuing, so I'll avoid any Wikidrama and remove any references to them as Wikipedia is obviously not the place for content disputes. Cheers. WilliamH (talk) 14:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You may be interested that this is the article that came from the fruits of my labour and your help. I've put forward a hook from it to DYK, so thanks once again. WilliamH (talk) 09:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your help about my question about namespace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guitarplayer001 (talk • contribs) 21:51, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Yeah, I realized that after I'd posted. I've since blanked, will post a speedy delete request. Best, umrguy 42 23:50, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS - extra thanks for the cross-post. (They're right, you know... no good deed ever goes unpunished ;D). umrguy 42 23:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Submisve and Aggressive

I need the term fro Submissive and Aggressive they mean the same but in different ways, explain —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.196.115 (talk) 03:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I'm sorry that our first interaction has to be under these circumstances, I truly am. However, I wanted you to know that I am quite aware of the civility and no personal attack policies at Wikipedia, and I truly follow them to the best of my abilities. In this particular case, I was not uncivil, and made no personal attack. Bstone was being a jerk towards me, I don't know if Bstone is a jerk, I hope not, but he/she was acting like one, and made me feel quite unwanted and uncomfortable. It's not a good feeling to have.

Those comments weren't about the project, they were about Bstone. As I tried to explain to Bstone twice, but Bstone mocked me and belittled me for my efforts. It really didn't feel good to be treated like that, especially considering I went out of my way to try to help Bstone. Then to have Bstone lodge a complaint about me, bringing up previous faulty blocks that Bstone obviously didn't take the time to investigate...well... that just sucks. I hope you see where I am coming from, and please be assured that I am quite supportive and quite a follower of Civility, and I feel that I was attacked and treated poorly for no reason. I've been calm throughout, believe me, there wasn't a need for you to tell me to calm down, let alone twice. ;) For me to be reprimanded for being treated poorly just isn't right nor fair. Beam 03:18, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well then, you sure are helpful. :D Beam 03:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, all I can say is that Beam's comments above clearly demonstrate a lack of Assuming Good Faith, Civility and No Personal Attacks. Sorry, but I'll just have to ignore him and, hopefully, he will do the same for me. Bstone (talk) 04:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The fellow has called me a jerk, in clear violation of WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA and believes I am acting in bad faith to him. I think he needs to apologize to me, tho I will be fine if he just leaves me alone. Sans that, he may need to be blocked or take a wikibreak for violation of these three policies. Bstone (talk) 04:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for mediation, X42. It is welcome and appreciated. In reality, this user quite simply misunderstood and, then, failed to assume good faith. I was not dismissing him, but rather asking him (in a very civil, kind way) to refer all discussion about the proposal to the project talk page. At that location I would be happy to engage him in discussion. Since he didn't get his way, and took it emotionally, he then violated WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL and WP:AGF. Frankly, I am happy to ignore him and go on. Perhaps he might agree to the same. I am, however, unwilling to entertain more of his drama for this evening as it is indeed time to retire. Good night, sir. Bstone (talk) 05:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I hate it when I goto someone's talk page and see shit talked against me. Just for the record, I didn't call him a jerk, he was just acting like one. And I didn't misunderstand him (for the 10th time) I completely understood him. And I didn't violate any of those policies. But he is right that your mediation was pretty nifty. Beam 23:58, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your Box Thingy at the Top of your Talk Page

Can I steal it? Beam 23:58, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and I fixed your concern. Beam 17:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just looked at the code and I don't even know how to steal it :( Beam 18:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fasach Nua

I am quite ignorant about Wikipedia:Requests for comment. What is the recommended approach for starting a new request for comment ?

Should I just blank the existing page ? That doesn't seem appropriate.

Any advice/help welcome.

Aaron carass (talk) 14:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Aaron carass (talk) 18:20, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments on the RFC. It is insightful to see how others view this issue. I am on the fence about the edits in question; I do, however, believe that the manner in which the edits was done was really disruptive and counter productive from a time and energy point of view. Aaron carass (talk) 00:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't endorsed your comments as I cannot endorse "There is no excuse for being disruptive", I think a certain ammount of disruption was needed to get this issue on the agenda. I did my best to keep this on the low end of disruption, enough to stimulate the issue, without causinng too much hastle. I had raised the issue in a polite manor several times in WP:FOOTY and it was repeatidly ignored. I think your summary is 99% correct Fasach Nua (talk) 12:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On another note, this seems to be doing some good, [6], [7] and there seems to be an ongoing sensible discussion at WP:FOOTY. You are right abuot my approach that "...people jump on this and use it against him/her", so I am not contributing to thread at WP:FOOTY, as it will be too much of a distraction to some people and they will focus on attacking me, rather than dealing with the real underlying issue. Fasach Nua (talk) 13:01, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Translated page template

I had a loooong discussion about this with PrimeHunter here, and in the end I concluded that I will continue placing the Translated Page message on the Article page, not the Talk page. But thanks for your concern.--Goodmorningworld (talk) 02:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am a reader too, and I know that I would appreciate it if people put a message on an article page stating that I am reading a translation instead of a unique text in a particular language. Your question, "How does this help the reader", could just as well be asked of a book whose title page says, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, transl. by William Weaver. According to your logic, the name of the author does not belong there. Most readers of Eco, however, would disagree.

For a while, the message also served another purpose for me, namely of covering my rear. Until today, I had not had the time to verify each and every statement in the German article. Now I have, and I am comfortable that the information is accurate. But in the future, I will use the Template again for that purpose.

You wrote,

"If someone wishes to see the editors who contributed to the article, there's a history button - we do not need to have templates which tell users that such a button exists on the articles themselves."

Irrelevant, it's not about the editors of de:Bethmann family, but to alert readers to the existence of Bethmann (Familie).

You wrote,

Readers should not need to know where the article has come from.

Why not let the market decide? Leave the box on the article for a year, and see what responses it gets. Respectfully,--Goodmorningworld (talk) 17:08, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for alerting me to the Translation/Ref template. That seems like a good template to transition to. As of now, however, the article is not quite there yet.--Goodmorningworld (talk) 20:39, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Attempt to take advantage of X42bn6's much greater experience

In April 2008 you posted to my talk page, formally welcoming me to Wikipedia, and said in part, "If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question." Smugly, I thought I wouldn't be making any demands on those overworked volunteers, since I'd already been using markup on Wikia for years. But actually I do have a question.

Last week, I poked my head out from under my safe little gnoming force field for the very first time, and was just in time to see this start up. [8] [9] [10] My question, therefore: am I likely to find something like that every time I examine an article closely? Are Wikipedia editors now such a large and varied population, and is the spotlight of a top-10 google ranking so dazzling, that reasoned discussion must always be conducted against a backdrop of real estate speculation? Xeriphas1994 (talk) 17:54, 31 August 2008 (UTC) (If you reply, please do so here to keep the thread in one piece, thanks.)[reply]

I have indeed read that policy page, and I might even have heard about such principles before that, but they appear to address disputes only indirectly. It says that all edits should be viewed as attempts to improve the encyclopedia. It does not say anything about how often the attempts succeed. Some editors feel that the encyclopedia would be improved with a picture of their penis on the main page. Other editors are more like User:Katefan0 (before my time, but I've read about her). In between is an unbroken continuum.

In the specific case I linked above, even before the checkuser result, disinterested observers (most of them admins, I believe) seemed to emerge from the woodwork to rationally discuss what was happening. Quite frankly I am having difficulty reconciling that with the length of the list you put on my talk page. Did I just have beginner's luck? Xeriphas1994 (talk) 17:58, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies if my explanation was unclear. I was merely saying that the number of articles on Wikipedia appears to be growing faster than the number of editors who edit a lot. It seems reasonable to assume that the latter can't completely keep track of the former. Therefore, if I try to improve an article, and I don't deliberately pick one with a lot of traffic due to current real-world events, I am likely to be entering a backwoods area. Problems (the list you made on my talk page) are everywhere, due to the high profile of Wikipedia as a whole, but constructive contributors cannot be, so I always edit at my own risk. Is that a logical conclusion? Xeriphas1994 (talk) 21:27, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being so patient with me. I promise, my next couple of edits will be about content. I guess I just needed to know whether my common sense matched somebody's years of experience, in order to make an informed decision about how addicted to get. :> Best of luck with whatever you're working on here. Xeriphas1994 (talk) 16:34, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

re:message

sorry, and thank you Chineseeagle123 (talk) 14:13, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Response to ZuluPapa's outing complaint

"Pete" is not identifying information, and the other user states that, "It won't be difficult to discover my identity and I've no interest in hiding it."

This is just another attempt by ZuluPapa to use every wiki-legal and procedural means to prevent me from working on the Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo article, rather than focusing on the content. We've been through this several times. Now, ZuluPapa attempted an outing of me a few months back: ZuluPapa's attempt at outing. It didn't bother me much because it's not me. But should I have reported it? Longchenpa (talk) 20:43, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I'm from the English Wikipedia and was curious about this edit: [11]. Is this the actual mediation page on the French Wikipedia, or does it simply need its interwiki links removed? So as not to confuse the bot.

Pardon me for speaking in English, because my French isn't great. x42bn6 discuter déchets 30 mars 2009 à 18:02 (CEST)

I attempted to create a Mediation Committee on the french Wikipedia, but many Wikipedians thought it was not a good idea. So these pages were moved in my user namepace, and I forgot to remove the interwikis. It should be fixed now. Thanks ! :-) Dodoïste (talk) 16:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 25 January 2010

BLP madness: BLP deletions cause uproar

Births and deaths: Wikipedia biographies in the 20th century

News and notes: Biographies galore, Wikinews competition, and more

In the news: Wikipedia the disruptor?

WikiProject report: Writers wanted! The Wikiproject Novels interviews

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 February 2010

From the editor: Writers wanted to cover strategy, public policy

Strategic planning: The challenges of strategic planning in a volunteer community

News and notes: New CTO, Britain Loves Wikipedia, Telefónica partnership, Multimedia and more

In the news: Wikipedia on CDs, BBC uses Wikipedia content, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject Dinosaurs

Sister projects: Sister project roundup

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 8 February 2010

News and notes: Commons at 6 million, BLP taskforce, milestones and more

In the news: Robson Revisions, Rumble in the Knesset, and more

Dispatches: Fewer reviewers in 2009

WikiProject report: WikiProject Olympics

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 15 February 2010

News and notes: New Georgia Encyclopedia, BLPs, Ombudsmen, and more

In the news: Labor squeeze revisited, journalist consultations, philosophy bungles, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject Singapore

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 22 February 2010

News and notes: $2 Million donation, cybersquatting, comScore statistics and more

In the news: Macmillan's Wiki-textbooks and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject Mammals

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 March 2010

Reference desk: Wikipedia Reference Desk quality analyzed

News and notes: Usability, 15M articles, Vandalism research award, and more

In the news: Idealizing the Star Spangled Banner, Curious Announcement, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject Severe Weather

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 8 March 2010

News and notes: Financial statements, discussions, milestones

In the news: Pentagon shooter used Wikipedia, soon iPhone OS will too

WikiProject report: WikiProject Java

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 15 March 2010

News and notes: A Wikiversity controversy, Wikimedian-in-Residence, image donation, editing contest, WMF jobs

In the news: Studies on collaboration and student usage, Main Page drives traffic to Time.com

Dispatches: GA Sweeps end

WikiProject report: WikiProject Ireland

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 22 March 2010

Wikipedia-Books: Wikipedia-Books: Proposed deletion process extended, cleanup efforts

News and notes: Explicit image featured on Wikipedia's main page

In the news: Campaign for video, costs of crowdsourcing, iPhone app, brief headlines

WikiProject report: Percy Jackson Task Force

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 29 March 2010

News and notes: Usability rollout, downtime, admin phishing, Wikimania scholarships and more

In the news: Overdue correction, Critical Point of View conference, brief headlines

Sister projects: A handful of happenings

WikiProject report: The WikiProject Bulletin: news roundup and WikiProject Chicago feature

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 April 2010

News and notes: New board member, rights elections, April 1st activities, videos

In the news: Wikipedia influences drug terminology, brief headlines

WikiProject report: WikiProject Baseball and news roundup

Features and admins: This week in approvals

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 12 April 2010

Sanger allegations: Larry Sanger accuses Wikimedia of hosting illegal images

News and notes: Studying German flagged revisions, French library agreement, German court case

In the news: SCOTUS hopeful edited bio, criticism from article subject

WikiProject report: WikiProject Motorcycling

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 April 2010

News and notes: Berlin WikiConference, Brooklyn Museum & Google.org collaborations, review backlog removed, 1 billion edits

In the news: Study of featured article quality, Facebook's integration of Wikipedia, and more!

WikiProject report: WikiProject Environment

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 April 2010

From the team: Introducing Signpost Sidebars

Museums conference: Wikimedians meet with museum leaders

News and notes: Wikimedia announcements, Wikipedia advertising, and more!

In the news: Making sausage, Jimmy Wales on TV, and more!

Sister projects: Milestones, Openings, and Wikinews contest

WikiProject report: WikiProject Gastropods

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 3 May 2010

Book review: Review of The World and Wikipedia

News and notes: iPhone app update, Vector rollout for May 13, brief news

In the news: Government promotes Tamil Wikipedia, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject U.S. Roads

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 10 May 2010

From the editor: Reviewers and reporters wanted

Commons deletions: Porn madness

Book review: Dan O'Sullivan's Wikipedia: a new community of practice?

Wikipedia books launched: Wikipedia books launched worldwide

News and notes: Public Policy and Books for All

In the news: Commons pornography purge, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject Birds

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 17 May 2010

News and notes: Backstage at the British Museum

In the news: In the news

WikiProject report: WikiProject Essays

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 24 May 2010

News and notes: New puzzle globe, feature for admins, Israel's "Wikipedia Bill", unsourced bios declining

WikiProject report: WikiProject Saints

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 31 May 2010

Photography: Making money with free photos

News and notes: Wikimedians at Maker Faire, brief news

WikiProject report: WikiProject Zoo

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 7 June 2010

From the team: Changes to the Signpost

News and notes: "Pending changes" trial, Chief hires, British Museum prizes, Interwiki debate, and more

In the news: Cancer coverage, cognitive surplus, Wikipedia monarchy, and more

Free Travel-Shirts: "Free Travel-Shirts" signed by Jimmy Wales and others purchasable

WikiProject report: WikiProject Comedy

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 June 2010

News and notes: Pending changes goes live, first state-funded Wikipedia project concludes, brief news

In the news: Hoaxes in France and at university, Wikipedia used in Indian court, Is Wikipedia a cult?, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 June 2010

Sister projects: Picture of the Year results declared on Wikimedia Commons

News and notes: Collaboration with the British Museum and in Serbia, Interaction with researchers, and more

In the news: Wikipedia better than Britannica, Pending changes as a victory of tradition, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject U2

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 June 2010

Objectionable material: Board resolution on offensive content

News and notes: 2010–15 plan, Smithsonian outreach, Teaching Wikipedia, brief news

In the news: Wikipedia controlled by pedophiles, left-wing trolls, Islamofascists and Communist commandos?

Public Policy Initiative: Introducing the Public Policy Initiative

WikiProject report: Talking with WikiProject Ships

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 July 2010

News and notes: WMF expansion, community hires, award for MediaWiki, admin recall

In the news: Accidentally anonymized donation, democratized learning and more

Wikimania preview: Gearing up for Wikimania in Gdańsk

WikiProject report: WikiProject Children's Literature

Features and admins: This week's highlights

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 12 July 2010

UK COI edits: British politicians accused of WP cover-ups

News and notes: Board changes, Wikimania, Public Policy Initiative

In the news: Foundation plans, David Barton, dangerous occasional glitches

Discussion report: Article ownership, WikiProjects vs. Manual of Style, Unverifiable village

WikiProject report: WikiProject Apple Inc.

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 July 2010

News and notes: Politician defends editing own article, Google translation, Row about a small Wikipedia

In the news: Wikimania, Former Wikimedia employee looks back, Editing controversial articles

Vandalism: Vandalism edits fool media and a government, become object of bets

WikiProject report: Up close with WikiProject Animals

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: ArbCom to appoint CU/OS positions after dumping election results

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 July 2010

News and notes: New interwiki project improves biographies, and other news

In the news: Wikipedia leads in customer satisfaction, Google Translate and India, Citizendium transition, Jimbo's media accolade

WikiProject report: These Are the Voyages of WikiProject Star Trek

Features and admins: The best of the week

Discussion report: Controversial e-mail proposal, Invalid AfD

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 2 August 2010

News and notes: Canadian political edits, Swedish royal wedding, Italian "right of reply" bill, Chapter reports

In the news: Gardner and Sanger on why people edit Wikipedia, Fancy and frugal reading devices, Medical article assessed

WikiProject report: Always Expanding: WikiProject Images and Media

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution

Technology report: Major MediaWiki release, password security, vulnerable MediaWiki installations, and more

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 9 August 2010

News and notes: FBI requests takedown of seal, Public Policy advisors and ambassadors, Cary Bass leaving, new Research Committee

In the news: Wikinews interviews Umberto Eco, and more

Admin stats: RfA drought worsens in 2010—wikigeneration gulf emerging

Sister projects: Strategic Planning update

WikiProject report: Chocks away for WikiProject Aviation

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 16 August 2010

News and notes: Book publisher apologizes for plagiarizing photos by Wikipedians, brief news

Spam attacks: Large scale vandalism revealed to be "study" by university researcher

In the news: Supportive communication and missing incentives on Wikipedia, and more

WikiProject report: A Pit Stop with WikiProject NASCAR

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: ArbCom releases names of CU/OS applicants after delay

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 23 August 2010

News and notes: Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more

In the news: Zionist editing courses, newspaper denies editing candidate, net neutrality

WikiProject report: WikiProject Cryptozoology

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Proposed decision of climate change case posted

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 30 August 2010

News and notes: Most linked websites on Wikipedia, New York Wiki-Conference, and more

In the news: Agatha Christie spoiled, Wales on Wikileaks, University students improve Wikipedia, and more

WikiProject report: Studying WikiProject Universities

Features and admins: Featured article milestone: 3,000

Arbitration report: What does the Race and intelligence case tell us?

Technology report: Reusability of MediaWiki code, Google Summer of Code: Interwiki transclusion, and more

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The Signpost: 6 September 2010

News and notes: Pending changes analyzed, Foundation report, Main page bias, brief news

In the news: WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information

Book review: Cognitive Surplus, by Clay Shirky

Dispatches: Tools, part 1: References, external links, categories and size

WikiProject report: Putting articles in their place: the Uncategorized Task Force

Features and admins: Bumper crop of admins; Obama featured portal marks our 150th

Arbitration report: Interim desysopping, CU/OS appointments, and more

Technology report: Development transparency, resource loading, GSoC: extension management

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The Signpost: 13 September 2010

News and notes: Page-edit stats, French National Library partnership, Mass page blanking, Jimbo on Pending changes

In the news: Public Policy Initiative, Houellebecq plagiarism?, Article revisions as book

Public Policy Initiative: Experiments with article assessment

Sister projects: Biography bloopers – update on the Death Anomalies collaboration

WikiProject report: Getting the picture – an interview with the Graphic lab

Features and admins: "Magnificent" warthog not so cute, says featured picture judge

Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 20 September 2010

From the editor: New ways to read and share the Signpost

News and notes: Dutch National Archives donation, French photo raid, brief notes

In the news: Rush Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoax, Public Policy Initiative, Nature cites Wikipedia

WikiProject report: All Aboard WikiProject Trains

Features and admins: The best of the week

Dispatches: Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories

Arbitration report: Discretionary sanctions clarification and more

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 27 September 2010

News and notes: French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more

In the news: Wikimedia moves into India, critical conference, Vandalism detection contest

WikiProject report: Designing WikiProject Architecture

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: EEML amendment requests & more

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 4 October 2010

News and notes: German chapter remodeled to meet Foundation requirements, and more

In the news: Spanish police pursues BLP vandals, Jimbo interviewed, advice for experts and spammers

Book review: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, by Joseph Reagle

WikiProject report: Hot topics with WikiProject Volcanoes

Features and admins: Milestone: 2,500th featured picture

Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution

Technology report: Code reviewers, October Engineering update, brief news

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The Signpost: 11 October 2010

News and notes: Board resolutions, fundraiser challenge, traffic report, ten thousand good articles, and more

In the news: Free culture conference, "The Register" retracts accusations, students blog about Wikipedia, and more

WikiProject report: WikiProject Smithsonian Institution

Features and admins: Big week for ships and music

Dispatches: Tools, part 3: Style tools and wikEd

Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 18 October 2010

News and notes: Wikipedia fundraiser event, Frankfurt book fair, news in brief

WikiProject report: Show Me the Money: WikiProject Numismatics

Features and admins: A week for marine creatures

Dispatches: Common issues seen in Peer review

Arbitration report: Climate change case closes after 4 months

Technology report: Video subtitling tool, staff vs. volunteer developers, brief news

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The Signpost: 25 October 2010

News and notes: Mike Godwin leaves the Foundation, ArbCom election announced

In the news: Good faith vs. bad faith, climate change, court citations, weirdest medieval fact, brief news

WikiProject report: Nightmare on Wiki Street: WikiProject Horror

Features and admins: The best of the week

ArbCom interview: So what is being an arbitrator actually like?

Arbitration report: Case closes within 1 month

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 1 November 2010

News and notes: Foundation's finances, geodata milestone, interim counsel, museum conference

In the news: Airplane construction with Wikipedia, lessons from the strategy project, logic over rhetoric

WikiProject report: Scoring with WikiProject Ice Hockey

Features and admins: Good-lookin' slugs and snails

Arbitration report: Arb resignation during plagiarism discussion; election RfC closing in 2 days

Technology report: Foundation office switches to closed source, secure browsing, brief news

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The Signpost: 8 November 2010

Fundraiser: November 15 launch, emphasis on banner optimization and community involvement

News and notes: Second Wikipedian in Residence, {{citation needed}} for sanity

In the news: WP prose praised, Public Policy update, education debate, WP documentary

WikiProject report: WikiProject California

Features and admins: No, not science fiction—real science

Election report: The countdown begins

Arbitration report: No cases this week; Date delinking sanctions reduced for one party; History ban extended

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 15 November 2010

News and notes: Fundraisers start for Wikipedia and Citizendium; controversial content and leadership

In the news: How big can Wikipedia pictures get?; fundraising season

WikiProject report: Sizzling: WikiProject Bacon

Features and admins: Of lakes and mountains

Dispatches: A guide to the Good Article Review Process

Arbitration report: No cases this week; Amendments filed on Climate Change and Date Delinking; Motion passed on EEML

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 22 November 2010

News and notes: No further Bundesarchiv image donations; Dutch and German awards; anniversary preparations

In the news: Jimbo Wales interviewed and parodied; Wikipedia in politics

Book review: The Myth of the Britannica, by Harvey Einbinder

WikiProject report: WikiProject College Football

Features and admins: The best of the week

Election report: Candidates still stepping forward

Arbitration report: Brews ohare site-banned; climate change topic-ban broadened

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 29 November 2010

News and notes: Backlog drive; youth and confidence among Wikipedians, brief news

In the news: Fundraising banners continue to provoke; plagiarism charges against congressional climate change report

Interview: Interview with Johanna Niesyto and Nathaniel Tkacz from "Critical Point of View"

WikiProject report: Celebrate WikiProject Holidays

Features and admins: The best of the week

Election report: Voting in full swing

Arbitration report: New case: Longevity; Biophys topic ban likely to stay in place

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 6 December 2010

News and notes: ArbCom tally pending; Pediapress renderer; fundraiser update; unreferenced BLP drive

In the news: Amazon "shopping-enabling" Wikipedia; Al Jazeera interview; be like Wikipedia

GLAM-WIKI London: British Museum hosts two days of talks between Wikimedia and the cultural sector

WikiLeaks: Repercussions of the WikiLeaks cable leak

WikiProject report: Talking copyright with WikiProject Copyright Cleanup

Features and admins: Birds and insects

Arbitration report: New case: World War II

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 13 December 2010

News and notes: Wikipedia articles expert-reviewed by Encyclopedia of Life, and more

In the news: Confusion about Wikileaks continues, Wikipedia vs. Britannica in India, and more

Rencontres Wikimédia: Wikimedia and the cultural sector: two days of talks in Paris.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Algae

Features and admins: The best of the week

Election report: The community has spoken

Arbitration report: Requested amendment re Pseudoscience case

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 20 December 2010

News and notes: Article Alerts back from the dead, plus news in brief

In the news: Faulty story urges for advertising on Wikipedia; brief news

Image donation: Christmas gift to Commons from the State Library of Queensland

Discussion report: Should leaked documents be cited on Wikipedia?

WikiProject report: Majestic Titans

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Motion passed in R&I case; ban appeals, amendment requests, and more

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 27 December 2010

Ambassadors: Wikipedia Ambassador Program growing, adjusting

News and notes: Director of Technical Operations hired; South Korean mayor sues; brief news

In the news: Designing Wikipedia and the origin of page histories; brief news

WikiProject report: WikiProject National Basketball Association (NBA)

Features and admins: The best of the week

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 3 January 2011

2010 in review: Review of the year

News and notes: Record fundraiser celebrated and debated; Board-appointed Trustees; brief news

In the news: Fundraising success media coverage; brief news

WikiProject report: Where are they now? Redux

Features and admins: Featured sound choice of the year

Arbitration report: Motion proposed in W/B – Judea and Samaria case

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 10 January 2011

News and notes: Anniversary preparations, new Community fellow, brief news

In the news: Anniversary coverage begins; Wikipedia as new layer of information authority; inclusionist project

WikiProject report: Her Majesty's Waterways

Features and admins: Featured topic of the year

Arbitration report: World War II case comes to a close; ban appeal, motions, and more

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 17 January 2011

News and notes: Anniversary celebrations; Foundation reports; local language problems; brief news

In the news: Anniversary coverage continues; Thai government translates Wikipedia; brief news

Sister projects: Upcoming steward elections, and a retrospective on stewards' work in 2010

WikiProject report: Talking wicket with WikiProject Cricket

Features and admins: First featured picture from the legally disputed NPG images; two Chicago icons

Arbitration report: New case: Shakespeare authorship question; lack of recent input in Longevity case

Technology report: January Engineering Update; Dutch Hack-a-ton; brief news

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The Signpost: 24 January 2011

News and notes: Wikimedia fellow working on cultural collaborations; video animation about Wikipedia; brief news

In the news: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited; Wikipedia still failing to fail; brief news

WikiXDC: Wikipedians celebrate anniversary with US National Archives in Washington, D.C.

WikiProject report: Life Inside the Beltway

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: 23 editors submit evidence in 'Shakespeare' case, Longevity case awaits proposed decision, and more

Technology report: File licensing metadata; Multimedia Usability project; brief news

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The Signpost: 31 January 2011

News and notes: Executive Director travels; DMCA takedowns; fellowship clarifications; brief news

In the news: Facebook hack; gender gap; What is the Wikipedia "community"?; brief news

The Science Hall of Fame: Building a pantheon of scientists from Wikipedia and Google Books

WikiProject report: WikiWarriors

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Evidence in Shakespeare case moves to a close; Longevity case awaits proposed decision; AUSC RfC

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 7 February 2011

News and notes: New General Counsel hired; reuse of Google Art Project debated; GLAM newsletter started; news in brief

In the news: Wikipedia controversies about Mormon topics examined; brief news

Gender gap: Widespread discussions about the low participation of women in Wikipedia

WikiProject report: Stargazing aboard WikiProject Spaceflight

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Open cases: Shakespeare authorship – Longevity; Motions on Date delinking, Eastern European mailing list

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 14 February 2011

News and notes: Foundation report; gender statistics; DMCA takedowns; brief news

In the news: Wikipedia wrongly blamed for Super Bowl gaffe; "digital natives" naive about Wikipedia; brief news

Accreditation: Gaining accreditation as Wikimedia photographers at sports events

WikiProject report: Articles for Creation

Features and admins: RFAs and active admins—concerns expressed over the continuing drought

Arbitration report: Proposed decisions in Shakespeare and Longevity; two new cases; motions passed, and more

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 21 February 2011

News and notes: Gender gap and sexual images; India consultant; brief news

In the news: Egyptian revolution and Wikimania 2008; Jimmy Wales' move to the UK, Africa and systemic bias; brief news

Versailles: Six-month residence in the Palace of Versailles for a Wikimedian

WikiProject report: More than numbers: WikiProject Mathematics

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Longevity and Shakespeare cases close; what do these decisions tell us?

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 28 February 2011

News and notes: Newbies vs. patrollers; Indian statistics; brief news

In the news: Egypt and Jordan likely candidates for Wikimedia office; Sanger interview; brief news

Arbitration statistics: Arbitration Committee hearing fewer cases; longer decision times

WikiProject report: In Tune with WikiProject Classical Music

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: AUSC applications open; interim desysopping; two pending cases

Technology report: HTML5 adopted but soon reverted; brief news

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The Signpost: 7 March 2011

News and notes: Foundation looking for "storyteller" and research fellows; new GLAM newsletter; brief news

In the news: "Truth in Numbers?" interview; 94% women; Google algorithm update; brief news

Deletion controversy: Deletion of article about website angers gaming community

WikiProject report: Talking with WikiProject Feminism

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: New case opened after interim desysop last week; three pending cases

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 14 March 2011

News and notes: Foundation reports editor trends, technology plans and communication changes; brief news

In the news: Paying US$1,000 to correct a Wikipedia error; brief news

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: New case on AE sanction handling; AUSC candidates; proposed decision in Kehrli 2 and Monty Hall problem

Technology report: Left-aligned edit links and bugfixes abound; brief news

Editcountitis: Report on Editcountitis. 27% of all edits have been done by just 4,000 editors

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The Signpost: 21 March 2011

News and notes: NPG copyright irony; Citizendium's finances; Credo accounts donated; brief news

In the news: Ward Cunningham's rich child; Indian donations; data mining Wikipedia; brief news

WikiProject report: Medicpedia — WikiProject Medicine

Features and admins: Best of the week

Arbitration report: One closed case, one suspended case, and two other cases

Technology report: What is: localisation?; the proposed "personal image filter" explained; and more in brief

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The Signpost: 28 March 2011

News and notes: Berlin conference highlights relation between chapters and Foundation; annual report; brief news

In the news: Sue Gardner interviewed; Imperial College student society launched; Indian languages; brief news

WikiProject report: Linking with WikiProject Wikify

Features and admins: Featured list milestone

Arbitration report: New case opens; Monty Hall problem case closes – what does the decision tell us?

Technology report: UploadWizard release; code review – should MediaWiki move to Git?; brief news

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The Signpost: 4 April 2011

News and notes: 1 April activities; RIAA takedown notice; brief news

In the news: Academic contributions; Jimmy Wales weighs in on murder trial controversy; brief news

Editor retention: Fighting the decline by restricting article creation?

WikiProject report: Out of this world — WikiProject Solar System

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: AUSC appointments, new case, proposed decision for Coanda case, and motion regarding CU/OS

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 11 April 2011

News and notes: Editor retention; Malayalam loves Wikimedia; Wikimedia reports; brief news

In the news: What if experts just want to get their links into Wikipedia?; brief news

Recent research: Research literature surveys; drug reliability; editor roles; BLPs; Muhammad debate analyzed

WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Two cases closed – what does the Coanda decision tell us?

Technology report: The Toolserver explained; brief news

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The Signpost: 18 April 2011

News and notes: Commons milestone; newbie contributions assessed; German community to decide on €200,000 budget; brief news

In the news: Wikipedia accurate on US politics, plagiarized in court, and compared to Glass Bead Game; brief news

WikiProject report: An audience with the WikiProject Council

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Case comes to a close after 3 weeks - what does the decision tell us?

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 25 April 2011

News and notes: Survey of French Wikipedians; first Wikipedian-in-Residence at Smithsonian; brief news

In the news: Low-hanging fruit and sustainability; Qwiki on iPad; sceptic critic; brief news

WikiProject report: WikiProject Somerset

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Request to amend prior case; further voting in AEsh case

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 2 May 2011

News and notes: Picture of the Year voting begins; Internet culture covered in Sweden and consulted in Russia; brief news

In the news: Wikipedia users name "superinjunction celebrities"; brief news

WikiProject report: The Physics of a WikiProject: WikiProject Physics

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Two new cases open – including Tree shaping case

Technology report: Call for RTL developers, varied sign-up pages and news in brief

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The Signpost: 9 May 2011

News and notes: More research on newbie editors; Baidu plagiarism; bin Laden coverage; brief news

In the news: Billionaire trying to sue Wikipedians; "Critical Point of View" book published; World Bank contest; brief news

WikiProject report: Game Night at WikiProject Board and Table Games

Features and admins: Featured articles bounce back

Arbitration report: AEsh case comes to a close - what does the decision tell us?

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.16.5, 1.17b1; 1.18 branched; UploadWizard the default; Berlin Hackathon; brief news

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The Signpost: 16 May 2011

News and notes: Geographical distribution of Wikipedia edits; Sue Gardner interviewed; brief news

In the news: Education minister's speech copied from Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales interviewed; brief news

WikiProject report: Back to Life: Reviving WikiProjects

Features and admins: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Motions - hyphens and dashes dispute

Technology report: Berlin Hackathon; April Engineering Report; brief news

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The Signpost: 23 May 2011

News and notes: GLAM workshop; legal policies; brief news

In the news: Death of the expert?; superinjunctions saga continues; World Heritage status petitioned and debated; brief news

WikiProject report: WikiProject Formula One

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Injunction – preliminary protection levels for BLP articles when removing PC

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 30 May 2011

News and notes: ArbCom referendum goes live; US National Archives residency; financial planning; brief news

In the news: Collaboration with academia; world heritage; xkcd; eG8 summit; ISP subpoena; brief news

WikiProject report: The Royal Railway

Featured content: Whipping fantasies, American–British naval rivalry, and a medieval mix of purity and eroticism

Arbitration report: Update – injunction from last week has expired

Technology report: Wikimedia down for an hour; What is: Wikipedia Offline?

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The Signpost: 6 June 2011

Board elections: Time to vote

News and notes: Board resolution on controversial content; WMF Summer of Research; indigenous workshop; brief news

In the news: 60% of doctors use Wikipedia; growing in India; brief news

Recent research: Various metrics of quality and trust; leadership; nerd stereotypes

WikiProject report: Make your own book with Wikiproject Wikipedia-Books

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Two cases pending resolution; temporary desysop; dashes/hyphens update

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 13 June 2011

News and notes: Wikipedians 90% male and largely altruist; 800 public policy students add 8.8 million bytes; brief news

In the news: Revere, Palin and Colbert generate activity; British Wikipedia "cleanser"; brief news

WikiProject report: WikiProject Aircraft

Featured content: Featured lists hit the main page

Arbitration report: More workshop proposals in Tree shaping case; further votes in PD of other case

Technology report: 1.18 extension bundling; mobile testers needed; brief news

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The Signpost: 20 June 2011

News and notes: WMF Board election results; Indian campus ambassadors gear up; Wikimedia UK plans; Malayalam Wikisource CD; brief news

In the news: Wikipedia could become trusted medical resource; neologism controversy; news in brief

WikiProject report: The Elemental WikiProject

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: One case comes to a close; initiator of a new case blocked as sockpuppet

Technology report: Engineering department restructured; "break MediaWiki and be reverted"; news in brief

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The Signpost: 27 June 2011

News and notes: ArbCom database theft; WikiLove to roll out on the English Wikipedia; brief news

In the news: Russian president uploads to Wikimedia Commons; brief news

WikiProject report: The Continuous Convention: WikiProject Comics

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Proposed decision for Tree shaping case

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 4 July 2011

News and notes: Picture of the Year 2010; data challenge; brief news

In the news: WikiLove roll-out; €25,000 in damages for being removed from Wikipedia; brief news

WikiProject report: The Star-Spangled WikiProject

Featured content: Two newly promoted portals

Arbitration report: Arb resigns while mailing list leaks continue; Motion re: admin

Technology report: June report: Virginia datacenter, parser, user profiles; WikiLove 1.0; brief news

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The Signpost: 11 July 2011

From the editor: Stepping down

Higher education summit: Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit recap

News and notes: Wikipedians' surfing habits explored, Sloan Foundation renews $3M grant

In the news: Britannica and Wikipedia compared; Putin award criticized; possible journalistic sockpuppeting

WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Albums

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Tree shaping case comes to a close

Technology report: WMF works on its release strategy; secure server problems

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The Signpost: 18 July 2011

News and notes: WMF Annual plan; Article Feedback tool; university outreach; brief news

In the news: Fine art; surreptitious sanitation; the politics of kyriarchic marginalization; brief news

WikiProject report: Earn $$$ free pharm4cy WORK FROM HOME replica watches ViAgRa!!!

Featured content: Historic last launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour; Teddy Roosevelt's threat to behead official; 18th-century London sex manual

Arbitration report: Motion passed to amend 2008 case: topic ban and reminder

Technology report: Code Review backlog almost zero; What is: Subversion?; brief news

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The Signpost: 25 July 2011

Wikimedian in Residence interview: Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science: an interview with Daniel Mietchen

News and notes: Oral citations; the state of global development; a gentler Huggle; brief news

In the news: Open access clash with copyright; rising reader satisfaction; the wiki-correlates of geopolitical instability; brief news

Recent research: Talk page interactions; Wikipedia at the Open Knowledge Conference; Summer of Research

WikiProject report: Musing with WikiProject Philosophy

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: New case opened; hyphens and dashes update; motion

Technology report: Protocol-relative URLs; GSoC updates; bad news for SMW fans; brief news

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The Signpost: 01 August 2011

News and notes: Wikimania; why Board of Trustees elections attract few votes; brief news

In the news: Consensus of Wikipedia authors questioned about Shakespeare authorship; 10 biggest edit wars on Wikipedia; brief news

Research interview: The Huggle Experiment: interview with the research team

WikiProject report: Little Project, Big Heart — WikiProject Croatia

Featured content: Featured pictures is back in town

Arbitration report: Proposed decision submitted for one case

Technology report: Developers descend on Haifa; wikitech-l discussions; brief news

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The Signpost: 08 August 2011

Wikimania: Seventh annual Wikimedia conference concluded in Haifa, Israel

News and notes: Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay

In the news: Israeli news focuses on Wikimania; worldwide coverage of contributor decline and gender gap; brief news

WikiProject report: Shooting the breeze with WikiProject Firearms

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Manipulation of BLPs case opened; one case comes to a close

Technology report: Wikimania technology roundup; brief news

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The Signpost: 15 August 2011

Women and Wikipedia: New Research, WikiChix

News and notes: Chapter funding and what skeptics and Latter Day Saints have in common

In the news: Wikipedia a "sausage fest", Chicago Wikipedians ("the people you've probably plagiarized"), and other silly season stories

WikiProject report: The Oregonians

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Abortion case opened, two more still in progress

Technology report: Forks, upload slowness and mobile redirection

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The Signpost: 22 August 2011

News and notes: Girl Geeks edit while they dine, candidates needed for forthcoming steward elections, image referendum opens

In the news: Journalist regrets not checking citation, PR firms issue advice on how to "survive" Wikipedia (but U.S. Congressman caught red-handed)

WikiProject report: Images in Motion – WikiProject Animation

Featured content: JJ Harrison on avian photography

Arbitration report: After eleven moves, name for islands now under arbitration

Technology report: Engineering report, sprint, and more testers needed

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The Signpost: 29 August 2011

News and notes: Abuse filter on all Wikimedia sites; Foundation's report for July; editor survey results

In the news: Wikipedia praised for disaster news coverage, scolded for left-wing bias; brief news

Recent research: Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety

Opinion essay: How an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

WikiProject report: WikiProject Tennis

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Four existing cases

Technology report: The bugosphere, new mobile site and MediaWiki 1.18 close in on deployment

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The Signpost: 05 September 2011

News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive

In the news: Britannica and Wikipedia like "apples and chairs"; should anyone who's anyone get an article?; and why fighting and barriers to editing may be useful after all

WikiProject report: Riding with WikiProject London Transport

Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments 2011

Featured content: The best of the week

Opinion essay: The copyright crisis, and why we should care

Arbitration report: BLP case closed; Cirt-Jayen466 nearly there; AUSC reshuffle

Technology report: Pencils down in Google Summer of Code, August analysed and integrated HTTPS support in action

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The Signpost: 12 September 2011

News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canada, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked

In the news: 9/11 coverage, Wikimedia hypothetically rebranded and Wikipedia golf 2.0

WikiProject report: Politics in the Pacific: WikiProject Australian Politics

Featured content: Wikipedians explain two new featured pictures

Arbitration report: Ohconfucius sanctions removed, Cirt desysopped 6:5 and a call for CU/OS applications

Technology report: What is: agile development? and new mobile site goes live

Opinion essay: The Walrus and the Carpenter

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The Signpost: 19 September 2011

From the editor: Changes to The Signpost

News and notes: Ushahidi research tool announced, Citizendium five years on: success or failure?, and Wikimedia DC officially recognised

In the news: Wikipedia: yesterday's news? Calls for women, doctors, and scholars of humanities; Wales makes Wikimedia work "look easy"

Sister projects: On the Wikinews fork

WikiProject report: Back to school

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: ArbCom narrowly rejects application to open new case

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.18 deployment begins, the alleged "injustice" of WMF engineering policy, and Wikimedians warned of imminent fix to magic word

Popular pages: Article stats for the English Wikipedia in the last year

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The Signpost: 26 September 2011

Opinion essay: The global mission, the image filter and the "German question"

Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews

News and notes: WMF strikes down enwiki consensus, academic journal partnerships, and eyebrows raised over minors editing porn-related content

In the news: Sockpuppeting journalist recants, search dominance threatened, new novels replete with Wikipedia references

WikiProject report: A project in overdrive: WikiProject Automobiles

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: "Broadly construed" explained, voting begins on Senkaku Islands case, invitation to comment on CU/OS candidates

Technology report: 1.18 deployment on track, "mythical" Git migration scheduled, editor decline statistics improved

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The Signpost: 3 October 2011

News and notes: Italian Wikipedia shuts down over new privacy law; Wikimedia Sverige produce short Wikipedia films, Sue Gardner calls for empathy

In the news: QRpedia launches to acclaim, Jimbo talks social media, Wikipedia attracts fungi, terriers and Greeks bearing gifts

WikiProject report: Kia ora WikiProject New Zealand

Featured content: Reviewers praise new featured topic: National treasures of Japan

Arbitration report: Last call for comments on CheckUser and Oversight teams

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 10 October 2011

Opinion essay: The conservatism of Wikimedians

News and notes: Largest ever donation to WMF, final findings of editor survey released, 'Terms of use' heavily revised

In the news: Uproar over Italian shutdown, the varying reception of BLP mischief, and Wikipedia's doctor-evangelist

WikiProject report: The World's Oldest People

Featured content: The weird and the disgusting

Arbitration report: Senkaku Islands closes; administrators authorized to place articles on discretionary sanctions

Technology report: 1.18 deployment and HTTPS switchover completed, but developer help now needed with new projects

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The Signpost: 17 October 2011

News and notes: Arabic Wikipedia gets video intros, Smithsonian gifts images, and WikiProject Conservatism scrutinized

In the news: Why Wikipedia survives while others haven't; Wikipedia as an emerging social model; Jimbo speaks out

WikiProject report: History in your neighborhood: WikiProject NRHP

Featured content: Brazil's boom-time dreams of naval power: The ed17 explains the background to a new featured topic

Arbitration report: Case requests on ethnic strife and a WikiProject declined, Abortion case stalls but topic bans look to be lightened on amendment

Technology report: WMDE renew investment in Toolserver, first offsite backup programme of Wikimedia begun

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The Signpost: 24 October 2011

From the editors: A call for contributors

Opinion essay: There is a deadline

Interview: Contracting for the Foundation

In the news: Are Wikipedians reluctant journalists?; Wikipedia:The Musical

WikiProject report: Great WikiProject Logos

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Abortion; request for amendment on Climate Change case

Technology report: WMF launches coding challenge, WMDE starts hiring for major new project

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The Signpost: 31 October 2011

Opinion essay: The monster under the rug

Recent research: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified

News and notes: German Wikipedia continues image filter protest

In the news: Citizendium on the rocks, Shankbone celebrated, and the week in vandalism

Discussion report: Proposal to return this section from hiatus is successful

WikiProject report: 'In touch' with WikiProject Rugby union

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Abortion case stalls, request for clarification on Δ, discretionary sanctions streamlined

Technology report: Wikipedia Zero announced; New Orleans successfully hacked

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The Signpost: 7 November2011

Special report: A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot

News and notes: Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised

In the news: The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges.

Discussion report: Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC

WikiProject report: Booting up with WikiProject Computer Science

Featured content: Slow week for Featured content

Arbitration report: Δ saga returns to arbitration, while the Abortion case stalls for another week

Technology report: Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release

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The Signpost: 14 November 2011

News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released

In the news: Fundraising vs ads redux, WikiConference India nigh, a world lit up with articles

WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India

Featured content: Writing featured content: Advice from Sturmvogel 66; Sports, sports, sports!

Arbitration report: Abortion and Betacommand 3 in evidence phase, three case requests outstanding

Technology report: Coding Challenge results; Wikimedians to wait and see if Athena really does represent "wisdom, courage and inspiration"

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The Signpost: 21 November 2011

News and notes: Last-minute candidates for ArbCom, the Sue Gardner European Tour hits London

In the news: Indian wikiconference heralds expansion, fundraiser in Silicon Valley major donor coup, import of Wikipedia reconsidered

Discussion report: Much ado about censorship

WikiProject report: Working on a term paper with WikiProject Academic Journals

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: End in sight for Abortion case, nominations in 2011 elections

Technology report: Mumbai and Brighton hacked; horizontal lists have got class

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The Signpost: 28 November 2011

News and notes: Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar

In the news: The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars

Recent research: Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation

WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Bugle

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Voting underway in the elections, finally a final decision on Abortion, scant movement on requests

Technology report: Foundation appears correct to back improved smartphone support; and how a Reddit slip meant no-one could read anything for thirty minutes

The Signpost: 05 December 2011

News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and a flourish of new admins

In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and cracks in the ivory tower of knowledge

Discussion report: Trial proposed for tool apprenticeship

WikiProject report: This article is about WikiProject Disambiguation. For other uses...

Featured content: This week's Signpost is for the birds!

Arbitration report: Elections due to finish this week, little activity on Betacommand 3, Abortion case amended

Technology report: Incremental dumps help mirrors, full screen search helps mobile visitors, and two MediaWiki releases help external sites

The Signpost: 12 December 2011

Opinion essay: Wikipedia in Academe – and vice versa

News and notes: Research project banner ads run afoul of community

In the news: Bell Pottinger investigation, Gardner on gender gap, and another plagiarist caught red-handed

WikiProject report: Spanning Nine Time Zones with WikiProject Russia

Featured content: Wehwalt gives his fifty cents; spies, ambushes, sieges, and Entombment

Arbitration report: Betacommand 3 workshop revived, two cases set for acceptance and the ArbCom elections finish on a whimper

Technology report: Trials and tribulations of image rotation, Article Feedback version 5, and new diff colours

The Signpost: 19 December 2011

News and notes: Anti-piracy act has Wikimedians on the defensive, WMF annual report released, and Indic language dynamics

In the news: To save the wiki: strike first, then makeover?

Discussion report: Polls, templates, and other December discussions

WikiProject report: A dalliance with the dismal scientists of WikiProject Economics

Featured content: Panoramas with Farwestern and a good week for featured content

Arbitration report: The community elects eight arbitrators

Technology report: Visual editor demo launched, hailed as "most important change to our user experience ... ever"; but elsewhere over-hasty deployments criticised

The Signpost: 26 December 2011

Opinion essay: Openness versus quality: why we're doing it wrong, and how to fix it

Recent research: Psychiatrists: Wikipedia better than Britannica; spell-checking Wikipedia; Wikipedians smart but fun; structured biological data

News and notes: Fundraiser passes 2010 watermark, brief news

WikiProject report: The Tree of Life

Featured content: Going through the roster with Killervogel5 and a plethora of featured content

Arbitration report: Three open cases, one set for acceptance, arbitrators formally appointed by Jimmy Wales

Technology report: Wikimedia in Go Daddy boycott, and why you should 'Join the Swarm'

The Signpost: 02 January 2012

Interview: The Gardner interview

News and notes: Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays

WikiProject report: Where are they now? Part III

Featured content: Ghosts of featured content past, present, and future

Arbitration report: New case accepted, four open cases, terms begin for new arbitrators

The Signpost: 09 January 2012

Technological roadmap: 2011's technological achievements in review, and what 2012 may hold

News and notes: Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang

In the news: Wikipedia ends annual fundraising drive; Monmouthpedia launches

WikiProject report: From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz

Featured content: Contentious FAC debate: a week in review

Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Betacommand 3

Technology report: December in more detail; and why the MediaWiki codebase was "slushed" this week

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The Signpost: 16 January 2012

Special report: English Wikipedia to go dark on January 18

Sister projects: What are our sisters up to now?

News and notes: WMF on the looming SOPA blackout, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files

WikiProject report: WikiProject Beer

Featured content: Lecen on systemic bias in featured content

Arbitration report: Four open cases, Betacommand case deadlocked, Muhammad images close near

Technology report: ArticleFeedback moves into new trial phase; and how MediaWiki integrates with Facebook, IPv6, and PostgreSQL explored

The Signpost: 23 January 2012

News and notes: SOPA blackout, Orange partnership

In the news: World watched as Wikipedia shut down for SOPA blackout

WikiProject report: The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto

Featured content: Interview with Muhammad Mahdi Karim and the best of the week

Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Muhammad images, AUSC call for applications

Technology report: Looking ahead to MediaWiki 1.19 and related issues

The Signpost: 30 January 2012

News and notes: Update on Global Development, Wikipedia Day NYC is a success, JFK audio on Commons

In the news: Zambian wiki-assassins, Foundation über alles, editor engagement and the innovation plateau

Recent research: Language analyses examine power structure and political slant; Wikipedia compared to commercial databases

WikiProject report: Digging Up WikiProject Palaeontology

Featured content: Featured content soaring this week

Arbitration report: Five open cases, voting on proposed decisions in two cases

Technology report: Why "Lua" is on everybody's lips, and when to expect MediaWiki 1.19

The Signpost: 06 February 2012

News and notes: The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors

In the news: Leading scholar hails Wikipedia, historians urged to contribute while PR pros remain shunned

Discussion report: Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts

WikiProject report: The Eye of the Storm: WikiProject Tropical Cyclones

Featured content: Talking architecture with MrPanyGoff

Arbitration report: Four open cases, final decision in Muhammad images, Betacommand 3 near closure

Technology report: October's coding challenge: results now in; progress on 1.19 steady; and why for a while interwiki links were no more

The Signpost: 13 February 2012

Special report: Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters

News and notes: Foundation launches Legal and Community Advocacy department

In the news: Scholars and spindoctors contend with the emergent wikiorder

In focus: Skirmishes in the 'great sectarian war of the Internet'

WikiProject report: WikiProject Stub Sorting

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Betacommand 3 closed, proposed decision in Civility enforcement, AUSC candidates announced

Technology report: January sees prototype new geodata API; but February looks to be a testing time for top developers

The Signpost: 20 February 2012

Special report: The plight of the new page patrollers

News and notes: Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering

Discussion report: Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states

WikiProject report: WikiProject Poland

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Civility enforcement closed, proposed decision in TimidGuy, two cases remain open

Technology report: Major strands of development cycle coalesce as 1.19 is deployed to first wikis

The Signpost: 27 February 2012

News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming

Recent research: Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative

Discussion report: Focus on admin conduct and editor retention

WikiProject report: Just don't call it "sci-fi": WikiProject Science Fiction

Featured content: By plane, by ship, and by stagecoach: Featured content goes trekking this week

Arbitration report: Final decision in TimidGuy ban appeal, one case remains open

Technology report: 1.19 deployment stress, Meta debates whether to enforce SUL

The Signpost: 05 March 2012

News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history

In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing

Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion

WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

Featured content: Best of the week

Arbitration report: AUSC appointments announced, one case remains open

Technology report: With the 1.19 deployment now (mostly) complete, developers consider possible "mini" deployment later in the month

The Signpost: 12 March 2012

Interview: Liaising with the Education Program

Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters

Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators

News and notes: Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation

In the news: Britannica runs out of print as Jimmy Wales anointed UK transparency tsar

Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue

WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History

Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman

Arbitration report: Proposed decision in 'Article titles', only one open case

Education report: Diverse approaches to Wikipedia in Education

Technology report: Git learning curve steep but not insurmountable, plus a diff style we can all agree on?

The Signpost: 19 March 2012

News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts

Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again

WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas

Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence 'review' opened, Article titles at voting

Technology report: Bugmeister to leave at end of May, but developers keen to "chart" a path ahead

The Signpost: 26 March 2012

News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring

WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music

Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed

Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature

Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.

Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases

The Signpost: 02 April 2012

Interview: An introduction to movement roles

Arbitration analysis: Case review: TimidGuy ban appeal

News and notes: Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Wikipedia's day of mischief

WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

Featured content: Snakes, misnamed chapels, and emptiness: featured content this week

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review in third week, one open case

Technology report: Somewhere amongst the endless discussions about Gerrit lie details of hackathons, performance blips explained and more

The Signpost: 09 April 2012

Wikidata: The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata

Interview: Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling

News and notes: Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee

WikiProject report: The Land of Steady Habits: WikiProject Connecticut

Featured content: Assassination, genocide, internment, murder, and crucifixion: the bloodiest of the week

Arbitration report: Arbitration evidence-limit motions, two open cases

Technology report: Next Wikimedia deployment already in the pipeline and details of recent performance improvements

The Signpost: 16 April 2012

Arbitration analysis: Inside the Arbitration Committee Mailing List

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren

News and notes: French language outreach, WikiTravel debate, and HighBeam reloaded

Discussion report: The future of pending changes

WikiProject report: The Butterflies and Moths of WikiProject Lepidoptera

Featured content: A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals

Arbitration report: Evidence submissions begin in Rich Farmbrough case, proposed decision in R&I Review

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 hits first WMF wiki, understanding 20% time, and why this report cannot yet be a draft

The Signpost: 23 April 2012

Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line"

News and notes: Help-space revamp, WikiTravel RfC, and Justin Knapp scores a million edits

WikiProject report: Skeptics and Believers: WikiProject The X-Files

Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content

Arbitration report: Evidence submissions close in Rich Farmbrough case, vote on proposed decision in R&I Review

Technology report: Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development?

The Signpost: 30 April 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth

News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities

Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more

Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default

WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps

Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings

Arbitration report: R&I Review remains in voting, two open cases

Technology report: What Git means for end users, design controversies and pertinent poll results

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The Signpost: 07 May 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes

News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013

In the news: What does Wikipedia call an expert; and untruths in biographies ... again.

WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages

Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?

Arbitration report: Proposed decision in Rich Farmbrough, two open cases

Technology report: Search gets faster, GSoC gets more detail and 1.20wmf2 gets deployed

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The Signpost: 14 May 2012

Special report: Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication

News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic

WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse

Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week

Arbitration report: R&I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure

Technology report: Cross-wiki watchlist controversy; and is "go file a bug" really a useful response?

The Signpost: 21 May 2012

From the editor: New editor-in-chief

News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues

WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....

Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week

Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending

Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content

The Signpost: 28 May 2012

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends

Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph

WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology

Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese

Arbitration report: Fæ and GoodDay requests for arbitration, changes to evidence word limits

Technology report: Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6

The Signpost: 04 June 2012

Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women

News and notes: Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture

Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change

WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts

Featured content: On the lochs

Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three open cases, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban

Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon

The Signpost: 11 June 2012

Special report: Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"

News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI

WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit

Featured content: The cake is a pi

Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three open cases

Technology report: To support or not to support IPv6, and why knowing when this report was last updated might be getting easier

The Signpost: 18 June 2012

Investigative report: Is the requests for adminship process 'broken'?

News and notes: Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association

Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations

WikiProject report: The Punks of Wikipedia

Featured content: Taken with a pinch of "salt"

Arbitration report: Three open cases, GoodDay case closed

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

The Signpost: 25 June 2012

Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing

News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012

In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias

Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere

WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics

Featured content: A good week for the Williams

Arbitration report: Three open cases

Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches

The Signpost: 02 July 2012

Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism

Op-ed: Representing knowledge – metadata, data and linked data

News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool

In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport

Featured content: Heads up

Arbitration report: Three open cases, motion for the removal of Carnildo's administrative tools

Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5

The Signpost: 09 July 2012

Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo

Wikipedia has a long history of collaborating with educational institutions. The Schools and universities program — international and in many languages, but dominated by US institutions — started in 2003 and evolved case by case with little system. However, that changed in 2009 as Wikimedia embarked on its formal strategic process, and outreach in higher education came to be seen in terms of achieving explicit goals — especially that of increasing editor participation.

News and notes: Russian Wikipedia blackout; WMF tools; Wikitravel proposal revisited

The Russian Wikipedia has been blacked out for 24 hours, ending 20:00 UTC Tuesday, as a protest against Russian State Duma Bill 89417-6, a bill currently before the Duma (the Russian parliament). Visitors to the Russian Wikipedia are confronted by the sign above in protest at a draconian internet censorship bill before the Duma. The Russian word for Wikipedia is crossed out in this banner, and the text says: "Imagine a world without free knowledge. The State Duma is currently conducting the second reading of a bill to amend the "Law on Information", which has the potential to lead to the creation of extra-judicial censorship of the Internet in Russia, including the closure of access to the Russian Wikipedia. Today, the Wikipedia community protests against censorship as a threat to free knowledge that is open to all mankind. We ask that you oppose this bill."

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Football, which focuses on the sport also known as association football or soccer. WikiProject Football is by far the largest sport project and one of the most active projects on Wikipedia in terms of the number of articles covered, edits to articles, and talk page watchers.

Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'

Eight featured articles were promoted this week: ... Aries (constellation) by Keilana. Aries the Ram (symbol ♈) is one of the constellations of the Zodiac and one of 88 currently recognised constellations. Its area is 441 square degrees (1.1% of the celestial sphere). Although fairly dim, with only three bright stars, it is home to several deep-sky objects.

Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration

No cases were closed or opened, leaving the number of open cases at three. ... The case concerns alleged misconduct with regards to aggressive responses and harassment by Fæ toward users who question his actions.

Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime

The results from last month's trial of the LastModified extension were published this week on the Wikimedia blog. The first analyses have indicated a significant positive impact, suggesting that the extension – which makes the time since a page's last edit much more prominent in the interface – could eventually find its way onto Wikimedia wikis.

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair

User:Fæ was elected as the inaugural chair of the new Wikimedia Chapters Association, despite the controversies that have surrounded Fæ on the English Wikipedia and Commons, most recently aired in a live case before the Arbitration Committee. This is in marked contrast with unexciting movement, during the Wikimania meeting, on the most important issues facing the establishment of the association.

News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone

During Wikimania (July 12-15), the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) board finalized and enacted long-discussed reforms of the movement's financial structures, and considered procedures for creating new ways for Wikimedians to organize themselves into offline communities. The board moved on the controversial image filter issue, approved the 2012–13 annual plan, and issued a statement on the wikitravel proposal. It also appointed the two new chapter-selected trustees and elected the four office-bearers.

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling

With the Tour de France in its final week, we traveled to the French Wikipedia for a chat with Projet Cyclisme (WikiProject Cycling). The French Wikipedia places a greater emphasis on portals than the English Wikipedia, which explains why WikiProject Cycling and its discussion page are actually extensions of the Cycling Portal. The project is home to two Article de Qualité (equivalent to Featured Articles) and eight Bon Article (Good Articles), primarily biographies of cyclists.

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

A brief overview of the current discussions on the English Wikipedia, including one regarding the purpose of the Community Portal. Started by Maryana, a Wikimedia Foundation employee, is this page for new users to be educated about the community, or is it for experienced users to find updates about the community?

Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years

Nearly 1400 Wikimedians and others from 87 countries descended on the capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., for Wikimania 2012. Even with an unprecedented number (1400) of conference attendees — the previous two Wikimanias, held in Gdańsk (Poland) and Haifa (Israel), were attended by fewer than 1100 people combined – Wikimania 2012 was a complete success, with attendees' reaction to the conference coming out as ecstatic and laudatory.

Featured content: Taking flight

Eight featured articles were promoted this week, including Paul McCartney by GabeMc. McCartney (born 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and his collaboration with John Lennon is highly celebrated. After the band's break-up he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings. McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as the "most successful composer and recording artist of all time", and his song "Yesterday" has been covered more than any other song in history.

Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

As Wikimania, the annual conference targeted at Wikimedians and often well attended by those with a technical slant, draws to a close, comments have already begun to come in from attendees regarding the many tech-related features of the conference.

Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted

No cases were closed or opened, leaving the number of open cases at three. A new remedy in the Fæ case calls for him to be indefinitely banned from the site after his attempts to solicit intervention from the Foundation, claiming that publicly listing all his accounts would be too onerous due to "ongoing security risks." He was further criticised for attempting to dodge good-faith concerns; the committee believes that if Fæ's claims are valid then he must be removed from the community.

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike

Does Wikipedia pay? is an ongoing Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues... by speaking openly with the people involved.

From the editor: Signpost developments

The Signpost's goal is to provide readers with essential information about the Wikimedia movement and the English Wikipedia – both of which have become large and extremely complex institutions that require timely, balanced and in-depth coverage.

News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown

Two weeks ago the Signpost reported that the Russian Wikipedia had just begun a 24-hour blackout in protest at a bill that was before the Russian parliament that proposed mechanisms to block IP addresses and DNS records. The protest, implemented after on-wiki consensus was reached during the preceding days, concerned the potential of the amendment to the information law to allow extra-judicial censorship of the internet in Russia, including the closure of access to the Russian Wikipedia. Among the questions now are how effective the blackout was and where we go from here in terms of internet freedom in one of the world's biggest and most influential countries.

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics

With the 2012 Summer Olympic Games beginning this weekend in London, we decided to catch up with the chaps at WikiProject Olympics. The last time we interviewed WikiProject Olympics was in February 2010 when the project was gearing up for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We wanted to know how the project has grown since then and whether preparing for a Summer Olympics was more grueling.

Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans

For the second time this year (and the third in the history of the committee), there are no open cases, as all three active cases were closed last week.

Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia

There has never been a better time to improve the behavior of marketing professionals on Wikipedia. For the first time we're seeing self-imposed statements of ethics. Professional PR bodies around the globe have supported the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) guidance for ethical Wikipedia engagement. Although their tone is different, CREWE and the PRSA have brought more attention to the issues. Awareness among PR professionals is rising. So are the number of paid editing operations sprouting up and the opportunity for dialogue.

Featured content: When is an island not an island?

One featured article was promoted this week, Melville Island. A small peninsula in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, it was discovered by Europeans in the 1600s and initially used for storehouses. The land was purchased by the British and used to hold prisoners of war, then to receive escaped slaves from the United States. After being used as a place of quarantine and later a recruitment centre, the land was granted to Canada in 1907 and used to house prisoners of war. It is now home to the clubhouse and marina of the Armdale Yacht Club.

Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

In the first of a series looking at this year's eight ongoing Google Summer of Code projects, the Signpost caught up with developer Harry Burt.

The Signpost: 30 July 2012

Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; Best Wiki Paper Award

From the modeling of social dynamics in a collaborative environment to why the number of Wikipedia readers rises while the number of editors doesn't.

News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's cheap shot at WP

Wikimedia Foundation published its Annual Plan, focusing on technical improvements, editor retention, and structural reforms over the coming year. The movement's total revenue, including almost all chapter funding, is slated to rise by 35%, from $34.2 million to $46.1 million, and global spending to more than $42.1 million. The foundation's own core spending will grow by 15% to $30.2 million in 2012–13.

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing

We continue our Summer Sports Series this week with WikiProject Horse Racing. Started in November 2005, the project has grown to include nearly 8,000 articles maintained by 34 active members. There are 10 Featured Articles and 19 Good Articles included in the project's scope. In addition to preparing articles for GA and FA status, the project attempts to create requested articles and locate requested images. We interviewed Redrose64, Montanabw, Tigerboy1966, Ealdgyth, and Cuddy Wifter.

Featured content: One of a kind

Eight new featured articles, five new featured lists, and eight new featured pictures. The highlights include a new featured picture of Frank Sinatra, created by William P. Gottlieb and nominated by Tomer T. Sinatra (1915–98) was a highly successful American singer and film actor whose career spanned 60 years. This image dates from around 1947.

Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

In the light of recent questions over the long-term reliability of Wikimedia wikis, the Signpost caught up with CT Woo, the Wikimedia Foundation's director of technical operations.

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion requiring the alteration of any instances of an editor's previous username in arbitration decisions to reflect their name changes. The Devil's Advocate has initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold

At this year's Wikimania, I [Brandon Harris] gave a talk entitled The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015. The talk broadly outlined several ideas the foundation is exploring for planned features, user interface changes, and workflow improvements. We expect that many of these changes will be welcomed, while others will be controversial. During the question-and-answer period, I was asked whether people should think of Athena as a skin, a project, or something else. I responded, "You should think of Athena as a kick in the head" – because that's exactly what it's supposed to be: a radical and bold re-examination of some of our sacred cows when it comes to the interface.

News and notes: FDC portal launched

On August 1, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) portal was launched on Meta. The FDC will implement the Wikimedia movement's new grant-orientated finance structure in accordance with the WMF board's recent resolutions. As a volunteer committee, the FDC will make recommendations to the WMF board on a $11.4 million budget for 2012–13.

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion for a procedure on the alteration of an editor's previous username(s) in arbitration decisions to reflect their name change(s). ... The Devil's Advocate initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.

Featured content: Casliber's words take root

This week the Signpost interviews Casliber, an editor who has written or contributed significantly to a startling 69 featured articles. We learn what makes him tick, why he edits, and why he can write on everything from vampires to dinosaurs, birds to plants. He also gives some advice to budding featured article writers.

Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for July 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project). ... At least one fibre-optic cable was damaged at the WMF's Tampa site on August 6, leading to a sharp downwards spike in traffic lasting over an hour and almost three hours of disruption for readers around the globe.

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts.

The Signpost: 13 August 2012

Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden

In a certain way, writing Wikipedia is the same everywhere, in every language or culture. You have to stick to the facts, aiming for the most objective way of describing them, including everything relevant and leaving out all the everyday trivia that is not really necessary to understand the context. You have to use critical thinking, trying to be independent of your own preferences and biases. To some effect, that's all there is to it. Naturally, Wikipedians have their biases, some of which can never be cured. Most Wikipedians tend to like encyclopedias; but millions of people in the world don't share that bias, and we represent them rather poorly. I'm also quite sure that an overwhelming majority of Wikipedia co-authors are literate. Again, that's not true for everyone in this world. Yet we have other, less noticeable but barely less fundamental biases.

News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias

The Bangla language, also known as Bengali, is spoken by some 200 million people in Bangladesh and India. The Bangla Wikipedia has a very small active community of about ten to fifteen very active editors, with another 35–40 as less active editors. The project faces particular challenges in being a small Wikipedia, and Dhaka-based WMF community fellow User:Tanvir Rahman is working to understand these challenges and to develop strategies that can improve small wikis that have strong potential to expand their editing communities.

Arbitration report: You really can request for arbitration

A request for arbitration was filed late last week, ending the three-week long absence of pending cases.

Featured content: On the road again

Six featured articles were promoted this week, including Business US Highway 41, which was a state trunkline highway that served as a business loop in Marquette in the US state of Michigan.

Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

Three weeks into a month-long evaluation of code review tool Gerrit, a serious alternative has finally gained traction in the review process: Facebook-developed but now independently operated Phabricator and its sister command-line tool Arcanist.

WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution

This week, we interviewed the lively bunch at WikiProject Dispute Resolution. Started in November 2011 to study and discuss improvements to Wikipedia's resources for resolving disputes between editors, the young project has supplemented dispute resolution efforts currently handled at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, Mediation Committee, and other venues. Over 40 editors have signed up to provide feedback, a variety of ideas have been proposed, and a manual for dispute resolution has been created.

Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship

Current proposals and requests for comments include a competition to redesign the main page ...

The Signpost: 20 August 2012

Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary

The Wikimedia Foundation sometimes proposes new features that receive substantive criticism from Wikimedians, yet those criticisms may be dismissed on the basis that people are resistant to change—there's an unjustified view that the wikis have been overrun by vested contributors who hate all change. That view misses a lot of key details and insight because there are good reasons that Wikimedians are suspicious of features development, given past and present development of bad software, growing ties with the problematic Wikia, and a growing belief that it is acceptable to experiment on users.

News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline

The Core Contest is a month-long competition among editors to improve Wikipedia's most important "core" articles—especially those that are in a relatively poor state. Core articles, such as Music, Computer, and Philosophy, tend to lie in the trunk of the tree of knowledge; by analogy, featured-and good-article processes generally attract more specialist topics out on the branches.

In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia

In the Utah Court of Appeals this week, the majority opinion in Fire Insurance Exchange v. Robert Allen Oltmanns and Brady Blackner relied on Wikipedia for the basic premise of their legal opinion, and included a concurring opinion devoted solely to the issue of citing Wikipedia in a legal opinion.

Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.

Thirteen featured articles were promoted this week, including pelicans, which are a genus of large water birds comprising the family Pelecanidae, characterised by a long beak and large throat-pouch. They have a fossil record dating back at least 30 million years and are most closely related to the Shoebill and Hammerkop. These fish-feeders have a patchy relationship with humans: the birds are sometimes persecuted and sometimes feature in mythology.

Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

New embeddable scripting ("template replacement") language Lua received considerable scrutiny this week when it began its long road to widespread deployment, landing on the test2wiki test site on Wednesday (wikitech-l mailing list). ... the fourth in our series profiling participants in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.

WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Korea. Started in September 2006, WikiProject Korea covers the history and culture of the Korean people, including both countries that currently occupy the Korean peninsula. This task has proven difficult with North Koreans notably absent from the Wikipedia community due to tight control over access to external media. The project is home to over 16,000 pages, including 15 pieces of Featured material and 66 Good and A-class Articles.

The Signpost: 27 August 2012

News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide

Wikimedia editors have been debating a community proposal for the adoption of a new project to host free travel-guide content. The debate reached a new stage when a three-month request for comment on Meta came to an end, with a decision to set up the first new type of Wikimedia project in half a decade. The original proposal for the travel guide unfolded during April on Meta and the Wikimedia-l mailing lists, centring around the wish of volunteer contributors to the WikiTravel project to work in a non-commercial environment.

Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'

A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee and republished as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.

Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?

Developers were left one step closer to an understanding of the code review outlook this week after the creation of a graph plotting "number changesets awaiting review" over time. The chart, which also shows the number of new changesets created on a daily basis, reveals a peak in the number of unreviewed changesets in mid-July, followed by a short drop. The current figure stands at approximately 219 unreviewed changesets.

Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten

This week the Signpost interviews Mark Arsten, who has written or contributed significantly to ten featured articles; most have related to new religious movements, and some have touched on other controversial or quirky topics. Mark gives us a rundown on how he keeps neutral and what drives him to write featured content; he also gives some hints for aspiring writers.

WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who

This week, we hopped in a little blue box with a batch of companions from WikiProject Doctor Who. Started in April 2005, the project has grown to include about 4,000 pages about the world's longest-running science fiction television show, its spinoffs, and various related material. The project is the parent of the Torchwood Taskforce and a child of WikiProject British TV and WikiProject Science Fiction. With new Doctor Who episodes airing this week and a 50th anniversary celebration around the corner, we thought now would be a good time to inquire about the famed Time Lord.

Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal

Some of Wikimedia's most valuable photographs have been shot and uploaded under free licenses as a direct result of the annual Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) event each September. Last year, the project was conducted on a European level, resulting in the submission of an extraordinary 168,208 free images of cultural heritage sites ("monuments") from 18 countries, making it the world's largest photographic competition. Organising the 2012 event—which has just opened and will run for the full month of September—has required input from chapters and volunteers in 35 countries.

Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

Developers are currently discussing the possibility of a MediaWiki Foundation to oversee those aspects of MediaWiki development that relate to non-Wikimedia wikis. The proposal was generated after a discussion on the wikitech-l mailing list about generalising Wikimedia's CentralAuth system.

Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror

Five featured pictures were promoted this week, including a video explaining the recent landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. NASA called the final minutes of the complicated landing procedure "the seven minutes of terror".

Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing

Since May 2012 I've been a Wikimedia Foundation community fellow with the task of researching and improving dispute resolution on English Wikipedia. Surveying members of the community has revealed much about their thoughts on and experiences with dispute resolution. I've analysed processes to determine their use and effectiveness, and have presented ideas that I hope will improve the future of dispute resolution.

The Signpost: 10 September 2012

From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes

Thanks to the initiative of Yuvi Panda and Notnarayan, the Signpost now has an Android app, free for download on Google Play. ... but would readers be interested in an iOS app for Apple devices?

Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention

Much like article content, the English Wikipedia's help pages have grown organically over the years. Although this has produced a great deal of useful documentation, with time many of the pages have become poorly maintained or have grown overwhelmingly complicated.

In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal

Philip Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, wrote an open letter in the New Yorker addressed to Wikipedia this week, alleging severe inaccuracies in the article on his The Human Stain (2000).

Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'

Three hip hop discographies were promoted this week, alongside seven other lists.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi

After a week's hiatus, the WikiProject Report returns with an interview featuring WikiProject Fungi. Started in March 2006, the project has grown to include over 9,000 pages, including 47 Featured Articles and 176 Good Articles. The project maintains a list of high priority missing articles and stubs that need expansion.

Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial

In dramatic events that came to light last week, two English Wikipedia volunteers—Doc James (James Heilman) and Wrh2 (Ryan Holliday)—are being sued in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Internet Brands, the owner of Wikitravel.com. Both Wikipedians have also been volunteer Wikitravel editors (and in Holliday's case, a volunteer administrator). IB's complaints focus on both editors' encouragement of their fellow Wikitravel volunteers to migrate to a proposed non-commercial travel guidance site that would be under the umbrella of the WMF.

News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"

In its September issue, the peer-reviewed journal First Monday published The readability of Wikipedia, reporting research which shows that the English Wikipedia is struggling to meet Flesch reading ease test criteria, while the Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus".

Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for August 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment).

Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 17 September 2012

From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook

We now have a Facebook page at facebook.com/wikisignpost. We invite you to "like" the page and join the discussion there.

WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force

This week, we shine the spotlight on the Indian Cinema Task Force, a subproject that seeks to improve the quality and quantity of articles about Indian cinema. As a child of WikiProject Film and WikiProject India, the Indian Cinema Task Force shares a variety of templates, resources, and members with its parent projects. The task force works on a to-do list, maintains the Bollywood Portal, and ensures articles follow the film style guidelines. With Indian cinema celebrating its 100th year of existence in 2013, we asked Karthik Nadar (Karthikndr), Secret of success, Ankit Bhatt, Dwaipayan, and AnimeshKulkarni what is in store for the Indian Cinema Task Force.

Featured content: Go into the light

Eight featured articles, six featured lists, ten featured pictures, and one featured topic were promoted this week.

News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced

The world's largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, is entering its final two weeks. The month-long event, of Dutch origin, is being held globally for the first time after the success of its European-level predecessor last year. During September 2011 more than 5000 volunteers from 18 countries took part and uploaded 168,208 free images. This year, volunteers and chapters from 35 countries around the world have organised the event. The best photographs will be determined by juries at the national and finally the global level.

Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

1.20wmf12, the 12th release to Wikimedia wikis from the 1.20 branch, was deployed to its first wikis on September 17; if things go well, it will be deployed to all wikis by September 26. Its 200 or so changes – 111 to WMF-deployed extensions plus 98 to core MediaWiki code – include support for links with mixed-case protocols (e.g. Http://example.com) and the removal of the "No higher resolution available" message on the file description pages of SVG images.

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

In the media: Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention

Oliver Keyes' (User:Ironholds) defense of Wikipedia against the recent Philip Roth controversy has drawn a significant amount of attention over the last week. The problems between Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, and Wikipedia arose from an open letter he penned for the American magazine New Yorker, and were covered by the Signpost two weeks ago. Keyes—who wrote the piece as a prominent Wikipedian but is also a contractor for the Wikimedia Foundation—wrote a blog post on the topic, lamenting the factual errors in Roth's letter and criticizing the media for not investigating his claims: "[they took] Roth’s explanation as the truth and launched into a lengthy discussion of how we [Wikipedia] handle primary sourcing."

Recent research: "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012

A paper to appear in a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist (summarized in the research index) sheds new light on the English Wikipedia's declining editor growth and retention trends. The paper describes how "several changes that the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have lead to a more restrictive environment for newcomers". The number of active Wikipedia editors has been declining since 2007 and research examining data up to September 2009 has shown that the root of the problem has been the declining retention of new editors. The authors show this decline is mainly due to a decline among desirable, good-faith newcomers, and point to three factors contributing to the increasingly "restrictive environment" they face.

WikiProject report: 01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011

This week, we tinkered with WikiProject Robotics. From the project's inception in December 2007, it has served as Wikipedia's hub for building and improving articles about robots and robotics, accumulating two Featured Articles and seven Good Articles along the way. The project covers both fictitious and real-life robots, the technology that powers them, and many of the brains behind the robotics field

News and notes: UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal

In the second controversy to engulf Wikimedia UK in two months, its immediate past chair Roger Bamkin has resigned from the board of the chapter. The resignation last Wednesday followed a growing furore over the conflict of interest between two of Roger's roles outside the chapter and his close involvement in the UK board's decision-making process, including the access to private mailing lists that board members in all chapters need. But the irony surrounding Roger's resignation is its connection with efforts by Wikimedians and collaborators to strengthen the reach of Wikimedia projects through technical innovation.

Technology report: Signpost investigation: code review times

Late last month, the "Technology report" included a story using code review backlog figures – the only code review figures then available – to construct a rough narrative about the average experience of code contributors. This week, we hope to go one better, by looking directly at code review wait times, and, in particular, median code review times

Featured content: Dead as...

Fourteen featured articles were promoted this week, including Dodo, along with six featured lists and five featured pictures.

Discussion report: Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

The Signpost: 01 October 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales

Does Wikipedia Pay? is a Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... The Signpost spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.

News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners

Following considerable online and media reportage on the Gibraltar controversy and a Signpost report last week, the Wikimedia UK chapter and the foundation published a joint statement on September 28: "To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK's trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK's governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest."

Featured content: Mooned

Five articles, three lists, and nine images were promoted to "featured" this week.

Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty

The Toolserver is an external service hosting the hundreds of webpages and scripts (collectively known as "tools") that assist Wikimedia communities in dozens of mostly menial tasks. Few people think that it has been operating well recently; the problems, which include high database replication lag and periods of total downtime, have caused considerable disruption to the Toolserver's usual functions. Those functions are highly valued by many Wikimedia communities ... In 2011, the Foundation announced the creation of Wikimedia Labs, a much better funded project that among other things aimed to mimic the Toolserver's functionality by mid-2013. At the same time, Erik Möller, the WMF's director of engineering, announced that the Foundation would no longer be supporting the Toolserver financially, but would continue to provide the same in-kind support as it had done previously.

WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series, we spent some time bonding with WikiProject James Bond. The project is in the unique position of having already pushed all of its primary content to Good and Featured status, including all of Ian Fleming's novels, short stories, and every film that has been released. Work has begun in earnest on the article Skyfall for the release of the new Bond film later this month. The project could still use help improving articles about Bond actors, characters, gadgets, music, video games, and related topics

The Signpost: 08 October 2012

News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance

Wikipedia in education is far from a new idea: years of news stories, op-eds, and editorials have focused on the topic; and on Wikipedia itself, the Schools and universities projects page has existed in various forms since 2003. Over the next six years, the page was rarely developed, and when it did advance there was no clear goal in mind.

WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography

On this day five years ago, the WikiProject Report debuted as a new Signpost column with an overview of WikiProject Biography. Today, we're celebrating two milestone: five years of the WikiProject Report and the tenth birthday of our first featured project. WikiProject Biography is by far the largest WikiProject on Wikipedia, with over one million articles under the project's scope. As a comparison, WikiProject Biography is three times larger than Wikipedia's second largest project, and if WikiProject Biography were split into its 14 subprojects and work groups, it would still make the list of the 20 largest WikiProjects... four times.

Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk

This week the Signpost interviews Arsenikk, an editor of six years who has brought sixteen lists through our featured list process, mostly regarding transportation in Norway but also about the 1952 Winter Olympics and World Heritage Sites in Africa. Arsenikk tells us about why he joined the project, what moves him, and how editors can join the sometimes daunting world of featured lists.

Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for September 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment). Three of the seven headline items in the report have already been covered in the Signpost: problems with the corruption of several Gerrit (code) repositories, the introduction of widespread translation memory across Wikimedia wikis, and the launch of the "Page Curation" tool on the English Wikipedia, with development work on that project now winding down. The report also drew attention to the end of Google Summer of Code 2012, the deployment to the English Wikipedia of a new ePUB (electronic book) export feature, and improvements to the WLM app aimed at more serious photographers.

Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

The Signpost: 15 October 2012

Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins

There is wide agreement among English Wikipedians that the administrator system is in some ways broken—but no consensus on how to fix it. Most suggestions have been relatively small in scope, and could at best produce small improvements. I would like to make a proposal to fundamentally restructure the administrator system, in a way that I believe would make it more effective and responsive. The proposal is to create an elected Administration Committee ("AdminCom") which would select, oversee, and deselect administrators.

In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page

This week saw a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.

Featured content: Second star to the left

On the English Wikipedia, five featured articles, ten featured lists, and four featured pictures were promoted, including USS Lexington, a ship built for the United States Navy that, although ordered in 1916 as a battlecruiser, was converted to an aircraft carrier. It was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea during the Second World War.

News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks

The volunteer-led Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and interested community members are looking at Wikimedia organization applications worth about US$10.4 million out of the committee's first full year's operation, in just the inaugural round one of two that have been planned for the year with a planned budget of US$11.4M.

Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

A trial of the first phase of Wikimedia Deutschland's "Wikidata" project–implementing the first ever interwiki repository—may soon get underway following the successful passage of much of its code through MediaWiki's review processes this week.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals

This week, we experimented with WikiProject Chemicals. Started in August 2004, WikiProject Chemicals has grown to include over 10,000 articles about chemical compounds. The project has a unique assessment system that omits C-class, Good, and Featured Articles. As a result, the project's 11 GAs and 9 FAs are treated as A-class articles. WikiProject Chemicals is a child of WikiProject Chemistry (interviewed in 2009) and a parent of WikiProject Polymers.

The Signpost: 22 October 2012

Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective

Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.

Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule

One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.

Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers

Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science

It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.

WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?

The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.

Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?

Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.

The Signpost: 29 October 2012

News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs

The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.

WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History

This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.

Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live

The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.

Featured content: On the road again

Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.

Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 05 November 2012

Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end

J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.

News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments

The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.

In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?

Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?

Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks

The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.

Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads

This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.

Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.

WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs

This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate

Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.

Featured content: The table has turned

Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.

WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil

As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in

The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.

WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.

Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.

Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect

Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.

Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain

On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.

Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons

An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.

Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation

Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.

Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.

WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting

This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner

The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.

Featured content: The play's the thing

Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.

WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire

This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's

At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.

Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell

Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights

In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results

Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.

WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany

In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook

This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.

Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass

Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').

Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest

As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.

WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.

Featured content: Battlecruiser operational

Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.

Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum

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.

In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?

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.

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter

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.

Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes

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.

Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee

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.

Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review

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.

WikiProject report: New Year, New York

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.

Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined

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.

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die

Meta is the wiki that has coordinated a wide range of cross-project Wikimedia activities, such as the activities of stewards, the archiving of chapter reports, and WMF trustee elections. The project has long been an out-of-the-way corner for technocratic working groups, unaccountable mandarins, and in-house bureaucratic proceedings. Largely ignored by the editing communities of projects such as Wikipedia and organizations that serve them, Meta has evolved into a huge and relatively disorganized repository, where the few archivists running it also happen to be the main authors of some of its key documents. While Meta is well-designed for supporting the librarians and mandarins who stride along its corridors, visitors tend to find the site impenetrable—or so many people have argued over the past decade. This impenetrability runs counter to Meta's increasingly central role in the Wikimedia movement.

WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year

The dawning of a new year offers both a fresh slate and an opportunity to revisit our previous adventures. 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of the WikiProject Report and was the column's most productive year with 52 articles published. In addition to sharing the experiences of Wikipedia's many active projects, we expanded our scope to highlight unique projects from other languages of Wikipedia, and tracked down all of the former editors-in-chief of the Signpost for an introspective interview ... While last year's "Summer Sports Series" may have drawn yawns from some readers, a special report on "Neglected Geography" elicited more comments than any previous issue of the Report. Following in the footsteps of our past three recaps, we'll spend this week looking back at the trials and tribulations of the WikiProjects we encountered in 2012. Where are they now?

News and notes: 2012—the big year

The past 12 months have seen a multitude of issues and events in the Wikimedia foundation, the movement at large, and the English Wikipedia. The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity; and many factors have combined to produce what has in many ways been the biggest, most dynamic year in the movement's history. Looking back at 2012, we faced a difficult task in doing justice to all of the notable events in a single article; so the Signpost has selected just a few examples from outside the anglosphere, from the English Wikipedia, and from the Wikimedia Foundation, rather than attempting to cover every detail that happened.

Featured content: Featured content in review

Over the past year, 963 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured article candidates (FAC), which promoted an average of 31 articles a month. This was followed by featured picture candidates (FPC; 28 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 20 a month). Featured topic and featured portal candidates remained sluggish, each promoting fewer than 20 items over the year.

Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013

Following on from last week's reflections on 2012, this week the Technology report looks ahead to 2013, a year that will almost certainly be dominated by the juggernauts of Wikidata, Lua and the Visual Editor.

The Signpost: 14 January 2013

Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat

After six years without creating a new class of content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has finally expanded into a new area: travel. Wikivoyage was formally launched—though without a traditional ship's christening—on 15 January, having started as a beta trial on 10 November. Wikivoyage has been taken under the WMF's umbrella on the argument that information resources that help with travel are educational and therefore within the scope of the foundation's mission.g

News and notes: Launch of annual picture competition, new grant scheme

On January 16, voting for the first round of the 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest will begin. Wikimedia editors with 75 edits or one project are eligible to vote to select their favorite image featured in 2012. ... On January 15, the foundation launched its latest grant scheme, called Individual Engagement Grants (IEG).

WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy

This week, we set off for the final frontier with WikiProject Astronomy. The project was started in August 2006 using the now-defunct WikiProject Space as inspiration. WikiProject Astronomy is home to 101 pieces of Featured material and 148 Good Articles maintained by a band of 186 members. The project maintains a portal, works on an assortment of vital astronomy articles, and provides resources for editors adding or requesting astronomy images.

Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style; accessibility and equality

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Special report: Loss of an Internet genius

Comforting those grieving after the loss of a loved one is an impossible task. How then, can an entire community be comforted? The Internet struggled to answer that question this week after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a celebrated free-culture activist, programmer, and Wikipedian at the age of 26.

Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012

Continuing our recap of the featured content promoted in 2012, this week the Signpost interviewed three editors, asking them about featured articles which stuck out in their minds. Two, Ian Rose and Graham Colm, are current featured article candidates (FAC) delegates, while Brian Boulton is an active featured article writer and reviewer.

Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months

The opening of the Doncram case marks the end of almost 6 months without any open cases, the longest in the history of the Committee.

Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment

The Wikidata client extension was successfully deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia on 14 January, its team reports. The interwiki language links can now come from wikidata.org, though "manual" interwiki links remain functional, overriding those from the central repository.

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward

The English Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process has entered another cycle of proposed reforms. Over the last three weeks, various proposals, ranging from as large as a transition to a representative democracy to as small as a required edit count and service length, have been debated on the RfA talk page. The total number of new administrators for 2012 was just 28, barely more than half of 2011's total and less than a quarter of 2009's total. The total number of unsuccessful RfAs has fallen as well. These declining numbers, which were described in what would now be considered a successful year (2010) as an emerging "wikigeneration gulf", have been coupled with a sharp decline in the number of active administrators since February 2008 (1,021), reaching a low of 653 in November 2012.

WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Linguistics. Started in January 2004, the project has grown to include 7 Featured Articles, 4 Featured Lists, 2 A-class Articles, and 15 Good Articles maintained by 43 members. The project's members keep an eye on several watchlists, maintain the linguistics category, and continue to build a collection of Did You Know? entries. The project is home to six task forces and works with WikiProject Languages and WikiProject Writing Systems.

Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review

This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured topics. We interviewed Grapple X and GamerPro64, who are delegates at the featured topic candidates.

Arbitration report: Doncram case continues

The opening of the Doncram case marks the end of almost 6 months without any open cases, the longest in the history of the Committee.

Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success

On 22 January, WMF staff and contractors switched incoming, non-cached requests (including edits) to the Foundation's newer data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, making it responsible for handling almost all regular traffic. For the first time since 2004, virtually no traffic will be handled by the WMF's other facility in Tampa, Florida.

The Signpost: 28 January 2013

In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention

On New Year's Day, the Daily Dot reported that a "massive Wikipedia hoax" had been exposed after more than five years. The article on the Bicholim conflict had been listed as a "Good Article" for the past half-decade, yet turned out to be an ingenious hoax. Created in July 2007 by User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a, the meticulously detailed piece was approved as a GA in October 2007. A subsequent submission for FA was unsuccessful, but failed to discover that the article's key sources were made up. While the User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a account then stopped editing, the hoax remained listed as a Good Article for five years, receiving in the region of 150 to 250 page views a month in 2012. It was finally nominated for deletion on 29 December 2012 by ShelfSkewed—who had discovered the hoax while doing work on Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs—and deleted the same day.

Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics

A special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist is devoted to "open collaboration".

WikiProject report: Checkmate! — WikiProject Chess

When we challenged the masters of WikiProject Chess to an interview, Sjakkalle answered our call. WikiProject Chess dates back to December 2003 and has grown to include 4 Featured Articles and 15 Good Articles maintained by over 100 members. The project typically operates independently of other WikiProjects, although the project would theoretically be a child of WikiProject Board and Table Games (interviewed in 2011). WikiProject Chess provides a collection of resources, seeks missing photographs of chess players, and helps determine ways that Wikipedia's coverage of chess can be expanded.

Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests

New discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate

To many Wikimedians, the Khan Academy would seem like a close cousin: the academy is a non-profit educational website and a development of the massive open online course concept that has delivered over 227 million lessons in 22 different languages. Its mission is to give "a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere." This complements Wikipedia's stated goal to "imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge", then go and create that world. It should come as no surprise, then, that the highly successful GLAM-Wiki (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) initiative has partnered with the Khan Academy's Smarthistory project to further both its and Wikipedia's goals.

Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012

This week, the Signpost featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured lists. We interviewed FLC directors Giants2008 and The Rambling Man as well as active reviewer and writer PresN.

Arbitration report: Doncram continues

The Doncram case has continued into its third week.

Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

As reported in last week's "Technology Report", the WMF's data centre in Ashburn, Virginia took over responsibility for almost all of the remaining functions that had previously been handled by their old facility in Tampa, Florida on 22 January. The Signpost reported then that few problems had arisen since handover. Unfortunately that was not to remain the case, with reports of caching problems (which typically only affect anonymous users) starting to come in.

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles

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.

News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance

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.

WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun

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.

Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes

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.

In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry

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.

Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment

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.

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