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- News and notes: Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay
- In the news: Israeli news focusses 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Girl Geeks edit while they dine, candidates needed for forthcoming steward elections, image referendum opens
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Abuse filter on all Wikimedia sites; Foundation's report for July; editor survey results
- Recent research: Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety
- The pending changes fiasco: 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: 5 September 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive
- 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
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The Signpost: 12 September 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canadia, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 03 October 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Italian Wikipedia threatens site shutdown 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 funghi, 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 17 October 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 in disrepute 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editors: A call for contributors
- Opinion essay: There is a deadline
- Interview: Contracting for the Foundation
- 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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Global Message Delivery for TMIG [edit]
I restarted it for you while fixing the key - "Error: Key is invalid" meant that this key had been used before (I had previously reverted to an earlier key to have it complete a stalled bot run, and then Livingbot just increased that earlier key for the Signpost delivery, likewise generating an invalid key). Regards, HaeB 06:17, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 October 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 November 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 05 December 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 12 December 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 19 December 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 26 December 2011 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Opinion essay: Openness versus quality: why we're doing it wrong, and how to fix it
- Recent research: Psychiatrists: Wikipedia better than Britannica, but a threat to the Rorschach test; spell-checking Wikipedia; Wikipedians smart, fun and other-focused; 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'
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The Signpost: 02 January 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 09 January 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Sister projects: What are our sisters up to now?
- Special report: English Wikipedia to go dark January 18
- 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 systematic 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
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The Signpost: 23 January 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: SOPA blackout, Orange
- 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
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Global message delivery/Spam [edit]
Hi. In this edit, you left a <div> unclosed, specifically this <div>: <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; text-align: center; ">. This has caused all subsequent posts to any talk page where this message was delivered to be in Times New Roman (example). I think you were already were aware of this, but just in case... please be careful. :-) --MZMcBride 01:40, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Actually, while the November 2011 issue also had unclosed tags, it was the December issue that caused the problems I noticed. --MZMcBride 01:44, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 January 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 06 February 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 architechture 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
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The Signpost: 13 February 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Discussion report: Administrators, vanishing, and ponies
- 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
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The Signpost: 20 February 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 27 February 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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Global message delivery/Spam (again) [edit]
Hi. This delivery didn't use proper links. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 23:27, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
- Hi there! I'd noticed that just after the initial batch of newsletters were sent round. A few of us managed to fix all of those that had been delivered at that point. However, the bot didn't seem to want to deliver to some other pages and has only just got round to that. :-) Regards, Rock drum (talk·contribs) 16:15, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 March 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 12 March 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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?
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The Signpost: 19 March 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 26 March 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 02 April 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 09 April 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 crucification: 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
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The Signpost: 16 April 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 23 April 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 ends 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?
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The Signpost: 30 April 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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?
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikimedia 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
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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- Featured content: On the lochs
- Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three requests for arbitration, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban
- Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 requests for arbitration
- Technology report: To support or not to support? IPv6, and how best to serve non-Wikimedia wikis
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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"
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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- Featured content: A good week for the Williams
- Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration
- Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
- Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo
- News and notes: Russian Wikipedia protest blackout; E3 team and new tools; Wikitravel proposal bogged down
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football
- Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'
- Arbitration report: Three cases, Carnildo desysopped
- Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
- Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years
- News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
- Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
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- Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
- Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years
- News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
- Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
- Featured content: Takes flight
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- Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Signpost developments
- Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike
- News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics
- Featured content: When is an island not an island?
- Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans
- Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
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- Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; best wiki paper award
- Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
- Featured content: One of a kind
- Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
- Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold
- News and notes: FDC portal launched
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
- Featured content: Casliber's words take root
- Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
- Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
- News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias
- Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Dispute Resolution
- Featured content: On the road again
- Arbitration report: Youreallycan request for arbitration
- Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary
- News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline
- In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: WikiProject Korea
- Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
- Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension
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The Signpost: 27 August 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide
- Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'
- Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension
- WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: WikiProject Doctor Who
- Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
- Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?
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The Signpost: 03 September 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing
- News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal
- Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror
- Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?
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The Signpost: 10 September 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes
- Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial
- Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention
- News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"
- In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal
- Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi
- Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'
- Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...
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The Signpost: 17 September 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook
- News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced
- WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force
- Featured content: Go into the light
- Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales
- News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners
- Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty
- WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond
- Featured content: Mooned
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
- Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
- WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
- Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk
- Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
- Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins
- News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals
- Featured content: Second star to the left
- Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Adminship from the German perspective
- News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
- Arbitration report: War declared over Malleus Fatuorum
- WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
- Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
- Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
- Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
- WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
- Featured content: On the road again
- Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
- Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news
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The Signpost: 05 November 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
- News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
- Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks
- WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs
- Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
- Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
- WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
- Featured content: The table has turned
- Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
- Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
- WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
- Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
- Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"
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The Signpost: 26 November 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
- Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
- WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
- Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
- Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries
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The Signpost: 03 December 2012 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
- Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
- WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
- Featured content: The play's the thing
- Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
- Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
- Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
- News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
- Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
- WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
- Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
- Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
- WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
- Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
- Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum
- Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter
- In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?; Wales accused of Kazakh corruption
- Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
- Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy
- WikiProject report: New Year, New York
- Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review
- Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die
- News and notes: 2012—the big year
- WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year
- Featured content: Featured content in review
- Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
- News and notes: Launch of annual photo competition, new grant scheme
- Special report: Loss of an Internet genius
- Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style, accessibility and equality
- WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy
- Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012
- Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months
- Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward
- WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics
- Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review
- Arbitration report: Doncram case continues
- Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention; Sue Gardner's op-ed; Women of Wikipedia
- News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate
- Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics
- Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012
- WikiProject report: Checkmate! – WikiProject Chess
- Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests
- Arbitration report: Doncram continues
- Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications
- In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry
- News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance
- Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes
- WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun – WikiProject Norway
- Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia
- News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year
- In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute
- Discussion report: WebCite proposal; request for adminship reform
- WikiProject report: Just the Facts – WikiProject Infoboxes
- Featured content: A lousy week
- Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit
- In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press
- WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines
- Featured content: Featured content gets schooled
- Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year
- In the media: Former WMF board member creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for Fleishman-Hillard PR agency
- Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers; EPOV instead of NPOV
- Discussion report: Wikivoyage links; overcategorization
- WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload
- Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin'
- Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger; new writers
- News and notes: Finance committee updates
- Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes
- WikiProject report: Setting a precedent
- Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns
- Technology report: Article Feedback reversal: watershed moment?; plus code review one year on
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee
- Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
- Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm
- WikiProject report: Making music with WikiProject Composers
- Arbitration report: Another arbitrator resigns; Richard case closes
- Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews
- Featured content: One and a half soursops
- WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh
- Arbitration report: Two open cases
- Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
- Recent research: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats
- News and notes: Funding for the Wikipedia Library and six other projects; April Fool's Day ructions
- Featured content: What the ?
- WikiProject report: Special: FAQs
- Arbitration report: Three open cases
- Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Wikizine: Introducing Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
- News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer
- Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry
- WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes
- Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History
- Technology report: Testing week for developers and their deployments
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
- News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops
- Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear
- WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: WikiProject South Africa
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
- In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news
- Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
- Arbitration report: Sexology case nears closure after stalling over topic ban
- Technology report: A flurry of deployments
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The Signpost: 29 April 2013 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp
- In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax
- Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
- Featured content: Wiki loves video games
- WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball
- Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases
- Recent research: Sentiment monitoring, Wikipedians and academics favor the same papers, UNESCO and systemic bias, How ideas flow on Wikiversity
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The Signpost: 06 May 2013 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014
- In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions
- Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!
- WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!
- Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy
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The Signpost: 13 May 2013 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list
- In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?
- Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map
- WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts
- Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases
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The Signpost: 20 May 2013 [edit]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment
- News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles
- In the media: Qworty incident continues
- WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome
- Featured content: Up in the air
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