User talk:Cyfraw/Archive 15

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
• Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
• Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
• Featured content: The great Colorado River and the mysterious case of the grand duchess
• Discussion report: Civility policy, geographic names, CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
• Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea party movement case
• Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard

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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
• News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches
• In the media: Chinese censorship
• Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS
• WikiProject report: For the love of stamps
• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities
• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes; invitation to comment on applicants for checkuser and oversight ends 16 August

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The Signpost: 21 August 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Call for contributors
• WikiProject report: Today's article for improvement
• News and notes: Wikipedia's Manual of Style marches into Manning's sex change
• Traffic report: Bad Cat
• Discussion report: Skyscrapers, Gibraltar DYKs, Four Award, Secure login, and more
• Featured content: Afrobeat
• Technology report: Generating musical scores with LilyPond

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The Signpost: 28 August 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
• In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
• Traffic report: Reddit creep
• WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
• Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
• Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
• Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia
• News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
• WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia
• Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
• Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
• Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
• Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas
• In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?
• WikiProject report: Traveling to Indonesia
• Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!

• Featured content: Tintin goes featured
• Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
• Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
• WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
• Featured content: Hurricane Diane and the Van Gogh
• Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
• News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
• Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
• In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
• Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

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The Signpost: 02 October 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
• Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
• Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
• WikiProject report: U2 Too
• Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

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The Signpost: 09 October 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
• Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
• In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
• WikiProject report: Australian Roads
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
• Featured content: Under the sea

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
• WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
• Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
• Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
• Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

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The Signpost: 23 October 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumbling in the German-language Wikimedia
• In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia
• Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Your average week... and a fish
• Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Elements

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The Signpost: 30 October 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?
• Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years
• In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?
• WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying
• Featured content: Wrestling with featured content
• Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube

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The Signpost: 06 November 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Alleged 'outing' of an editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban
• Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility
• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
• Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more
• Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: FDC staff assessments raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance
• News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it
• Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block
• Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more
• WikiProject report: The world of soap operas
• Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
• News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting
• Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive
• Traffic report: Ill Winds
• WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia
• Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions
• Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more
• WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie
• Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who
• Featured content: F*&!
• Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review
• Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 11 December 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced
• In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling
• Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion
• Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine
• Featured content: Viewer discretion advised
• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released

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The Signpost: 18 December 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia
• Discussion report: Usernames, template data and documentation, Main page, and more
• Traffic report: Hopper to the top
• Featured content: Triangulum, the world's most boring constellation
• Technology report: Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions
• Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings
• WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos
• Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings
• Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools
• Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments

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The Signpost: 01 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The year in review
• In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
• Book review: Życie Wirtualnych Dzikich
• Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
• Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
• Featured content: 2013—the trends
• Technology report: 2013: Year in review

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The Signpost: 15 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
• News and notes: Wikimedia Germany asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
• In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
• Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
• Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published

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The Signpost: 22 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
• Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
• News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
• Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume with the Tramp* Traffic report: No show for the Globes
• Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
• Traffic report: Six strikes out
• WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
• Traffic report: Six strikes out
• WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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